HOT Magazine July 15, 2015 | Page 38

Chris with Mark Osborne, Director of the Little Prince Russ: Are the bands recording at Karma primarily Thai bands? Chris: No, they’re predominately international bands, about a 65 /35 split. We’ve had bands like Jamiroquai, Placebo, Bullet For My Valentine, Young Guns, and people like Jimmy Paige float in from time to time. We just recently made the new Libertines record which is really going to turn heads and be a ground breaking project as it’s their first return after eleven years. Russ: I had read that Jimmy Paige had been to Pattaya recently. Chris: Yeah, he comes to Thailand quite frequently, he loves it here and pops in to see us. One of the first albums I ever bought was Led Zeppelin 2 and I never dreamt as a fourteen year old boy that I would meet the guy let alone hang out with him. Russ: The movie Interstellar was a 2014 smash hit grossing over six hundred and seventy million US dollars. You produced the soundtrack for that film. How did that come about? 38 July 15 - August 15 , 2015 Chris: That was the first big soundtrack that I was invited to produce the score for and it was a massive honor to work with Director Christopher Nolan who’s famous for the Batman trilogy and Inception and Hans Zimmer the composer who’s probably one of the most brilliant and talented film composer’s ever. The music score for Interstellar was so integrally essential to the whole concept of the movie and Chris Nolan was hands on with it as well. He attended every recording session that we did, which is very unusual for a Director to do that but he was really really keen that the music would be distinctly different from any other music that has been done for a film. We had the force of a full 90 piece symphony orchestra, a 30 piece choir, four grand piano’s playing at the same time and most importantly Roger Sayer playing the church organ which is a unique sound in this score. We approached the whole thing in a very innovative way. Hans didn’t want anything to sound completely normal. He always wanted to shock and create new textures so it was a hell of a lot of fun making that soundtrack. We recorded for weeks at Air Studios in London and then mixed it in Los Angeles and I did some post production work here at Karma in Thailand as well. Russ: When producing a soundtrack, what does that actually entail? Chris: Well it entails getting every single cue down and getting the best performance out of the orchestra and giving the conductor and orchestra guidance on