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?
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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