G
: It looks to me like the right order , it seems it is the good
order of each song of the album?
Alan : It was difficult for me
to find the order of the songs , the final order that you find on
the album.
JY
: Is there a conclusion ?
Alan : If you follow up the album,
the conclusion, it's that the plane crashes.
G : Was that a terrible moment
for you to see the crash of the plane ?
Alan : It was mostly strange,
it was not really something disturbing. I won't say it was an event
that horrified me. It was just bizarre that it happened that way .
When you look at it and that you see that the plane crashed really,
it's not something you can forget.
JB : You spoke of your interest
for the soundtracks ...
G : Most of the fans when they
listen to all your albums from Hydrology to Liquid , feel that dark
atmosphere, these strong feelings , pure raw and violent, that seem
to come out from each album . Is that the ambiant and the state of
mind you look for when you make your songs ?
Alan : It's hard to describe it.
It's not something I'm conscious of. It comes just like that . I don't
know where it comes from. It's like the music assembles itself , it's
like many accidents that assemble all together and produce this
specific sound , and I like it. I build everything from it. That's
what is present in the music , all this dark aspect. And that's what
i must like. It's one aspect of my personallity that comes out in
my music.That's what interstest me most in the human nature. Every
human being that is distorted , disturbed is obviously
fascinating . It's interesting to write about this. People expect
me to be someone difficult , dark and real serious , it's the aspect
of my personality the most appealing. I tried to bring all these elements
when I was among Depeche Mode. Because it always seemed to me
that the songs of DM were really "light" , mostly at the time I join
the band in 1982. I always tried to bring my own vision of the things
, to give more depth into DM. The songs of martin pushed me to do
that . Sometimes , Martin wrote Love Songs, but that wasn't usefull
to add a dark aspect to them . You couldn't bring it that much
further.
