Recording A_Moon_Shaped_Pool

jonny greenwood performing in 2015 london contemporary orchestra, appear on moon shaped pool

radiohead , godrich began work on moon shaped pool in september 2014. band slow regain momentum after hiatus , worked in fits , starts . yorke had few demos , there no rehearsal period; according guitarist ed o brien, went straight recording ... sound emerged recorded. sessions lasted until christmas year, , resumed 3 weeks in 2015 in la fabrique studio near saint-rémy-de-provence, france. studio, nineteenth-century mill producing art pigment, had been used musicians including morrissey , nick cave, , houses biggest collection of vinyl records in world.

work on album interrupted recording of spectre , radiohead wrote james bond film of same name. song rejected, according greenwood, being dark . godrich said: fucking james bond movie threw massive curveball. real waste of energy. stopped doing doing , had concentrate on while since told going come fruition ... caused stop right when in middle of [the album recording].

godrich s father died on day of recording of string sessions burn witch . according godrich, literally left him on fucking table in house , went , recorded. , very, emotional day me. string player 1 of things felt want me go , this. around same period, yorke announced separation wife, rachel owen, died of cancer several months after album s completion. told rolling stone: there lot of difficult stuff going on @ time, , tough time people. miracle that record got made @ all.

in effort keep band focused, godrich had them record moon shaped pool tape analog multitrack recorders. added creative limits process, rerecording take meant first erasing previous take. introduction daydreaming , band slowed tape, creating pitch-warping effect. radiohead still used digital manipulation on many tracks; example, greenwood used music programming language max manipulate piano on glass eyes . drummer clive deamer, had performed radiohead on king of limbs tour , appeared on 2011 double single daily mail , staircase , played additional drums on ful stop . greenwood estimated 80% of album recorded in 2 weeks.

in november 2015, conductor robert ziegler, worked radiohead on king of limbs, tweeted photos of band recording string orchestra. strings , choir sections arranged greenwood , performed london contemporary orchestra conductor hugh brunt; orchestra had worked greenwood on score 2012 film master. strings recorded @ rak studios in london. cellist oliver coates said: nigel, jonny , thom have awesome relationship, , animated during recording. remember laying down cello part @ end of daydreaming , thom said, s – sound of record. greenwood had cellists detune cellos song, creating growling sound. additional string , choir parts recorded cut album.

in december 2015, @ united nations climate change conference in paris, yorke performed 3 moon shaped pool songs: numbers (then known silent spring ), present tense , , desert island disk . on christmas day, radiohead released spectre on audio streaming site soundcloud. according godrich, after band had finished recording in france went off , put myself.