"This is our chance for us to defy gravity once again,"‘ explains Bono, calling in from a break in recording sessions in the south of France. " We have what it takes, we have the songs, new rhythms and a guitar player who is not ready to re-enter earth's atmosphere until he's taken a slice of the moon!"
'It's been fun, it's been maddening... there have been injuries and recoveries, no babies born that I know of, but this one is nearly ready for the new year of 2009.'
‘When we set out on this record it was Larry who came up with the plan not to have a plan. He put up this idea that wouldn’t it be great just to make music for its own sake, not for the purpose of a live show or on album but just to see what we’re capable of…’ says the frontman.‘We said to each other that if we got to the great place then we wouldn’t stop…’
‘We know we have to emerge soon but we also know that people don’t want another U2 album unless it is our best ever album. It has to be our most innovative, our most challenging … or what’s the point ?’
"It’s a brand new chapter for us, and everyone we’ve played the tracks to has said that musically it feels like another departure."
‘The last two records were very personal, with a kind of three piece at their heart, the primary colours of rock - bass, guitars and drum. But what we’re about now is of the same order as the transition that took us from The Joshua Tree to Achtung Baby.’
He also mentions that the recording in Morocco was the first time the band have worked in a studio open to the sky: ‘On that track you can hear the sound of a swallows nest close to the building - it’s beautiful.’
The more I hear the faster I want the new album to be realeased...is this all a great publicity stunt??? who cares??? I´m dying to listen to this new piece of genius!!!
source:U2.com
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