{"id":74112,"date":"2021-12-11T14:49:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T14:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=74112"},"modified":"2021-12-11T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T14:49:09","slug":"depeche-modes-dave-gahan-on-imposter-syndrome-and-risk-taking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=74112","title":{"rendered":"Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan on imposter syndrome and risk-taking"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Dave Gahan, the revered singer with electronic pioneers\u00a0Depeche\u00a0Mode, says he discovered new-found vigour plunging himself into an unlikely set of covers for his other group's new album “Imposter”.<\/p>\n

Singing with the band Soulsavers, he takes on a wide-ranging set, mixing classics from Nat King Cole and Elvis with more eclectic choices such as Frank Ocean or Cat Power.<\/p>\n

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He even tackles one from that most outrageously talented of vocalists, Jeff Buckley.<\/p>\n

“You have to take risks if you want to change,” he told AFP on a visit to Paris.<\/p>\n

“What this record did for me, the process of recording it, was to realise how amazing it is where I am — the opportunities I have around me if I just take the risk to explore them,” he said.<\/p>\n

“These songs once again gave me a new vigour to step into a character that felt familiar.”<\/p>\n

But even someone as successful as Gahan knows imposter syndrome.<\/p>\n

He may have hogged the limelight in\u00a0Depeche\u00a0Mode, but the songs, until recent years, were all the work of instrumentalist Martin Gore.<\/p>\n

“We all feel like imposters now and again,” said Gahan.<\/p>\n

“Even before I made music, when I was a teenager, I was looking for something to be a part of, to disappear in, to be accepted. That's part of life for all of us.”<\/p>\n

– Second home –<\/p>\n

Gahan has found a second home with Soulsavers, a rotating group of musicians with a love of bluesy rock and gospel.<\/p>\n

Now on their third album together, the band's sound fit well with Gahan and his rocky history.<\/p>\n

Turning 60 next year, he has been through severe addiction and survived multiple overdoses, an on-stage heart attack and even attempted suicide.<\/p>\n

“There are behaviours that you think are solutions to how you feel, but it's not real — drugs, alcohol, love, whatever,” Gahan said.<\/p>\n

“But music is the one consistent thing in my life that's reminded me that it's something I really care about.<\/p>\n

“Soulsavers, over the course of 20 years, have developed a sound, an atmosphere that I'm very aware of and I fit very nicely into that atmosphere. I can do my best performances in there,” said Gahan.<\/p>\n

Led by Rich Machin, Soulsavers recorded their new album before the pandemic in Malibu at the Shangri-La studio of mixing desk sorcerer Rick Rubin.<\/p>\n

But they were not just there for the sunshine: Rubin produced the beloved Johnny Cash covers album “American Recordings”, which includes the\u00a0Depeche\u00a0Mode classic “Personal Jesus”.<\/p>\n

– ‘A lost art' –<\/p>\n

Machin and Gahan talk with childish glee of the live recording experience.<\/p>\n

“It's sort of a lost art — performance,” said Gahan.<\/p>\n

“I'm trying to hold on to it because the most important part of what you do is capturing a performance.<\/p>\n

“With my experience, with 40 years of making music, I knew we had captured something special.”<\/p>\n

The fear was that the events of the past 18 months might have destroyed the magic they captured in the studio.<\/p>\n

“We weren't in a room together for two years,” said Machin.<\/p>\n

“The chemistry can alter, and it's been a pretty weird time, so you come back into it with a deep anxiety, but within 24 hours of being back together you realise it's fucking great still.<\/p>\n

“Those two years — it's like it never happened.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dave Gahan, the revered singer with electronic pioneers\u00a0Depeche\u00a0Mode, says he discovered new-found vigour plunging himself into an unlikely set of covers for his other group’s new album “Imposter”. Singing with the band Soulsavers, he takes on a wide-ranging set, mixing classics from Nat King Cole and Elvis with more eclectic choices such as Frank Ocean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":74113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n