#MarrGuitarKing - Billie Eilish - No Time To Die (2020)

#MarrGuitarKing - Billie Eilish - No Time To Die (2020)

Ach wat, Johnny Marr is een bezige bij gebleven, waardoor we er nog een weekje gitaristieke en compositorische hand- en spandiensten aan toevoegen.

Filmsoundtracker Hans Zimmer consulteerde wel vaker Johnny Marr voor bijdragen aan soundtracks ('Inception', 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'), maar die voor de James Bond-film 'No Time To Die' heeft het meeste ophef gemaakt.

Marr was sowieso een perfect match met zijn vibratogedreven akkoorden, die ook nog eens perfect op de themasong van Billy Eilish passen. Er werden verschillende versies van de song uitgegeprobeerd, maar de meest minimale haalde de eindmeet: “They’re so classy and know that if you want to do a Bond theme, it’s about doing something that’s your sound. I wanted to protect that, and in the end we just kept coming back to ‘reduce, reduce, reduce. I think it’s a really powerful piece of music, considering it’s such a mainstream project.”

Hoofdrolspeler Daniel Craig beschouwde het als zijn laatste Bond en had ook een vinger in de pap. “He’s very invested and has a lot of say in this film. From what I gather, he’s probably feeling incredibly validated. He has become definitive in this era of Bond to a couple of generations. I’m making a lot of nasty, nasty noises on it. I’ve had this thing with the last few films that I’ve worked on where I am determined to create an atmosphere with the sonics of the guitar that can’t be done by the most amazing synthesizer players in the world – nor the most amazing sound designers. I knew Billie’s stuff quite well because we’d been listening to it on the tour bus and had done a couple of festivals with them”, aldus nog Marr.

“I’ve been asked about working with a pop star and young people, but my experience of working with Billie and Finneas is just that they are musicians. The way that they conduct themselves and their processes are the same as other serious musicians – as it was when I worked with Pharrell or Herbie Hancock or Hans Zimmer or David Byrne. Billie and Finneas are no different – they’re just the modern version. It’s the process that makes them modern. There’s no naivety there.” En daarmee sluiten we de Marr-veertiendaagse helemaal af.

3 april 2022
Laurens Leurs