- 2024-07-23
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MUSIC
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Yannis & The Yaw Premieres New Song “Rain Can't Reach Us” on BBC Radio 1
British rock band Foals frontman, Yannis Philippakis' solo project Yannis & The Yaw premiered a new song “Rain Can't Reach Us” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The song is the third single off of his upcoming EP “Lagos Paris London”, which is set to be released on August 30, 2024 via Transgressive Records.
The track features the late Nigerian-French drummer Tony Allenm, who died in 2020 at age 79.
It was written by Ludovic Bruni, Tony Allen, Vincent Taeger, Vincent Taurelle, and Yannis Philippakis. Produced by Vincent Taurelle, and Yannis Philippakis.
Yannis Philippakis said of the song, “We actually referred to 'Rain Can't Reach Us' as 'The Tornado' for a long time because it feels like a gale blowing through your house and it's just cool to hear Tony at the heart of that. There's a chance it could have become a Foals track, but sharing that idea with Tony made it become this other thing. I think that's really exciting, it's like putting in random coordinates, getting in your car and driving and not knowing where you're going to show up. You could be led anywhere.”- Yannis Philippakis told Jack Saunders about the song, “The song came from a small little eight bar loop I'd written a loop pedal. Second thing I ever wrote with Tony Allen. It was intended for Foals really like I'd written it as a False loop and then it just never got worked on there. So then I played it to Tony and he just got on the kit and then it started to just take off.”
He continued, “I feel like it's probably my favorite track off the EP that I did with Tony and it's like, it just has this kind of amazing energy, which when we were recording in the room, we've kind of all felt at the moment we did it. We nicknamed it 'The Tornado' for a long time because it just felt like something that just rolled through the rear and just took you away. So just it was always kind of like this the center point for the whole EP. I think in a way it's the most important track off.” -
He added, “Loop pedal was just me and my guitar but once I got to Paris with so the other collaborators on the project, there was marimba set up, there was set vibraphones, there was a whole kind of different tapestry of instruments to choose from. And then it just felt a bit like a kid just released into the toys are high ground and away. So it's like okay, let's put that level on marimba. Let's do this on the other one. So I think that there was something really exciting about doing a kind of slightly more orchestral version of a riff that would have been differently.” - source : BBC Radio 1
