You can put keyboards or guitars through it, and you switch the light off and see your sounds traveling through it electronically through sparks. Apart from all the amazing vintage equipment he had, the maddest thing-and sadly we ran out of time to use it-is a Tesla coil. It’s one of many absolutely mad instruments that Sean had at his studio.
“It’s the most musical, least musical thing you’ve ever heard. “ is a metal contraption with strings and various things you hit, and it creates those quaking, unnerving sounds,” he says. Multi-instrumentalist Thomas Walmsley looks back at their experimentation with a laugh. When you see something like that, you want to put it on there.” Percussion is a big part of what we’ve always done, and we fall into the tropes like everyone does-the shakers, the tambourines, the sleigh bells, the congas, the bongos, the woodblocks, the cow bells. “It was just in the middle of the studio at Sean’s,” he says of the instrument. As singer/multi-instrumentalist James Bagshaw recalls, Temples were fascinated at first sight, and they managed to sneak it into the bridge of their already-heady powerhouse “Cicada.” The best example, even if it’s tough to pinpoint in the final mix, is the “Marvin,” a stainless-steel Hollywood artifact used in Foley sound design for horror films. And some of those new sounds wound up populating their follow-up collaboration, Temples’ fourth LP, the ATO release Exotico-pushing these adventure-seekers into a new dimension of trippiness. But when everyone finally hit Lennon’s fanciful New York studio, first for Temples’ 2020 single “Paraphernalia,” their own chemistry became real-based largely on a mutual love of sonic science.Įverywhere the band turned, there was some cool-looking instrument to pick up and fiddle with or some wacky device to spark their imagination. On paper, it was already something of a neo-psych dream team: Temples, a quartet of cosmic hook-sculptors partnering with producer Sean Ono Lennon, best known for his shapeshifting solo work and collaborations with Primus’ Les Claypool.
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