About All I Need by Pablo Nouvelle Album
Pablo Nouvelle recorded around forty new tracks before choosing his favourite fifteen for his second album, “All I Need”. Asked to pin-point some influences, he lists the likes of Bonobo, the xx and Radiohead. The catchy ‘Hold On’, was recorded in one session with the Swiss singer/songwriter James Gruntz. “Paint“ is the result of a late night session in the kitchen of Norma Jean Martine, the London-based singer from New York. “Coastline” came out of an encounter in Los Angeles with Gavin Turek, according to Spin magazine one of “five artists to watch out for”. The diversity of the voices is a crucial element in creating an album which never repeats itself and yet unmistakably contains the vision of an artist who very much knows his mind. Any samples that still do pop up on “All I Need” are taken from sessions conducted, recorded and edited by Nouvelle himself: “To conduct a session is a similar process as directing a film,” he says. There is one exception to the “no-outside samples” rule: Like a dessert, it follows right at the end. Album title track “All I Need” is based on a sample from “If This World Were Mine”, a song Marvin Gaye once sang in a duet with Tammi Terrell. “That sample is an important statement for me,” says Nouvelle. “It pays homage to my musical roots as well as to the act of sampling, a true art form in itself.”
