Monólitos e Dimensões - I

Stephen O'Malley: "There are some tubular bells on 'Big Church' which were recorded in Ennio Morricone's studio and those were the same bells that were used on a lot of his recordings. Or a lot of the soundtracks at least, including The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. So that instrument has a pretty huge legacy. But it's just a tubular bell! [laughs] I'm actually really interested in the legacy of musical instruments you know. The history behind some of the stuff is pretty amazing. My main guitar is older than I am actually but I actually only know its history back ten years so there's another 25 years of history before that which I'm not sure about. Even the amplifiers that we use . . . It's interesting that something that can make such a profound artistic statement can also be such a tonic in the process. You don't know the history of these instruments."