This second album proves, once again, the primordial role that plays the past, more precisely your childhood in your music.
Besides, some title like ' leave it all behind ' or ' Give me back my childhood ' testify it. Think you to be deeply nostalgic?

Perry Blake : Yes, I think that the first album and ' Still Life ' make part of one same cycle. It is true that I am always nostalgic. What changes, for this last album, it is the perception of this nostalgia, but as the context. It is a more organic album, I worked on it in 'live' with a group who's sharing the same vision of things. I achieved, musically talking, precisely that of which I wanted, and my words are the perfect reflection of music that I composed.

Newcomer : You seem to reject the present, for example in ' Bury me ' and ' Stop breathing '…

Perry Blake : I think to live with my time, and to be conscious of what represents life.
I don't live in the past. However, it is true that the melancholy makes an integral part of my state of mind. This album doesn't belong to something or someone in particular; I only had tried to capture the precise moments of my life and to put them in my music

Newcomer : Then, is it that your words who inspire you for the creation of your music or the inverse?

Perry Blake: It depends, but in general, I don't think that it is good for the music to first work on words. Thus, it is words that must adjust to the tone of music.

Newcomer: Is there a particular feeling who united titles of this last album?

Perry Blake: Yes, I think that all pieces are joined between them by one same state of mind, one same idea; the fact that the present stagnates and remain frozen. It is besides the title of the album.

Newcomer: You recorded your first album in a church of a countryside to permit an optimum blossoming of your voice. On the other hand for ' Still life ', you recorded it in studio ' The River ' in London. Why this choice?

Perry Blake: This second album has only been recorded during some months because I had already worked two years on the intended pieces to this album, I began to write them one shortly before to have finished the work of the first album; the registration was therefore faster than for the first that lasted one year and half! And then the first became produces to my taste too much.

Newcomer: After two past years in London, you regain your native Ireland. Why?

Perry Blake: I had enough of that to live in London in my small apartment that cost me a fortune, I needed space. It is whereas I decided to buy a big house in Ireland, on the North coast of Belfast, with few moneys, and to install my studio there. The place is very restful, there, to work is a true happiness. It is also there that I would conceive my next album.

Newcomer: Work you essentially with friends?

Perry Blake: No, I work with people who have a real talent, I have in general, above all of the professional reports with them, and only some among them are my friends as Brendan Perry.

Newcomer: Your inspirations are multi-cultural origins…

Perry Blake: Yes, I am influenced a lot by the movies and the imaginary movies, and of course by numerous personalities musical such Kate Bush, Bowie, Tim Buckley, Scott Walker.
Otherwise, I listen to the new album of Brendan Perry at the moment a lot, I find it sensational. I like calm albums because one often takes time to go in their universe and, according to me, the most successful arrive to detach itself of all time notion.

Newcomer: You had travelled a lot…

Perry Blake: In fact, toward the age of 18 years, I left for the first time Ireland, for Germany, I was everywhere a little before finding me again in London. These journeys constituted the primordial experiences of what I serve myself for my music. For example, I learned to observe people that surround me, to understand them and interested me to the various cultures. I pulled some like lesson that people are different while being similar! My albums take therefore in account these experiences. What I also appreciate, in the work that i did for the last album; it is that it is simple and that it doesn't have any pretension to belong to such style or either such movement. I am not hired in my words; they are very personal. What is well, it is that some people are going to hang indeed, and that others are going to hate that I made.

Newcomer: And, you collaborated with Françoise Hardy for the song 'War in France ' Why this choice? This is not the first time that a British artist worked with her (Blur for example).

Perry Blake: I didn't hear their duet, but I don't like the manner to sing of Damon Albarn, even though he improved a lot lately. With regard to my collaboration with Françoise Hardy, it was very well pasted, her voice agrees marvellously with my music; ' War in France is the lightest song of the album, even though it is nevertheless dark. While composing music, I immediately thought about Françoise Hardy, and my intuition didn't deceive me!

Newcomer: When will see you to played in France?

Perry Blake: For now, no date is foreseen, but we will begin to play surely before the end of January. I already begin to work of the possible songs for my next album. On the other hand, I achieved the music of the movie ' Almost nothing ' that is going to be seen soon and it is nominated to the festival of Cannes.