Critical darlings the Arcade Fire were so overwhelmed by the "huge fucking pipe organ" they found to play for their forthcoming album that it brought singer Win Butler to tears, PitchforkMedia.com reports.
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"The band went into the church ahead of me and my assistant, James Ogilvie," producer/engineer Scott Colburn wrote in an e-mail obtained by Pitchfork. "They recorded a sample of the organ playing a chord in different registers. Win called me and told me how excited he was about the organ. He said is [it] was super loud and so overwhelming that it brought a tear to his eye. I promptly called him a pussy."
But Colburn divulged upon arriving at the studio, he too was struck by pussiness and broke down like a little schoolgirl after experiencing the organ's mighty chime.
"When I first walked into the church and saw the organ, I just stood dead in my tracks. 'Now THAT's a fucking pipe organ!' I thought," Colburn wrote. "During the first take, I became overwhelmed by the grandeur of the whole thing. I heard that piece in it's finished state and it was magnificent! Tears rolled out of my eyes. I don't know what came over me, but it was a complete emotional release. The problem was that there were mics all around me, so I really couldn't sob. So I'm trying to hold back any kind of vocal component to this overwhelming joy I was experiencing.”
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