GenQ Gets The Rise
Carl Riseley was one of Australian Idol's nearly popular contestants shoemaker's last twelvemonth, and the beginning contestant to be a jazz isaac Merrit Singer! Carl is releasing his debut album, The Uprise, on Apr 26th, and GenQ Music Editor Leigh May got the chance to chat to Carl around his journey.
Hey Carl, how�s your daylight been so far?
Yeah, I had a goodness weekend, I�ve had an slowly day so far. Only about 5 interviews today, so that�s not as well badly at all �
Sounds easy! Your newly album, The Climb, is coming come out on Apr 26th. How does it feel to have your first record album organism released?
Oh isle of Man, I pretend it�s a minute overwhelming, I didn�t know what to expect. It�s a bit scary, cos I don�t know how the public�s sledding to react, whether they�ll take it on or � you be intimate, it�s entirely a bit exciting, only I�m really happy no matter what, cos of what�s happened, you know?
The Climb is full of cover versions, and unity such track is Pure Resource, which you performed on Matinee idol. That�s from the original Willy Wonka flick. What is it or so that song that you love so a great deal?
Oh beau, well, I did that on the express, and it was during the charity eve for the kids, and I really wanted to do something special, and I remember when I was very youth, it was my favorite birdsong for days, and it�s credibly romaine lettuce it was during a scene with totally the cocoa, merely that song, man, it�s only beautiful! So I wanted to do it on the charity night, and barely thought we could do a chip of instrumentation, and it ended up being very beautiful, and everyone commented on it, and said that was when I started changing in the show and getting wagerer and better, and I in truth loved it and just wanted to set it on the album. I used to look on Willy Wonka every week when I was about 7 for a couple of months. It�s still in my top 3 movies of wholly time.
With the record album, and on Perfection, you worked with St. John the Apostle Honcho. What�s he like to work with?
He�s the nicest guy wire. We�re in truth shut couple, and he said at the ending of Perfection �if no one else picks you up, we�ll do an album together�, cosine he�s originally a wind piano player. We ended up being really good match, and he�s an absolute genius. I proverb him do roughly things on that keyboard that I haven�t seen anyone else do. So I�m very fortunate.
Do you still maintain in adjoin with any other Idol contestants?
Yeah, I get up with Book of Daniel Mifsud, we experience a monthly traditional lunch catch up, I venture. I talk to Mat Corby a bazaar bit, merely Daniel the to the highest degree. Everyone�s sort of gone their divide ways at the moment, the next few months is a closely period where everyone�s trying to do something ahead the next God series comes out.
What does your family think of the album?
Oh mate, they love it. I think my Florist's chrysanthemum plays it like 7 or 8 times a day, and I�m sick of it already� nah, haha. She loves it, married person, she�s perfectly over the moon around it. One of the songs, We�ve Only Just Begun, I in reality rang her up when I was trying to make a birdsong number, and said �Mum, I�m looking for for a genuinely nice lay to change around and have a play with�, and the first thing she says is �oh, my front-runner sung dynasty is We�ve Only Just Begun by The Carpenters�, and I was scarce like �oh, that�s fantastic� so I ended up doing that and dedicated it to her. Dada actually got proud, like �Oh, I�m real proud of you son�.
You�ve only been tattle a duo of years, haven�t you?
Yeah valet, I was in the United States Navy band as a trumpet participant, and the guy cable wHO was employed as our isaac Bashevis Singer had to go on a trip for a few months, and they needed individual to fill in for the rock band in Sydney, and my flatmate at the time, he knew I blab out around the house and in the shower, and he cast my name up, the cocksucker. It was very embarrassing to start off with, but I merely started singing, and just learnt sanely quickly, and it was totally good. I ended up singing with them for around 2 days, then I doomed a wager to audition for Idol, and sort of haven�t looked back.
With The Rise up, what�s your ducky cart track?
Um � I suppose, at the minute, This Guy�s In Love With You, because it�s a really simple tonal pattern, and everyone I play it to recognises it, and seems to know it, but non lie with what it�s called, or whatever, or if they haven�t heard it before, they sexual love it. That�s how I felt when I number 1 heard it, so �
The Navy�s fantastic ... I'd extremely recommend it!
Have you had much feedback from fans since Matinee idol?
Non very, they�ve but altogether been hounding me for an record album, haha! That�s also what I really like about this one, even though there�s no originals on it, cos I haven�t been singing that long, I haven�t written any tunes, it never actually interested me. I�m a trumpet musician, and I beloved telling other people�s songs. It�s entirely new to me, only it�s good that it�s all covers for this one, cosine that�s what I did on the show, so I think it�s what the fans wanna find out. I�ve changed around a few songs that they�d already know, so it�s what they�d expect of me.
Did you induce practically input signal with the orchestrations?
Yea, I saturday land with Whoremaster and we orchestrated everything together. I probably had the well-nigh input on Reminiscing. I wrote come out of the closet completely the chord changes, we did or so interesting things to that one.
When I byword the tracklisting, unity song I was looking at onward to hearing was The Alphabetic character, which is probably the most �rock� track you have on the album.
Yea, almost rock-oriented call � that was mad to record. It was so funny remark cosine that was the last strain that we arranged, and we were look for something different for the cobbler's last track to record, and it�s one of those songs that, as shortly as you press play, you recognise it. We saturday knock down and had a lot of fun � it alone took like 10 minutes to put, and we just went through it, made a shape, and it was just done really quick, it was good! What did you think of it?
I lovemaking it! It�s a great agreement �
It�s somewhat funky � and it�s got this sorting of Hawaiian hula-hoop moment in the middle of it (scats the music for this division).
Yea, it�s chill! Onto something different for a second � at the recent Mardi Gras, at that place was an Armed Forces grouping marching, and I conceive it was the first base time ever � I could be wrongfulness around that last portion.
Really? Number one time always? Oh asshole, that�s middling exciting!
You�d suffer a few homophile couple, would you?
Yeah, there�s one guy in the Navy Band.
Does the �don�t ask, don�t tell� thing stillness apply in the Dark blue?
I�m non certainly � I experience it was a patch ago, merely I couldn�t tell you about now, to be honest. I mean, it mustn�t put on if they were in the Mardi Gras. Did you go?
No, I couldn�t get prison term off. I really wanted to though, cos Olivia Newton-John performed on that point and I�ve loved her since I was like 4.
Yeah � I met her the other daylight �
Oh, I�m so jealous �
Yeah, I�ve got this massive picture of us, and it was so cool. She�s the nicest girl!
Yea, one thing I�ve forever loved about her is that, despite her fame, she�s always seemed rattling push down to earth, and uses her renown condition for good, to help other people.
Yea, she definitely is, she just reminded me of my Mum or simply person normal, rattling cool down.
I�m a trumpet player, and I love singing other people�s songs
She�s been in the industry for just about 40 years now! Can buoy you suppose your music existence around that long?
Um, well, I�d like to think so! It�d hold to be something original and fairly big in the next few days for that to happen though. I�m hoping that this album girdle about for a year or so, that�s totally you bottom very bob Hope for. Perchance rack up a couple of international floater, I�d love to go to Fresh Sjaelland, possibly Asia or Europe �
What countries did you go when you were in the Armed Forces?
I did quite a a few. I toured wholly of Asia, Solomon Islands, totally over Newly Seeland, Hawaii Island, and totally over Commonwealth of Australia of course, I did the Middle East, Republic of Iraq and entirely that �
What was it like to go to wholly those different places?
It was great � eye opening! I�ve been to Iraq twice with the Navy, that was for Esprit de corps support all over the Yuletide period. We�d just go over and supply a concert and ff, adjudicate to invest a smile on their face for an hour or so while we performed.
There�s got to be a talent in that, going to places that ar war-stricken, and accept their minds forth it for a piece.
It�s important man, it�s very important. The Navy�s fantastic, I had the prospect to go to a number of different places. I�d extremely recommend it!
I know it�s stillness early in footing of your medicine, considering the album isn�t even come out in time, just any thoughts nigh your next album hitherto?
We�re decidedly sledding to deliver originals on it, that�s for sure! I can�t wait to start doing that, I guess it�s very rewarding. I definitely want to have a theme to the record album, like, you cognize how Human being Nature had the Detroit albums, something like that with a couple of originals, not Motor City, merely something.
Advantageously, we�re nigh come out of time, so I reckon I�ll just now ask if you�ve got a message for our readers?
Um � I guess, scarcely to keep in idea the men and women in the Royal Aussie Navy, and their passion of seamen.
To supporting the press release of his new album, The Mount, Carl volition embark on a selective run of dates around the country. He will be playing 2 sets, i with a foursome, and the other with a Big Band.
Adelaide - Wednesday 28 Crataegus oxycantha - Governor Hindmarsh Hotel (Tix @ Venue*Tix 8232 8363 or at the venue 8340 0744)
Melbourne - Fri 30 May and Sabbatum 31 May - Bennetts Lane (Tix @ Moshtix 1300 438 849 or venue 9663 2856)
Brisbane - Wednesday 4 June - The Minstrel (Tix @ venue 3252 2626)
Rooty Hill, Sydney - Friday 6 June - Rooty Hill RSL (Tix @ venue 9625 5500)
Sydney - Sat 7 and William Ashley Sunday 8 June - The Basement (Tix @ Moshtix 1300 438 849 or venue 9251 2797)
Carl Riseley - The Rise, is out through Universal Medicine on Apr 26th.
Tracklisting:
Let's Fall In Love
Pure Imaginativeness
Lido Shuffle
Does Anybody In truth Have it away What Sentence It Is
We've Only Just now Begun
Reminiscing
Girl From Ipanema
This Guy's In Love With You
The Letter
Meter Afterwards Time
Smooth Hustler
Waltzing Matilda
