Thursday, September 20, 2012
Recording "Hope For The Future" at Avatar Studios
For Paul McCartney
Last updated on December 12, 2020
Thursday, September 20, 2012
For Paul McCartney
Last updated on December 12, 2020
Recording studio: Avatar Studios, New York, USA
Previous session Early September 2012 • Sessions with Diana Krall
Article Sep 10, 2012 • "Produced by George Martin" documentary released in DVD / BluRay in the UK
Concert Sep 18, 2012 • Project: Harmony
Session Sep 20, 2012 • Recording "Hope For The Future" at Avatar Studios
Interview November 2012 ? • Paul McCartney interview for MOJO
Article Oct 02, 2012 • "Magical Mystery Tour" screening in London
Next session November 2012 ? • Recording "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"
AlbumSome of the songs worked on during this session were first released on the "Hope For The Future (Digital EP)" EP
Recording of “Hope For The Future” started at Hog Hill Mill. On September 20, 2012, Paul McCartney, his touring band, producer Giles Martin and Martin O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori, composers of the “Destiny” soundtrack, were at Avatar Studios for further recording on the song.
I was aware of the [new studio] album being made [the 2013 album “NEW”] because Paul Epworth is like a friend of mine. He came to see me and said to me Paul McCartney is off to work with him and we had a chat about Paul basically. Paul asked me to work with him on the title track of a video game called “Destiny” which is the biggest release next year. And he sent me the song and asked me to work on it as it’s more filmic, it’s more the stuff that I do, so we did that. I flew over to New York to go and work with him. And it’s one of those things typical Paul, he goes “It would be great if we could spend a day together ’cause I’m right in the middle of something’ and he gave me the name of the studio and I’m thinking ‘That’s in New York’. And he was working with Mark Ronson there and we spent a couple of days working on this track and he said ‘I really enjoyed that’.
Giles Martin, with an interview with Matt Everitt for BBC 6 Music, October 7, 2013
When we were in New York, the guy who was engineering for us, sort of producing that particular session, in New York was Giles Martin, who is George Martin’s son. For about 45 minutes there was a period where he just rift on George in things they tried in the studio and he was going in the mixing console and showing us what they would do and we were just like “Oh my God we’re getting a lesson on like from one of the Beatles right now and how they recorded”. I think he was talking about Revolver, and we were like I didn’t even want to move, I didn’t want to break the moment, I didn’t want to say anything because you just want to let it flow.
Michael Salvatori – from Youtube
Some orchestral and choral overdubs would be added at Abbey Road Studios in late November 2012. Credit details also mentioned some work at AIR Studios (with unknown dates – 2012 or 2013?).
Written by Paul McCartney
Recording
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