He was at the helm on the lavish 40th anniversary box set for Triumph's Allied Forces, issued this month as part of Record Store Day. Meanwhile, Curran remains busy with his own projects.
“We’ll get it out one way or another,” he assures. “But to me, that was like, ‘Wow, without even trying, we sent this out and the music is resonating with people.’ So, I’ve got my fingers crossed, and I know Alex and I are both really proud of these songs and we want to share them with people.” “It’s quite far-mixed in the background, as you know people do that with music,” Curran says.
ENVY OF NONE SERIES
She’s got a long career ahead of her, I think.”įans can get an additional taste of the new music from Envy of None via the Netflix series Tiny Pretty Things, which placed the group’s song “Liar” in one of the episodes from the first season. This girl plays 10 or 15 different instruments and we’re like, ‘What the hell is going on over there!’ So, she’s a real gift and I think she’s such a diamond in the rough right now. "Her little studio, she’s covered in instruments. “We do Zoom calls with her and she’s in Portland, Oregon," Curran says. She feels like she’s been here before on this Earth. He recalls that the guitarist told him, “I certainly have never witnessed someone this young. I think he went out of his way to really scratch an itch that he hasn’t played that way in Rush.”Ĭurran and Lifeson were both floored by Wynne’s creativity and depth. "We spoke about heavy, heavy guitars and he said, ‘There’s only really two songs, Andy, that I feel need that crunch and oomph. “He’s having a real fun time manipulating those guitar sounds," Curran adds. “I would say to him, ‘What did you do there? This sounds like a violin’ or ‘This sounds like a keyboard!’ He was like, ‘Well, I put this, this and this on it and I flipped it backwards.’
“He’s gone out of his way to process and put cool things on his guitar that you’re like, ‘Wait a second, that doesn’t sound like a guitar,’” Curran says. Similar to his previous solo work outside of Rush on 1996's Victor, Lifeson was keen to really explore and push the limits. That’s kind of what this project sounds like.” “It’s like, if you can picture maybe Massive Attack with a little bit of some electronic stuff with Nine Inch Nails influences, with this beautiful, fragile, sweet voice and some very, very dark heavy sounds.
ENVY OF NONE FULL
There’s some beautiful guitar that he’s played all over it – but full transparency, it’s not Rush and it’s not Coney Hatch,” Curran says. “I think there’s a lot of Alex Lifeson in these. The guitarist quickly gravitated to what he heard. He described the songs he was sending to Lifeson as “trippy and dark” with “pop elements” mixed in. Earlier this year, however, Lifeson revealed that he and Geddy Lee were continuing conversations about future potential collaborations.Ĭurran cautions that Envy of None is very different from the sound that Lifeson was known for in Rush. The recent wave of new recordings represent a significant step forward for Lifeson, who admitted that he initially played " very little guitar" in the wake of his longtime Rush bandmate Neil Peart's death.
“If everything goes well, we’re hoping those songs might come out late summer or early fall.” “Those two, ‘Kabul Blues’ and ‘Spyhouse,’ at this moment Maiah is singing over them, so they’re going to be part of the Envy of None project,” he continues. “Now we have 10 songs in the can with this project called Envy of None. “He played on one track and one became two, and two became three,” Curran shares. Curran sent it to the guitarist and told him, “If you hear anything, why don’t you play on it?”įrom there, the collaboration began to blossom. He had been collaborating on songs with the Portland-based singer and Lifeson expressed interest in hearing the material. Wynne is the “diamond in the rough” who helped to spawn the new project, according to Curran. Lifeson and Curran are joined in Envy of None by guitarist Alfio Annibalini and vocalist Maiah Wynne, with additional musical contributions coming from drummers Tim Oxford (Arkells) and David Quinton Steinberg (Dead Boys, the Mods). He worked for the group’s management, handling A&R duties and coordinating their reissue program – a role he stepped away from in 2019. Known for his tenure as a member of ‘80s Canadian hard rockers Coney Hatch, Curran has been associated with Lifeson and Rush in recent years.
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