Winona Interview

10-03-2008 11:27

Although you may not know Craig Armstrong by name his work will be very familiar to you. As a film composer Craig has worked on Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet and most recently Ray.Away from film composing Craig is a keen musicial and with the help of fellow Scotsman Scott Fraser have formed the duo Winona.Working together over a string of Fidays using a range of vintage synthesisers the duo have produced their debut record Rosebud. I caught up with Craig to discuss his new project and his career.

You are best known as an award winning composer where did the idea for Winona come from?

It was just over the last, while Scott and I worked together, and while I was doing music for movies I collected a lot of vintage synthesisers and we just decided, we always said we would love to do an album together, and it just came about.We tried a few ideas, we actually did about seven Friday days, a lot of it was quite improvised. At the end of the day we recorded a lot of tracks and chose we the best but it was quite kind of improvised as we do it we just record it.

I did read that the recording process was just one day a week which is a little unorthodox why did you decide to do it like that?

It is just the way it happened really we just did ten or so Fridays and put down a lot of ideas and just picked the best after that. It was just a spur of the moment capture the moment.