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MC: What was it he brought to the party?
Clark: He brought a lot of things out of me. He had some great ideas from drum sounds and guitar sounds, arrangements, things like that, which is something I hadn’t put a whole lot of time into before. I’d just kind of been going in and one song might be eight minutes or whatever; he’d spark a flame, like “Let’s do this here and see how this goes”––really cool ideas without being overbearing or like, “This is the way it should be” kind of thing, which is cool. He allowed me to open up rather than be disinterested which is how I’ve been before. It was easier to let go with him. It was fun, a really laidback, chill environment to make music in. It was perfect.
MC: Blak And Blu is just out, of course, but are you thinking at all about what you want to do next?
Clark: I’m not sure at this point. I definitely do have some ideas for what I want to do. I’d like to do a little more reaching out to folks and getting together with other people and putting our heads together. This album is pretty much all my stuff, so I’d like to collaborate with some folks after that.
MC: You’ve done some interesting collabor-ations already. What was it like working with Alicia Keys?
Clark: I recorded on a couple of tracks for her album [Girl On Fire]. Basically I just got called to go in there and play some rhythm guitar stuff, then she wanted me to come in and play some lead stuff and open it up. She’d play a track and say, “Let’s do you.” It was really cool. I’ve been a fan of the stuff she does for a long time and she really let me do what I do. Hopefully I can have some more experiences like that.
Contact Rick Gershon, rick.gershon@wbr.com
