Arthur Ahbez Shares “Take It Easy“
Casting a new mould, Arthur Ahbez takes another step to the side of his previous material and experiments with a cocktail of 60’s sunshine bubble-gum pop and then forces it through a box grater of psychedelic surf rock in his song “Take it Easy“. An ominous opening line “Hey little girl, scratching the eyes out of the world” in typical Ahbez fashion sets up the song as an interlocutor for mitochondrial survival, singing lyrics of journalistic malpractice, teenage cruelty, and a lovers heart break before ending in a passionate yell of desire for a long night of love making.
“I wrote Take it Easy on my Mellotron in 2018. Initially written as a solo piano piece, I demoed it to my band and Chay in a moment of brilliance conceived the perfect drum beat. Thank god I recorded it because true to Douglas fashion he totally forgot what he played when we regrouped to rehearse the following week. The majority of the recording was tracked live, and boy was it a blast to play. When Chay and I lock into a mojo it is really hard to break the spell, and as the song progresses the tempo rises along with the intensity into a wipe out style cacophony of percussive indulgence.“