Franz Ferdinand used human bones as percussion instruments.
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The Scottish rockers, who were looking for unusual ways of creating sound on their forthcoming third album, decided to work with a human skeleton they had bought in an auction.
Frontman Alex Kapranos explained to MTV: “I remember we were working on a song called Kiss Me and we wanted to have a real dry, percussive sound in the chorus. We had this skeleton in a box that just ended up sitting in the corner of the studio, and we all sort of looked at it, and decided to experiment with it.”
Each band member chose a different part of the body to play on the record.
Alex added: “Nick, our guitarist, had the hands and was clapping the bones together. Paul, the drummer, was working with the pelvis bone and a femur.
We put the teeth in a glass jar and rattled that about. We smacked the ribs together and we got this really weird, f***ed-up kind of a sound that was wicked. I can’t think of any records with human bones on it.”
The album, provisionally titled Tonight, is set for release next year.
