Welcome to Singled Out! where we ask artists to tell us the inside story of their latest single. Today Kalle Wallner from RPWL tells us about "Cake" from their brand new album "The Gentle Art Of Music". We now turn it over to Kalle for the story:As we decided to release an anniversary album as a "compilation", we did not only want to have a typical "best of", because we liked the idea of doing something special on the second cd that we called "revisited". So we re-recorded and re-arranged some of our old songs in a new but more acoustic way with many different instruments. But we already had written some new songs we liked a lot. So we couldn't resist to do at least two of them for the "revisited" cd.
One of those two is really special to me, its name is "Cake". But first of all - for understanding this story- you have to know that Yogi and me have a big old farmer's house which we rebuilt to RPWL's home: we have two studios, 2 recordings rooms, some offices, a rehearsal room, etc. So I remember I was sitting in my studio, jamming around with the acoustic guitar over this riff, when Yogi joined me for a coffee -as usual. He heard the riff and immediately had the idea about the lyrics: To say sorry with a cake. Maybe he was just longing for a piece of cake for the coffee or maybe he had some private trouble... anyway. Finally he told me about these lyrics and before we started to complete and arrange the song we already had the video in mind: Loads of people carrying the same cake and showing it into the camera. We liked all these ideas and finished the whole song within 2 hours. The song itself is not complicated, but has a very nice hook. As "Cake" was mainly based on the acoustic guitar we decided to put it on "revisited" because the sound fits perfect to the rest of the new-recorded songs. We decided to take the middle-part of „Cake" for some new instrument experiments: The saxophone has the leading part which is quite unusual for us, and together with the female harmonies this reminds a lot of the 60ies.
Furthermore, we realized this video we had in mind because finally this was the starting point of "Cake". We went with a gorgeous cake through the centre of our hometown and let the people present the cake to the camera. The rest of the artwork and the animation was made by Judith Reichhuber, an artist and friend of us. She already did the artwork in the booklet of THE RPWL EXPERIENCE. You can watch the video on our - YouTube channel
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