![]() What we wanted to do for this tour was kind of pick apart each unison section or each harmony section, and be like, ‘You’re sliding like this, you’re bending like this, I’m bending like this, let’s do the same thing.’ For the new music, we’re kind of just like sticking to what the record is. In the past we’ve had a hands-off approach where I learn the part my way, he learns the part his way, and we just go on tour without much thought. Henson says, “On this last tour we wanted to fix a lot of things in that regard. This creates a level of detail that is a key to the Polyphia formula. They’ve made a conscious effort to go beyond just nailing the notes, but also matching every single detail of their unison and harmony parts. She was like, ‘We’re making an alphabet song,’ and wrote the song in like two hours.” “I was like, ‘Yeah, try it.’ She hit ( sings alphabet from A to Z), and we slowed it down so we could hear how it fit. The Vocaloid is really fast, like it’s programmed vocals-you could make it say whatever you want, and you can make it ungodly fast.” So, Henson asked Black to sing every note of the 26-note riff, and the singer suggested simply singing the alphabet. And I wanted to recreate that with my own song, so I started the guitar riff inspired by that, and brought it to the session because I knew that Sophia speaks Japanese. “I’d done this TikTok of a Vocaloid song where I kind of just played the Vocaloid part on guitar, and it went viral and was, like, a big TikTok moment. I didn’t know that she could do that,” he recalls. ![]() “I’ve known Sophia for a while, and I’ve known that she’s very talented. ![]() During his last three months in L.A., he booked sessions with people he needed to do sessions with before he left town. After a four-year stint living in L.A., last year he decided to move. When Henson summoned Black for a collaboration, the guitarist was going through a major transition in his life.
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