Are you completly satisfied about your last work?
I'm very pleased with the new album. I feel it is my best work to date, and is very representative of the variety of music i love listening to. I feel like my style is developing more and more with each album, and that i get closer to the sound in my ahead all the time!!
Wich are the most important ispiration for doing this new album?
Most of my inspirations for the new album are more to do with the spirit they put into their records. People like Buddy Miller, Steve Earle, Neil Finn, Sheryl Crow and Ron Sexmith make records with so much heart... records that seem to draw the listener into their world. As i'm getting older, the heart in people's records is more important to me than any fashion, or popularity or new music fad!
Is There some others artists that you think important to reccomend us?
Apart from the ones mentioned above who i'm sure you know all about already, there's a whole world of great music out there, by a lot of people you may never have heard of. I think Hitchcock's Regret are fantastic, and Mark Moldre is a great writer. Jason Walker gets better all the time.. his
records are always great. In the US there's a new artist called Eugene Edwards whose album is fantastic. I always love Cliff Hillis' records also.. great pop music. I've just finished a great record by a young guy called James Cooper. It should be out soon, and it's astoundingly good, and he's
very young, which means he's going to get better and better!!
Are there some others projects for the your future?
There are many projects coming up. I'm doing an album with Mark Moldre which is turning out great. The idea is that we get together in the morning, write a song, and we don't leave the studio that day until it's finished!! Very stripped back.. like an early 70's McCartney record. We have 9 songs finished for that, and hopefully it will be out early next year, although we need to find a name for ourselves yet! I'm most of the way through my new covers record, SOOP#2. That should be out in the middle of next year. Lastly, there should be a compilation album of leftovers and tribute tracks called 'Oarfins' out late next year. You can check the progress of all of these projects at my website at www.mcarp.com
Is there something in your album that you don't like enough?
I wish i sung better!! In my head i wish i sounded like Marvin Gaye or John Lennon, but in reality i just sound like me. And i wish i could make records in one block of time and be focused rather than in between all my other producing jobs. But these are minor things, and like i said, i feel like
this is my best work yet, and that i'm getting better and better all the
time..

Michael Carpenter
www.mcarp.com