In a new interview conducted by Noise11‘s Paul Cashmere, German guitarist, Michael Schenker, who’s celebrating the 50th-anniversary of UFO, discussed his other musical projects, yet to be released, and mentioned who will he work with.
During the interview, the guitarist said:
“So I went into the studio in June ’23. I wrote all the songs. I mean, of course, the UFO (album) was already written, but the MSG (Michael Schenker Group) album, and the next (MS) album, I wrote the music. The second album was supposed to be an electric, like an instrumental album. And the reason was I wanted to make three albums in one go to let the people know what I’ve done in the last 50 years. So I did UFO, I did MSG and I did an acoustic or electric (album) and both instrumental music.
”So after we finished with ‘My Years With UFO’, I started putting down my guitars for the MSG album, which is gonna be called ‘Don’t Sell Your Soul’. And it’s with Erik Grönwall (ex-Skid Row) singing most of the songs, Robin McAuley singing, and Michael Voss, my co-producer, he’s also singing. And then I did the instrumental album. As I was putting down my guitar, my composition, the instrumental part, Michael Voss kept singing, and I went, like, ‘Michael, this sounds really good.
”I think we should turn this into a vocal album,’ and have, like I used to do with UFO, ‘Belladonna’ and ‘Love To Love’, all of these songs used to be instrumental songs. And then they turned into vocal songs. And so we invited Herman Rarebell from the Scorpions, ex-drummer. And so this album is like now one of my favorite albums. It turned into this amazing album.
”Somebody had the idea to tune it to a 432 (Hz) instead of 440 [Hz], which is the same tuning as ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’, Pink Floyd. And we added this, we added that, and it was like building a house. All of a sudden, I was shocked what came out of it. And people will be shocked when they hear this album because they will not believe what they’re hearing. And it’s called ‘Freedom Of Expression’.”