The new album isn’t the first one of a reunion that began several years ago, so why call it K 2.0?
**So it’s a sequel? **
I guess you could say so.
Article continues belowFor all of the years we’ve worked, then taken time off, then worked again, you realise how much the music has matured. That’s been a pleasant experience.
I’d love things to have been smoother, but we’re complicated people. For us it was always more of a calling than a career. It’s quite a spiritual thing. We can only do this when the timing is right. The band is our grail and we don’t like to bash it about [laughs].
The new music still fuses psychedelia and Indian sounds. Why do you consider the two styles such comfortable bedfellows?
Indian music is based on scales that place you in a whole different world. Mixing it with psychedelia helps you to tap into one’s hidden self; who you are and what really matters.
**You’ve had a tempestuous relationship with the music press. Does doing interviews again feel like placing your head back into the lion’s mouth? **
A little, but these days I’m more in control of myself.
**So how does Crispian, now aged forty, look back on the Crispian who found stardom at half that age? **
He was an interesting fellow, and he dared to throw himself upon the altar of pop. Pop music is all about overturning the apple cart, and he did a bit of that.
