Little known fact: Ruban is actually half-man, half-zebra.
The Mile High Club Ruban flew to all sorts of exotic destinations during the making of ‘Sex & Food’.
Reykjavik
“Every time I’m there, it reminds me of an upside down version of New Zealand. It’s not densely populated; people are friendly but hard; it has the Northern Lights and home has the Southern Lights. They’re just very similar: the landscapes are reasonably untouched and at times you feel like you’re on another planet.”
Hanoi
“There’s this weird connection with music I loved from my childhood and the Vietnam war because [it was played on] so many war films and TV shows. So I thought instead of going to New York to record at Electric Lady Studios, I could go to Vietnam and it would make me think of The Supremes and Jimi Hendrix and stuff like that. And it did.”
Seoul
“I was thinking how I always loved the story of David Bowie and Iggy Pop going to Berlin. But there was no reason for me to go to Berlin, so I thought the modern equivalent of being there in the ‘70s with the Berlin Wall and that tension would be the border between North and South Korea. So we tried to find the studio that was as close as possible.”
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