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Interview Third World
learn how to approach the recording business again. The record company who was there at the forefront of everything, when we were on Columbia, it was such a heavy dictation from the label of getting involved with the creative process, of what we choose to put on the album. They always wanted to dictate what they thought was chartfriendly, and what they thought was a little bit too spiritually connected and might not be marketable. So we would have a battle with them as to what we would do, ‘cause we wanted to be Third World, we have things we wanted to say, in spite of how popular it might make us, and how popular it might come over as songs but we nevertheless moved on and did what we did. How is your relationship with Cleopatra Records structured? Will you have several releases here, or do you have releases planned with other labels in the future? Our relationship with Cleopatra is ongoing and is developing. We are, I would say, quite pleased with our relationship at this time. We like working with them, we like where