Part time Voice Coach Chris Martin is gearing up for the release of a brand new Coldplay album. The band’s new release, Ghost Stories comes out next week and this Sunday night Martin and the gang can be seen in a very special concert on NBC. The singer recently revealed that real life pain from his upcoming divorce from his wife of 10-years, Gwyneth Paltrow, helped to inspire the record.
Chris Martin recently sat down with BBC Radio Zane Lowe last for what became a very revealing interview. During the Radio 1 Live Lounge session, Martin laid out what the new album, Ghost Stories is all about:
“The idea of Ghost Stories, for me, was ‘how do you let the things that happen to you in the past--your ghosts--how do you let them affect your present and your future?’ Because there was a time when I was feeling like they were going to drag me down and ruin my life, and the lives of those around me. I was very lucky to meet a very good sufi teacher who started to introduce the idea of ‘if you sit with your experiences and the things you’ve been through, they alchemize.’ At the time he said that, I didn’t really know what that meant, but I trusted that it would work, and the more that I was learning about that, the more music just started flowing through.”
Martin went on to elaborate about how he turned his personal pain into art:
"I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way… I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness. You have to really not run away from that stuff...Up to a certain point in my life I wasn't completely vulnerable and it caused some problems. If you don't let love in then you can't really give it back. So what 'Ghost Stories' means to me is like, you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but then it will be great at some point."
Martin also went into some specifics about the new song “Magic,” revealing:
I "It's not a question of you either really love someone or you really hate someone, it's more nuanced than that--especially with the modern world's complications - like travelling and all the stuff that comes to life, and illness and addiction and all that sort of thing.t's just saying--ultimately--there is magic between two people no matter what anyone else thinks."
Check out the Coldplay Ghost Stories concert this Sunday night on NBC.
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