Arcade Fire live in London (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
A snippet of Arcade Fire‘s contribution to Tim Burton’s upcoming live action remake of Dumbo has been revealed.
Win Butler and Régine Chassagne have ensured their updated version of the original 1941 composition Baby Mine is a family affair; their son plays triangle while Butler’s mother plays harp and grandfather the Sonovox. “There is a scene with a locomotive in the original Dumbo that uses an instrument called the Sonovox that my grandpa Alvino Rey made famous in the 1930s,” Butler says. “Every time I saw the film I thought it was him,” he recounted.
“When we were asked to do Baby Mine I immediately got all of my grandfather’s old guitars and wanted to play them in the song. My mom plays the harp on the track, my brother the theremin, my wife sings and plays drums, and our son even plays the triangle, as well as the rest of our ‘family’ in Arcade Fire.”
“I will forever relate to the song thinking about the people I hold so dear that are ‘so precious to me.’ Listen for the cameo of my grandpa Alvino’s famous Sonovox at the end.”
