Arcade Fire live in London (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
The full clip of Arcade Fire‘s contribution to Tim Burton’s live action remake of Dumbo is online.
After the preview of last week, the band’s updated take on Baby Mine can now be enjoyed in full. Even by Arcade Fire’s standards its recording was a true family affair; Win Butler and Régine Chassagne had their son playing 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 said. “Every time I saw the film I thought it was him.”
“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.”
