A group of English musicians, tired of waiting for the fanciful return of the mythical British group Oasis since their split in 2009, decided to take matters into their own hands to make Liam Gallagher’s voice resonate again, with a little help from the What can artificial intelligence do now? offer.
“We were tired of waiting for Oasis to finally reform. Now all we have is Liam and his brother trying to outdo each other. Oasis is not like that. So we decided to train an AI on Liam’s vocal model and applied it to some tracks originally written for our short-lived but soulful band, Breezer [leur groupe, ndlr]“explains Bobby Geraghty, singer, lyricist and producer of Breezer, to the British newspaper The Guardian.
The result is an album of about thirty minutes, sung by a voice inspired by that of Liam Gallagher and written mainly in the style of Oasis of the mid-’90s. The album is called “AIsis” (a mix of “Oasis ” and “AI” for “artificial intelligence”).
Breezer’s musicians are however aware of the limits of this stunt: if artificial intelligence is capable of perfectly reproducing Liam Gallagher’s voice, they have chosen not to use it to create lyrics and melodies.
“Artificial intelligence is still under the control of the user. You have to give it exactly what you want it to play. I don’t think we’ve gotten to the point where it’s capable of inventing lyrics, in any case, on this one. However, a lot of people have asked us if AIsis was completely AI-generated, which it’s not,” says Bobby Geraghty.
“Pure Nostalgia”
Everything on “AIsis” was written and composed by Breezer. The true-false album sparked nostalgic and joyous reactions among the band’s fans. “I’ve been an Oasis fan since 1994, and it’s like stepping into a parallel universe. I am hallucinated ”, exults this fan on YouTube. “OMG this is sublime. Many of these titles gave me goosebumps. Pure nostalgia,” said another.
The members of Breezer, despite the success of this first attempt, don’t seem to have a sequel in mind. “We’d rather work with the real Liam on new stuff! I think he’d hate what we did, because it’s not him. Or maybe he’d love it? Who knows,” laughs Bobby Geraghty. The Oasis singer, in any case, has not given his opinion on the matter.
Source: BFM TV
