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  • Feist | Feist 02.01.2008 | Interview zu "The Reminder"
    How did you start to write for the new album?
    I just came from thirty-three months of being on tour, and making an album in between. The touring rolled straight into the studio, and the studio rolled straight back out onto the road. It’s like the road kept unfurling in front of me, all of a sudden the baton was passed to me and now it’s a different record that I’ll be touring with.

    How was the new record recorded?
    The Reminder, this new one, it’s sort of the album illustrating where that all ended up, that whole live process. For me it’s really visual because the studio was all about the collaboration of these people and we were in a really organic space, a really natural - it was a living room, a couple of living rooms with sliding French doors between them, and couches and lamps and bookshelves. We would just slide the glass doors shut. On one side there was a couple of drum kits and all the banging noisy stuff. On the other side there was three little stations of Gonzales and his vibes, piano and few organs facing out onto the garden with the stained glass windows right there. Then I had my guitar station, and there was a bass station. Everything was almost like the way a jam space used to be for me.

    Why the emphasis on original material for this album?
    I think I knew I did want to sing any covers. I had a hard time singing other peoples lyrics, more then melodies. Melodies are, they’re sort of like a waterslide, if they are someone else’s melody it can be like you’re just along for the ride and it’s really fun you just get taken in, it’s momentum. You can just attach the enthusiasm of the melody to your feelings about it.

    How do you approach songwriting?
    You never know what’s going to flip it on it’s side and make you see it from another perspective. In a way that’s what I like about leaving little riddles and little scavenger hunts inside arrangements and leaving them really open or leaving the lyrics really open…is so that there’s that ability for them to shed their skin and be something new to you later. There’s been a few times where half-way through singing a song from Let It Die, mid-phrase something about the way the earth is turning that night, or the certain circumstances around, or the certain mood from ten seconds before, everything falls into place. One phrase would be coming out of my mouth it’s almost like I’m watching it, it’s like a little typewriter unspooling right there, and I’m reading it and it means something totally different then what I’d intended when I’d first written it. Those moments are so, I just find them so interesting, and such a little poke in the ribs from a ghosty-self, your own ghosty-self from the past or the future. Without even knowing exactly how it is you get there I try to leave those pivots, you know those little hinges inside the songs so that I might possibly get to have that experience again another time.

    Where is home?
    You know if I’m never going to get a chance to be anywhere all the time then at least I’ll get to be a couple of places a bit of the time and just change the concept of what home is. I guess I understand a little bit about that. Just letting home stay liquid it doesn’t necessarily have to be about a place. I’ve sometimes found this enormous comfort in just simple meals with someone that I haven’t seen in a long time. In some random city where you run into each other, because a lot of my friends are on tour all the time, we cross paths in Baltimore or Guelph or Brussels and you end up having an afternoon with someone you haven’t seen who’s living a similar reality to you. And that in a really strange way started to feel like home, just finding quite moments in the fray no matter where you are, and in a way because it’s so stolen it becomes even more that sense of, Hah! I foiled the steamroller and I found a day, I found an hour. And that becomes in a way the new concept of home.

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Releases

  • Feist, The Reminder, 0600753062319
    • Bravado Shop, More Than Music by Deutschrock Merchandise GmbH
    14.03.2008
    Feist | The Reminder (CD) Tonträger Audio Format: CD Album
    Artist: Feist
    VÖ: 14.03.2008 VÖ: 2008 Label: Polydor | CD Bestellnr.: 0600753062319 Polydor
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Releases Single

  • Feist, 1234, 0600753006801
    • Bravado Shop, More Than Music by Deutschrock Merchandise GmbH
    28.09.2007
    Feist | 1234 (CD Single) Tonträger Audio Format: CD Single
    Artist: Feist
    VÖ: 28.09.2007 VÖ: 2007 Label: Polydor | CD Single Bestellnr.: 0600753006801 Polydor
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Tour Dates

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    Feist Solo Shows

    • 06.11.2004 Köln (Deutschland), Prime Club
    • 10.11.2004 (),
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    • 13.11.2004 München (Deutschland), Metropolis
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    Support von Kings of Convenience

    • 12.08.2004 (),
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    Tour 2008

    • 01.06.2008 Frankfurt am Main (Deutschland), Jahrhunderthalle
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