grass_lazy: The Music Sharing Catch Up

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The Music Sharing Catch Up - Part 1: Edward Sharpe

So I haven't posted in 5 months, a long time in a world which churns out hundreds of songs a day. Last October, I was introduced to Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. The first single I got on a mix CD was "Home", obviously the most catchy...

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros formed in 2005 after frontman Alex Ebert ended a long term relationship, moving out with a life-long friend and leaving an addiction program, Ebert started working on a book about a redeeming figure, Edward Sharpe, who was sent to Earth to save and heal mankind but ended up getting distracted by girls and falling in love.

Ebert then met Jade Castrinos, and the two toured the US with a group of other musicians. They released their debut album Up From Below in mid-2009 and it took a year to get out, but this best kept secret is spreading like wildfire. Songs like Janglin, Home and 40 Day Dream are catchy examples of how such a collective of musical minds can create such rich and layered music.

However, it is only when you watch a live performance of the group that you realise their passion for music and pure approach to writing and producing which results in an organic approach to notes.

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The Sounds of Reason

On Music

I think you need to listen to music to understand the world. Every human is like this combination lock of experiences that is so unique and complex that it can never be cracked. With musical people, their lives play they’re instruments. With a band, there are a number of impossibly different people, channelling their lives into a line of music, which words can’t describe, but it shares something about that person. When these musicians make melodies and rhythms that complement one another and fit in, you get so much feeling and such a story conveyed that there are songs powerful enough to connect to your core. - Anon

“Music is what feelings sound like.” - Anon

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music” - Sergei Rachmaninov

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent” – Victor Hugo

Without music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~Maya Angelou

On Whisky

"Whisky is liquid sunshine." - George Bernard Shaw

"There are two things a Highlander likes naked, and one of them is malt whisky." – Scottish Proverb

"We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame is always placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You can die from drinking too much of anything — coffee, water, milk, soft drinks and all such stuff as that. And so as long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing. I will make mine whisky." - W.C. Fields, 1880-1946

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whisky is barely enough.” –Mark Twain

On Style

Style is something that stays with you forever, it is part of who you are. Meanwhile fashion is a trend that you can follow, that is changing. Style is more the inner you, which radiates outwards whereas fashion is something you cover the outside with, hoping to affect your inner. - Quote adapted from an interview with Guerre