It's almost funny that I'm putting it in here but I do love Machaut. "I went to music school and this piece is probably given to every music student as a main example of what medieval music is, so it's not obscure in that world.
But I think that's okay, I think you can do that." You know that this is a spiritual record and you almost don't need to know about that aspect of it. I listen to a lot of early music and Renaissance music, a lot of choral stuff. It's spiritual, I think - and I don't know anything about that aspect of it - but I listen to a lot of music in that way. There were all these strings and an organ, I think, and then her voice chanting and it's so insane. It was so immersive and a flood of light, and so ecstatic. It was the track 'Yamuna Tira Vihari' and I was like, "Oh my god". After I'd performed, I lay down on this pew to sleep and the DJ played this record and I woke up and it just really hit me.
The first time I heard her, I was performing on this all-night radio show in LA and it took place in a church. I've heard a lot of music from her - she did a lot of different things - but this is the first of hers that I really listened to. "I'm still learning about Alice Coltrane I can't really claim to know a lot about her. It surprises me that he wrote all the songs on this album. And the later Roxy Music, I love also, which everyone thinks is bad but - no, they don't! A lot of people love it. Then, of course, there's the romantic quality of Bryan Ferry's voice, which is why I also love his solo music. An oboe: so cool and weird and a unique combination of timbres. I don't know if 'hippy-ish' is the word but I was really into this idea of the instruments going wild and going crazy. There were these moments, like oboe solos and stuff, that were almost hippy-ish, but they worked so well within the music. It was exciting and dramatic and glamorous. I listened to this properly when I was maybe 21. My parents are really great but they didn't play them obsessively they would play favourite songs or pick selections. But they didn't play either album that much. This and Court And Spark were both records that my parents played when I was young, and I hated. "Was it their first album? I don't even know. Everything is done right, just so right, and done for the right reasons - for the love of music, clearly." The songs are beautiful and the songs are incredible. But there is so much range and texture and dynamic. Linda had a huge role in that - I mean, she's not always delicate. He was trying to become a producer and here you can hear what a delicate sensibility he has for timbre and tone. They were done by Leonard Rosenman who's a pretty well known film composer. What I love about this record is the incredible arrangements - instruments are just there when you need them. She's a full-time dental hygienist now and she doesn't have a lot of time so it was useful for her to have another musician to work with. Then later she came over to my place and it turned out she was writing again. I met her and talked to her briefly and we stayed in touch. I didn't know her music and I just went into it learning the song 'Delicious'. "I only heard about Parallelograms when I was asked to participate in a show that was her first performance ever in 2008. And all that reflects in her music - there's this whole vibe. You know, like, fashion-wise? I just really think that's cool when you have a distinct style. But she's really good at maintaining this consistent voice and I love that.Īnd she has a style, too. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing, it's just a different approach. I guess the difference with me maybe is that I'm not so good at having a distinct voice that is consistent throughout my songs I have trouble with that. She's choosing to enunciate in this very particular way that is to do with harmonics and that sort of thing. She's moulding the shape of her mouth, almost, to get the sounds that she does. And she does something that I think I do too: she works with the timbre aspect of the music to affect her enunciation, and that has a lot to do with the success of it. The lyrics: sometimes you don't quite hear them but then you do. But she just does this great job of making it seem effortless and dreamlike and strange. Sometimes it's sort of pleasantly off or weird or sometimes it's just awkward but most of the time it's just really boring. There are so many people in the world making songs but there are only a few people doing it so that it all blends together as well as it does here. I toured with her a little bit a few years ago.
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