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H81R: On a related note, you have had songs featured in TV commercials (Google, Amazon and Sky TV).
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When I hear of a musician that gets signed and quit their day jobs, I think that’s a total joke (laughs).ĮZ: I do film scoring and scored “Knuckleball!” and “Alias Ruby Blade.” I’m doing some fun work musically, but I really believe if someone asks you to play a part in a movie or something, you have to try it all out. That’s the reality, and there as to be other ways. We’re in a world where Spotify and videos are the thing, and playing shows are the thing. Amazing people, and I’m a big fan of a lot of the records they put out this year. Now we’re doing a distribution deal with Thirty Tigers, and I love the people at Thirty Tigers. We raised the money for the record pretty darn quickly. The new exiting way is the way I just did it with PledgeMusic. You have to work on how you are going to get your music out there. I just think the infrastructure of the industry is so different right now. So I don’t have a big “fuck them man” stance on record labels. Everyone I was working with just ended up not working there anymore. Can you compare those experiences for me?ĮZ: I think that Universal, Verve, they did a great job with my record and they were really supportive. H81R: You have released and produced your own material as well as working with labels and producers. The music is the easy part, so it’s kind of the last step in the process. They write music first and then fill in the blanks with the lyrics, so I don’t think there’s one way to do it.įor me, I am always thinking of a story and a feeling. Vincent when I as in college, and Esperanza Spalding was my bass player in my first band. I don’t think there is one right way to do it. Did you have those sounds in mind while writing?ĮZ: Yeah, I think that’s. H81R: There are a lot of sounds on the album. It’s going to affect all of the instruments and you’ll be better at all of them. I think if you are a lyricist and a melodic person you should play more than one instrument. Except for the fact that I play accordion, I play piano, I play guitar, I play drums in Kishi Bashi’s band. I don’t think that it really matters what you write on. H81R: Was writing on a guitar a big difference for you compared to writing on piano?ĮZ: I think it’s an interesting question and a lot of people are asking me about it. 24, about the new record, her busking experience and why she thinks musicians should think long and hard before saying no to an opportunity. We recently chatted with Ziman, who plays World Café Live on Friday, Jan. Ziman’s new record – which Paste featured in a pre-release stream – is the latest in a career that has featured tours with the likes of Sarah Bareilles, Greg Laswell and Lenka and singing backup for The Shins.
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I just wanted to go down there and learn the guitar pretty well – I’m a pretty good guitarist now – and I wrote an album.” In Little India, once in a while someone will bless me. “It’s a really fun way to be in public in an anonymous way. I was singing with an accordion, and she said ‘It’s a choir of angels here.’ I ended up getting a part in an Anne Hathaway movie as a busker. There’s a stop, the Church Avenue stop (in Brooklyn), where it really sounds like a church. I was really inspired basically by the acoustics. “And some of my friends had been busking in the subway. “I decide to kind of make a change and learn a new instrument and get my chops back together and learn a bajillion covers,” said Ziman, who is primarily a piano player. It’s a fitting opening considering Ziman, after being jettisoned from Universal Records imprint Verve, literally went underground to regroup. “I’ve been playing on a platform at Church Avenue and nobody,” Elizabeth Ziman sings at the opening of “Happy Pop,” making them the first words on “Like It Never Happened,” Elizabeth & The Catapult’s third full-length, out this week.