Dan Bejar on New Album ‘Dan’s Boogie’

Thirty years ago, Dan Bagar I picked up an audio guitar and started performance as a destroyer. Since then, the project has constantly evolved: to a full band in 1998 Girls cityTowards pop music in 2011 CableIn the electronic field in 2020 Did we meet? And 2022 Maze.

Where will Bugar go from here? First, anywhere: for more than a year, stop writing music. In the end, he found his answer to the piano. Bejar has been messing with keyboards since then CableBut he wanted to follow a more traditional approach with the instrument. “This was related to calm and return to the progress of the tendon,” he says. “Maybe I was thinking about the only kind of music that I really listen, and she is jazz singers from” 1940s “and” Fifments and sixties “.

These sessions led to the fourteenth album of the band, entitled “Bat” Dan’s Boogie. Although it seems to be one of the largest axes in destroyed disgrace – from the dark electronics of his previous record to something more organic, expansionary and brighter – often – opposes to be a completely new area. “When we finally played the professors, you were like, This is the most destructive record I think we have ever done“It seems very similar to the terrain that we covered in the past, but I was not scary,” he says. One approach that He is New: There is a lot of humor in this record, like “Hydroplaring off the edge of the world”, “ It is characterized by some of the most crazy bends in Bejar. “I will never feel comfortable with that in the past, but as you get older, I think you stop controlling yourself,” he says.

I stopped writing songs for more than a year yet Maze. Where did this idea come from?
From reality? He came from just not doing so. I felt like a long time. I noticed some people, especially people of my life, take years between the records. But I am not used to that. Going for five years without writing a song will be a catalyst for me. So one year was a good exercise.

Instead of just wandering and expecting walking across magic fog and suddenly, I visited your songs, this album was like a worker. I finally forced myself to sit in the piano. Not very long. I was not so Which – which Strong, I did it for a week or two, and I wrote these exercises. Then I bear any words that I thought might have – which I thought was nothing, but it turned out to be something – and I stipulated it on piano and organs.

When you don’t write, did you find yourself looking for other outlets for creativity?
I am not good at that. I am thinking about it, because I am not a good musician and I am not a classic singer and do not write books. The mysterious side believes that the destroyer is just an angle you can play anything. At some point, do I imagine, such as, Here are the small piano numbers that you wrote, and here is the book that is going with them, and it has the world? This can be something to be intended. But this is more difficult than doing it. I really did nothing else. Singing got hooks inside. Although I hate to say that, I may know myself as a singer than anything else in the world, so it will be impossible to give up on it – although it is ridiculous that this is what I have ended in my life.

When I first heard the “huge edge of the world”, the line, “a priest who makes me mistake me for a priest / my mistakes in Houston’s missiles.” Do you see sports? Because I thought about the song “Crimson Tide” Did we meet? also.
I do not agree to sport at all. I was just taking out a language of air in the actual time and created pictures I thought each other collided in an interesting way. I was not sure of what I would have been saying after that, and it is not exemplary at all to destroy. Usually I know exactly what I will say, and on the course of working on a song even for ten months, it never changes at all – it’s the only constant. I went to a studio to sing in a luxurious microphone through a fantastic preamp and a luxurious compressor for all songs on Dan’s BoogieBut not “water shine”, because I was like, I have no idea how to do this again. I know how the words go, but their flow and space, I don’t think I can re -create it. So what you hear is to get out of it.

This is what I would be asking after that, if there is a motive to polish it at all.
There is completely there. The “eye lens time” was exactly the opposite. From almost the beginning to the end, it was the first song that she sat and was like her, To try to make musicAlthough I am afraid of what comes out of the attempt, because he does not feel natural. This song was very emotional. It seems that it gives it everything, more than most of the destroyed songs. But this one fell perfectly with John’s production to the extent that it was the easiest thing in the world to enter and re -create in one.

“At the time of the lens of the eye” is an unforgettable phrase. How did that enter your mind?
In the same way they all come out: they just land, and I remember them because they are strange. Do not look like things you should remember, but for some reason, it is a phrase you want to remember. With the “time of the lens of the eye”, I wanted to mean a moment of reckoning, and this is not, as I think, what anyone will get from this phrase. I was thinking about other languages ​​and using it to the word lens. Like, in French, it is rupture, it is a waterfall. Or in King Lear – This is what I always think, especially with my age – there is a famous scene that he recently done by all his daughters and stripped of his entourage, and rushed into the middle of a crazy storm. It is like, “Open, O cataracts.” This is a moment of calculation, as you realize that the world is broken.

There are lines around horses on two different songs in the album.
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There “you can check the horse’s back, it’s not bad” on “Dan’s Boogie” and “I Remix Horses” on “The Manramus of Love”.
I don’t think it was intended. I don’t think I was wandering in the horse stage. These lines are very different. The person is supposed to be a dirty old man, for example, you are outside, you are checking the donkey. Anything might mean “horse horse”, because this is also an expression of a fool.

The other was a kind of character. We are talking about tanks: “There is nothing there / everything has been burned / horses have been reintegrated.” It is an older piece of writing as well. This is paved from a place. I was wondering if I was thinking of being, such horses. Perhaps I was also thinking of “Breaking horses”, which is Bill Callen’s song. I feel that it was just my mind to go on this shit. If you pass the real beef stage, you will know that.

With “Bologna”, another singer, Simone Schmidt brought from Fiver, which she did not do much. Make me think of me CableThe presence of Sibel Thrasher in the background.
The weighing of destroyed music is just the sound of this strange voice over a little heavy decades. So, the desire to play with this is real. Before getting Simone singing there and Josh’s Sungas Forest, it seemed to be hesitant to open it, and we did not want to deal with it. In some respects, it is a traditional song, like the song of the flame. Perhaps the sad issue is that this is not Forte. It was my main stumbling block, when I heard myself singing the entire song, it didn’t mean what I thought was the song. There was a special joy on this topic, or a kind of shine.

We must talk about the title of the album. How did the idea of ​​dance as an older or gerce become interesting?
The title of the title started as a kind of typical Jazzi area that started singing endless verses. At one point, I would do it like a ridiculous Dylan style, only, like, 18 verse on this basic piano. “Dan’s Boogie” was a deputy element of that song.

Then, sometimes, things that you do not think begin, for ten months or anything else, in staring. The more it starts, for example, a narcotic number, the mice pack, the more you start to embrace the words “Dan’s Boogie” for that song. After that, as the album continues, it started to include the extension as a whole. Perhaps partially because I was trying to have the fact that this looks like the music that I love and listen to, unlike the past few records. I also love addresses with people’s names in them. Often, spy novels were from the 1960s and 1970s, which was a common voice of the title of a book. They are not things I have read, but the things I think about all the time and meditate on reading.

I started performing as a destroyer 30 years ago this year. How is this for you to think?
He is crazy. It is madness. I mean, I don’t remember being twenty -two years old. The idea that this is something my life organized for a long time is very strange. But it is not strange like Rigmarole in the music industry. Being at work, for example, something is completely directed towards the culture of youth, and still is trying to find your place in it, because you are not famous, but you are also not a struggling band. You are just a kind of roaming in the middle, and doing anything for decades. People usually rise or go. It is strange to be in trenches, but everyone you know has gone.

Is it still only forward from here?
How do I do so unconscious. I don’t know what to do. Like, I really don’t. I know I am writing. Slowly, slower than ever, but I will never stop doing this. I still get out of it. in Dan’s BoogieIt seems that I get out of it, perhaps more than it seemed long. But nothing becomes easier with your age.