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"I do adore music, though we don't adore to do a same thing over and over again," M. Ward told Rolling Stone over a potion of white booze on Friday night in Santa Monica, relaxing backstage before recording a live opening of songs aged and new for KCRW-FM. "I'm propitious to have gifted friends and gifted collaborators."
Ward's friends keep him busy: He's been operative with Zooey Deschanel in She Him and with Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and Jim James of My Morning Jacket in a contingent Monsters of Folk, on tip of his possess acclaimed solo output. His new album, A Wasteland Companion, will be expelled Apr 10th.
"It's all about watchful until there's a new collection of songs that are finished and smoldering and prepared to record," Ward pronounced of his several projects. "You always make time for things we adore to do. It always ends adult happening. It's really weird."
Songs from a new manuscript done adult half of his brief set for KCRW, available in front of 200 fans and friends squeezed into Bob Clearmountain's Apogee/Berkeley Street Studio in Santa Monica for promote and online video streaming (at kcrw.com) a day of release. But Ward began with some peaceful brazen suit on a lovelorn and doubt "Chinese Translation" from his 2006 manuscript Post-War, strumming an acoustic guitar with his eyes close as drummer Scott McPherson combined a light trifle on a brushes.
Wearing black and red flannel and a fishing cap, Ward sang, "What do we do with a pieces of a damaged heart?"
For a honeyed and unhappy "Paul's Song," Ward was accompanied on unreal pedal steel by Chris Scruggs. Later on, Ward picked adult an electric guitar for a new album's "Me My Shadow," that built into a hard-charging rocker with a reverby Dick Dale-sized solo before finale with a crash. (Deschanel sings with Ward on a manuscript version.) Another new strain was "Cry After You," with Ward focussed over an honest piano for a unhappy tune and Scruggs on fiddle.
After spending a final decade recording mostly in Portland and Los Angeles, Ward done A Wasteland Companion during several studios around a U.S. and Europe. Among them was John Parish's cave-like workspace underneath an ancient church in Bristol, England, where PJ Harvey and Portishead have recorded. It's where Ward finished a strain "Primitive Girl," a album's buoyant initial radio single. There are studios in Italy and Iceland he still hopes to visit.
"The many critical partial of a new place is a people that are connected to it," explained Ward, who now splits his time between homes in Portland and Los Angeles, not distant from where he grew up. "It's a good disturb to travel into a studio and work with a operative who spent half his life there and knows how to manipulate a sounds so that it sounds pleasing to them. The operative is an unsung artist, and we adore to enter their architecture."
The source of his possess impulse stays most some-more puzzling to him. "When people ask me what desirous a song, it's a hardest doubt in a universe since if we could contend that, afterwards it would be so mathematically easy for me to go and write another song," Ward said. "It's critical that it stay a mystery."
Set List:
"Chinese Translation"
"Paul's Song"
"Poison Cup"
"Me and My Shadow"
"I Get Ideas"
"Never Had Nobody Like You"
"Crawl After You"
"Requiem"
"Watch a Show"
"Primitive Girl"
Encore: "Fisher of Men" and "Rollover Beethoven"
