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Phil Elverum
Phil Elverum
American Musician
Born: May 23, 1978
Life Me Music Myself People Time
I remember discovering that I loved recording - that breakthrough when I was in high school getting to record for the first time. Phil Elverum
Time Remember School Recording First I Remember High Record High School First Time Discovering Getting Loved Breakthrough
When I first started recording music, I was actually singing about microphones, equipment, recording. Phil Elverum
Music Recording First Singing About Equipment Actually Started
My exposure to independent music was via Nirvana and grunge so I'd never gotten into punk. I don't really like that music of Crass, but I love the band, and I love their way, and their presentation. Phil Elverum
Love Music Punk Band Way Independent Nirvana I Love Never Like Gotten Via Really Exposure Grunge Presentation
We had a simple 8-track studio set up in the record store where I worked. And just staying after work and experimenting, realizing what was possible with recording - that's why my project was called The Microphones at first. Because it wasn't even songs really. It was just sound. Phil Elverum
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I listen to all kinds of music and sometimes I try to do something that's referential to an era or a genre, but it still sounds like me. Phil Elverum
Music Me Sometimes Try Kinds Something Like Genre Still Era Sounds Listen
I am drawn to cold, desolate places rather than Hawaii. I actually love Hawaii too, but I tend to go to Iceland or Norway or Northern Japan - northern places for whatever reason. Which aren't necessarily the best places to tour. Phil Elverum
Love Best I Am Whatever Desolate Too Cold Drawn Rather Tend Hawaii Tour Am Go Than Northern Norway Which Places Iceland Japan Reason Actually Necessarily
I don't get to make many choices in my life as a single parent. Phil Elverum
Life My Life Single Parent Make Single Parent Get Choices Many
My grandpa is the funniest person in the world, straight up. But mostly everyone in my family groans when he is 'on.' I am his biggest fan. Phil Elverum
Family World I Am Everyone He Mostly Am His Up Person Fan Biggest Straight Groans Grandpa Funniest
After I made 'A Crow Looked at Me,' I remember people saying things to me like, 'You've made a beautiful tribute to Genevieve.' And I felt like, no! No no no, I haven't. I made a tribute to my own destruction and desolation. This is not a portrait of her. That's not who she was. She wasn't just a person who died. Phil Elverum
Beautiful Saying Me You People Destruction Remember Made Own Desolation Tribute I Remember My Own Crow Like Looked She Felt Person Died Just After Who Her Things Portrait
There's a lot of music out there that's like, 'I'm so mad! I'm sad! I'm into skulls and crossbones and the color black,' and that's just meaningless and shallow. So much of metal is about that and it's hard to find metal that is substantial and meaningful in terms of its content. Phil Elverum
Sad Music Black Mad Out Find About Shallow Color Like Terms Content Metal Lot Just Substantial Meaningful Much Meaningless Hard
For awhile the only thing people were talking to me about my music, that's all they ever said: 'You must be a nature lover. Are you camping all the time?' Phil Elverum
Music Time Nature Me You People Lover Must About Only Talking Said Were Camping The Only Thing Ever Thing Awhile
I think that as a kid I was pretty drawn to melodrama. Phil Elverum
Think I Think Kid Melodrama Drawn Pretty
I'm singing these songs about death and stuff. I see somebody who's, like, in their sixties or seventies at the show, and I'm like, 'Yeah, sure. Fair enough.' Phil Elverum
Death Somebody Singing Enough Seventies I See See About Songs Stuff Fair Like Sure Yeah Sixties Show
In 2002 I did a big tour of Europe, by train, by myself, on foot, all the time walking from train station to the venue, in a weird town, in a weird country. I'd brought an acoustic guitar with me but it got broken somehow in transit. Phil Elverum
Time Myself Me Broken Guitar Country Big Station Brought Somehow Tour Foot Weird Town Venue Got Train Walking Did Acoustic Acoustic Guitar Transit Europe
It's interesting to think about the different forms one place can take. Phil Elverum
Think About Take Different Place Forms Interesting
I love things like the Criterion Collection DVDs. I think those are really well done. I like how far you can push the deluxe-ness of things like that. Phil Elverum
Love You Think I Think Those Criterion I Love Collection Push Like Well Well Done How How Far DVDs Done Far Really Things
I used to have a musical group with a girlfriend called The Thunderclouds. It was like a Beach Boys cover band. And we would just figure out Beach Boy songs - break 'em into two-part harmonies. And, you know, we played a couple of shows around Olympia. It was very fun. Phil Elverum
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Every tour is different. Sometimes I'll get a band together and sometimes it's just me. Phil Elverum
Me Together Sometimes Band Every Tour Get Just Different
There are a lot of names on the credits of 'The Glow Pt. 2,' but most of those people are just on one half of one song or something. Phil Elverum
People Song Half Those One Half Something Names Most Glow Lot Just Credits
I have a hard time working with other people with my own songs because I have a pretty complete idea of how it should be. It's usually just me multi-tracking which is better than coercing someone into doing my idea. Phil Elverum
Time Me People Better Own Other Complete Pretty Someone My Own Songs Idea Because How Doing Than Just Which Should Working Hard Hard Time
I do spend time trying to find good melodies, and I try to remember them when I do discover them. But also it's mostly intuitive; I noodle around with the line until it sounds and feels right. Phil Elverum
Time Good Remember Try Spend Melodies Find Intuitive Feels Until Also Mostly Around Sounds Noodle Line Discover Trying Them Right
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