What’s the last novel you remember liking? I like books about, like, what was happening everywhere on the planet in the year 1310. I like epics I’m reading this huge book about the Comanches. It centers around archaic subjects, like nineteenth-century science when they were trying to get answers and they were doing it terribly wrong. I try to play more like a tenor player than a violinist. Tenor players like Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. I was in my early twenties and pretty enamored with small-group swing from the late twenties and thirties-people like Slim and Slam and Charlie Christian, a guitarist. I took the band to New Orleans, and we spent a week recording a record, all around one microphone. And I picked up the guitar a couple of years ago. I had to think, “What if I can’t play anymore? How can I still be musical?” That’s when I started songwriting. I was a fiddling knave, a serf, in one of those not exactly historically accurate Renaissance fairs, and I got bad tendinitis. I had a violent relationship with the violin-it’s caused me a lot of suffering. When did you start picking up other instruments? I was underage and playing in clubs and girls were dancing and I was like, “This is all right!” I was really desperate to find people that I liked and that I had a chance to hang out with. Until I joined it, when it became I don’t know what-a mix of Irish folk music and these kind of prog-rock ska tunes. But at the end of music school, when I was 19 or 20, I joined a rock band-a punk-ska band. Yeah, it was not a communal, social thing. I wanted to be a psychiatrist when I was 10, not a musician. She took psychology classes, and I was her study partner. When I was 14, my mom went to grad school for art therapy-my oldest brother is pretty severely autistic, and I think that was her reason for wanting to do that. Audrey Niffenegger, who’s a fairly famous novelist now, was my mother’s teacher, and she did my first couple of record covers. It’s very intuitive-they kind of mold you.
There’s no written music, so you don’t access that part of your brain. It’s like the one-room schoolhouse, with everyone from the beginner to the most advanced all in the same room together, all playing the same tunes, and when you don’t know it you drop out. The philosophy is to teach people when they’re young, make it fun, and it’s all by ear. In the seventies, the Suzuki Method was sweeping American suburbs. How old were you when you started playing music? Hugo Lindgren talked with him about his musical roots. This week, he performs with his four-piece band at Carnegie Hall his fifth solo album, Noble Beast, is just out. The born-and-bred Chicagoan is a classically trained violinist who has developed into one of the most distinctive and creative songwriters working today. Here are all of Andrew Bird albums ranked.Įnjoy and listen to the music of Andrew Bird by clicking the link below.Carnegie hall isn’t a natural destination for most indie rockers, but it makes perfect sense for Andrew Bird. In 2019, Andrew Bird was cast for the fourth installment of Fargo, playing, “a character, written specifically for him, named ‘Thurman Smutney.'” In 2020 he released a Meditative Story about the musical turning point in his life that led up to making Weather Systems, scored with original music. He wrote and performed “The Whistling Caruso” for The Muppets movie in 2011, and composed the score for the television series Baskets, released in 2016.
In 2010, he appeared on a TED Talk performing his music. Stringz” in a 2007 episode of Jack’s Big Music Show. He has also had a career in film, as a soundtrack composer as well as an actor. Bird’s 2019 album My Finest Work Yet was nominated for “Best Folk Album” at the 2020 Grammy Awards. He went on to start his own swing ensemble, Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire, which released three albums between 19. Weather Systems (2003) was his first solo album and a departure from jazz music into indie music. In the 1990s, he sang and played violin in several jazz ensembles, including Squirrel Nut Zippers and Kevin O’Donnell’s Quality Six. He is primarily known for his unique style of violin playing, accompanied by loop and effect pedals, whistling, and voice. Since 1996, he has released 16 studio albums, as well as several live albums and EPs, spanning various genres including swing music, indie rock, and folk music. Andrew Wegman Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American indie rock multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter.
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