Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
4/28/202643 min
Hrishikesh Hirway, host of Song Exploder, returns with his first album in fifteen years, In the Last Hour of Light, made under a premise that's almost contradictory for a podcaster built around isolated stems: session players who had never heard the songs, vocals tracked live in the room, no click track, and no overdubs. The layered style that defines current pop production is itself a relatively recent development. Hirway's record reaches back to the older live-tracking tradition that shaped the 1950s and 60s Bollywood recordings he grew up listening to in his parents' house. The album is about memory and so it’s appropriate that the music is recorded whole in all its beautiful imperfections. Songs Discussed Hrishikesh Hirway "Things Change Even Now" Hrishikesh Hirway "Stray Dogs" Hrishikesh Hirway "The Ocean" Hrishikesh Hirway "Home Movies" Adrienne Lenker “Anything” Chuck Berry "Maybellene" The Beatles "Twist and Shout" James Brown "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" Sidney Bechet "The Sheik of Araby" Les Paul & Mary Ford "How High the Moon" The Beach Boys "Good Vibrations" The Beatles “A Day In The Life” Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody" Jacob Collier "With the Love in My Heart" Brandi Carlile "You and Me on the Rock" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsRebel Artsen0:00
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Charlie Harding· Host0:26
Support for this show comes from Limpi, the Lillehammer Institute of Music Production and Industries. Limpi is a one-year program in Norway built by hit songwriters where you learn music the way music actually gets made, in the studio every day alongside the people doing it professionally. Limpi believes that classrooms don't create artists, studio sessions do. So rather than pitch you Limpi, I'd rather introduce you to one of their graduates, a songwriter who went from a childhood dream to a Billboard number one.
Haley Joelle0:55
My name is Haley Joel. I'm an artist and songwriter.
Charlie Harding· Host0:59
Haley knew from an early age she wanted to be an artist.
Haley Joelle1:02
I think I just loved being a storyteller, and I loved being able to express myself. Probably in middle school, I was like, "Yeah, I really wanna do this for the rest of my life."
Charlie Harding· Host1:11
But wanting a career in music and knowing how to actually build one are two very different things.
Haley Joelle1:17
I think I've always dealt with, like, a little bit of imposter syndrome. But at the same time, I will say, like, I always knew that it would happen. I just didn't know exactly how or when. My plan