For someone with so many famous heads stuck on poles outside his jungle hut, you’d expect he’d put a little more “brag” into it. But the soft-spoken Eric Drew Feldman lets his keyboard playing do the talking for him. When you’ve recorded and played live with a twisted array of musical talent that includes Captain Beefheart, the Residents, Snakefinger, Pere Ubu, the Pixies, PJ Harvey and Polyphonic Spree, you don’t have to blow any hot air into your own balloon. Speaking from his San Francisco home, Feldman touched on the high points of a marvelous career like a flat stone skipping over the surface of a mountain lake. His latest project, kNIFE & fORK’s The Higher You Get The Rarer The Vegetation, is out now via Frank Black’s The Bureau label. Feldman will be also guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with him.
Feldman: Recently, after a very long day in the studio, I was (easily) convinced that what was needed was to attend a late-night showing of a film at a local cinema. We attended a film that I knew nothing about in advance, which is often the best way to be completely vulnerable to it, especially if is any good. The name of the film was Prometheus. It was being presented in IMAX 3D or something equally hideous. As I was watching this movie and the plot was unfolding, I thought to myself that the plot was very similar to the original Alien film. Upon seeing the characters in the film making the same mistakes in dealing with what was going on around them, I leaned to my companion next to me and said, “These people obviously have never seen Alien.” It was about five minutes after this that I realized that this was Alien, or a prequel, or something. So for two-plus hours I was beat up by a loud sound and jarring images of no particular value to me. When leaving the theater, I was thinking that it’s a shame that all of the plots that can be are used up, and all we seem to be left with are remakes.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1byZkbNB3Jw
