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: Several years ago, back in the Walt Disney days when Laurie Hall and myself were making the first kNIFE & fORK album, which is called Miserycord, we seemed to have much less complicated lives than we do now. Generally, she would come over to my house in the morning, we would take a two-hour walk through our beloved town of San Francisco, get some coffee or breakfast somewhere along the line, end up back at my house, then start recording. Very happy memories for me. These days, we make plans to get together after much scheduling and referring to daily planners, and can only manage to give it three or four hours at a time. This is not satisfactory, really. I think the recording studio is my favorite place to be. And onstage. It’s when I am most in the present tense.
Audio after the jump.
“Miserycord” (download):
