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: If you ever find yourself feeling low, I highly recommend finding a copy of the W.C. Fields film It’s A Gift. After you acquire it, watch it immediately. It is the story of an observing everyman struggling against his immediate domestic environment just to make it through the day. It triumphs somehow to a happy ending while being very dark and very funny, somehow with big truth pouring out. Come on! What are you waiting for? EDF says two thumbs up!
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