As the tour progressed, she noticed that fans were buying her CDs two at a time - one for themselves and another to send to a friend. Signed to Sire in , she broke into the mainstream with Begin To Hope - a quirky, playful album that combined radio-friendly melodies with lyrics about Orca whales and Biblical strongman Samson.
She toured the record for three years, declining Sire's offer of mainstream promotion in favour of building a fanbase organically. Her latest album, Remember Us To Life, comes after a break of four years, during which time she married fellow musician Jack Dishel and had her first child. For the first time, Spektor wrote the album from scratch "these songs just seemed to want to be together," she says and, sure enough, it has a sonic and thematic coherence that is often absent from her earlier work.
We're pretty much run by our subconscious. She acknowledges that some of the lyrics are probably a delayed response to grief - after one of her closest friends died in a plane crash, and her cellist, Daniel Cho, drowned in Lake Geneva the day before she played the Montreux Jazz Festival in But, she stresses, the music doesn't have to be depressing. I feel very comforted by beauty, especially when it overwhelms you with all its colours and sounds.
Sometimes it helps you not think, sometimes it helps you think more clearly, sometimes it helps you pull yourself out of a dark place, sometimes you want it to pull you into the dark place.
One person who draws heavily on Spektor's music is screenwriter Jenji Kohan, who " listened to Regina's albums obsessively " while writing the first series of Orange Is The New Black. Once the show went into production, she contacted Spektor and asked her to write the theme tune, You've Got Time. She loved it so much the song plays for more than a minute - uncommonly long for a TV show - at the start of every episode. I was actually hoping that she might. And she said no - because they have such a giant cast that they need all that time to put the names up there!
Follow Author. The world is everlasting, It's coming and it's going. Oh lord please don't let me be misunderstood. And then when you make a record, even those ideas that you had, then those get all turned and changed. So in the end, I think, it just becomes it's own thing and really I think a song could be recorded a million different ways and so what my records are, it just happened like that, but it's not like, this is how I planned it from the very beginning because I have no idea, I can't remember.
Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song. Did Shakespeare write only what he knew? Did Camus? Our own selves are limitless. And our capacity for empathy is giant.
You could just kind of let it all be. They can call to you just by being in the same space as you. It can be a feeling, the color or texture of a cover, or the way it somehow sets itself apart from its neighbors and asks you to open it.
Then comes the crack of the spine, the random, or not-so-random-at-all page you open to, and finally the completely surprising and unexpected words you read. Third album from the intelligent, eccentric singer-songwriter is her first recorded under major-label contract. It's no secret that Regina Spektor has some quirks.
As a songwriter and performer, she hoards eccentricities like the Collyer brothers Google it. And yet, these eccentricities allow unfriendly listeners to keep Spektor at a distance, dismissing her feminine presence as cutesily affected while indulging the endless costume changes of Gnarls Barkley and the sniping whine of Conor Oberst. That would be her native intelligence, which shows through in every note.
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