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H81R: You have released and produced your own material as well as working with labels and producers.
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The music is the easy part, so it’s kind of the last step in the process. They write music first and then fill in the blanks with the lyrics, so I don’t think there’s one way to do it.įor me, I am always thinking of a story and a feeling. Vincent when I as in college, and Esperanza Spalding was my bass player in my first band. I don’t think there is one right way to do it. Did you have those sounds in mind while writing?ĮZ: Yeah, I think that’s. H81R: There are a lot of sounds on the album. It’s going to affect all of the instruments and you’ll be better at all of them. I think if you are a lyricist and a melodic person you should play more than one instrument. Except for the fact that I play accordion, I play piano, I play guitar, I play drums in Kishi Bashi’s band. I don’t think that it really matters what you write on. H81R: Was writing on a guitar a big difference for you compared to writing on piano?ĮZ: I think it’s an interesting question and a lot of people are asking me about it. 24, about the new record, her busking experience and why she thinks musicians should think long and hard before saying no to an opportunity. We recently chatted with Ziman, who plays World Café Live on Friday, Jan. Ziman’s new record – which Paste featured in a pre-release stream – is the latest in a career that has featured tours with the likes of Sarah Bareilles, Greg Laswell and Lenka and singing backup for The Shins. I just wanted to go down there and learn the guitar pretty well – I’m a pretty good guitarist now – and I wrote an album.” In Little India, once in a while someone will bless me. “It’s a really fun way to be in public in an anonymous way. I was singing with an accordion, and she said ‘It’s a choir of angels here.’
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I ended up getting a part in an Anne Hathaway movie as a busker. There’s a stop, the Church Avenue stop (in Brooklyn), where it really sounds like a church. I was really inspired basically by the acoustics. “And some of my friends had been busking in the subway. “I decide to kind of make a change and learn a new instrument and get my chops back together and learn a bajillion covers,” said Ziman, who is primarily a piano player. It’s a fitting opening considering Ziman, after being jettisoned from Universal Records imprint Verve, literally went underground to regroup.
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Don’t take my word for it, go follow her links and see for yourself.“I’ve been playing on a platform at Church Avenue and nobody,” Elizabeth Ziman sings at the opening of “Happy Pop,” making them the first words on “Like It Never Happened,” Elizabeth & The Catapult’s third full-length, out this week. You’ve gotta listen to it!Īn independent artist, who’s gone the label route and is currently doing things on her terms, Elizabeth Ziman is someone we should all be listening to. She charmed the hell out of us with her between song banter and as I sit here writing this, I’m listening to her YouTube version of “Ry-ry”, her “based on a true story”, ode to Ryan Gosling. Her latest release, “ Like It Never Happened“, is up for three awards in the Independent Music Awards.įriday night had Elizabeth playing piano, guitar and singing up a storm. Fun and funny, serious and sad, relatable, hopeful and honest. Today, I find myself, searching the internet for everything I can find on E. Her voice, her lyrics, her personal interactions with the audience. Elizabeth won me over wholly and completely. Is it because Elizabeth Ziman is a Brooklyn musician and not local? I don’t know but, now I can’t un-hear her and that’s a very good thing. Being completely honest, I’d never heard of E. They were in Toronto this week to open two shows for The Franklin Electric at The Drake Underground. Elizabeth and the Catapult, think about it, for just a second.