After dropping his new album, Casey MQ called up his collaborator Eartheater to get deep about channeling magic in the recording studio.
Memory often bleeds into imagination—so much so that “remembering” might be better characterized as worldbuilding. At least, that’s what, suggests. For the past four years, the 33-year-old artist has waded through a pool of impressions and memories, landing somewhere in an imaginary world that crescendos as the album deepens and progresses.
EARTHEATER: That’s the mystery, though. Sometimes I play this little game in my head when I’m working in the studio or making a song. It’s a sci-fi idea in which we are traversing a land that already exists. It already exists in all its peaks and valleys, nooks and crannies, and we are completely blind. But what we do have is this echolocation, and you just feel for the peaks and valleys. Then, when you find the harmony, it’s like… yes, there’s the harmony, but wait.
MQ: Absolutely, yeah. And you can live there, but then at some point you have to catch the thing that might be the most important thing to hold. Like, “We have to stay here,” or, “We have to loop this.” MQ: I wanted to be in conversation with all my references and all the worlds that I’ve inhabited. But at their edge, if that makes sense, whatever that edge is for me.
MQ: I was saying how, working in the studio, you make that initial stamp, and then you’re coming back to it. You have recorded music, so you’re coming back to a repeated piece of time. Now you’re editing it, and you’re continually repeating it until it’s okay. Until you say, “Okay, this is finality.” But then, at that point, it goes to the people’s speakers, and they’re hearing it in another way. It’s kind of crazy, that process.
EARTHEATER: I’m now seven albums in, or whatever. I realize that something happens where there are the spires of the album, one or two tracks that look at you straight in the eye and they go, “Okay, Album, please.”EARTHEATER: “Sugarcane Switch,” when it came down to really making the album, it was a major one. That was such a great experience with you.
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