Orlando Higginbottom, the digital music artist who performs as TEED, on the sounds and influences behind his new album, ‘At all times With Me’.
SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST:
The digital music artist previously often known as Completely Extinct Monumental Dinosaurs, Orlando Higginbottom, is now going by a brand new moniker, TEED. NPR not too long ago caught up with TEED to speak about his new album known as “At all times With Me.”
(SOUNDBITE OF TEED SONG, “PIECE OF ME”)
TEED: I used to be pondering rather a lot about my teenage years once I was making this file. I believe I used to be taking a little bit of a step again, and I used to be pondering rather a lot about my summers as an adolescent and the music I used to be loving once I was an adolescent and the way that made me really feel to type of reminisce about now. And so now I used to be type of creating my very own soundtrack for these reminiscences at the moment.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “PIECE OF ME”)
TEED: (Singing) I want I knew the phrases. I am frozen, however I might let you know how a lot this hurts.
With this album, I actually used, like, my pc and a microphone and one or two bits of {hardware} – one synthesizer, particularly, that I borrowed from a pal and, you already know, a quite simple studio, actually going again to type of, like, a bed room studio setup from once I was an adolescent once more.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “DESIRE”)
TEED: (Singing) Within the silence of your eyes, I see the place I’ll be quickly, alone and away from you.
(Singing) “Want,” which is the primary monitor of the album – I began this tune type of accidentally. I began simply singing with no backing monitor into my microphone and simply singing melodies, piecing collectively sounds with out actually any form of plan, and the tune emerged fairly rapidly from there.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “DESIRE”)
TEED: (Singing) Ooh, I am prepared.
This was the tune that, when it began to kind, I felt like I had an album, that I might begin to construct all the things else round it.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “DESIRE”)
TEED: (Singing) Ooh, I am prepared.
The title monitor is “At all times With Me,” and it is a instrumental that type of would not actually comply with a really conventional digital construction. It is form of rhapsodic in a method.
(SOUNDBITE OF TEED’S “ALWAYS WITH ME”)
TEED: I needed it to really feel slightly bit like a reminiscence because it goes by its altering kind, however it nonetheless appears like one expertise.
(SOUNDBITE OF TEED’S “ASCENT”)
TEED: This tune, “Ascent,” is type of harking back to the digital music I used to be listening to once I was type of 13 and 14, the place it was all about how difficult the drum programming might be like early Squarepusher and Aphex Twin eras of digital music that was very a lot about the way forward for sound. And yeah, it is turned out to be one of many favourite tracks on the album from listeners.
(SOUNDBITE OF TEED’S “ASCENT”)
MCCAMMON: That was Orlando Higginbottom, who performs because the digital musician TEED. His new album, “At all times With Me,” is out now.
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