Ep. 95: Daniel Lanois

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

And The Writer Is

Unknown, Music Interviews, Songwriting, Music, Songwriters, Education, Interviews, Music Creation, Artists

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🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

He is one of the world’s most influential music makers. An artist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, visual artist, and producer. Hailing from Hull, Quebec, this guest is the sonic shaper and spiritual inspiration of albums by the likes of U2, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, and Bob Dylan. An ambient music pioneer, his unique and innovative approach to sound is a key ingredient to the many well-loved songs he’s written over the past four decades that appear on his critically acclaimed solo albums such as ‘Acadie,’ ‘The Beauty of Wynona,’ ‘Shine’ and Grammy-nominated ‘Belladonna.’ His music, whether vocal or instrumental, has always maintained a cinematic quality, which carries through to his steel guitar symphony projects ‘Flesh And Machine’ and ‘Goodbye To Language’ albums. Most recently, he co-wrote and produced the ‘Red Dead Redemption 2 Soundtrack’ and is currently working on his upcoming project, ‘Daniel Lanois & Heavy Sun’, soon to be released via eOne. “The road is calling as the music keeps on guiding me through the labyrinths of song, messages, and inventions. Surrounded one more time by talent I admire, this new body of work features harmony singing with built-in capacity to raise the spirit." And The Writer Is...Daniel Lanois!

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0:15.0	Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Anne the Writer is. I'm your host Ross Golan. I've written with
0:37.7	hundreds of artists and writers over the years and my favorite part of each session
0:41.8	is the first hour when we catch up about life, the
0:44.4	industry, politics, composition, whatever.
0:47.9	So this is a journey of learning why people write songs, how people write songs, and most importantly, who the people are who write the songs. I'm producing this with
0:57.5	the great Joe London, Big Deal music publishing, and mega house music
1:01.6	management. If you want to listen to the songs we discuss in this
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1:15.0	W.W. and the writer is.com. For a little bit of context, we just wanted you to know that a lot of these were recorded before quarantine.
1:26.4	And as we know, a lot has changed in 2020.
1:29.7	So again, please stay safe out there and enjoy the new episodes of And the Writer is.
1:37.0	Yeah, we good.
1:41.0	You guys are good.
1:42.0	I do the same thing when I always trying to get that first.
1:44.0	I always try to not, especially when there is a music bed first of any sort
1:51.4	to try not to hear it until I'm in a booth and with the mic going and it's
1:58.4	amazing how many times we've freestyled songs that you, are heard throughout the world kind of thing,
2:04.7	and at least the parts of it, even if 20% of that first take has like that
2:15.0	when I went through that when I made a record with Emile Harris
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