Sylvan Esso Launch New Podcast, 'Shaking Out The Numb'

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🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Hear the first episode of the podcast, created with Vermont Public Radio's Erica Heilman, as the band reveals how they made their latest album, Free Love.

Erica Heilman spent hours talking with singer Amelia Meath and synthesist Nick Sanborn. We get a deep insight into how this couple works together — in this case, it began with Amelia's voice memo. It was just her singing, unaccompanied. And though they've made music together for the past seven-plus years, Nick thought it might be the best thing she'd ever done. Give a listen to Shaking Out The Numb, and see how the song unfolds.

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0:00.0	For and PR music, it's also on Considered I'm Bob Boylan.
0:03.8	Today on the show I have something really special.
0:07.2	It's a podcast about Sylvan S.O.
0:10.0	and their new album, Free Love.
0:12.3	And it's not a podcast I produced.
0:14.4	It's one made by Vermont Public Radio Producer, Erica Heilman.
0:18.8	She spent hours talking with singer Amelia Meef and synthesist, Nick Sandborn.
0:24.4	It's no secret how much I love the music of Sylvan S.O.
0:27.3	I've been fascinated with their spare sounds since first seeing them in early 2014 at a small club in DC called DC9.
0:34.7	It's the mix of the organic, in this case Amelia's voice and the electronic, the rhythms and textures that Nick makes.
0:42.8	It's always been a deep attraction for me.
0:45.4	And like Nick, who has a fascination with modular synthesizers, I have one too.
0:49.8	I built one back in 1980 and those small punctuating sounds and textures that he makes,
0:55.6	they cry out for the companionship of a singer.
0:59.5	This podcast, Erica Heilman, produced with Sylvan S.O.
1:02.8	is called Shaking Out the Numb.
1:04.9	And it's all about celebrating this collaboration.
1:08.1	There are six episodes you can find them wherever you find podcasts.
1:11.5	I'm gonna play one of them now.
1:13.2	It's about a song on the album, Free Love, that's the most potent song for me.
1:18.2	It's called Make It Easy.
1:19.4	Enjoy everybody.
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