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The Alchemist

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Ben Ratliff talks to Jennifer Herrema of the band Black Bananas.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's one night and the music sounds.

0:05.0

And I see you get across it more.

0:09.0

So I'm saying one on.

0:11.0

Well, let me explain. Welcome to the New York Times

0:14.7

Popcast, your guitar versus synth scrimmage of music news and criticism.

0:19.4

I'm your host Ben Ratliff. I'm on the same. I'm not just saying.

0:34.0

So I'm right.

0:35.0

You know what I'm so why?

0:40.0

Yeah, I'm on top.

0:42.0

I know that she... And you're hearing physical emotions from the band Black Bananas.

0:47.0

Jennifer Harama from Black Bananas is here with us today. Hi Jennifer.

0:54.5

Hey Ben, thanks for having me. No problem. So you've just come from the airport.

0:59.9

Yes. You're in New York for a lightning visit. Yes. For a DJ set tonight.

1:07.0

Yeah, photo shoot after this, DJ set tonight, show tomorrow, and then we leave the next day.

1:14.0

And the Black Banana show Friday,

1:16.0

if you're listening to this Friday afternoon,

1:18.0

is free, it's South Street Seaport.

1:20.0

That's right.

1:21.0

So Black Bananas, your new-ish not so new anymore band. Yeah we had one album prior to this

1:29.0

It's kind of a the body of work kind of started as RTX with the same people but it we kind of

1:38.9

morphed it like we introduced new sounds we kind of changed stuff up and the first Black Bananas album was actually supposed

1:46.6

to be, we were making it as if we were making an RTX album, but when I was all done, it felt like

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