The Era(s) of Musician Este Haim

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 27 August 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Musician and composer Este Haim has had quite the year.

Today, she reflects on HAIM’s eventful summer as part of Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour (5:45), her pivot into scoring feature films (8:40), including Netflix’s You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (13:12), growing up in a family band called Rockenhaim (17:46) and the formative musicians that inspired her and her sisters as teenagers in Los Angeles (21:41).

On the back-half, Este describes the early years of HAIM (29:30), the band’s collaboration with producer and composer Ludwig Göransson (33:08), their debut album Days Are Gone (37:55), and the misogyny embedded in the music industry (39:15) that fueled their third record, Women in Music Pt. III (43:55). To close, a love letter to LA (47:54) and a tribute to Talking Heads’ Tina Weymouth (56:00), and how both have shaped Este’s journey, on and off stage (1:00:55).

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Francisco a musician and composer Esti Hyam.
0:47.0	Esti is one-third of the rock band Hyam created by her and her two sisters, Danielle and Alana.
0:54.0	The group was founded back in 2007,
0:57.0	and after about five years of detours and false starts,
1:00.0	they released their debut album, Days Are Gone in 2013. Then, following that, they
1:06.3	released two more records, including Women in Music Part 3, which earned them a historic Grammy nomination in 2021 as the first all-female rock group to be nominated for Album of the Year.
1:19.0	Since then, they've appeared in Paul Thomas Anderson's Liquorish Pizza, headlined a tour called One More Hyam.
1:25.2	They had a featured song on the Barbie soundtrack
1:27.7	and most recently served as the opener on the West Coast leg
1:31.0	of Taylor Swift's The Arrows tour.
1:33.8	As the summer comes to a close, I wanted to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of days are gone,
1:40.2	along with all of the interesting work they've done since.
1:44.0	For Esti, that includes working as a composer on a series of new films,
1:48.0	including the Netflix original,
1:50.0	You Are So Not Invited to Mybot Mitsva.
1:53.0	We talk about her recent foray into composing throughout this conversation.
1:58.0	We also talk about her upbringing in the valley,
2:00.0	The salad days of Hyam, the performers that inspired her from Molly Shannon. the in the years to come. That's all next after the break
2:14.0	with our guest,
2:15.0	Esti Hayan.
2:17.0	Enjoy. Oh, You're going to be here. Esti,
2:43.0	S. T. Estien.
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