2024-01-25
26 分钟You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Somewhere around the end of 2012, I started daydreaming about Song Exploder as a vague idea.
A show where you could hear the inner workings of a song and the ideas that went into making all the different parts.
I finally decided to try and make some kind of pilot episode in the spring of 2013.
I'd never interviewed somebody before,
but I asked my friend Jimmy Tamburello if he would be up for letting me try this concept with him.
We'd known each other for years at that point.
We'd gone on tour together, and I've been a huge fan of his music for a long time.
He makes music under the name Dintel,
and he's one half of the band The Postal Service, along with Ben Gibbard.
They were just getting ready to go on tour to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their album,
Give Up.
And so Jimmy had already been working with the different stems of their songs to get ready
for playing them live.
So one day I went to his home studio in LA and we sat together in front of his computer and he played me different parts of my favorite Postal Service song,
The District Sleeps Alone Tonight.
And I tried to explain what my idea was and what I wanted to get out of the interview.
Like, let's listen to the song and then you point out things that you hear to me.