I feel like when we talk about post-apocalyptic themes that's what we're really talking about. We're always returning … - Colin Stetson

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When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.

Colin Stetson

I feel like when we talk about post-apocalyptic themes that's what we're really talking about. We're always returning to this sense of being alone in a strange new place where all is bleak and all is lost. And it is this sense of isolation that permeates the whole album. I wanted to go into the balance between fear and transcendence.

Albums, Balance, Isolation, Permeates, Place, Talking

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I practice yoga and breathing daily along with all the exercises on the instrument. I'm getting more and more monastic about it, especially when I'm on tour, because I'm making songs that are harder to perform all the time. So I no longer smoke and I drink a lot less on tour.

Exercise, Harder, Practice, Song, Songs, Yoga

I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film - something that explicitly states its own world.

Albums, Film, Terrence, Want, World

It's important to me in the creation of it because I figured as soon as I crossed that threshold into effects and loops it would completely undermine the premise of how I go about creating things physically, with the instrument.

Creating, Creating Things, Creation, Important, Instrument, Loops

I would like for people to appreciate the album musically whether they knew how it was made or not.

Albums, Appreciate, Musically, People

There are mics inside the instrument, a contact mic on my throat, and countless mics clustered around the air of the horn and throughout the room. I wanted to make something that was specific to the medium of recording.

Air, Horns, Instrument, Rooms, Specific, Throat