Listen to What Happened When Brian Wilson Met Carly Rae Jepsen, and Thundercat Chatted With Kamasi Washington, at Pitchfork Fest
At this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, the Talkhouse Music Podcast recorded conversations between festival artists. They included some musicians who knew each other well, and some unusual matchups. This week’s episode is a bit of both. First, there’s a brief conversation between Carly Rae Jepsen and Brian Wilson, talking about songwriting. Then, a longer chat between old friends Kamasi Washington and Thundercat.
Washington and Thundercat talk about their lifelong friendship, being fired from bands for being too committed to their individual sounds (until the rest of the world caught up to those sounds), working with Kendrick Lamar and Flying Lotus, and more. Thundercat opened up about the last time he spoke to the late J. Dilla, and Washington shared some insights into what it was like working on Kendrick’s To Pimp a Butterfly:
When I came into Kendrick’s sessions, that was different! Like, we’d played sessions for Snoop, we did sessions for Puffy and we did sessions for Quincy Jones—we’d played on all these different things. Normally, we’d come in and I’m like, my friends are on the record, I already know that, and they have hidden themselves into the music in a way that you would never know it was them. … And so I come in to hear [Kendrick’s] music and I’m like, ‘That’s full-fledged Stephen [Thundercat] right there! He ain’t hiding! That’s a whole full fledged chunk!’ … We’d been hiding on records for decades and all of a sudden it was like, now we get to be ourselves!”
While at Pitchfork Fest, the Talkhouse also recorded conversations between Julia Holter and Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew, Porches’ Aaron Maine and Shamir, BJ the Chicago Kid and Mick Jenkins, and Spencer Tweedy and Whitney. All of these conversations premiered on Pitchfork Radio.
Read Pitchfork’s interview with Kamasi Washington, “A New Standard: Kamasi Washington’s Modern.”
Watch Carly Rae Jepsen and Kamasi Washington perform at Pitchfork Music Festival 2016 and watch an interview with Thundercat on Pitchfork.tv:
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