S10 E5: Alan Palomo

Since I started this podcast malarkey (maybe before actually, maybe the podcast just encouraged me to be more open about it - gawd, this sounds like a confessional!), I’ve developed a fascination with how music can whisk you off into a distant world, a kind of musical Narnia, not just through the lyrics, but the song structures, the atmosphere, the relationship of current music with past decades (cos we interpret and measure music by decades, right? - although it will be interesting as to what characterises the current decade and the one we just escaped). As always, I’m at risk of becoming tediously rooted in the theoretical, but I’m really interested in what makes musicians go to these places: what’s influenced their core mindset and how this plays into what’s influencing them at the time they sit down and write and how, in this fast-paced & volatile world, the music they write keeps pace with their influences and how they themselves keep pace with what seems like an exponential growth in “stuff” that influences us. Alan Palomo has so many strings to his bow – he’s a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, musician, filmmaker, DJ, and producer – and always, at least it appears to me, produced music on his own terms and in keeping with that, his latest, wonderful LP called World of Hassle – it’s the first under his own name – is a glorious collage that takes you to a world that’s got one foot in a past decade, one in the here and now and one in an augmented reality game. https://www.iwannajumplikedeedee.com I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is the music podcast that does music interviews differently. Giles Sibbald talks to musicians, DJ’s and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in every part of their lives. - brought to you from the mothership of the experimental mindset™ - cover art by Giles Sibbald - doodle logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste