Rishikesh Hirway

No, no.

But that just sounds awesome, right?

Even just listening to that little clip, you're making me have a thought that I don't know that I've articulated to myself before, which is this album, so much of it is about memory.

Like the reason why it's called In the Last Hour of Light is because it's about time and it's about my relationship to time and feeling...

how much has gone by already and how little might be left.

And so much of what I was writing about was about looking back on my life.

So there's like a nostalgia sort of built into the content of the songs.

And one of the reasons I started making music in the first place, one of the reasons I got excited about music was because of the first music that I used to listen to, which was old Bollywood recordings that my parents would play in the house.

Stuff from around this time, from like the 50s and the 60s.

It's a huge orchestra and singers, but I believe it's also all recorded live.

And there's something in the sound of the recording.

It's the quality of the tape that makes it nostalgic, but it's also the quality of the playing and the performance.

And I think hearing those imperfections and just that bleed and...

It's not just that it's an old song or it's old tape.

It is about the way it was performed that I think lends itself to that.

So I was just thinking that maybe actually the way that we made the album is actually really fitting for a bunch of songs that are about memory and were about reaching back to the earliest parts of my life because the earliest parts of my life were so influenced by music that was made and sounded this way.

That's so funny.

Yeah.

I also got sick during, um, during recording.

And so, um, I was, I was drinking so much tea and also, you know, um, yeah.