As Temps (temps__music), English comedian James Acaster calls upon his musical heroes to bring the sonic vision of a now-scrapped mockumentary to life. Acaster sat down with us and went in deep on his new album 'PARTY GATOR PURGATORY’:
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Earlier this spring, I sat down with Acaster over Zoom. We went deep into how he got to work with his hero Seb Rochford, the origins and production behindand how the album will stack up against the titanic, generational projects from 2016. Read our conversation below.: I’m truly fascinated by this project, because it’s not just “Oh, James Acaster the comedian is making music.” No, you’ve assembled this huge team of incredible musicians. Talk to me about how that came to be.
It gave us loads more options, when it came to how to structure the drums on the album. And then Adam Betts, who makes music under Colossal Squid, provideddrums. There was some bits where I was like, “Actually, I feel like I now want the drums to do this, now that we’ve got guitar, bass, keys, whatever on it. I now feel like the drums should do this at this point, but I haven’t got that.
I’m personally really in love with the work that Shamir, NNAMDÏ, and Open Mike Eagle do. Especially NNAMDÏ. He’s one of my favorite working musicians. How did you discover these artists? Did you seek them out for the collective, or did you know them from your podcast?fan. Every musician on this album has released an album which I consider to be one of my favorite albums. It just feels nuts.
Before I did comedy, all I wanted to do was be in a band and play drums. And that’s all I did do until I was 22, 23. When I started stand-up comedy, I really fell in love with it, to the degree where I couldn’t imagine doing music again. I just assumed I never would do it, even though it had been a dream of mine since I was seven—specifically, to make an album. That had been the thing I was really engaged with with music, more than seeing it live or anything like that.
This record plays a lot with different sounds. There’s pop, jazz, hip-hop. I’m curious about what music you were making when you were playing in those bands. Tell me about the party gator that inspired the album, because I know that he is no longer with us. The party gator costume you’ve been sporting is a replica, yes?
Whenever vocalists asked me what they were going to sing about, I would say: “Okay, this ⅓ of the album is about death, this ⅓ is about purgatory and this ⅓ is about resurrection. And they then interpreted that in their own personal way that wasn’t anything to do with a cartoon alligator. It’s them interpreting those themes themselves.
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