“Dance of the Clairvoyants” marks Pearl Jam’s first new music release since 2018 and is the first single off the highly-anticipated new album Gigaton.
Bassist Jeff Ament had this to say about the single: "I can’t tell you how proud I am about this group of songs. As you know, we took our time and that benefited us taking more chances.
'Dance' was a perfect storm of experimentation and real collaboration, mixing up the instrumentation and building a great song, and Ed writing some of my favorite words yet, around Matt’s killer drum pattern. Did I mention Mike’s insane guitar part and that Stone is playing bass on this one? We’ve opened some new doors creatively and that’s exciting."
To accompany the single, Pearl Jam have released mysteriously titled video "Dance of the Clairvoyants" Mach I. Video credits below:
Produced by: Evolve Studios Directed by: Joel Edwards Edited by: Seth Evans Produced by: Joseph Bastien Footage by: Filmsupply (www.filmsupply.com)
"This
song started out with a Matt Cameron electronic drum beat. Matt had
been working with some drum machines and stuff and I came down and was
messing around with bass so I was messing around and think I started
busy and trying to do to much and both of us were sitting around saying
'well this is less than great' at some point I just started giving up
and saying ah crap whatever, and then I just started hammering on the
bass and we both looked at each and said that sounds better than
anything so far we just started kinda throwing it down and we came up
with this a and b section for the song. A few weeks later, unbeknownst
to me, Jeff Ament came in and uh threw on that arpeggiating keyboard
line and I was like "oh my god thats great" and I think even a few weeks
after that Mike McCready came in and put that guitar part over the top
of it which was completely ...its an unbelievable guitar part in terms
of the variety and melody he gets out of 3 notes and it was really at
that point striking us as something that was exciting and really ... it
wasnt much later than that that Ed put on the first rough vocal that had
almost all of the elements that the final vocal...some of the words
changed...but all the phrasing and alot of the energy was all there. I
guess thats the last element that kinda went down was in the end Matt uh
decided and I think with the band's approval that he was gonna play his
drum machine part so the drums that you hear on the track are real
drums. I think theres an electronic high hat still mixed in there, but
all the beat thats a live Matt Cameron track with very dry drums so the
fact that he was able to go back in and play that beat that was you know
completely created in a drum machine and play it so convincingly to
almost sound like a drum machine was really a tribute to how great he
is. Matt sort of inspired and wrote the initial part of the song and
then we all individually came in and put an element on there and those
elements lasted and survived um intact is a little bit of why I think
we're so excited about the song and sort of the magic of how that song
couldnt have really been written by any individual in any other band and
I think the words theyre just so compelling to me I listen to them and I
have a different reaction to them each time. So its a real exciting
time for the band and Im really proud of it."
Thanks for the confirmation on the drums. There were times I thought it was a drum machine, and other times when I thought, "Well, if someone can sound like a drum machine, it's probably Matt." Interesting stuff.
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Dance Of The Clairvoyants by Pearl Jam is #1 on iTunes rock songs chart. https://apple.co/2G96NTE
Love angry Ed!
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“Dance of the Clairvoyants”
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“Dance of the Clairvoyants” marks Pearl Jam’s first new music release since 2018 and is the first single off the highly-anticipated new album Gigaton.
Bassist Jeff Ament had this to say about the single: "I can’t tell you how proud I am about this group of songs. As you know, we took our time and that benefited us taking more chances.
'Dance' was a perfect storm of experimentation and real collaboration, mixing up the instrumentation and building a great song, and Ed writing some of my favorite words yet, around Matt’s killer drum pattern. Did I mention Mike’s insane guitar part and that Stone is playing bass on this one? We’ve opened some new doors creatively and that’s exciting."
To accompany the single, Pearl Jam have released mysteriously titled video "Dance of the Clairvoyants" Mach I. Video credits below:
Produced by: Evolve Studios
Directed by: Joel Edwards
Edited by: Seth Evans
Produced by: Joseph Bastien
Footage by: Filmsupply (www.filmsupply.com)
STONE 👇👇
"This song started out with a Matt Cameron electronic drum beat. Matt had been working with some drum machines and stuff and I came down and was messing around with bass so I was messing around and think I started busy and trying to do to much and both of us were sitting around saying 'well this is less than great' at some point I just started giving up and saying ah crap whatever, and then I just started hammering on the bass and we both looked at each and said that sounds better than anything so far we just started kinda throwing it down and we came up with this a and b section for the song. A few weeks later, unbeknownst to me, Jeff Ament came in and uh threw on that arpeggiating keyboard line and I was like "oh my god thats great" and I think even a few weeks after that Mike McCready came in and put that guitar part over the top of it which was completely ...its an unbelievable guitar part in terms of the variety and melody he gets out of 3 notes and it was really at that point striking us as something that was exciting and really ... it wasnt much later than that that Ed put on the first rough vocal that had almost all of the elements that the final vocal...some of the words changed...but all the phrasing and alot of the energy was all there. I guess thats the last element that kinda went down was in the end Matt uh decided and I think with the band's approval that he was gonna play his drum machine part so the drums that you hear on the track are real drums. I think theres an electronic high hat still mixed in there, but all the beat thats a live Matt Cameron track with very dry drums so the fact that he was able to go back in and play that beat that was you know completely created in a drum machine and play it so convincingly to almost sound like a drum machine was really a tribute to how great he is. Matt sort of inspired and wrote the initial part of the song and then we all individually came in and put an element on there and those elements lasted and survived um intact is a little bit of why I think we're so excited about the song and sort of the magic of how that song couldnt have really been written by any individual in any other band and I think the words theyre just so compelling to me I listen to them and I have a different reaction to them each time. So its a real exciting time for the band and Im really proud of it."
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