Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed: Ian Galipeau
Speaker 1: Thirty something years now, going up in smoke, twenty thousand
Speaker 1: days behind. There's just a couple more goal and it's alright,
Speaker 1: it's alright.
Speaker 2: Gotta have a little faith.
Speaker 3: Could have seen it coming somewhere down the line, buried
Speaker 3: in some double helics, some underneath ourselves a bat But
Speaker 3: it's alright, it's alright.
Speaker 2: Everything is in its leg.
Speaker 1: Seems so clear to me.
Speaker 2: Could have changed?
Speaker 1: It seems so mad me. Nothing complain, arts are feeling heavy,
Speaker 1: bodies get week, We will waste away together, fade into
Speaker 1: that sweet Really, it's.
Speaker 2: All right, it's all right. You gotta have a little speak.
Speaker 2: Seems so clear to me.
Speaker 3: Nothing could have changed, so wed me.
Speaker 2: Nothing could plain?
Speaker 1: Who's us on the mountain all upon the road I've
Speaker 1: been reaching down to holding me up and bear his
Speaker 1: heavy though.
Speaker 2: It's all right, it's all right. Everything is in its place.
Speaker 2: It's alright, it's all right. You gotta have a little
Speaker 2: baby same so jeus me cha seems so meplace. Hmmm.
Speaker 4: I really like that a lot that it's called a
Speaker 4: couple more to go. That is Ian Gallipo, who is
Speaker 4: here with us alive in studio, and we're gonna talk
Speaker 4: in just a moment, but welcome back everybody. We have
Speaker 4: entered our number two New Marrow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed.
Speaker 4: We are live from the studios of w m n
Speaker 4: H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire,
Speaker 4: and of course you can stream the show at Matt
Speaker 4: connorton dot com slash Live. Today is Saturday, March first,
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five. Jenny is here at the news table
Speaker 4: and we have Ian Gallipo here with us. Welcome in. Oh,
Speaker 4: I can't hear you, and I need to figure out why.
Speaker 4: Actually that's strange. I can switch that Mike should be on. Yeah,
Speaker 4: can you bounce over to that that chair please, I
Speaker 4: don't know why that's not working.
Speaker 5: That's weird.
Speaker 4: I'm not getting anything out of it. Okay, let's we'll
Speaker 4: try We'll try that one. Oh, I can hear you
Speaker 4: bet Yeah, yeah, awesome, excellently, you sound great. Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: weird that that mic isn't working at all. That's that's
Speaker 4: really strange. I'll have to look at it afterward. But
Speaker 4: so welcome.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: Your music has actually been featured on the show before.
Speaker 4: By the way, we should say, because you of course
Speaker 4: are in the band Modern Fools.
Speaker 5: I am in the band Modern Fools.
Speaker 4: You were not here for the for the interview, but
Speaker 4: but but so we have played your music before. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna just that just that camera there too for people
Speaker 4: watching online so they can see you. But no, but
Speaker 4: I love your I love I love Modern Fools, but
Speaker 4: I love your solo stuff too. That is such a
Speaker 4: great track. A couple more to go really really like that.
Speaker 4: Where did you record that?
Speaker 5: It's entirely recorded at home? Oh no kidding, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I've got a home studio setup. Did the entire album
Speaker 5: in my in my studio room.
Speaker 4: Oh that's incredible. It sounds like it was done in
Speaker 4: a million in a million dollars studio. It really does,
Speaker 4: it really does. But it's you know, it's it's remarkable.
Speaker 4: We talk a lot about uh technology, of course, as
Speaker 4: we were as we were in the previous segment, and
Speaker 4: you know, we live in a time where you can
Speaker 4: really get an amazing recording out of a home studio.
Speaker 4: I'm old enough to remember when your only real option
Speaker 4: was go to a studio and pay a lot of money,
Speaker 4: or if you were gonna stay at home. I don't
Speaker 4: know if you've ever seen one of those little task
Speaker 4: scam of course?
Speaker 5: Is that what you started on yet?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, So now though, I mean it's it's incredible
Speaker 4: what you can do, and.
Speaker 5: Oh it's amazing. Yeah, I mean all of the DAW's
Speaker 5: I work in logic. But you know your home studio
Speaker 5: set up, you can, uh, they were prof albums. Rights.
Speaker 5: Whole first album was recorded in his basement. I didn't
Speaker 5: know that. Really, Church is a home recording.
Speaker 4: Oh, I didn't. I had no idea. I did not
Speaker 4: know that. So do you do everything on the album?
Speaker 5: Are you?
Speaker 4: Are you playing everything?
Speaker 5: And I play everything?
Speaker 4: Oh that's incredible.
Speaker 5: Drums, keyboards, guitars, bass.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Oh that's fantastic.
Speaker 5: Good for you, Good for you.
Speaker 4: And that makes it easier too, in the sense that
Speaker 4: I mean, well, I mean it's not easier in the
Speaker 4: sense that it's a lot of work, right, but but
Speaker 4: you get to create your vision of what you wanted
Speaker 4: to sound like without anybody kind of messing it up.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, oh for sure. Yeah, it's it's it's an
Speaker 5: interesting process, right, doing it all yourself.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 5: I had a release show this past weekend.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 5: The album came out of the twenty second and I
Speaker 5: had a release show with a full band, and it
Speaker 5: was so cool to hear these songs come to life,
Speaker 5: like these arrangements that I'd played one piece at a time. Yeah,
Speaker 5: played by a five piece band with me, it was
Speaker 5: was pretty special. Yeah.
Speaker 4: When when that happens, though? Is it because obviously it's
Speaker 4: great to hear them come alive, But is there any
Speaker 4: part of you that is nervous about what if they
Speaker 4: don't sound exactly like how I want? Or are you
Speaker 4: able to just let that go and just enjoy because
Speaker 4: in a sense, who is kind of an adventure?
Speaker 7: Right? Who?
Speaker 4: How are these going to sound with other musicians playing
Speaker 4: them with me?
Speaker 5: It's certainly an adventure. Yeah, And I trusted the musicians
Speaker 5: I was working with.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I picked these five people specifically because I trust their
Speaker 5: taste and their vision. Whether they're going to play exactly
Speaker 5: the part that I wrote, whatever they come up with
Speaker 5: modification of that, he's going to be interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Good. I didn't just find guys on Craigslist to play
Speaker 5: the songs with, like that would be nerve wrecking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that would be, no doubt, no doubt, any members
Speaker 4: of Modern Fools who played them with you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, one member of Modern Fools came, the guitarist John
Speaker 5: who you met a few months ago. Okay, he came
Speaker 5: and played and I play with those guys all the time. Yeah.
Speaker 5: He specifically did not want the Ian Gallipo and the
Speaker 5: Modern Fools release show, right, so I had to limit
Speaker 5: the band to maybe one member.
Speaker 4: No, that makes sense, that makes sense. Who else were
Speaker 4: other people that we would know from other bands who
Speaker 4: played with.
Speaker 2: You that for that show?
Speaker 5: Or you might know one name Ethan McBrien. He's the
Speaker 5: front man of the band Party of the Sun.
Speaker 4: Okay. Yeah, I don't think we've ever had Party of
Speaker 4: the Sun on the show, but I am familiar with
Speaker 4: the band.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, okay, he played bass. Oh very cool, great
Speaker 5: bass player. Yeah for a band that doesn't have a
Speaker 5: bass player. Yeah, he's a fantastic bass player. Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 4: So what in terms of playing live your solo material,
Speaker 4: what's what's the plan going forward? Do you plan to
Speaker 4: do that again or or are you planning to play
Speaker 4: out with your solo I mean, obviously Modern Fools keeps
Speaker 4: you kind of busy too.
Speaker 5: Modern Fools keeps me plenty busy. Yeah, I play all
Speaker 5: of these songs as a not all of the ones
Speaker 5: on this album, but I'm a solo performer predominantly. Yeah,
Speaker 5: this whole album is different for me. I composed all
Speaker 5: these songs on piano, oh wow, which is not an
Speaker 5: instrument that I normally play. Have been a guitarist for
Speaker 5: twenty years. I picked up piano a little bit during COVID, Yeah,
Speaker 5: and just writing on piano was different. So now I've
Speaker 5: adapted most of these songs to work on guitar, which
Speaker 5: I'm excited about sharing them in that way.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't know how much band performance I'm going to do,
Speaker 5: just because there's a lot of logistics. Right, Being in
Speaker 5: modern fools is enough. Yeah, Band relationships are complicated. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and I think the songs carry They're different, but it
Speaker 5: was fun to do them with a band. For sure.
Speaker 5: I absolutely would in the right context, but it's not
Speaker 5: something I want to pursue, like we need to be
Speaker 5: playing four or five shows a month. Yeah, band, it's
Speaker 5: too much.
Speaker 4: So your solo material, you're comfortable just you and a guitar,
Speaker 4: I assume, or you or do you ever bring a keyboard?
Speaker 5: I never bring a keyboard. I anything that I've written
Speaker 5: on a keyboard, I've figured out some way to play
Speaker 5: it on guitar or not play it at all.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Are there songs that you've had to say this
Speaker 4: one doesn't translate to guitar well enough, and I'm not
Speaker 4: going to play this one, or do you ever run
Speaker 4: into that?
Speaker 5: Or Yeah, there are a couple on this that don't work.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't work in terms of does the vibe just change,
Speaker 4: or yeah.
Speaker 5: The vibe is too different, or I'm just not technical
Speaker 5: enough to do exactly like I can do something close usually, Yeah,
Speaker 5: but some of it's really dependent on the bounce of
Speaker 5: a piano. Yeah, doing the same chug on a guitar
Speaker 5: sounds right right different? That makes sense, Yeah, that makes sense. Now,
Speaker 5: what about the so on the album? What about the drums?
Speaker 4: Are those live.
Speaker 5: Drums or are they programmed or it's all programmed or
Speaker 5: you know, it's all sampled. A lot of it I've
Speaker 5: played on a keyboard, Yeah, a drummer, and then I've
Speaker 5: got to write an electronic drum set that plugs in
Speaker 5: for me as well.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, great. Yeah that's something that's changed a lot
Speaker 4: too over the years, technologically, the advances with that, because
Speaker 4: I like I remember I remember being a kid and
Speaker 4: having a keyboard with drum sounds on it, but they
Speaker 4: they sounded so fake.
Speaker 5: Oh, they sound so fake.
Speaker 4: And then you know, and there were also these programmable,
Speaker 4: these standalone programmable drum machines that some of them like
Speaker 4: you could get a realistic sounding The problem with those,
Speaker 4: again this is going back many years, but the problem
Speaker 4: with those was you could get a really realistic sounding snare,
Speaker 4: but the toms would always sound terrible and the symbols
Speaker 4: would sound even worse. Yeah, but but now it's it's
Speaker 4: remarkable what you can do.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's unbelievable. What maybe I mean? Uh, the guys
Speaker 5: in my band were like, where'd you record these drums?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Like, no, no, there are a couple of obviously electronic
Speaker 5: pieces in there, but the ones that are acoustic are
Speaker 5: well sampled. Yeah, they've got that full dynamic range and
Speaker 5: you really it's hard to tell unless you know, not
Speaker 5: real drums.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh that's fantastic. Yeah, it's uh, that's a great compliment,
Speaker 4: right when somebody says to you, hey, where you know,
Speaker 4: where did you record these drums? Yeah that's great, that's great.
Speaker 4: How is your is your approach to songwriting? Different as
Speaker 4: a solo artist versus with Modern Fools or because I
Speaker 4: don't know if with your solo stuff, is that all
Speaker 4: self written or do you collaborate with other writers?
Speaker 5: Yeah, great question. I love collaborating with people. Yeah, everything
Speaker 5: on this record I wrote, and most of my co
Speaker 5: writes in my life have been for the other artist. Okay,
Speaker 5: but there's a handful of songs that I wrote with
Speaker 5: other people that I've written with John from Modern Fools
Speaker 5: that we that I play, Yeah, soul artists. As far
Speaker 5: as Modern Fools, almost all of that is written by Josh,
Speaker 5: the singer. I've I've tweaked some lyrics here and there,
Speaker 5: but it's we're working towards collaborative writing. It's just a
Speaker 5: it's a stretch anytime. There's a lot of vulnerability when
Speaker 5: you write with somebody, Yes, and it's yeah, Josh and
Speaker 5: I are working towards that.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, that's very cool. That's very cool.
Speaker 4: How many, so, how many songs have you recorded? Just
Speaker 4: as as Ian Gallipo, Because from what I looked at
Speaker 4: on band camp, it looks like you've you've got quite
Speaker 4: a bit of solo material.
Speaker 5: There's a decent amount of solo material I think there's
Speaker 5: fifty or so on on.
Speaker 4: Oh, that's even more than I realized. Wow, oh that's
Speaker 4: quite a bit.
Speaker 5: There's two full albums, a couple of epe's, a bunch
Speaker 5: of singles. There's this a good volume of of solo material.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when did you How long have you been writing
Speaker 4: and recording solo material, because that's a lot of material.
Speaker 4: I assume that's over a span of a few years. Anyway.
Speaker 5: That is the oldest stuff that's on any of the
Speaker 5: streaming platforms is from twenty eighteen, okay, so seven years.
Speaker 5: There's a few other a couple of other albums that
Speaker 5: are only on my band camp from before that first
Speaker 5: solo album I think was twenty eleven. Oh, okay, when
Speaker 5: I was in a band called My Honest Thieves for
Speaker 5: a few years. Yeah. We released an album in twenty fourteen,
Speaker 5: which is still up on my band camp, kind of
Speaker 5: a rock and roll thing.
Speaker 4: Oh no kidding, Okay, cool. I think I've heard of
Speaker 4: or maybe I just feel like I've heard of Honest
Speaker 4: Thieves because that's such a cool name. That is a
Speaker 4: cool name. But if the name is familiar to me, yeah,
Speaker 4: so then now, so, how long have you been with
Speaker 4: Modern Fools. That has that that that hasn't been as
Speaker 4: long as you've been doing the solo material, right, because
Speaker 4: that's no.
Speaker 5: It has not. I joined up with Modern Fools. It's
Speaker 5: been just over three years now, he's late twenty twenty one, okay,
Speaker 5: And I started playing bass with those guys. And I
Speaker 5: mean I've been playing with various members of Modern Fools
Speaker 5: for a long time. Yeah, that's always the you know,
Speaker 5: the rotating cast of any of any music community, right,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm over and keen, and so there's a
Speaker 5: degree of I've played with everybody, oh there to some degree. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but yeah, I've been playing with the drummer of Modern
Speaker 5: Fools since high school. Cool together with John the guitarist
Speaker 5: for twelve years now. He was in Honest Thieves. Oh okay,
Speaker 5: So yeah, just a rotating cast, but three and a
Speaker 5: half years or so with Modern Fools, playing bass and
Speaker 5: singing the harmonies.
Speaker 4: Excellent, excellent. The songs that we're playing today are these
Speaker 4: all from the latest release.
Speaker 5: Everything is from the latest release.
Speaker 4: And is that a I forgot? How is that a
Speaker 4: full length or an EP?
Speaker 5: Full length?
Speaker 4: Its length? Okay? Well, was there anything that went into
Speaker 4: any anything specific that went into that decision, you know,
Speaker 4: because obviously, again we live in a time where you've
Speaker 4: got so many different options in terms of how you
Speaker 4: release music. Some people just release singles, some people decide
Speaker 4: to do an EP, some people decide to do a
Speaker 4: full album. Was there was there any particular reason you
Speaker 4: decided to do a full album. Do these songs have
Speaker 4: a sort of cohesive connection to them.
Speaker 5: Or they do each other?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It started out I thought it was going to be
Speaker 5: an EP. I thought I'd weed a couple of the
Speaker 5: songs out as I as I went through, and then
Speaker 5: I started going and I'm like, oh, I got nine songs,
Speaker 5: and maybe I could write there's one instrumental piece that's
Speaker 5: again piano bassed. It was like, ten is a nice
Speaker 5: even number. It feels like a full album. Yeah, these
Speaker 5: all are are cohesive in that again, they're the subset
Speaker 5: of songs that I've ever written on piano, Yeah, which
Speaker 5: sort of unique. And as I dove into them and
Speaker 5: work done them, I found that that there's just a
Speaker 5: lot of nostalgia built into this set of songs. For
Speaker 5: whatever reason, Writing a piano brings that out of me.
Speaker 5: Being a dad brought that out of me a bit.
Speaker 5: I've got two daughters at home. Yeah, and I was
Speaker 5: never a nostalgic person, and I have kids, and now
Speaker 5: I'm very aware of moments passing, right, it gives you
Speaker 5: that a different perspective. So these songs are all all
Speaker 5: sort of looking backward in some degree. Some of them
Speaker 5: are stories that are true for my life, some of
Speaker 5: them are borrowed from other people. Right. A couple More
Speaker 5: to Go is about this older friend of mine watching
Speaker 5: her fifty year marriage not fall apart, but watching her
Speaker 5: partner pass and doing it with more dignity than I've
Speaker 5: ever seen anyone do that. So anyway, it's not all sadness,
Speaker 5: but it's all there's kind of this rose colored glasses
Speaker 5: look backwards that ties these songs together. Faded Pictures is
Speaker 5: the title track, which isn't one that will listen to today,
Speaker 5: but it kind of prompted the idea for the album
Speaker 5: art of all these pictures of just my photo album, yeah,
Speaker 5: my family photo albums mashed together, and so yeah, it's
Speaker 5: a it's a look back, it's reflective, kind of just
Speaker 5: escaping from some of the turmoil of the last couple
Speaker 5: of years.
Speaker 4: Taking backwards did you. Did you create the cover art yourself?
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously that's your your photo albums, But.
Speaker 5: Did you did oh very cool, too much, too much
Speaker 5: the gallipo. I did every single piece of it. No,
Speaker 5: I think that's fantastic. I think that's that's excellent. We
Speaker 5: should play another track. What should we play next? We
Speaker 5: just played a couple more to go to open the segment,
Speaker 5: but I'd love to play another one. Yeah, let's let's
Speaker 5: do only Ever Always only over a second track on
Speaker 5: the album what?
Speaker 4: What should we know about this song?
Speaker 2: Any?
Speaker 4: Any?
Speaker 5: Any song is what Let's see. I wrote this. It
Speaker 5: was inspired by a book that I was reading and
Speaker 5: it just had this really beautiful love story that sort
Speaker 5: of creeps up on you. The second Chance that I
Speaker 5: thought was really beautiful, And part of this song actually
Speaker 5: came from a prompt. I was in a songwriter's group
Speaker 5: and we were doing weekly prompts last April, and because
Speaker 5: everything had started to turn green, the prompt was used
Speaker 5: the word green somewhere in your song, and it's snuck
Speaker 5: in there in the chorus. This was the song written
Speaker 5: for that.
Speaker 4: I just have to say though, before before we play
Speaker 4: the song. This is one of those weird synchronicities. Jenny's
Speaker 4: heard me talk about this. So this concept of writing
Speaker 4: prompts had never really come upon the show before. But
Speaker 4: last night I was on because there's a show here
Speaker 4: that Arizon Friday nights at six pm called Granite State
Speaker 4: of Mind.
Speaker 5: You might know.
Speaker 4: Do you know Rob rob Azevito. I met Rob yet okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: and he has Pembroke City limits and everything. But so
Speaker 4: I was here for that to help Rob set up
Speaker 4: Mike's for a sound because Katie Dobbins, yeah, came in
Speaker 4: and played live and the subject of writing prompts came up.
Speaker 4: She was talking about using pumps, you know, to help
Speaker 4: give her ideas for songs, and I've never really heard
Speaker 4: anyone talk about it that way before. And and then
Speaker 4: you you mentioned prompts. It's funny. Those moments are so
Speaker 4: interesting to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but uh, all right,
Speaker 4: so let's give this a spin. If you are just
Speaker 4: joining us, Ian Gallipo is here with us in studio,
Speaker 4: and uh, this is great. This is called only Ever Always.
Speaker 1: I was fucking gently settled in the silence of frozen dark,
Speaker 1: an empty hibernation. You were there to catch me, drawn
Speaker 1: in by the wildness of broken heart, oh kind of patience.
Speaker 2: In your hands, my world.
Speaker 4: Scream the world.
Speaker 10: It's on the branches over the light, inside Glassy, it's
Speaker 10: capturing the light stall in Second Chances at the light,
Speaker 10: and you're right.
Speaker 2: It's not wrong right, you're on wrong or right. There's
Speaker 2: only ever.
Speaker 11: Always, And.
Speaker 1: Running from the hardy certain in the distance we had
Speaker 1: put behind the best could only change suns. Love was
Speaker 1: like an earthquake, overwhelming and escapable and violent.
Speaker 2: So we let it take guns in the worlds onfoor light.
Speaker 12: Every new screen, all the worldlife, But it's on the
Speaker 12: branches over n is come back, see.
Speaker 2: Capturing Light stole.
Speaker 13: In Second Chances and the night, and you're right. There's
Speaker 13: no wrong, wrong, right, only ever always.
Speaker 4: I love the way that ends. I didn't even want
Speaker 4: to talk over the end of it. That's so cool.
Speaker 4: That's Ian Gallipo. Only ever always is the name of
Speaker 4: the track. That's really nice. I love the I love
Speaker 4: the choruses on these and the you know the obviously
Speaker 4: you know you're how many? How many layers of vocals
Speaker 4: are on like that a song? I'm such a recording nerd,
Speaker 4: so I asked these nerd weird great weird questions. Probably
Speaker 4: nobody else care how many layers of vocals, but I'm
Speaker 4: just curious because it just sounds so good.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much. No, I love the recording nerd
Speaker 5: conversations here. That song has got I think nine layers
Speaker 5: of vocal. Okay, so it's it's like a four part harmony.
Speaker 5: My wife is singing the highest right, the female voice,
Speaker 5: she's got two parts, and then I'm doubling the lead
Speaker 5: vocal and singing two underneath it. Okay, So it's like
Speaker 5: a five part harmony with nine total voices layered in.
Speaker 4: Oh nice, Yeah, it sounds was that hard to get
Speaker 4: that right, like like the way you wanted it? Because
Speaker 4: that's kind of complex working all that out, or maybe
Speaker 4: it's not.
Speaker 5: Maybe I know.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it can be kind of instinctive when you're working
Speaker 4: out harmonies, but I.
Speaker 5: Working out harmonies is like my favorite nerd thing to do. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 5: I love it. So it's a little tricky, but it's
Speaker 5: a lot of fun. Like I do all most of
Speaker 5: the harmony arrangements for modern fools as well. Right when
Speaker 5: I was singing with with Josh and when we record
Speaker 5: together with two voices, it's always interesting like, what what
Speaker 5: can we do that isn't just tight thirds right? And
Speaker 5: so I know this is like music theory nerd stuff,
Speaker 5: but yeah, it's complicated, but it's it's fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I love when I am recording and I have license
Speaker 5: to like, oh, I can just fill this course up
Speaker 5: with a five part gigantic thing.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 4: How long did it take to record the to record
Speaker 4: the album?
Speaker 5: The album was over the course of maybe eight months. Again,
Speaker 5: all done at home, and it's it's the challenge in recording.
Speaker 5: It is is always just finding the time, right. I
Speaker 5: work full time and I've got children, so it's loud
Speaker 5: in the house for most of the hours.
Speaker 12: Of the day.
Speaker 4: Did you do all the did you do the mastering
Speaker 4: to yourself?
Speaker 5: Or did you say I had it mastered by a
Speaker 5: guy named Jim Bergson who's over in Boston area. Okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 5: I record it. I did all of the mixing. It
Speaker 5: was mastered separately.
Speaker 4: Excellent. Now, why Jim Jim Bergson?
Speaker 5: Is that his name? That's his name?
Speaker 4: How did how did you choose him? Because You've got
Speaker 4: a lot of options. What what led you to to
Speaker 4: work with him?
Speaker 5: There are so many options. He and I had connected
Speaker 5: via Instagram maybe last early last year, and he had
Speaker 5: reached out a handful of times, just like, Hey, if
Speaker 5: you've got any projects, just keep me in touch. I
Speaker 5: really like your writing. I'd love to work with you.
Speaker 5: And I've worked with a handful of other mastery engineers
Speaker 5: who all did a great job. But I wanted to
Speaker 5: give Jim a swing. He's a good guy, and uh
Speaker 5: did he did a great job? Did a great job,
Speaker 5: knocked it out of the park. I would say, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 5: Oh that's very cool, that's very cool. Now what is
Speaker 5: your Obviously you're always writing, right, so I'm curious, Uh
Speaker 5: and this, this hasn't been out that long? Right? Then
Speaker 5: week a week's Saturday?
Speaker 4: What's that new? Okay? Jeez, So do you plan to
Speaker 4: I don't know if you're thinking this far ahead? Do
Speaker 4: you plan Do you have another release already kind of
Speaker 4: in mind or are you just kind of focused on
Speaker 4: on this one in the moment or because you're probably
Speaker 4: always writing, I'm sure you've got a lot.
Speaker 5: Of ideas always writing. Yeah, and yeah, I don't have
Speaker 5: a concrete, certain set that I'm going to release. I've
Speaker 5: got another single that I worked with an online producer
Speaker 5: to flesh out. It's my first time ever just handing
Speaker 5: a song over and being like, yeah, you do all
Speaker 5: the instruments. Oh, and I'm really excited with how that
Speaker 5: came back. So I'm going to work with him on
Speaker 5: a handful of more songs. But so that song is
Speaker 5: called on borrowed time, that'll come out. I don't have
Speaker 5: a date, but certainly by the by Memorial Day. Oh okay,
Speaker 5: I'm going to move on from not move on from
Speaker 5: these songs quickly. But I've got a backlog of like
Speaker 5: fifty more songs that I think deserve release, and I'm
Speaker 5: thirty six. I can't just wait forever to do this.
Speaker 5: So this is like the year that I'm doing two
Speaker 5: full albums for sure. Wow, at least another handful of
Speaker 5: singles on top of it.
Speaker 4: Oh, that's great, that's great. When you play live solo,
Speaker 4: do you, I mean you obviously have a lot of
Speaker 4: your own material to draw from. Do you also play
Speaker 4: some covers or do you are you able to do
Speaker 4: shows where you just play your own stuff.
Speaker 5: Or I predominantly play my own material. Good, there's so
Speaker 5: much of it that even I've worked with I play
Speaker 5: breweries and things like three hours in that three hours, right,
Speaker 5: there's a couple of ten minute breaks, and I'm playing
Speaker 5: maybe five covers over the course of three hours. Like
Speaker 5: it's mostly original music, which is a way to do it.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's the best strategy, but it's
Speaker 5: the strategy that I choose. If it's working for you,
Speaker 5: it's working for you. Yeah, I say, run with it.
Speaker 5: That's great, that's great. I'm also curious about influences I hear.
Speaker 4: I think a little bit of Ben Folds.
Speaker 5: Maybe, Oh man, I love ben Folds. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 5: think he's an absolute genius.
Speaker 4: I also thought maybe I don't know so much on
Speaker 4: that one. But the other one we played a bit
Speaker 4: James Taylor is that.
Speaker 5: Is he and your James Taylor is very much in
Speaker 5: my in my wheelhouse as well.
Speaker 4: I think one of the greatest songwriters of all time. Personally,
Speaker 4: James Taylor is.
Speaker 5: Incredible, agreed, and when he knocks it out of the park,
Speaker 5: there's nobody better.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, He's got some absolutely great songs. So certainly you've
Speaker 5: picked two that I absolutely love. Other influences that you'd
Speaker 5: certainly hear on this album The Postal Service, right, Ben
Speaker 5: Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie is another big influence.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that one never occurred to me, but now that
Speaker 4: you mention it, I can hear it. Yeah, now as
Speaker 4: you mentioned it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, other you know piano writers that I really look
Speaker 5: up to. Randy Newman, Okay, someone I discovered late in
Speaker 5: life because I'm not an old man. But later right,
Speaker 5: I grew up and he was the Toy Story guy. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it was You've got a friend in me and that.
Speaker 5: And then I was reading a Ben Folds interview whatever
Speaker 5: was ten years ago, and he said Randy Newman was
Speaker 5: one of his biggest influences. What am I sleeping on here?
Speaker 5: And going deeper back into his discography, it was amazing,
Speaker 5: you know the album's Little Criminals or or good old
Speaker 5: boys like he's just incredible.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Any any Frank Zappa, No Frank Zappa, Okay.
Speaker 5: I got to check out Frank Zappa. All my friends
Speaker 5: enjoy Frank Zappa. And I've never done the deep dive
Speaker 5: into his catalog.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's it's it gets pretty pretty weird, but.
Speaker 5: But her mind weird.
Speaker 4: But he's Yeah, yeah, most of us don't. If you know,
Speaker 4: when we give it a chance, you know, he's got,
Speaker 4: He's got some great stuff. I I was never a
Speaker 4: big Frank Zappa fan myself, but a couple of years ago,
Speaker 4: so I'm on a show on Friday Night's called Retrospection
Speaker 4: Radio with PAULI C. And Paul's a huge Zappa fan,
Speaker 4: and he's played some stuff on there that's like wow.
Speaker 4: I So I remember when I was a kid, my
Speaker 4: parents were into him, but I never got into him.
Speaker 5: But now, you know, as an.
Speaker 4: Adult, you know, because you get older and you appreciate
Speaker 4: stuff that maybe you heard when you were a kid
Speaker 4: that you didn't connect with, but now now you hear
Speaker 4: it and you go, oh, now I get it. Now
Speaker 4: I understand what's great about this, you know. And of
Speaker 4: course there's other stuff you might hear that you liked
Speaker 4: when you were a kid where you go ooh, I
Speaker 4: used to like that. That happens too. But yeah, But
Speaker 4: and your your vocal style specifically, is there anyone you
Speaker 4: you try to really emulate or who influences you in
Speaker 4: terms of how you sing.
Speaker 5: Ah, that's a great question. Ben Folds would come back
Speaker 5: up simply because he does not have like a conventionally
Speaker 5: pretty voice. I never felt like I did either, And
Speaker 5: so it was like a permission to just have a voice.
Speaker 5: Or Ben Kuehler is the same thing. Okay, like guys
Speaker 5: who don't don't have that beautiful voice, right, I mean
Speaker 5: I I worship Jeff Buckley. I will never sing like that.
Speaker 5: It's never gonna happen. Or like, let's see Joe Cocker
Speaker 5: amazing voice. You just heard the guy sing and be like,
Speaker 5: what is wrong? But the performance just what makes it amazing?
Speaker 4: Agreed.
Speaker 5: And another one that I didn't realize until maybe a
Speaker 5: couple of years ago, was is Tracy Chapman. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 5: I loved her albums when I was a kid. I
Speaker 5: love her albums still. And I didn't realize that some
Speaker 5: of my inflections were borrowed until I accidentally pitch shifted
Speaker 5: my voice up on a recording that I was working on,
Speaker 5: and I was like, oh, wow, I sound a bit
Speaker 5: like Tracy Chapman if you pitch ship my voice up
Speaker 5: a fifth.
Speaker 4: Oh that's interesting, okay, yeah, yeah, oh very cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Part of why I was curious to ask you that
Speaker 4: question is your voice, Like, vocally, you don't remind me
Speaker 4: of anyone specific, So I was curious what your influences were,
Speaker 4: which by the way. I mean that as a COMPLI
Speaker 4: because it's you know, you're I think it's cool that
Speaker 4: you sound you know, unique, you know, because some people,
Speaker 4: you know, you can listen to and say, oh, they
Speaker 4: sound like they sound like so and so. But to
Speaker 4: to not be able to easily identify someone that you
Speaker 4: sound like, I think it's cool, so and I think
Speaker 4: I think it makes what you're doing even that much
Speaker 4: more interesting, at least to someone like me really analyzes
Speaker 4: this stuff like.
Speaker 5: The nerd that I am, you know, I do take
Speaker 5: that very cool.
Speaker 4: Well, let's let's play another track. Which one should we
Speaker 4: play next?
Speaker 5: Let's do uh, the one we kicked off the show
Speaker 5: with here. What was that Getting dark?
Speaker 4: Getting dark? Yeah, speaking of pitch shifting. So we'll play
Speaker 4: this at the correct speed. Now, that would be great,
Speaker 4: very cool if you are just joining us. Ian Gallipo
Speaker 4: is here with us in studio, and this is called
Speaker 4: Getting Dark.
Speaker 2: Countdown. The lift of knowing you and I.
Speaker 1: Expectations were a couple of months. At moments, we would
Speaker 1: do our level best, carry on firely, rumbling down below
Speaker 1: sky above on fours and it's getting dark, the sky
Speaker 1: above falls and getting dar We made it farther th
Speaker 1: anybody ever forgot of starlight filled us up so we
Speaker 1: could stab beyond.
Speaker 2: The limits. Everybody said it would take their toll. We
Speaker 2: opened up.
Speaker 9: The whole world to explore together, just a light on
Speaker 9: in the dark together, just to light on in.
Speaker 7: The dark.
Speaker 2: Storm on the horizon. And all that you could do.
Speaker 7: Was walk.
Speaker 1: While I was overwhelmed, and there was nothing I could say.
Speaker 1: But my bader is long, and it's getting dark. My
Speaker 1: bad years long, and it's getting dark.
Speaker 2: We tried to hold on. The week's turned into months,
Speaker 2: still out of range.
Speaker 1: Until that moment when you sang out yr goodbye. I
Speaker 1: was too far gone for you to hear me. But
Speaker 1: the morning sun let the heart insight a fineal pulse,
Speaker 1: a glam the dark a fineal pulse, a glamor, and
Speaker 1: the dark together just stood light on in the dark,
Speaker 1: the sky above, and it skinning.
Speaker 2: Dug my bad is and it's scanning dark.
Speaker 4: That is getting dark. It's another one of those cool endings.
Speaker 5: I really like that a lot, thanks my sos. At
Speaker 5: the end, there is that what that is?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 4: That is Ian Gallipo, who is here with us in
Speaker 4: the studio, and well, the time does go quickly, but
Speaker 4: a couple of things. So, first of all, I want
Speaker 4: to make sure that everyone knows where to find you online,
Speaker 4: how to keep up with everything that you're doing, especially
Speaker 4: since I'm sure there are people who have no idea
Speaker 4: how to spell Gallipo.
Speaker 5: I don't know. Sometimes I wouldn't blame them, No, thanks, Matt.
Speaker 5: It's yeah, Ian Gallipo music, I A N It's Ian Gallipo,
Speaker 5: a bunch of extra vowels. It's French G A L
Speaker 5: I P E A U and music on Let's See,
Speaker 5: on Instagram, on TikTok, on uh YouTube, on Facebook, my website,
Speaker 5: Ian Galipo music dot com. You can find me in
Speaker 5: all of those places. I'm most active on Instagram. But
Speaker 5: wherever you know you're at, that's that's where I am.
Speaker 4: I was even misspelling your name the other day when
Speaker 4: I was when I was doing a post for the
Speaker 4: show today, I was I kept typing two l's, and
Speaker 4: I kept having to correct myself because I think in
Speaker 4: my mind the consonant to vowel ratio in your name
Speaker 4: was throwing me always. Like you said, it's friends. So
Speaker 4: there's a lot of a lot of vowels, so I
Speaker 4: kept trying to I kept trying to raise the number
Speaker 4: of consonants in your name. Anybody ever spell it wrong
Speaker 4: on a poster or anything.
Speaker 5: On a Oh? Yeah, who El's is the most common?
Speaker 11: Is it?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Who El's is the most common? And flipping the the
Speaker 5: e and the flipping the vowels at the end, au right,
Speaker 5: it's like beautiful or whatever. But a EU a U
Speaker 5: E like they just throw them in at the end.
Speaker 5: I don't blame them, I can imagine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: And and modern Fools of course too. Where should people
Speaker 4: go for modern fools?
Speaker 5: Modern fools and Modern Fools music on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok,
Speaker 5: modern fools music dot com.
Speaker 4: That's easy, that's nice, and that's much easy. I assume
Speaker 4: modern fools has never been spelled wrong on a poster.
Speaker 5: Uh, not that I recall, it's never been like a.
Speaker 4: Z Yeah, yeah, right, that's good. That's good.
Speaker 7: And what do you have?
Speaker 4: What do you have coming up to plug?
Speaker 5: Yeah? For sure, I'm playing tonight actually over in Hancock,
Speaker 5: New Hampshire. You've got an amazing uh venue over there,
Speaker 5: Like Hancock is the queint essential small New England town
Speaker 5: probably even I haven't even heard of it. It's I
Speaker 5: was gonna say, I don't know where Hancock is. It's
Speaker 5: sort of north of Peterborough, right between and Manchester.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's this old train station that they've converted, right
Speaker 5: like the classic long thin building. The Hancock Depot is
Speaker 5: a converted train station and they do a wonderful monthly
Speaker 5: series I've heard.
Speaker 4: Okay, that sounds very familiar. I think when Eric was
Speaker 4: on Temple Mountain, I think he talked about that place.
Speaker 4: He probably plays there, he has played there, Okay, because
Speaker 4: that sounds as soon as you mentioned train station. Yep.
Speaker 5: It's a wonderful vibe, really really great spot. So I'm
Speaker 5: playing there tonight. That's at seven thirty. My next thing
Speaker 5: near Manchester is just over a couple months out here.
Speaker 5: April twenty sixth I'll be over here playing at Great
Speaker 5: North Aale works in the in the afternoon.
Speaker 4: Oh Bill, very good. Jenny and I are going to
Speaker 4: be there later today. I don't know if you know
Speaker 4: Jenny's Sun Jesse Coffee, but.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I know Jesse Jesse. He's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's playing there today. Yeah yeah, Small World.
Speaker 5: Sweetheart, Yeah yeah, he's doing all the booking over there
Speaker 5: now yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he's doing great. Yeah. So we're gonna go
Speaker 4: see him play today. Yeah yeah, yeah today at four pm.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, oh didn't did I know why that?
Speaker 5: I think I know why.
Speaker 4: The train station sounds familiar to me too, didn't Modern fools?
Speaker 4: Did Did you guys record a video there or something?
Speaker 5: We did? Yes, okay, that's that would that would so
Speaker 5: we did? Uh yeah, a live version basically of our
Speaker 5: album recorded in that space videos for it.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, very cool, very cool. Well, congratulations on the
Speaker 4: album and everything that you're doing. And uh, it's great
Speaker 4: to have you on. We'll definitely do this again in
Speaker 4: the future, especially when you know it sounds like you've
Speaker 4: got another single coming soon, so I do well, Uh,
Speaker 4: we'll definitely we'll have you on for that, and that's
Speaker 4: going to be separate from the album. It'll be a
Speaker 4: completely separate thing. Yeah yeah, So, well, we'll do this
Speaker 4: again soon and we will close out with so we
Speaker 4: have one more to play here. Oh I'm curious too.
Speaker 4: The So the title is Thoughts of a Widowed Cartoonist.
Speaker 4: That's the title of the song this this ass have
Speaker 4: a story behind it, I assume it's so this song
Speaker 4: is fiction, okay, but it's it's as silly as this.
Speaker 4: I wanted to write a song it was. It came
Speaker 4: from a prompt. I wanted a song with the word
Speaker 4: toothbrush in it because I thought that was weird. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I thought it would just be silly. And most
Speaker 4: of the time, when I give myself a prompt that's silly,
Speaker 4: it ends up being something very serious.
Speaker 5: Oh really, yeah, so this is that. It's it's sort
Speaker 5: of this song. It's the thoughts of a widow. For
Speaker 5: whatever reason, the guy's a cartoonist. I don't know why. Okay,
Speaker 5: it's just the imagery that came up as I was
Speaker 5: working through the verses of this song. Okay, So I
Speaker 5: wanted a song with a toothbrush in it, and I
Speaker 5: also wanted a song with a bass drop in it.
Speaker 5: I've never written something with that whoa, whoa whoa, you know,
Speaker 5: electronic instruments sound. I met those two things together and
Speaker 5: this is the song that came out. It's a little
Speaker 5: bit ridiculous, but I think it's kind of cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely very cool. So we'll play that and
Speaker 4: if you are listening live on Saturday stick around. We
Speaker 4: have Becoming Human skyping in from Texas in the third hour,
Speaker 4: but we will close out this segment with this. This
Speaker 4: is called thoughts of a Widowed Cartoonist and this is
Speaker 4: Ian Gallipo and Ian, thank you again, Thank you so much.
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