Aaron Dessner Instagram – Listen to @bigredmachineadjv’s ‘8:22am (feat. @laforceband)’ and watch the new video directed by @michaelbrowndesign at the link in my bio.
I wrote the music to 8:22am one day in the summer of 2018. I called the sketch “8:22am” because at the time Justin was setting his alarm for that hour and minute, the time he was born, to get up and go for a long walk every day, to feel better. I was imagining music for walking and the moment someone dear to you was born. And I was thinking about how the origin and purpose of Big Red Machine is friendship and acknowledging and embracing the way music can help pick you up or give at outlet for feelings you need to express. Justin later improvised melodies and words to this sketch (his original improvised words and melodies are still in the recording) and the line “It’s that time of the morning, when I was born” was the first thing that he sang. It gave us a roadmap that later my friend the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson and I would follow through and write words to — and the incredible Ariel Engle (La Force) then developed our words and her own melodies and vocal arrangement that weaves in and out with Justin’s original. Ariel brought the song to life in a way we could never have imagined. The chorus to me is the critical answer to “Hutch” (which is about losing a friend) on the album:
Whenever you’ve lost space
Whenever I lost you
I was just like you
Remember I’m right here
Whenever I’m needed
@jt_bates_, @bradleywcook and @blobtower all bounced off this music at Long Pond in May 2019 and @physlew played his brilliant saxophone in Brooklyn at Pioneer works. @postmoderndrummer sent me his drum machine loop from home in Cincinnati.
8:22am is one of my favorite BRM songs we’ve ever made.
From our new album “How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?” out now on @37d03d / @jagjaguwar.
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