Chris Garneau started working on “Winter Games” five years ago. The first two tracks Garneau wrote (simply titled “Winter Song 1″ and Winter Song 2”) weren’t just about seeing ghosts or sinking one’s teeth into piles of freshly packed snow. .
“This record isn’t about trivial sh*t” explains Garneau. “It’s about why love doesn’t happen right, how your person is shaped in the early stages of life. It’s about defeating parental abandonment, sexual abuse, or family rejection. It’s about people who struggle well, what it means to have those things happen to you as a child and play out later in life”
And yet Winter Games isn’t a downer. In its own twisted way, it’s bursting at the seams with Garneau’s melodies and woven arrangements of CJ Camerieri and Rob Moose.
“It’s magical really,” explains Garneau, referring to the pair’s collaborative process. “They don’t write anything down; I direct things to a certain degree, then they take over and get this big sound from only the two of them.”
“I trusted myself on this record,” says Garneau, “and it forced me to go well past my boundaries. I wanted to get away from clean and tight, to make things big and loose and free. Form can be really important but I also wanted to just play music. In the past, I always focused on the ‘song’ first. For the first time, this record is me. That’s all I know.”
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Chris Garneau started working on “Winter Games” five years ago. The first two tracks Garneau wrote (simply titled “Winter Song 1″ and Winter Song 2”) weren’t just about seeing ghosts or sinking one’s teeth into piles of freshly packed snow. .
“This record isn’t about trivial sh*t” explains Garneau. “It’s about why love doesn’t happen right, how your person is shaped in the early stages of life. It’s about defeating parental abandonment, sexual abuse, or family rejection. It’s about people who struggle well, what it means to have those things happen to you as a child and play out later in life”
And yet Winter Games isn’t a downer. In its own twisted way, it’s bursting at the seams with Garneau’s melodies and woven arrangements of CJ Camerieri and Rob Moose.
“It’s magical really,” explains Garneau, referring to the pair’s collaborative process. “They don’t write anything down; I direct things to a certain degree, then they take over and get this big sound from only the two of them.”
“I trusted myself on this record,” says Garneau, “and it forced me to go well past my boundaries. I wanted to get away from clean and tight, to make things big and loose and free. Form can be really important but I also wanted to just play music. In the past, I always focused on the ‘song’ first. For the first time, this record is me. That’s all I know.”
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