{"id":798,"date":"2012-06-05T05:32:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T10:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=798"},"modified":"2012-06-05T05:32:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T10:32:53","slug":"interview-clare-the-reasons-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/05\/interview-clare-the-reasons-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Clare & the Reasons, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from Part One<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Clare & the Reasons<\/strong> do have a signature sound, but they’re not tethered to a specific musical approach, and don’t like to repeat themselves. Leader Clare Muldaur-Manchon<\/strong> describes the upcoming album KR-51<\/em> as \u201cquite a bit darker, quite a bit more raw and honest\u201d than the group’s previous efforts (2007’s The Movie<\/em> and the 2009 album Arrow<\/em>). \u201cWhen you get so caught up in the arrangement and the perfection of everything, sometimes it takes away the delivery. But KR-51<\/em> has a really good balance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Members of Orchestre de Paris<\/strong> appear on the new album. But, says Clare, \u201cEven though we have this really incredible, way-bigger orchestral setting, it’s a much less orchestral album. The orchestra was used in a different way. Instead of being the foundation, it was sort of the strokes over things. And what’s been very rewarding for me live, is that the material is working very well within our rock band setting.\u201d She describes the band’s live approach to the new material as \u201cfull-on and dynamic. We capture the important elemnts of the songs in this more stripped-down setting.<\/p>\n

This week, Clare & the Reasons will perform at two wildly divergent venues. On Wednesday, the group will do a set at Asheville NC’s Lexington Avenue Brewing (aka LAB), in a very small room that’s essentially a stone-walled basement, underground on three sides. Two days later, they’ll appear at the Bonnaroo Festival, an event that routinely draws 80,000 fans. \u201cWe’re not gonna be playing for all 80,000,\u201d Clare laughs. \u201cWe’re not exactly a festival-type act,\u201d she admits, \u201cbut we have a kind of ‘power set’ worked up for Bonnaroo. We’ll be all sweaty, and we’ll give it all we’ve got.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether we try or not,\u201d she observes, \u201cwe tend to be all about intricacy in our music. And intricacy doesn’t always work in every setting. It’s been a lesson learned.\u201d In contrast with the partying Bonnaroo crowds, \u201cIn a setting like LAB, we would expect our audience to be totally interested in music. So we’ll bring out our most intricate, most intimate stuff alongside our more ‘up’ and straightforward songs.\u201d she believes that the group’s experience with extensive touring in varied locales and in front of different kinds of audiences means that \u201cwe have learned how to put together a set list that gives each audience what it wants.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The LAB sate will be the second time Clare & the Reasons have played to an Asheville audience. \u201cWe played Moogfest a couple of years ago (2010). I love that town; I love the scene,\u201d she gushes. And she adds a tidbit for those who’ll be attending the Wednesday show: \u201cWe’re actually selling the new CD and vinyl of KR-51<\/em> at the show. We thought it was be a fun thing to do; it comes out officially July 10. However,\u201d she chuckles, \u201cwe do physically threaten to harm anyone if they upload it to the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clare & the Reasons will appear in concert this Wednesday \u2014 June 6, 2012 \u2014 at LAB here in Asheville NC. \u2014 ed.<\/em><\/p>\n

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