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Interview with LancasterOnline plus the working title is “The Entire City”

By : Fabio


James reached his goal on Kickstarter,so Lancaster Online decided to interview James Wolpert about his life after The Voice and his new record.You may read the best parts of the article here on WolpertBR or the full article on Lancaster Online page:HERE

Life after ‘The Voice’:

He says the following he attracted on “The Voice” — 75,000 Twitter followers, 22,000 Instagram followers — was “kind of acquired essentially overnight.”
He says he wants his record “to have its own life, apart from ‘The Voice.’”
“I’m trying to treat this project as if I am building from the ground up,” he says. “I’m not afraid of being broke and kind of starting over. I think that’s a very lucky bravery to have.”


The record:

 

Wolpert says his record is “going to be outrageously unique. I am very proud of it.”It was originally going to be a Daphne Kay record — Daphne Kay is the band Wolpert formed with his college friend Cory Juba.It’s now a James Wolpert record.Its working title is “The Entire City” the title also of one of its tracks. It’s a reference to one of Wolpert’s favorite Max Ernst paintings.Wolff says “we’re all just totally in love” with the song. Wolpert says he just wrote it recently.It’s a “stream of consciousness, full of flashbacks and nostalgia,” Wolpert says.“It’s about being paralyzed, kind of, by crushing pressures and the release of being able to kind of just run away from it all.”It shouldn’t be construed as a reflection on his time on “The Voice,” he says.Rather, it refers to “all kinds of other pressures, and how easy it is to run from them — and the consequences thereof.”He says some of the songs on the record “I’ve been kind of working out over the past few years ... Others are coming rapid-fire.”


Mission statement:

“It’s really chiaroscuro,” he says — a mix of lilting ballads, sweet melodies, and “hard-rocking goodness. It will punch you right in the gut sometimes.”He says there will be “no post-processing,” no post-recording pitch correction, nothing that will “change what went into the mike in any drastic fashion.”“The idea is to restore the integrity of performance, which has kind of been lost in music,” he says, adding, “You know what they say about too much of a good thing. ... Overproducing can be used to compensate for a lack of musicality.”He says he thinks the record will “play well live.” “I have really high hopes for it. I love performing live; that’s my favorite thing to do.”

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