sentiment remix by claire rousay
The pieces that make up the remixes of claire rousay’s acclaimed album sentiment redefine the very notion of “remixes”. rousay’s generous vulnerability and emotional availability combined with her eager collaborative spirit permeate each piece. “If these were the only versions of these songs that lived in peoples’ minds, I would be totally okay with that,” says rousay. “They feel more like collaboration or extensions of the album itself.”
For music rich with intimate personal details, it’s rousay’s openness and sense of broader musical community that lends the sentiment remixes an even greater depth of feeling to them. rousay gathered a list of collaborators from near and far, whom she feels a personal or musical kinship with, as with engineer and fellow Texan, Andrew Weathers, frequent collaborator more eaze, and saxophonist and fellow Los Angelian Patrick Shiroishi, as well as artists whom she had wanted to work with on sentiment but didn’t get the chance to. Each artist selected their own tracks for reinterpretation free of constraints, acting as a natural extension of the album whilst creating new sound worlds and altered perspectives on the intimate pieces. The varied results reflect the collaborators’ unique voices, from glitchy scrambles and blissful jazz arrangements to sensuous R&B throbs and dense atmospherics.
rousay describes the process of assembling the remixes:
“I don't want to tell people what to think about the music. I always wanted the album to be loose or open to interpretation. When I play the album live, I play with different people in each city (like AMULETS guitarist Randall Taylor) and their playing for the shows is all up to their interpretation too. I wanted the record to be a malleable object. There's a lot of song structure to the record so I wanted to find a way (through the ‘remixes’) to make space for other perspectives.”
