You can read the review of Eytan Mirsky's latest album by hopping over to http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/1198...
And now, without further ado, The Divine Nine:
ADAM: Hey, Eytan. Thanks for doing this little interview. How’s life?
EYTAN: Well, I’m alive, and, as far as I know I’m healthy…Beyond that, I probably shouldn’t comment. I’ve noticed that people will ask “How are you?” or “How’re you doing?” but if you say “Bad,” these people will either laugh in disbelief or freeze in shock. It’s simply not done!
ADAM: Has your relationship history really been as tumultuous as your trio of albums suggests?
EYTAN: No, not at all. Most of the songs don’t recount actual events in my life; they just reflect the way I see the world. I guess I’ve always been one to associate pop music with the subject of love/relationships, and I as I write more and more songs, I look for ways to deal with this subject in different ways; I try to put an interesting twist on things. Writing a series of songs is liking playing a series of characters or wearing different masks. They’re not all about ME; I promise!
ADAM: For those who haven’t read your bio, would you explain how you landed a spot on two fairly major soundtracks [ Happiness and The Tao of Steve] ?
EYTAN: Well, it all started with Happiness. The director of that film, Todd Solondz, was someone I had met years earlier when we were both at NYU’s graduate film school. He needed a song for one of the characters, who was a struggling songwriter, to sing. Todd had heard my first CD (Songs about Girls [& Other Painful Subjects] ), and he gave me first crack at writing the song. I gave him a few choices, and he picked the song “Happiness,” which later became the title of the film.
Working on Happiness, I got to know some of the folks over at Good Machine, who’ve produced a lot of well-knowns indie films. I went over to their office one day to chat with my friend, Ross Katz, who’s a producer there ( and also because there are usually a lot of attractive young women working there!). Anyway, Ross told me that another producer, Anthony Bregman, was working on a project called The Tao of Steve; that still needed music. Anthony and Tracy McKnight, the music supervisor (who had used some of my music before in the little known “Desert Blue”) got mysecond CD Get Ready for Eytan! to Jenniphr Goodman, the director, who loved it and immediately put one of my songs “Outta Sight” in the background of a pool party scene.
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