“I've always been fascinated with ‘automatic’ arts,” Goodman says, “where things are created intuitively and without premeditation, from the subconscious.” In this light, they worked with abandon– pushing through the heaviness of songs written years earlier with the same energy as songs which were not yet fully developed. Together, Spataro and Goodman dove into creating the album, recording one song a day, letting the spark and excitement of spontaneity be their guide. In March 2021, after a pandemic year immersed in sound experimentation and writing, she entered the upstate New York studio of recording engineer Rick Spataro (Florist). Charlie Megira, The Incredible String Band and Roy Montgomery invoked the spirit of the album, as she realized that a new, more collaborative approach would be necessary to bring the songs to life. Rather than recording, she was drawn to the overgrown garden, where she spent her days listening to music and reading old journals. In October 2019, Goodman set out to record the album on her own, while cat-sitting at a friend’s empty Brooklyn apartment. Like most paths of self-discovery, the journey started with displacement. In the process, she put aside lo-fi origins and challenged herself to achieve the same intimacy with a bigger production. The creative journey from writing to recording to mixing drove her deeper into a sense of self while expanding her sound. In this third Nighttime album, she channels these experiences into her own music. Through her years performing with Mutual Benefit, Goodman fell in love with life on the road and the collaborative energy of a band. With tempered percussion, floating mellotron, and singing that evokes Bleecker & MacDougal on a fervent Saturday afternoon, her new album Keeper Is The Heart reaches deep into the essence of musicians such as Vashti Bunyan, Sibylle Baier and Pentangle, breaking down the decades into a sound thoroughly and bizarrely modern. Her upstate New York environs don’t stray far from that image. Eva Louise Goodman’s Nighttime project locates itself on a musical tree planted on the British Isles, perched atop the branch of folk leaning into sixties rock.
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