{"id":8446,"date":"2013-01-01T23:13:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T06:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8446"},"modified":"2013-01-01T23:15:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T06:15:11","slug":"martha-wainwright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/01\/martha-wainwright\/","title":{"rendered":"MARTHA WAINWRIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MARTHA WAINWRIGHT<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Family love and loss provides inspiration for her new album \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Music has always been a family affair for Martha Wainwright. She\u2019s the daughter of Loudon Wainwright and Kate McGarrigle, niece of Anna McGarrigle, sister to Rufus Wainwright, and wife of bassist Brad Albetta, who plays in her band. It\u2019s no surprise that family changes\u2014the birth of her son, Arcangelo, followed months later by the death of her mother in early 2010\u2014impacted her latest album, Come Home to Mama<\/em>, which includes \u201cProserpina,\u201d the final song written by McGarrigle. \u201cIt made sense to keep it familial,\u201d says Wainwright, 36, who lives in Brooklyn. She also enlisted producer Yuka Honda and guests including Sean Lennon, Jim White and Nels Cline.<\/p>\n

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What inspired an electronic approach?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I thought I was going to write introverted solo voice and guitar music. When I finally got to it, a lot seemed angry, some was funny, and some was sad\u2014but also kind of apocalyptic and weird. I realized the record was asking for more production and more keyboard-based stuff. Often when you do acoustic music and add instrumentation, you get into Americana or alt-country world\u2014and that didn\u2019t seem representational of these songs.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Why did you choose Yuka Honda to produce this record?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was actually my husband\u2019s idea. We usually make our records, but this time we didn\u2019t want to because we were going to kill each other. We\u2019ve been through a lot: homeownership, child, family tragedy. And he\u2019s sort of been the punching bag for these songs. I also wanted something more programmed, more soundscapey, and thought Yuka was perfect for that. I wanted her to take charge and do stuff that I wouldn\u2019t have thought of doing.<\/p>\n

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Did you know your collaborators?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The person who was the major coup was Nels Cline, Yuka\u2019s husband. I had said to Yuka, \u201cOh, maybe we should get\u00a0Marc Ribot,\u201d because I know that she\u2019d worked with him. And she\u2019s like,\u00a0\u201cYeah, but we can also get my husband.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was like, \u201cOh God, now we have to work with Yuka\u2019s husband.\u201d I didn\u2019t really know who he was! I was like, \u201cOK!\u00a0 Whatever!\u201d And then I came back one morning and there were 15 Nels Cline tracks. It was great\u2014every time he was off the road\u00a0with Wilco and wanted to spend any time with Yuka, he was forced\u00a0to play on my album.<\/p>\n

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You chose to include \u201cProserpina.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wanted to record it before anyone else did, including my brother. My mother had performed it once at Royal Albert Hall, and it was really moving. I just thought that it was kind of my mother\u2019s last gift to me, although I\u2019m sure that it was also a gift for Rufus, too. I felt more possessive of it because it\u2019s a mother-daughter story, and also because I was unable to be with my mother at the end of her life. I recorded it quite early on when I was still at a stage of disbelief where I thought, \u201cIf I sing the song like her, close my eyes and really mean it, maybe when I open them she\u2019ll appear in the room.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Will you take your family on tour?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m seeing a Winnebago and my son and husband hitting a lot of places. I don\u2019t really want to go out without my son; that would be really hard. I could do a week or two, but I want to include him in my life. I don\u2019t want to have to give up one thing for the other. So people might be hearing some child activity.<\/p>\n

\u2013Amanda Farrah<\/p>\n

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