Nanna - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

you're listening to kex we are at 90.3 FM in Seattle streaming worldwide at kexp.org you can also find us on our free mobile apps I'm Cheryl Waters down here in the kexp studios with Nana all the way from Iceland good friends of ours filling the studio today we're so excited to hear music from Nana's debut solo album how to start a garden that came out in May I was lucky enough to see you in Philadelphia one of your first concerts for this record yes yes great to see you again and now you've been touring for quite a while on it I can't wait to talk to you catch up hear more about the record but I'm so eager to hear some live music yes all right we're eager to play it's Nana live on [Music] kexp [Music] how I get this far kill the over CH let the [Music] Cur like a Canon thinking no oh no don't fishing for [Music] trouble is the life on and car into good small by the bathroom stalls where the F sort of St but I'm learning to move through the snow and it might sound trtic but I won't cry 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to bed tonight felt the world on my shoulders without you without me my mind for way we met another time and another place but the P this mess and the sh that we're going through just let me go to bed tonight without the word on my shoulders without you without you this could be different for St all inside like if you can see through me how can you love me do you not see when you lay on my shoulder I saw you see oh I must [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] love to love the Sun the city it feels like the moon and I don't see the point of going back home but I do miss the quiet Sky I miss you every day now I no you would stick around I myself through all this then I must love you this could be [Applause] different inside like you can see through me how can you love me do you not see what done when you lay on my shoulder s me see who I must love [Music] this could be different for [Music] her out inside like B you can see to me how can you love do you not see what St when you lay on my shoulders sof me see oh one must [Music] [Applause] [Music] love [Music] through then I'm must still love you if I put myself through all and I'm must still love you if I put myself through a place I'm if I myself [Music] through you're listening to Nana live here in the kexp studios how to start a garden a debut solo album from this very talented artist we have a long history with Nana and many of these musicans we'll be chatting at the end of the set but we've got more music now from Nana [Music] my tled [Music] love we are twisting molding into one somehow I I feel though it's frightening this is forever Eternal [Music] no I cannot hold you but it's harder to let you go then try if you don't know if you can see the color how do I know the you can see me now I wouldn't bu say how Tower if I wouldn't known the if you don't know if you can see color I do I know you can see me now my Tangled [Music] love we are moving in unpredictable ways but who stars who stars are you the 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emotions another trick to calm the [Music] ocean breathing out so I can bre you could be my [Music] fat Li then late I'm sure get to sleep all over again you thinkk God I can go for it in Pluto was a plan was a [Music] plan I'm addicted to dis thinking and I think that you are tornado CH swap through this town we barely made it true [Music] another night another s some TI [Music] the there's a glit that I cannot seem to fix back again we a started [Music] started to disas thinking and I think [Music] you tornado swap through this town we barely made it disasters thinking and I think that you are tornado CH swap through this time we barely made [Music] it [Music] o off [Music] find nothing start the [Music] Gard G stand she my [Music] inside [Music] under start dark the GH and we [Music] start go [Music] [Applause] [Music] stand [Music] ah so stunningly beautiful I have chills it's Nana live on kexp Oh Nana it's so great great to see you we have such a long history with you KP has known you for almost 15 years to of the videographers In This Very Room Jim and Scott traveled to Iceland almost 15 years ago to shoot your Band Of Monsters and Men in one of the band memb homes and now you're here in our home we're so happy to have you we've had such a front row seat to your incredible Talent as a musician a songwriter such a dynamic performer and so proud of this beautiful new solo album how to start a garden oh thank you so much that's makes me very very happy thank you well before I dive into a bunch of questions speaking of incredibly talented performers can you introduce this band Yes I can so we have Rael here on violin w w w and we have Tomas over here yes and then we have bne and then we have magnos yeah I'm glad you could remember all their names yes I know you go way back with all of them as well and we know what an incredible songwriter and poet you are and these beautiful songs on how to start a garden your debut solo album actually the seeds of these were planted a very very long time ago perhaps before we even met you before Of Monsters and Men you've called This Album nostalgic and hopeful and you said it's navigating lives growing pains with caution and Care can you talk about these songs and this new record yeah um well I wrote this record um like I started kind of properly working on it in 2000 and 19 and slowly I just kind of I didn't really tell a lot of people that I was working on a record because part of it for me was also just kind of doing it for myself in a way so um so I worked on this album in a little bit of secrecy for a long time and I think that really kind of help shape shape the sound and the lyrics and and and everything playing with a monster than men did take up much of your time for many many years and now you've been able to pursue this what what pushed you to actually start this now um well it's always kind of been in the back of my head I uh before Of Monsters and Men I I had a I had a little solo thing going on I I was always writing music so it kind of felt like something that I at some point would have to go back to and uh I just finally got the opportunity you recorded this in Iceland and New York and I read that you said that you really enjoyed the recording process tell me about it yeah um I recorded it yeah between kind of I mean a part of the record is just kind of like taking things that come along the way and I actually also worked on this record with bne here who's on guitars um and I mean it's like I really wanted to make sure that this was an enjoyable experience and so like we would go to the cabin a lot and just set up yeah um and just you know record and and try to just make it feel yeah just good and comfortable and inspiring you know well one of the ways you accomplish that making it feel good and comfortable and inspiring is including these wonderful sounds of everyday life like your friends laughing and the rain outside and the sound of your dog walking across a creaking floor talk about including those kinds of sounds and where they fit in for you yeah um I mean I don't know what why that was an important thing for me but it just felt I don't know like those these years have been so bizarre for everybody and I think we just spent a lot of time in our own little world and so for me it was kind of capturing that world and um that meant having my dog walk across the floor and and also just I think not being too precious about things sounding perfect you know kind of letting things come in and out of frame and yeah like I would go and and um I would take this little road trip with my friends and I would secretly record them and then like tell them later but I wanted their voices to be in the song like in the opening track how to start a garden where kind of everything starts to come into the picture one of the lyrical highlights for me of the album is on the final song seabed where you have the little ghost Mont which is saying an Icelandic tell me about including that what that means to you yeah um I've always been a little bit shy about writing in Icelandic um but it came really naturally I wasn't really trying to but um but there was this part that you know felt like a montra and then I just sang something and it's um it's about returning home kind of like the the entire song SE is about returning home and that can be your home your you know like Iceland or something or wherever home is but it's also like some somebody you know like returning home to somebody that you love and and that end part with where it's like this ghostly thing is like is a mixture of my childhood and and returning to that you know you definitely have some quiet intent moments with the Band Of Monsters and Men but nothing quite like this record can you talk about the side of view that comes out you've talked about this sort of revealing an introverted side of view that you don't use in the other band as much yeah there's always like a there's like a little pocket in every album that the band makes where I kind of get to be a little bit introverted um but for the most part it's like it's very outwardly and I really enjoy that but I am also as a just as a human very um I kind of enjoy my own inner Inner Space you know and so for this record it just felt kind of appropriate to explore that more and kind of live in that and does it feel comfortable to project that in front of an audience of hundreds of people that tender personal Inner Space yeah it has felt really good I mean CU it's complicated you don't know when you go in front of an audience and if people are going to go into that space with you um but I felt very lucky like on this tour that when the people that are showing up feel it just feels like they want to be there with us here who are on states with me um so it become kind of comes kind of a cool moment for everybody well I've heard you've had a wild time on this disaster Master tour my he tells me that seeing Joshua tree made him feel like a little kid would have been some of the highlights for the band a little baby and Joshua tree joshu tree was great it was so cool I've never seen anything like that before in my life like the landscape is you know absolutely breathtaking and I think a lot of people when they come to Iceland they they say that like wow you know I've never seen anything like that but that's where I felt like I just felt like I was in a cartoon the entire time um and what are the other highlights what have we done what's been cool wow wow wow where do we start you've been out for over a month haven't you yeah and it's kind of all started to blend into one little like bloy thing um in a good way I hope yes definitely in a good way I've I've really missed this of Miss touring so this one is a highlight here yeah being here this is great I was fishing for that thank you B you're welcome well we are so happy to have you here at kex in Seattle and we hope you'll come back soon thank you so much all of you for sharing these beautiful songs with us today thank you so thank you so much for having us we want to thank all of our wonderful viewers and listeners as well you make these sessions possible with your support to kex we're listener powered you can learn more about us and stream us live at kexp.org feel free to make a gift anytime and check out our thousands and thousands of kex in studio session videos you can subscribe to our YouTube channel get notification every time we launch a new video and again thanks to everyone for all your support making great sessions like this one possible thank you so much it's Nana live on kex thank you discover new music get listener powered k.org

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Length: 37min 27sec (2247 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 19 2023