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Phil Beaudreau released his new full-length album ETHER earlier this year. GroundSounds recently caught up with Beaudreau to find out how he got started, how the album came together, and what’s next. Discover a great new artist with our interview below and be sure to grab the album HERE
For those just discovering your music, can you tell us a little bit about your background and how you got your start making music?
This is one of those life-in-a-nutshell questions. The highlights are after I went to college for trumpet performance. I started singing, writing songs and experimenting with computers. That was really the first time I started making the music I wanted to show people. It’s been a steady evolution since.
Can you tell us about working on your debut solo project ETHER? What was it like bringing this to fruition?
To make ETHER, it took all my knowledge, patience, love, desire, curiosity, self-worth… By the time I was done I was so mentally and emotionally exhausted, I had trouble speaking in complete sentences. Releasing it to the world was a little terrifying because it meant there would now be something real of me out in the open.
How did you come up with the album title ETHER?
It was just a word that kept coming back. The more I thought about it, the more I liked it, and the more it seemed to encapsulate the feeling of this album. Then it grew in meaning for me and became irresistible. It’s kind of like when you start falling in love with someone; it’s hard to figure out exactly why, but they get in your head and stay there.
Can you tell us about the writing process and inspiration behind your track “Won’t Get Away?”
When I was making the album, I would at times feel this paranoia, like dark shadows with dull eyes were trying to steal my light. This darkness runs around through the whole album. If ETHER was a movie, “Won’t Get Away,” is the chase scene.
What do you enjoy most about Los Angeles?
I’m here for the music, baby. The Mexican food and California sun are great amenities.
Can you tell us about the day of the video shoot for “Anyway?”
I broke one of their expensive lights by looking at it too directly, but other than that, everything ran very smoothly.
What music are you currently listening to?
It’s different everyday. Usually Dawaun will send me stuff to check out. It could be Empress “Dyin’ to be Dancin” or Martin Garrix “Animals,” or anything in between.
What people, books, and places have inspired you most?
That stuff is always changing. Family and friends inspire me every day to make music. A good show will inspire me; seeing one, or playing one. Interaction with fans inspires me. I love knowing what it is that turns them on, then trying to deliver on it. Movies have inspired me greatly in making my music. Books and places haven’t really inspired me musically, but I do enjoy both.
What was it like working with 3X Grammy winner producer Dawaun Parker?
There are probably a million equally valid things I could say here… if you looked up “important” in a thesaurus, that would be a good start for describing the experience.
What next for Phil Beaudreau? What are you currently working on?
We’re working to get ETHER on the road for a national tour. On the creative front, I can’t stop coming up with new ideas and remixes, but I’m also letting my brain cool down, so there’s not even a full thought about a next album yet.
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