HANSEN: I feel like most of my life, things were pretty much the same from the 1940s, '50s, '60s, 70s. HANSEN: (Singing) Strike a match and let it be in the stratosphere.įor myself, this really is probably the first time in my life - this last few years - where it kind of feels suddenly like we are in the future. The album was called "Hyperspace," but I was being very conscious to sort of avoid too much of the space or future theme, really going more into like the sort of inner space - the emotional inner space of our lives, you know? HANSEN: (Singing) Far above the ground, halfway to oblivion in the stratosphere. ![]() It's almost like you put a song in your car, and you're somewhere else. Can we use that in our lives at certain points? It started to get me thinking about music and one of the powers that music has - sort of superpowers - is it is a sort of way to access another place. This sort of idea of that hyperspace button in this video game was something that just popped into my head. HANSEN: Well, you know, it's this idea that there are things in life that sort of help us transcend the moment. GARCIA-NAVARRO: What does that hyperspace theme say about your music on this album? HANSEN: (Singing) In hyperspace, electric life is in my brain. I understand there was a button on a couple of those old video games that allowed you to jump directly into hyperspace to avoid asteroids and aliens, and that in part was the inspiration for your new album called "Hyperspace." GARCIA-NAVARRO: Does that bring you back (laughter)? So, Beck Hansen, I have something I want to play for you. ![]() And maybe not coincidentally, this new music has an element of escapism, which is what I began asking him about in our interview. His 15-year marriage ended earlier this year. Beck Hansen's 14th studio album has a whole new sound - perhaps in part because he has a whole new life.
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