Name: How Bon Iver Wrote ‘iMi’: 5 Years, 28 People and a Piece of Cardboard | Diary of a Song
Uploaded: 2020-03-25T03:20:03.000Z
Duration: 8 min 23 s
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“In Eau Claire, by the mall, where I can get reception.”

“The fish is amazing, what, right over your head.”

... keepin’ what you tellin’ me, I know mine.”

“I’ve known Justin since we were 16 years old.”

“And what was he like when he was 16 years old?”

“[singing] Back in all those sunny days.

“Did you always think of Justin as the one?”

“[singing] I’m gonna suckle on the hope in light brassieres.

“He’s going to be tinkering till the day he dies,

trying to figure out what else is a possibility.”

we were out up in the bar in the middle of the winter,

making music in whatever way we could.”

“It’s kind of like free improv performance art

work that we do, but mainly just for ourselves.

and was messing around with the different knobs.”

Still don’t know what song is playing.”

“And then I started sliding on this piece of cardboard.”

“Trevor was just dead on with the slides."

“And do you hear that as a beat, essentially?”

“It’s sort of rhythmic and sort of melodic,

and you can kind of start to mess with it.”

“But it was such a fragment of an idea,

He was like, this is going to be the first song

“The part that I wrote came about from a jam

“Justin’s really good at piecing it together

“Maybe a year later, we were in London.

and so I had him come by, and he just improvised.”

“Justin invites a pretty eclectic cast of characters.

“It’s kind of like a little game that you play with

the song, like you try and figure out what works

“I didn’t even know who Bon Iv— uh,

that [expletive] just turned into a whole ’nother genre.”

“God, I mean, I will never remember all the things

and each time, it was in kind of a different place.”

Let’s do a bunch of electric guitars.”

“Justin was kind of like, try anything, anywhere.”

There wasn’t — there wasn’t even really a scratch vocal

I think writing the first verse of this album,

“When we got to Texas, it was, all right,

“The ranch is 40 miles south of El Paso.”

“There is literally a wall on Tony’s property,

and then on Tony’s property, there’s no wall.

So you can just put your hand over and here I am, Mexico.

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How Bon Iver Wrote ‘iMi’: 5 Years, 28 People and a Piece of Cardboard | Diary of a Song

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