Join Massari on Friday, March 27th at 11am when he catches up with British musician, Westerman, ahead of his show at Rickshaw Stop in SF on April 4th.
Westerman has delivered one of his most intimate and soul-searching performances yet with his new album, A Jackal’s Wedding, out now via Partisan Records. The album is humid and nocturnal, shaped by constant transition, and the sensation of being a newcomer again and again.
It gestated in a time of Westerman moving from London to Greece, with producer Marta Salogni (Björk, The xx, Sampha, English Teacher). Together they holed up at the Old Carpet Factory, a ramshackle, yet beautiful 17th century mansion/studio and embraced the chaotic space fully to craft the album’s mesmerising array of synth sounds.
Westerman drew upon his unfamiliar surroundings to work his way into the album’s central concept: We can never really hit pause on real life, and things never get so predictable or stable as we’d like to think. Instead, it is all flux, forever punctuated by tiny moments of stillness, awe, harmony.
