Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros took their healing hallelujah gypsy train into town and found a soulful salvation of the magical mystery kind. Frontman Alexander Ebert formed the group after leaving the hard partying scene of his previous band Ima Robot, spending a year in self-imposed exile, and taking on the pseudonym of Edward Sharpe. Ebert explains:
“He was sent down to Earth to kinda heal and save mankind, but he kept getting distracted by girls and falling in love ... I don’t want to put too much weight on it, because in some ways it’s just a name that I came up with. But I guess if I look deeper, I do feel like I had lost my identity in general. I really didn’t know what was going on or who I was anymore. Adopting another name helped me open up an avenue to get back...I’m not yet sure if I really care about names; but I went from defining myself as against things to defining myself as for things. I think that’s the boldest stroke that I can paint as the difference. And it’s been a profound change for me ... I got the name [Edward Sharpe] from a story I was writing about a savior sort of guy, a little boy actually, but I just got the name from it. Other than that, I started the MySpace page Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and that’s about as much as it has to do with it, as far as I know. Maybe more will be revealed in the future. But I always wanted to be a superhero, still do, and I guess there’s that relationship there... I guess I’m trying to develop into all I can be, the best that I can be: Which I still feel like I’m quite a ways off from. When I was a kid, I was trying to climb walls and I thought I would eventually be able to have the powers of Spider-Man and that sort of thing. But also I think Jesus was a superhero, too, at least the way I saw it. Because I didn’t go to church all the time or anything but I was exposed to that sort of through coloring books and stuff...I didn’t set out to do it but I’ve always... I would definitely be lying if I said the figure… The sort of story and effect that Jesus had on me as a kid definitely kept going and inspired me a lot. It’s an amazing story, maybe the greatest story ever. They do call it The Greatest Story Ever Told or whatever. It definitely had an effect on me just by being around it. The idea of it working its way into songs I think is pretty natural in some ways to me and just the idea of bringing up Jesus, not Christianity, but Jesus is powerful because of all the things that is said that he said and stood for, and all these things that are antithetical to Christianity from what I can tell. It’s an interesting conversation to be had. And I think it’s also a powerful, in some ways, trick to use, to have that conversation started and be able to say what you actually mean by it."
Ebert met Jade Castrinos outside of Little Pedro’s in downtown Los Angeles and they began writing songs together, becoming involved in the arts collective The Masses. Gradually their little group expanded to eleven people as friends and acquaintances joined the party. 'Up From Below' was recorded over a year and a half at the Laurel Canyon home studio of Nicolo Aglietti. The sessions featured Alex Ebert on vocals, guitar, percussion, and piano; Christian Letts on guitar and vocals; Christopher “Crash” Richard on backing vocals; Jade Castrinos on vocals, percussion, and keyboard; Josh Collazo on drums, percussion, and vocals; Mark Noseworthy on guitar and vocals; Mitchell Yoshida on piano and vocals; Nora Kirkpatrick on accordion and vocals; Orpheo McCord on percussion and vocals; Seth Ford-Young on bass and vocals; and Stewart Cole on percussion, keyboards, tenor ukulele, and vocals; with Nicolo Aglietti on engineering, guitar, keyboards, mixing, production, and vocals; Kevin Augunas and Aaron Older on engineering, mixing, and production; Aaron Embry on keyboards and vocals; and Christian Letts on guitar and vocals. 'Up From Below' went to number eighty-six in Australia and seventy-six in the US.
edwardsharpeandthemagneticzeros.com
"Home" became the song that put the band on the map and the radio. The catchy duet between Alex and Jade charted around the world at fifty-two in Sweden, fifty in the UK, forty-six in Spain, forty-five in Belgium, forty in Australia, twenty-seven in the Netherlands, eighteen on the US alternative chart, and number seven in France.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4306i99LMXo
Alabama, Arkansas
I do love my ma and pa
Not that way that I do love you
Holy moley, me oh my
You're the apple of my eye
Girl, I've never loved one like you
Man, oh man, you're my best friend
I scream it to the nothingness
There ain't nothing that I need
Well, hot and heavy, pumpkin pie
Chocolate candy, Jesus Christ
Ain't nothing please me more than you
Ah, home, let me go home
Home is wherever I'm with you
Ah, home, let me go home
Home is wherever I'm with you
La, la, la, la, take me home
Mommy, I'm coming home
I'll follow you into the park
Through the jungle, through the dark
Girl, I never loved one like you
Moats and boats and waterfalls
Alleyways and pay phone calls
I've been everywhere with you
That's true, laugh until we think we'll die
Barefoot on a summer night
Never could be sweeter than with you
And in the streets you run a-free
Like it's only you and me
Geez, you're something to see
Ah, home, let me go home
Home is wherever I'm with you
Ah, home, let me go home
Home is wherever I'm with you
La, la, la, la, take me home
Daddy, I'm coming home
Jade?
Alexander...
Do you remember that day you fell out of my window?
I sure do, you came jumping out after me
Well, you fell on the concrete, nearly broke your ass, you were bleeding all over the place and I rushed you out to the hospital, you remember that?
Yes, I do,
Well, there's something I never told you about that night
What didn't you tell me?
While you were sitting in the backseat smoking a cigarette you thought was going to be your last, I was falling deep, deeply in love with you, and I never told you until just now
Ah, home, let me go home
Home is wherever I'm with you
Ah, home, let me go home
Home is where I'm alone with you
Home, let me come home
Home is wherever I'm with you
Ah, home, yes I am home
Home is when I'm alone with you
Alabama, Arkansas
I do love my ma and pa
Moats and boats and waterfalls
Alleyways and pay phone calls
Ah, home, let me go home
Home is wherever I'm with you
Ah, home, let me go home
Home is where I'm alone with you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb9jY8yAxgs
"Desert Song"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buQpcpQqdKo
Janglin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE1qfEVDjNw
"40 Day Dream"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8sa6qiHx7A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn-Rp2InGdA
'Up From Below' full album:
1. "40 Day Dream" 3:54
2. "Janglin" 3:50
3. "Up from Below" (Nico Aglietti,Tay Strathairn, Ebert) 4:10
4. "Carries On" 4:31
5. "Jade" (Christian Letts, Ebert) 3:44
6. "Home" (Jade Castrinos, Ebert) 5:06
7. "Desert Song" 4:30
8. "Black Water" 3:51
9. "Come in Please" (Aglietti, Ebert) 5:07
10. "Simplest Love" 2:53
11. "Kisses Over Babylon" 5:16
12. "Brother" (Aglietti, Ebert) 3:57
13. "Om Nashi Me" 6:16
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