{"id":806580,"date":"2020-04-20T11:07:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T17:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=986804"},"modified":"2020-04-20T11:07:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T17:07:35","slug":"social-distancing-with-sparks-ron-mael-music-masks-and-foreign-hand-sanitizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/social-distancing-with-sparks-ron-mael-music-masks-and-foreign-hand-sanitizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Distancing With Sparks\u2019 Ron Mael: Music, Masks and Foreign Hand Sanitizer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the world fights a pandemic, we reached out to some of our favorite artists with a few quarantine questions<\/a> about these unprecedented times. Here\u2019s what Ron Mael of Sparks<\/a> had to say. The band\u2019s new album, A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip<\/em>, drops digitally on May 15.<\/p>\n

What are you doing with your unexpected time at home?<\/strong>
I was just kind of paralyzed for the first week or two. It was hard for me to do too much of anything, but I fought through that now. So, I\u2019m starting to try to write some things and fight through the cloud that hangs over everything.<\/p>\n

The first five minutes of each day is kind of lying in bed and saying, \u201cCome on, you can do it.\u201d I\u2019m trying to just keep moving. I go for walks with my Japanese mask and then come back and write a little in the afternoon, then place my Postmates delivery for dinner and watch quite a few films on the Criterion Channel.<\/p>\n

I also did a video of my collection of hand sanitizers from around the world. I don\u2019t know why, but I collect the hand sanitizers in every country that we visit. Unfortunately, it\u2019s become very relevant now.<\/p>\n

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What music do you turn to in times of crisis for solace and comfort, and why?<\/strong>
I like music where it can be taken in at many levels, as far as the emotions behind it. Somebody like Miles Davis \u2014 there\u2019s such a wide range of feelings within even one note. Those kinds of things really resonate for me. It\u2019s kind of inspiring in a human kind of way.<\/p>\n

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What about books or films?<\/strong>
I\u2019ve been watching a series of Columbia film noir films. In a way, those kinds of films are a warm blanket. They\u2019re warming and soothing when I don\u2019t feel like watching a press conference.<\/p>\n

Anything else you want to say to your fans right now?<\/strong>
It\u2019s hard for me to say anything verbally, but we\u2019re happy that we can come out with our album \u2014 to just have a strong musical statement that can kind of maybe inspire people, not in a specific way lyrically, but just in a general sense. We\u2019re not on a mission to uplift people, but music in general has such a profound effect on people. So, the message I would have wouldn\u2019t be anything that I would say, it would be that we\u2019re doing all we can do to come out with something that hopefully has an effect on some people.<\/p>\n

Try to absorb yourself in our music \u2014 in any kind of music that you enjoy. I think at times like this, you really realize how important music is.<\/p>\n

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As the world fights a pandemic, we reached out to some of our favorite artists with a few quarantine questions about these unprecedented times. Here\u2019s what Ron Mael of Sparks had to say. The band\u2019s new album, A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, drops digitally on May 15. What are you doing with your unexpected time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 13:53:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}