Chad Pelley is an author, songwriter, and journalist who wrote for publications like the Globe & Mail and The Telegraph-Journal before founding The Overcast. Now he spends 25 hours a day keeping up with his email, and has no time to be his former self.
“I choose local musicians who I love, and asked them to record the songs with me. I like doing it that way because A) I get to record with people I love and admire, and B) It gives the RPM a variety of sound.”
“In fact I hate writing lyrics. I could write music for days but consistently struggle with coming up with things that are actually worth singing about.”
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“Basically, I love Star Trek, so last year when I started recording as Positronic Brain, I decided that instead of using the standard metal lyric tropes, I’d write about the original Star Trek series rather than Satan or nuclear war.”
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“It was all pretty spontaneous, most of the songs were written in Uruguay, with a classical guitar that I borrowed from a friend, and Meg’s baritone ukulele.”
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“‘He Once Loved an Ocean Wave’ was recorded spontaneously on the last night, with no plans other than to make sounds with things before the software expired,” he confesses.
“After completing the first couple rpm challenges,” he says, “it became less about it being a ‘challenge’ where I’m proving to myself or to others that I can do a thing, and more about the importance of a creative ritual in one’s life.”
“It really enforced the idea of what is important as a teacher – building relationships with kids and inspiring them to do things that make them feel important and creative.”
It might sound silly to you, but how your body experiences the world changes as you head up a mountain or into the clouds, and it’s a scientific fact that things taste differently at high altitudes. This includes your favourite beer, which maybe you’ve noticed tastes more bitter in a pressurized cabin.