To Amen Dunes and Patti Harrison, Comedians and Musicians Are Kindred Spirits

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Amen Dunes got on the phone with comedian Patti Harrison to talk about 'Death Jokes,' his first album in six years.

, drawn to the abstract and often absurd way she lampoons contemporary culture. Musicians and comedians, he posited, might have more in common than you’d think. Also featured on his new record is an array of comedy titans, including Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor, whose stand-up clips are interpolated. “

DUNES: And I’ll just say, I find that this world is very conservative and that artists are very conservative and they are copycats or just fucking want attention. Things aren’t in a great state. I saw your performance and I was like, “She has some sort of absurdity in her that is not feigned or forced.” It was not the standard expression. I just really admired it.

DUNES: Yeah, definitely. I’ve always made very introspective music, and this album is actually very outwardly contrarian content. It’s my version of being political. It’s partly about what happens when everything that we are is smashed and filtered through the fucking digital realm. This album is about that and it was very weird to experience that during the release.HARRISON: I absolutely relate to that feeling.

DUNES: Yeah, totally. This album is me trying to talk about all this shit that no one wants to talk about, all the little stuff that goes on between the lines. That shit, like you said, trauma during the pandemic, that’s something that people just pretend didn’t even happen. I’m not talking about the pandemic itself, but the heightened ratcheting up of our emotional lives was representative of something that had been going on since Trump was elected.

 

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