Sometimes we’ll meet people who really do just write songs for the sake of writing songs, and that’s great and there’s a beauty to that, but it goes so much further with Allan. At the end of the day, I’m surrounded by some really good people who keep me sane and humble and push me to do more, to keep pushing the boundaries and take the risk.īen, what would you say sets Allan apart?īL: We’ve worked with a ton of artists over the years - last year was the 10th anniversary of Communion as a music company - but we’ve never worked with anyone who has had such a clear vision for how they want their music to sound and how they want their whole identity to be portrayed and that was refreshing. I trust my team, I trust the people around me and that’s really it. My closest friends would be the ones to tell me if it was shit but they said, “Dude, I like this and he likes it and she likes it… let’s push it, let’s try to do something with it.” I agreed to that and buckled up and got ready for whatever was going to happen. Now it’s about not losing my head in all this epic stuff.īL: You also had the encouragement of a group of people that formed in and around Toronto.ĪR: great group of friends and a great team behind me who pushed me to do this on a professional, it’s crazy to even call it that, on a serious level. I pinch myself all the time because I never intended to be here. The Allan Rayman story that has been drawn up is about two years old now, it was really just for me. So, Allan, what is that why? Why do you do this and what inspires your music?ĪR: I was making music on the side I was working construction.ĪR: I’ve been making music my whole life, very, very young. Like you said, Ben, you two discussed the why behind Allan and his music. I could see the general intrigue was there, and that feels really cool when someone of his caliber is behind it. It’s a pretty cool place to meet someone for the first time and essentially talk about a vision, which is really what those early meetings were about, trying to understand the why and what will look like in the next few years.ĪR: Definitely sharing viewpoints and telling the story and direction I wanted to take it in. You know, you hear horror stories about labels and label execs, but meeting a real artist and someone who sees it from the same perspective was reassuring.īL: We were sitting on the 20-something floor of this glass building in West Hollywood it felt like a scene out of some weird movie. What was the first meeting between the two of you like?Īllan Rayman: It was intimidating, but right away we found out that we had more in common than we knew and it got on pretty easily.
I immediately got infected with the bug, went into my office, sat down and listened to what was Hotel Allan front and back and was completely blown away.
If that’s happening normally it’s some classic hit, but it was something I had never heard before. They were dancing around, singing along, and I felt like I had just been completely left out of the party and that was quite rare. Days ahead of the album’s release, Rayman granted Billboard his first-ever interview, in which he and Lovett jointly discussed the new album, his rule-breaking artistic vision, the counter-cultural draw of his music and much more.īen, how did you first discover and meet Allan?īen Lovett: I came back from a tour a year or so ago and walked into the Brooklyn Communion office - there was music blaring out and the whole office was vibing. Roadhouse 01 marks Rayman’s sophomore project, and it’s a deep, dark concept album that sees the singer explore an alter ego: Mr.
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