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Regina spektor remember that time1/9/2023 If the piano tuner came in, I would leave for three hours.” She sighs. “I was one of the Covid-safest people that anyone ever met, so I never even set foot in the control room. “This was the most alone recording I’ve ever done,” she says. So it’s surprising to learn that she recorded it on her own but for producer John Congleton and engineer Ariel Shafir the orchestra was actually in Macedonia. There’s even a tap-dancer on the nine-minute cosmic extravaganza Spacetime Fairytale. It’s possibly her best album and certainly her biggest, with a glorious orchestral sound that’s commensurate with her themes. Spektor fled the city during the pandemic and recorded Home, before and after, her eighth studio album and her first since 2016, in a converted church upstate. “I feel like I should always be wearing an ‘I heart New York’ T-shirt,” she says with a chewy, outer-borough, Russian Doll twang. As well as performing a Broadway residency, she was honoured with Regina Spektor Day by mayor Bill de Blasio (11 June ) and a star on the Bronx Walk of Fame. ![]() ![]() ![]() For her, 2019 put a ceremonial seal on the relationship she has with the city that she first entered as a nine-year-old refugee from the Soviet Union in 1989. Spektor is talking to me from a friend’s house in New York because it’s quieter than her own: she has two small children with musician Jack Dishel. Performing at the Royal Festival Hall, London, in 2016.
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