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By the time the process was over, the shimmering harmonies and sunny moods of "Edward Sharpe" evoke the folk movement of California in the early to mid-1960s. Ebert incorporates others' sounds and feelings as well, but for the most part, he's trying to inspire a certain communal feeling
-- the same that the band's many members share when they gather to make music. "For me I want to start a new golden era," Ebert said. "I want to have stuff that contributes to a new golden era. To me that means that the production and the songwriting, it all needs to sort of change in order for that to happen. For me personally music has not been as good as it has been in the past. To me it's not necessarily about reaching back into the past." Ebert said the reason he was able to form Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros was because he was able to get "a good footing songwriting-wise where I had to think back to when I was a child and music was truer to me." He believes the same thing is true with music in general. "Sometimes you have to look back and remember a time when things were better or more pure or just more potent." ___ Online:
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