Quarantunes: A playlist by Magic Giant

Kevin Bronson on July 3rd, 2020

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Magic Giant’s relentlessly upbeat nature has been tested mightily by the COVID-19 crisis. But the L.A. folk-pop trio haven’t blinked — in today’s QUARANTUNES, they talk about continuing to write, their plans for 2021 and their “haphazard” (but what isn’t these days?) playlist.

THE LATEST FROM MAGIC GIANT

Who knew that Magic Giant’s 2019 single “Disaster Party” would take on a whole new meaning in 2020? The single was one of two that the trio of Zambricki Li, Brian Zaghi and Austin Bisnow released last year as they work toward a follow-up to their 2017 album “In the Wind.”

Magic Giant has also engineered four “Live From Quarantine” festivals that have raised more than $120,000 for the Frontline Responders Fund, attracting a host of artists to join in the effort, including the Lumineers, American Authors, Plain White T’s, Shaed, Walk The Moon, Woody Harrelson, Lauren Ruth Ward and Leslie Odom Jr. (plus an appearance by the man who founded the charity, actor Edward Norton).

HOW ARE YOU HOLDING UP AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MANAGE THE ‘STAY AT HOME’ EDICT?

Magic Giant: Still waking up every day to the adrenaline shot which is the daily news. Watching things open and then shut again is kinda wild. It was fun the band recently got together and recorded in the yard above the studio in Silver Lake. The studio is in a converted underground bunker, so we set up on top of it, so we could social distance. Writing over Zoom can be a bit of a challenge. We have been thinking lately about just moving the full blown recording studio in the backyard. Instruments, speakers and all the microphones just blowing in the breeze, and occasionally getting hit by sprinklers.

WHAT ARE YOU MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO WHEN THIS IS OVER?

Magic Giant: Camp Misfits is a music festival/camping event we throw in the redwoods and we just officially moved it from the fall to July 8th, 2021. It feels great to have a date and something to look forward to when this is all over.