Glen Hansard

It’s ‘Don+t Settle (Vol 1. – Transmissions East)’ release day! You can now hear & buy the full album in all the usual places including on CD & gorgeously packaged vinyl with an insert signed by Glen in our shop.

The album was recorded one year ago this week over two days on Glen’s birthday in the iconic studio Funkhaus in Berlin. Don’t Settle is a studio album, yet recorded in front of a live audience. Looking both forward and back, East and West, it’s a retrospective of sorts that showcases some of Glen’s best loved songs and encapsulates the energy Glen is known for as a performer.

“I’ve always been more comfortable on stage than in a studio.  I love making records. I love the proces

But the song lives before an audience. A song needs witnesses. It’s where I feel like I can really grab hold of it. And know it – the way that it’s meant to be known.
 
So to record this album in front of an audience was incredibly gratifying. It gave the songs a new lease of life. One always hopes the songs will land, take root and mean something new.
 
Beauty is in the ear of the behearer.”

At this juncture, “in the middle of a good life” as Glen puts it, he is part way through a journey of “good fortune, goodwill, and good energy”. “I’m at an age where I either take my foot off the gas or I put my foot on the gas,” Glen laughs. “I think I need to put my foot on the gas.”