Then we played a word association game for some of this songs…
“I Will Be Light”: This song was written with Trevor Hall in the kitchen of the studio at David Kahne’s, and the bridge on that song is one of my favorite moments on the record.
“So High So Low”: That was written by Aaron Dugan, he played it for me pretty much in its entirety with the build on it at the end, without any vocals on it and then we brought it in and changed the verse and made it a little more melodic.
“For You”: That song Aaron played on it, and a producer named, Dave McCracken from the UK, and we worked on the song towards the end, but yeah, I love the feel on that.
“Silence”: Trevor wrote that guitar part for it, and we found the drums, and it comes in together real nice. I wanted to make that a really introspective moment.
“Aish Tamid”: Is a song that we play a lot, but each time we always play it differently. Every night we play that song, we play it coming out of an improvisation, so it’s totally different. But I use the lyrics and it always has a big arching build on it.
“Jerusalem”: It’s a cool song, it’s like an anthem for a lot of my fans, and a lot of people connect to that song. For the Jewish kids that are out there, there’s never really been an artist or a musician that they could look to or feel like there was this blending of their American qualities and their heritage and figuring out what it means to be Jewish and what it represents. For a lot of kids, when we go to Israel, it brings out this really cool feeling in a lot of people.
Matis’ favorite song on Light: If I had to choose one… I like different things about different songs. A couple of my favorite moments are the chorus on “We Will Walk,” just the hook, not even the fast rapping part.
Matis beat boxing in his dressing room:
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