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October 11th, 2009 at 6:30 am

Regina Spektor SNL Video 10-10-09

Here is the Regina Spektor SNL video from Oct. 10, 2009. The singer-songwriter performed Eet and The Calculation from her fifth studio album ‘Far’ on the Saturday Night Live program hosted by Drew Barrymore.

The album debuted at No. 3 on The Billboard 200. She recently released an EP of six songs in live performance on iTunes, entitled “iTunes Live from SoHo.” It includes five tracks from Far along with Apres Moi from her 2006 album.

Consequence of Sound (which takes its name from Spektor’s song Consequence of Sounds from her Songs album) recently interviewed the Russian born singer-songwriter and pianist, and she discussed a range of topics including her work on the forthcoming Broadway musical Beauty and how it came about.

Tina Landau, who’s the director and the writer of the story, she had my old records for a while, and so when they were looking for composers she suggested me. And then we somehow got together and they picked me. And we were talking about it for a while, but it just became, like, very real recently. It’s that kind of a massive project that it takes so long to even start. So much of it is people getting into the same world and understanding, and something clicking, and getting it. ‘Cause it’s a really full-on collaboration because, you know, Tina writing all the whole story and the dialogue, and there’s Michael Korie writing the lyrics to all the songs, which are very interconnected to the dialogue and there’s me writing music for the whole thing.

The interview continues: A Talk With Regina Spektor: Jay-Z, Her Beloved New Musical, and Spirituality on Far

She is presently on tour. The full itinerary can be seen here: Regina Spektor focuses fall run on ‘Far’

The SNL videos are below