The website of New Jersey’s The Aquarian Weekly has posted a new interview with Charles Spearin, of the indie-music darlings Do Make Say Think and Broken Social Scene. In it, Spearin talks about his practice of Buddhism, and his new album,  “The Happiness Project” (pictured here) — a “collection of interviews he made with his neighbors about the subject of happiness” that was then turned into a song cycle. An excerpt:

A big part of being Buddhist is about finding beauty and finding the wonderful things about the ordinary world. And so to do a record where I’m talking to my neighbors is first of all very ordinary and then the melody of speech is something so ordinary that you don’t even notice it. So in that sense it is kind of a Buddhist record. So, bringing some of the magic out of the ordinary world.

To read the entire interview, click here. And for more on the Happiness Project, visit the album’s website, or hear samples of the album on its MySpace page.