COSIMA

TC: Ngomong babagan bocah cilik sampeyan. Kaya apa?

Cosima: Aku tuwuh ing London, lan ing sisih ibuku, Aku setengah Jerman, dadi kita wis ngginakaken kathah wektu karo kulawarga ibuku uga ing Jerman.

TC: Inggih, apa iku kaya tuwuh munggah kanggo sampeyan ana ing London?

Cosima: Aku tansaya munggah ing Peckham, kang bagean super campuran saka London. Aku ora ngerti yen aku seneng wektu iku, nanging aku mikir maneh, Aku matur nuwun banget kanggo tuwuh ing kene amarga sampeyan ndeleng macem-macem kasunyatan. Lan aku mikir sing maneh kok tansah surprises kula nalika wong kaget karo kasunyatan sing tansah ana. Aku mikir sampeyan uga ngerti orane katrangan kanggo emosi manungsa lan pain manungsa, nanging sampeyan uga weruh carane padha raos inti. Cukup dadi watara akeh macem-macem wong, ngrungokake macem-macem jinis musik, nanging kanthi cara pribadi, amarga sampeyan kabeh manggon cedhak bebarengan sing apa wae wong reresik menyang ndhuwur, sampeyan bisa krungu, lan apa wae sing nangis ana ing ngisor, sampeyan uga bisa krungu. Kayane sampeyan terus-terusan nguping lan ngrungokake obrolan wong liya.. Aku mikir sing mbokmenawa dipengaruhi kula minangka tukang crito.

TC: So what was your first musical memory? Do you remember when you first felt like you loved music?

Cosima: We used to clean the house with my mom on a Sunday, and I remember distinctly there was a Louis Armstrong song that intrigued me because I'd never heard a voice like that. So I think I walked around the house trying to copy whatever sounds he was making. And then it was an Afro-Cuban All-Stars CD as well. When I hear those records, I can smell bleach. There's certain music when you listen to it, so subconsciously, so early, it just lives in you as part of your DNA.

TC: When did you think this is something that I need to do. I need to make music. I need to express myself in this way?

Cosima: Aku temen maujud sing singing ana release kanggo kula nalika aku katutup Judy Garland amarga aku kaya 12 utawa 11 lan kancaku menehi CD, lan aku kelingan mung krungu swarane, lan ana siji lagu sing diarani (Dear Bp. Gable) Sampeyan Nggawe Aku Tresna Sampeyan, lan iku mung dadi, Aku ora ngerti, mung ana swarane sing mung ngobahake sampeyan. Lan aku elinga mung tansah nyanyi bebarengan kanggo sing. Banjur aku ngerti yen nyanyi iku khusus kanggo aku. Banjur, ing saindhenging remaja, dadi bab sing saya cetha lan cetha.

Nalika aku kaya 18, Aku kaya, oke, Aku butuh iki. Aku kudu nindakake iki sabisa. Iku mung soko aku seneng nindakake. Lan banjur aku tansah veered liyane lan liyane kanggo iku. Iku kurang saka kaputusan karir, luwih saka a, carane aku bisa menyang panggonan ngendi kabeh jam ing dina mung fokus ing iki.

TC: Marang pamirsa Blanc babagan musik sampeyan. Kaya apa, lan apa sing kudu dirasakake nalika ngrungokake?

Cosima: Aku iki jujur ​​banget, lan aku mikir jenis swara owah-owahan akeh, nanging aku tansah nyoba kanggo njaga sing minangka murni lan minangka jujur ​​sabisa ing syarat-syarat swara lan lyrics sandi. Muga-muga dheweke bakal rumangsa amarga aku mikir sampeyan bisa maca apa wae dadi lagu. Aku pracaya carane wong njupuk ing songs akeh banget babagan wong, kurang bab apa artis nyoba kanggo ngomong. Nalika ngrungokake musik, if I see myself in the song, iku nalika aku dipindhah dening iku. Dadi aku ngarep-arep dheweke mung ngrasa. Paling wektu, nalika aku ngomong karo wong babagan musikku, dadi banget emosi.

TC: tenan?

Cosima: Ya. Ya.

TC: Saka ngendi asale emosi kasebut? Apa iku teka saka pengalaman urip, or does it come from just actually creating the work?

Cosima: It definitely comes from life experience. Sometimes I wish it came from something more abstract or when you imagine stories about things. Music is like finding ways to deal with what life is and finding ways to celebrate what life is because something terrible can happen. But if you write a beautiful song about it, it's like you've given yourself, the you that was in that situation, a gift where it's like here, this is your story. I've told it.

TC: Can you name a point in time or something that has happened to you that has deeply changed you?

Cosima: I feel like my life has been lots of points of change. I always refer to life as boxing. It happens in rounds. My dad was also a boxer, so that's just how I think.

TC: Mine too.

Cosima: Ya, mula aku mikir babagan urip. Aku iki kaya babak. Dadi aku guess ana owah-owahan ing antarane saben babak. Dadi sampeyan kudu nindakake tangisan ing lantai, kang tansah daklakoni. Banjur aku menyang babak sabanjure. Aku nyoba mikir wektu tartamtu .... sanajan sadurunge mutusake kanggo miwiti label rekaman lan nampa tantangan kebebasan.

Iki minangka owah-owahan gedhe amarga wis ana titik sadurunge nalika aku rumangsa kaya aku ana ing pojok sing ora bisa diusir.. Nalika aku dipojok biasane nalika aku ngerti.

TC: Apa sampeyan miwiti label rekaman dhewe?

Cosima: Saben artis duwe rumus beda sing bisa digunakake kanggo dheweke. Aku sampeyan kudu ngerti ing nyawa sampeyan apa khusus kanggo sampeyan. Aku mesthi dadi wong sing milih kebebasan kanggo dadi aku dhewe liwat kepenak saka kahanan sing aku ora duwe kebebasan sing padha. Aku musisi, Aku ngetokake musik, lan kabeh wis kaiket ing soko komersial. Nanging kanggo kula, kaslametan komersial pisanan ora dadi prioritas utama. Prioritas utamaku yaiku nyelehake seni menyang jagad sing aku bangga. Lan pancen pribadi, aku mung pengin duwe. Ya. Sing, kanggo kula, iku sing paling gedhe, mung duwe seni lan ora kanggo alasan financial, mung kanggo alasan artistik.

Aku artis apik utawa luwih elek, Aku kira.

TC: Apa pengaruh musik sampeyan?

Cosima: akeh banget, Aku dadi ala ing dhaftar wong-wong mau amarga aku mung bakal terus ing salawas-lawase. Sing paling formatif, Aku kira, utawa penyanyi kaya Nancy Wilson, temenan Judy Garland, Barbara Streisand, Sammy Davis, Jr. Just anyone that communicates feeling because I think that's always been one thing, I love when someone is technically amazing, but for me, what moves me is if they're technically amazing and they really communicate a feeling, or if they just communicate emotion with the tools that they have. If that's like two notes of a range and they can communicate emotion with that, that inspires me.

TC: Tell me about your new music.

Cosima: It's very personal. And it's a body of work that's like me saying farewell to a time and it's called The Fun Is Here? But with a question mark, because it's about the constant search for happiness outside of yourself. And of course, you never find that because you can't find happiness somewhere else. You have to figure out what's going on inside. And the project is about me trying to figure that out.

TC: What kind of artist do you hope to be in 10 taun?

Cosima: Ing 10 taun, I hope to be the kind of artist who can look around and maybe just know that the music I've made has moved people. Some artists I have in my life that I've looked up to where I've heard a song by them and just because I've heard that song, I want to go and write a song, or I want to make music, or I want to go and revisit what I do and make it better. And I think those are the artists who didn't have to touch everyone in the world, but the people they do touch, they inspire action in them, and that's the kind of artist I would want to be.