Joanna Newsom: Entrevista

Esta semana, o Pitchfork publicou uma interessante entrevista com a Joanna Newson. Adoro a resposta que ela dá quando explica como foi a colaboração com o Van Dyke Parks... se eu tivesse um Van Dyke Parks à minha disposição para criar música, fazia o mesmo!

So I started by giving him that manifesto, then a more detailed series of notes as well, going line by line through the songs. "When this lyric is being sung, I want this happening musically," and then I would describe something, usually pretty abstract and non-technical, sometimes in more concrete musical terms. But usually I would just describe the mood, coloration, and instruments I wanted involved. It took seven months of him writing up drafts and sending them to me, then me sending them back with pages of notes; it still took all of that before we were finished, because so many of the guidelines I gave him in the beginning included phrases that were, in retrospect, completely subjective. There's a thousand different ways for something to sound "sinister". That's the most nebulous instruction in the world.

Interview: Joanna Newsom