Kulturklubben

BRAT heißt das neue Album von NNAMDÏ. Über das Veröffentlichen eines Albums in eine Pandemie hinein, verschobene Touren und das Musikmachen und Isolation hat er mit Lior Philipps gesprochen:

“When I record there’s no one else in the studio. I set up the mic, I hit record, I play. It’s literally just me by myself. Being an artist and trying to work on your art is a very isolated process for a lot of people. If you want to get better, you have to practice and you can’t really practice if there are outside distractions. Recording this album, I was isolating 90% of the time, even when I didn’t need to.” (GRAMMYs)

Track-by-track gibt es zum Album Antworten bei The Fader, z.B. zu Gimme Gimme:

“Sometimes it comes up, but the weird thing to me is that after I release music, people will listen to it in groups of people or at parties. That’s strange, because this is such an isolating process. It’s not a pretty process for me, recording — it’s very nitpicky, kind of monotone and mundane at points. To witness people enjoying it in groups is a very beautiful thing. I like to encourage people to listen to it with headphones by yourself first, and then do whatever you want after. That’s how you can feel more [of] what I was feeling.” (The Fader)