11/13/2023 0 Comments Best bossa nova songs![]() What's your process in deciding how much pop to let into this song? How much just classic sound to keep? It's always pretty clear from the beginning.īava: I'm such a huge lover of jazz and R&B on top as well, and I like to produce in both spaces. I'll know if I want strings on it or if I want more drums on it or no drums. Laufey: Sometimes a little bit of digging, but I will find like when I'm writing a song, just me and guitar, I pretty much know in the back of my head what I want the production, the arrangement to sound like. ![]() Yeah, the arranging part is really important to me, and I think growing up as a musician first and then becoming a singer, it's extra important to me.īava: Do you find that a lot of your initial gut reactions about your arrangements is what you end up going back to or sometimes it's about digging to find it? It's kind of trial and error, sometimes we add something, we're like, "Oh, I don't know if that works, let me just take it away." But I see that as that's the full song with everything. ![]() But we don't plan it until we're in the room and we almost hear something and then we add it. And sometimes my sister will chime in on violin and we'll lay down piano, he'll do drums and bass and we kind of build it up from there. We'll just layer in cello on top of cello, on top of cello and create the string sound, which is just lots of layered cellos. I'll show him the song, will lay down guitar or piano or whatever bass and vocal, and then we'll just from there build it up just in his home studio and that usually involves adding cello. I care so much about the arrangements and I'm a co-producer on all the songs and so I'll usually write a song and I'll finish it and I'll bring it to my producer Spencer Stewart, who I worked with on this album, and the last one as well. I'd love to hear about your process and the arrangements of album. And that's such a huge part about your music. I feel like the arrangements of an artist are not really often talked about. So I do feel like I've arrived at my true style, but it may change next year, we'll see.īava: I have such respect for you as a musician and an arranger. So for example, this next album that I'm releasing, I felt a lot more confident going into those roots. And now that I've done this for two years and seen what my music has done, it seems that this younger generation has become, or they welcome it more than I thought they would. I think when I started out, I was a little bit nervous that if it sounded too old or too foreign, that it wouldn't relate to younger audiences to pop listeners. I think I found my sound now in that I'm a lot more confident in using these jazz and classical references that I grew up listening to and really wanted to implement into my music. And I think with that confidence I can go through an album cycle. But I think every time I get to an album, I believe that's my sound. If you even listened to the music I put out two years ago, it's already grown quite a bit. Laufey: I think it is an ever evolving process. So within all of the different spaces you've lived and all the different sounds you've experimented with, do you feel like you've arrived in what you know is your sound? Or do you feel like it's just an ever growing process of discovering? And to me, I'm just blown away by how clear and crystalline your voice is in its truth, in every song. Bava: I'm always fascinated about an artist's sound. ![]()
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