![]() You mention how intertwined visuals and sound are for you. Well you always hold that up in the future, like look how raw I used to be. But thats some peoples favorite work from me, the first album. I cobbled my band together and I already had an album written so we put together this really awfully produced album, that I feel now is unlistenable. Its always my goal to put stuff out… like I found one of my friends who’s a producer and she said she’d love to produce something for someone else. When I write a song the whole time I’m thinking what the video would look like or what a cover would look like. Is it difficult to release music or be ready to play it publicly? How do you get to the point where you’re ready to take it there? Her ingredients are inspired and her methods are meticulous, producing an intoxicating sonic potion strong enough to make just about anyone a believer in the metaphysical. Remember as kids when we used to make “potions” out of mud and sticks? When the mere inkling of an idea was enough to make us throw caution to the wind and explore it further? This is exactly what Kimbra does when she creates, and with a refined sensibility of what works not only for herself, but for her audience, too. She has an unmatched sense of agency in everything she does, and would make a kickass life coach. I was a bit taken aback by her unapologetic confidence in her craft, but there’s a reason Kimbra is constantly at the top of her game. So is that being a control freak, or is it just knowing how to fit the puzzle pieces together to create a very physical experience for people?” “When that stab comes in on the fourth verse, that might be a moment that people are just dying waiting for, and it might be when my hand moves like this on that stab, and that is a visceral emotion that people feel They’re all moving parts. Her standards are high, it seems, as she describes her detailed process: Behind it all is Kimbra herself, and given the fact that she built her very own studio to create Primal Heart, it’s no surprise that Kimbra is a self-proclaimed control freak. Her live shows are a fervent culmination of drum machines, beat looping and carefully placed sound effects in a jaw-dropping array of live composition. On stage, you’ll often hear her using a vocoder, her vocals inflected with a soulful yet bionic sheen. ![]() Here, Kimbra has relished in this sought-after state of stillness, and in doing so, has stumbled upon revelatory brilliance.ĭespite a shift towards the primal, there’s still ethereal magic in what Kimbra does. “But I do believe in shutting out the noise and really tuning into- What am I excited about right now? What am I curious about right now? What makes me want to write and perform music?” An inundation of noise often makes silence more vivid. Kimbra is not a rebellious artist, she assures me. “I feel like I’ve grown into my womanhood, and I have a newfound sense of maturity and focus, which I think has come from living in New York but also having got that excitement off my chest on The Golden Echo.” She recently attended her first protest in the city and says that the new music is partly inspired by this sense of urgency, and by being around the new unknown and struggling to find a way to relate. “I live in Manhattan now-I walk out every day onto the street, and reality is right there,” she says of the inner confrontation that often comes with being an NYC transplant. Part of this more grounded nature comes from recently moving to New York City. ![]() “I’m really wanting to connect with people in a very personal way, and in order to do that, you have to strip away some of the density sometimes.” She further describes her practice of a daily centering prayer, which consists of twenty minutes of silence and stillness while thinking of a one word mantra that anchors you throughout the practice-as simple as it gets, she says, “But the simplicity itself is what makes it so god damn hard.” Making this new record Primal Heart, however, gave Kimbra a new sense of simplicity’s stickiness. Like any great creative, though, Kimbra is weary of the ordinary. ![]() ![]() “And where is the most challenging and uncomfortable place I could sit in my career right now? It’s here. “It all comes down to feeling like I want to explore something I haven’t before,” she says of the stark sonic and visual shift. With a new raw image and a sound that channels focused introspection rather than imagination, however, Kimbra is reinventing herself by stripping it down. ![]()
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