Chelsea Wolf, Interview at Mondo Sonoro (2024)

Chelsea Wolfe sen mueve por sensaciones. If in his previous disco the idea was to calm the waters with a more folk and intimate offering, now express all his intensity and darkness with complete freedom. “She Reaches Out To Him“ (Loma Vista/Eternal Music, 24). Apply to Primavera Sound Barcelona (November 8, Razzmatazz 2) and Madrid (Sábado November 9, La Sala de WiZink Center).

What do I need to restart the album creation process?
There are many ideas of intercambiando to prevent the pandemic. También passé mucho tiempo alone, trabajando las letras y las melodies, recording and editing sounds. Finally, we all reunited in Dave Sitek's studio for final production.

He would say that it is a titanic exercise in self-awareness and self-reflection. What inspired you besides music?
My personal journey to rid my life of alcohol became a big theme during the writing of this album. I started writing in 2020 and woke up in 2021 and felt the shift in energy both in my spiritual experience and in my creative process. In the clarity of sobriety, I began to free myself from other toxic things in my life, and as I did so, the songs helped me. Las canciones guiaban mi camino.

“Trabajando con Converge felt the freedom to use my voice in different forms.”

“She Reaches Out To Him” It is surprising and silent. What was the significance of David Sitek's work?
The album has a very strong theme of transformation, and due to the nature of its configuration of modular and analog synthesizers, as well as its own nature, Dave's studio literally transformed the models in the final versions of the songs. saving personal creativity experimentally. Prepare me to change more.

Birth And Violence (19) was a more intimate and folksy album, was this step necessary to explore the denser and more experimental territories of new disco?
“Birth and Violence” was the album I needed to start slowing down, being at home, connecting with my home and its natural surroundings, and reflecting on the past ten years with a lot of touring. So creo que era un paso necesario para estar más presente y enraizarlo a medida que avanzaba.

¿Cómo te influyó la idea de hacer un album como éste después de la Experiencia con Unite?
Working with Converge, I felt the freedom to use my voice in different ways, to try new expressions. As a member of a group of seven, there was less pressure instead of leading my own group, so it was helpful to have a different perspective.

Los sintetizadores y la electronica tienen una importanta capital of the album. Includes trip-hop and other parallels PortisheadCanciones todo like “Dusk” and “Tunnel Lights”. But is there a parallel?
In fact, this music has influenced me since I was a teenager and I still adore it. Y, de nuevo, trabajar John Dave Sitek was really the moment when songs became more trip-hop than rock.

This apotheósica. ¿What aspects can you clarify after the album?
I believe there was a mixture of quiet energy and exhaustion as I sang these songs. I wanted to reflect it honestly, I felt a little vulnerable when I read it so clean and clear, but I couldn't find joy in it either. I centraba en la alegría que obtenía de cantar.

The album's first song, “Whispers In The Echo Chamber”, defines the current part of the universo: bajos asfixiantes, electronica industrial, voces cruzadas y la sensación de que buscas algo obsesivamente.
This canción tries to take the first visceral step to cutting off your old self, your old life. There can be no problem because it is impossible. But there is also faith in it, an inner feeling that the time has come to take this step and that you are ready for it.

“I love film music and I hope to perform more in the future”

How was it for you to participate in the soundtrack of the film “X”? Did you help in any way to come up with ideas for this album?
Similar to the Converge experience, working on the X soundtrack with Tyler Bates taught me a lot and allowed me to use my voice in new and exciting ways. You can send me many things: gruñendo, gritando, riendo.

Ya que estamos con esto, ¿que importance tiene para ti el mundo del cine? Do you watch new movies or do you prefer saving classic movies?
I feel so good, but nothing. I like las películas de arte y ensayo, las serial de televisión oscura y, veces, también disfruto revisitando una vieja romantica comida de mi juventud por la nostalgia (¡aunque sus chistes nunca envejecen!). Me encanta la música en cine, y espero hacer más partituras en el futuro.

The best versions of the album are great for Ben Chisholm's world-building. What are the directions of this universe?
I started this project when I was in my early twenties and formed a band of four musicians, but I knew that I wanted to add some kind of electronic element to bring out the full potential of the sound I wanted to create. On one of my first tours, I met Ben, who played synthesizer and keyboards in another band I was touring with, and we hit it off, so I invited him to improvise with my band. Trajo su sintetizador Juno restored 106 years of history. We discovered that it made sense to compose together and that we were both interested in creating a new sound with music.

It wins the sympathy of the artist. ¿Es una de tus señas de identidad? Do you think there is never anything left to explore?
Lo que creo es que uno asla debe dejar de aprender, nunca debe dejar de explorer. I don't consider myself a maestro, I never consider myself completely “kura”. Indeed, this journey never ends, so it's important to find ways to enjoy the process, put the ego aside and enjoy the beginner's mind.

Sigo tu carrera desde tus primeros albums. I think it was with “Abyss” (15) and “Hiss Spun” (17) that I established a solid fan base. What memories do you keep from these albums?
We worked with producer John Congleton for Abyss. I have no problem with the perspective of the producer, but I am very happy. “Abyss” explored the deepest innermost places to inspire me. “Hiss Spun” was born from a fusion between drummer Jess Gowrie and yo misma. I feel like it's a memory of the heavy music we listened to with him in our twenties, but also a retrospective look at the themes of my life at that age, trying to figure things out, struggling. addictions. He felt this impulse during “Hiss Spun”, he really believed in this album. Fue una lucha, porque la gente con la que trabajaba entonces no creía mucho en él hasta más tarde, cuando se dieron cuenta de que la gente respondía bien. No, it's nothing. Negative, but realidad, solo comparto algunas verdades.

“Con este album y esta época de mi vida me estoy adentrando en tantas cosas nuevas, en tantos misterios, que me pareció acertado representarlo de esta manera”

I wonder what artists and discos there are? Are you discovering new names for whatever you're interested in?
You can access the menu reproduction list because you need to register on this list. The menu combines artisans and antiguos; I'm one of those who creates topic lists by genre. Últimamente estoy escuchando mucho a Jóhann Johannsson. I also have a crush on Tanya Taga, who created the music for the new season of True Detective. This is beautiful.

Do you have an album? Nothing interests me.
It is the reflection of the past that binds its hand to the present and binds its hand to the future. Todos los yoes que viven dentro de nosotros at todo momento, en un bucle infinito.

There are many covers for discotheques. Do you need a deadline?
1980's “Angel's Egg”, the story of a girl who protects a mysterious egg, inspires me. We prepared a large crystal egg and organized a photo shoot with Ebru Yıldız feeding and nurturing this egg. El huevo represents possibilities and future mysteries. Con este álbum y esta época de mi vida me estoy adentrando en tantas cosas nuevas, en tantos misterios, que me pareció acertado representarlo de esta manera.

¿Crazy Train version version Ozzy Osbourne? How are you? Besides Black Sabbath's discos, do you like his solo career?
Esa era mi canción de karaoke cuando me dequé al karaoke durante un tiempo. I cantar cantar with Ozzy, su voz está en mi coloro perfecto de canto. Two Minutes to Midnight I invite you to more versions. Ozzy and solitario canciones encantan me.

Another interesting collaboration was with Emma Ruth Rundle. Would you like to do more with it in the future?
Emma has great talent and is an incredible artist. I don't really need it, but I don't have anything.