I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.
From Joanna Newsom
I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.
I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.
I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.
I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.
I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.
I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.
I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.
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