The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I grew up with artists.
Artists in general never stay in the same place; we keep growing. It's still you: you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.
If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I've moved from one place to another, the work has changed.
People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.
Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.
I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.
So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.
With new artists, you really don't have anything to reference. You're helping to develop their sound, define who they are vocally.
I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.
I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.