In conversation with .. 8!
Welcome to our new digital issue: IN CONVERSATION WITH – Part 8! Featuring with Aka Kelzz, Jaume Miró, José Rojas, Wooly and the Uke, Ford Kelly, Olli Hull. Special thanks to Orientation NYC. 118 pages filled with interviews and editorials. Contributors are Lewis Robert Cameron, Johannes Brauner, Arabella Romen, Rianon Vran, Joseph Sy, Arron Dunworth, Alis, McGuire Brown and more. Enjoy our new issue! Feat. @akakelzzmusic @akakelzz @jaumevmiro @jose_illustration @woolyandtheuke @SoyFordKelly @ollihull On the cover Creative Direction & Styling McGuire Brown @mcguire.brown Photographer & Editor Abby Lorenzini @abilorenzini Lighting Assistance Joe DaJour @joedajour Assistance Jane Handorff @jhandorff & Samantha Del Rosal @samanthadelrosal Model Kayinoluwa Ibidapo @kayinoluwa Makeup Tania Mallah @tatimallah Production Orientation NYC @orientationyc
Welcome to our new digital issue: IN CONVERSATION WITH – Part 8! Featuring with Aka Kelzz, Jaume Miró, José Rojas, Wooly and the Uke, Ford Kelly, Olli Hull. Special thanks to Orientation NYC. 118 pages filled with interviews and editorials. Contributors are Lewis Robert Cameron, Johannes Brauner, Arabella Romen, Rianon Vran, Joseph Sy, Arron Dunworth, Alis, McGuire Brown and more. Enjoy our new issue!
Feat. @akakelzzmusic @akakelzz @jaumevmiro @jose_illustration
@woolyandtheuke @SoyFordKelly @ollihull
On the cover
Creative Direction & Styling McGuire Brown @mcguire.brown
Photographer & Editor Abby Lorenzini @abilorenzini
Lighting Assistance Joe DaJour @joedajour
Assistance Jane Handorff @jhandorff & Samantha Del Rosal @samanthadelrosal
Model Kayinoluwa Ibidapo @kayinoluwa
Makeup Tania Mallah @tatimallah
Production Orientation NYC @orientationyc
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Berlin-based musician Aka Kelzz has a<br />
presence, unlike many others. Their soft,<br />
soulful voice paired <strong>with</strong> meaningful<br />
lyrics resembles a warm blanket and a<br />
hot cup of tea on a winter’s night. With<br />
thought-provoking personal lyrics, Kelly<br />
wants to share their experiences and<br />
allow the listener to feel that life doesn’t<br />
always have to be positive and perfect.<br />
Their music has seemingly appeared out<br />
of nowhere last year <strong>with</strong> Kelly having<br />
taught themselves how to produce and<br />
distribute music. We can consider<br />
ourselves incredibly lucky, as Kelly’s music<br />
is something that’s desperately needed in<br />
our day and age: They’re different, daring<br />
and are challenging our views on mental<br />
health in a way that’s both genuine and<br />
supportive.<br />
KALTBLUT caught up <strong>with</strong> Kelly to<br />
discuss their musical background, their<br />
role as an educator and the stigma of the<br />
“strong black woman” narrative they want<br />
to break<br />
You moved to Berlin four years ago, why<br />
did you leave Birmingham?<br />
I came here for a holiday in 2016 on my<br />
own. I made a bunch of friends. When I<br />
went back to the UK, I called my friend,<br />
and I told her I’m in bed at home, and<br />
she said that if you’re going to work a<br />
shitty job in Birmingham, you can also<br />
work a shitty job in Berlin. So, I moved<br />
two months later. I didn’t have much<br />
going on in the UK, I was just working,<br />
hanging out <strong>with</strong> my friends, I wanted<br />
more, something different. I came here<br />
<strong>with</strong> no real plan, just to work and see<br />
what happens. I haven’t lived in another<br />
country long-term before, so Berlin just<br />
made sense. It’s so different from the<br />
rest of Germany, which I didn’t know at<br />
the time.<br />
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