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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And would you say that<br />
Pakistani musicians are<br />
singing in their native<br />
language, or is it still very<br />
Anglo-centric?<br />
The naïve or more<br />
intellectually colonized<br />
bubble is bursting. I have<br />
observed it to become<br />
increasingly “sexy” to take<br />
ownership of your origins.<br />
There is an atmosphere of<br />
fusion, and to use language<br />
as symbolism.<br />
I find that interesting,<br />
because European<br />
musicians are slowly<br />
embracing their native<br />
languages and are<br />
embracing their cultures<br />
again, such as the South-<br />
East Asian collective<br />
Daytimers in the UK for<br />
example.<br />
I find that inspiring!<br />
Isn’t being “different” very<br />
dangerous?<br />
The “differences” are<br />
treated in distinctive<br />
ways depending on if<br />
underground or screaming<br />
overground. There are<br />
preferences laid in concrete.<br />
However, most individuals<br />
are increasingly adapting<br />
to creating safer personas,<br />
channeling energy into<br />
finding loopholes.<br />
How can you pursue your music,<br />
which is quite personal, in a<br />
climate like that?<br />
<strong>In</strong> such conditions, the juggling of<br />
façades and play of words can be a<br />
smokescreen. This act can be called<br />
performance art supplementary to<br />
the art created!<br />
It can be frightening to dance in<br />
the face of danger, be it turned<br />
away from the monster or looking<br />
it in the eye. You can migrate or<br />
choose to express while staying<br />
– either case is still a reminder of<br />
the contextual presence. However,<br />
knowing that resilience and<br />
collectivity exist between you and<br />
what is ahead can be of consolation.<br />
I aspire to find a free voice.<br />
It’s awful, I have no words. You’ve<br />
mentioned your EP earlier, will the<br />
whole EP deal <strong>with</strong> those issues?<br />
The E.P. These Days hopes to instill<br />
curiosity and questioning while<br />
also putting tales of lost love and<br />
hopes of rejoicing on the table – a<br />
tale familiar to many regardless of<br />
borders.<br />
Follow<br />
Wooly and the Uke<br />
@woolyandtheuke<br />
Being different can be like<br />
the arcade game where a<br />
mole pops up randomly,<br />
and someone has to whack<br />
them. If you’re lucky, you are<br />
noticed but go unscathed<br />
back underground. If<br />
someone strikes, there<br />
might be applause and a<br />
reward on your fall.<br />
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