In Conversation with Liz:
September 2004
A little background:
If you look at the rest of the interviews I have done to date with
Setting Sun over it’s 18-month history, you will notice I enjoy and
love listening to a wide variety of music, most of which I discover
over the Internet often which I often discover by chance.
Take the music of Rio de Janeiro’s (Brazil) “Liz”. I don’t actually
remember how I discovered Liz’s music. I think I discovered it
through a link from another website altogether and was interested
enough to down-load a few songs off Her debut album
“Liz plays KKFS (Ten Pills a Day) and was amazed.
This was a artist which fitted into the territory of Kid 606 / Cex,
with their Cut and paste approach, but yet also sounded completely
different and if I don’t say so myself actually sounded better.
Interested, I e-mailed Liz directly to see if she wanted to do an
Interview and she responded as well as agreeing to the interview,
also pointed out to me the fact she had just released her second album
“Caterina Flavour.”, which is just as excellent as “KKFS”, be it in a
totally different way.
A big thanks to Liz for the interview.
Liz’s two albums can be downloaded from the following
Websites:
(Liz plays KKFS – (Ten Pills a Day)
http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=fronha&collectionid=frec024
(Liz plays Caterina Flavour)
Or through the KKFS website..
Thanks again, Liz
Andy N xxx
Setting Sun:
How are things and what is happening at the moment?
Liz:
I’ve been playing with soundforge.
Setting Sun:
Now although I have been aware of you for a little while
through your work on kkfs, but as I always say there are
people
out there who don’t know, so can you introduce yourself
etc,
etc and explain to us what started you off with your
musical
career?
Liz: I used to make compilations for myself, mixing songs and
putting some voices and little noises here and there, but without
changing the basic structure of the songs, until kkfs invited me to
remix his album.
This was the first time I worked with pure samples.
Setting Sun:
What music have you been listening to recently, and what
have proved your influences?
Liz: Don’t know to witch extend I am influenced by what I hear; I
use more my interior stuff, dreams, images, memories, pavé, coffee,
little toys and movies. I have a passion for old movies and like to use
dialogues from the films I am obsessed with. Lately I’ve been listening
to Racho Relaxo Allstars, Anne Laplantine, Anja Garbarek and
Clouddead and I always listen to Billie Holiday and Portishead.
Setting Sun:
Tell us a little about your excellent recently released
second
album "Caterina Flavour." What inspired you to
produce
such a different album to your also excellent debut album
" Liz plays kkfs (ten pills night and day )?
Did you find the way you worked changing as we worked on
your second album?
Liz: My working method was the same, the basic difference is
that in Liz plays Kkfs each song was build around an specific image,
and caterina flavour was build around a single idea, existing in
fact another unreleased album, catrina, that is the other half of this idea.
Setting Sun:
What I like about the second album is the way you
sometimes use
Nature almost as a musical instrument. . This is
particular shown
in "Do. What is the story behind this song?
Liz: Before making music I used to write, and making music is writing
for me. Each sample is a word for me. The sea is linked to a poetry I
wrote long ago. This song is about love.
Setting Sun: Do you play concerts / gigs?
If not, how could you see
yourself transferring your studio work to concerts?
Liz: I never played live, don’t have the money and hardware and
experience for that but we are beginning to think bout it now.
Setting Sun:
What plans do you for the future? I know you have just
issued your
second album" caterina flavour". Do you have
any plans to release
anything else, etc?
Liz: I make no plans for the future but I already have some albums
ready for release, a 4 cd box made around Marilyn Monroe, catrina
and other 2 or 3 eps.
Setting Sun:
Where are you from? What is the music scene like where
you live?
Have you seen any good concerts lately?
Liz: I live in Rio de Janeiro, but I don’t know much about the
musical scene here, I’ve been a little isolationist.
Setting Sun:
A few more slightly light-hearted questions to finish
off, firstly
what can you see yourself doing when you are 60?
Liz:
I have no idea.
Setting Sun:
What would you like to be doing when you are 60?
Liz:
No matter with 15, 20 or 60, all I want is a place with
all the books and movies and records and cats and the person I love.
Setting Sun:
Lastly, something light to finish off with…(borrowed from
a pal’s
Zine almost) "Imagine you were ship wrecked On a
desert Island
and could have (Clearly have second sight here - lol) The
choice
of having 5 records or Cds with you with a stereo of Course
- what
would be your desert Island Discs?
Liz:
As I said, I began making compilations for myself; I would
take some of these:
1- Anja Garbarek + Fohen,
2- Isan + Styrofoam,
3- Xela + Sigmatropic,
4- Billie Holiday,
5- Mellow + Flotel + the books .
And I would take a few more hidden cds .
