Some Questions #21: Silje Nes!

Μετά το Some Questions-σταθμό που προηγήθηκε με special guests τους Dungen η στήλη μπαίνει στη δεύτερη εικοσάδα της με αισιοδοξία. Η σημερινή μας φιλοξενούμενη γεννήθηκε και κατοικοεδρεύει σε παρεμφερείς περιοχές με τους προηγούμενους - πιο συγκεκριμένα στo Leikanger της Νορβηγίας, ενώ στην παρούσα φάση μοιράζει το χρόνο της μεταξύ Bergen και Βερολίνου - αλλά ηχητικά δεν μπορεί να πει κανείς ότι βρίσκεται και πολύ κοντά τους. Η Silje Nes κυκλοφόρησε πρόσφατα τον δεύτερο δίσκο της με τίτλο Opticks και η περιοχή που καταλαμβάνουν οι αιθέριες συνθέσεις της, με κιθάρες, ηλεκτρικά πιάνα και διάφορα κρουστά να αιωρούνται μέσα σε μια ημιδιάφανη ηχητική ομίχλη, βρίσκεται εκεί που η Cat Power και η μοντέρνα folk συναντούν το shoegaze, με γειτόνισσα τη White Hinterland. Μπορούν να πάρουν το μυαλό μακριά, σε ήρεμα, βορεινά θαλασσινά τοπία με γκριζομπλέ χρώματα και τον χλωμό ήλιο του μεσονυχτίου να φωτίζει το σκηνικό - ακριβώς ό,τι χρειαζόμαστε ζώντας στην Ελλάδα δηλαδή. Η Silje μας μιλάει για τις προτιμήσεις της, ή και για την έλλειψη τέτοιων.

Could you please tell us...

1. Three albums you’d take along on a desert island?

Oh this would drive me crazy. What about listening to the sea. Well and maybe I'd bring three American Analog Set records because they're so neutral to me that I don't know if I could possibly get tired of them.

2. A song you wish you’d written?

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3. Your Sunday morning song?

I just heard First Aid Kit covering Fever Ray, really intoxicating, I could probably listen to that on a Sunday morning. Maybe Sunday morning before I go to bed?

4. Your favourite b-side?

I don't have any memory of any b-sides.

5. Your favourite Beatles song?

'Here comes the sun' is the first one that comes to my mind, that's a good morning song too. I never listened to the Beatles really.

6. A musician/band you think is criminally underrated?

I don't think i mind things being underrated, if i enjoy it myself.

7. Your favourite place for writing music?

Anywhere with a laptop and some fun equipment, and with no-one around listening in.

8. What your music-related plans are for the next 12 months?

I'll be on tour for a while and play songs from my new record, and that will probably make me sick of touring and inspired to make new things, and so then I'll make some new stuff?

9. What you wish to do once you retire from music?

Live in a little house somewhere warm and relaxed, with not much to do. I guess that just sounds like the exact opposite of what I'm doing right now, and I'd get tired of it pretty soon.

10. A stylistic choice you’ve made and are now ashamed of?

I'm ashamed of most stylistic choices I do, right after I've done them, but then I learn to live with them after a while. Probably they were never really choices after all.

11. Which role you would like to have played if you were an actor?

Batman?

12. A recurring childhood dream of yours?

I don't think it's a childhood dream, but I have a recurring dream where I drive into a stone avalanche. That's what you fear when you grow up in a mountain side I guess.

13. If you are superstitious?

Not really.

14. A sentence containing the words ”some” and ”beans”?

Some beans are good.

"Hey Ranya and Nick!
Thanks for getting in touch and for your kind words, really appreciated!
Here's some little answers for the questions, hope that works..
I'd love to play in Greece, no plans for that right now that I know of but that would be amazing..
Best wishes,
Silje"

Silje Nes - "The Grass Harp" από το Opticks

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