Interview with singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche

this Norwegian singer-songwriter has a
chameleon-like ability to showcase
different musical styles hi I’m Rebecca
Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re speaking with Sundra lurches
so you’re known for it you know
straddling different genres or changing
musical styles is this something you try
to do consciously I don’t set out to
like change it up as maybe as much as I
get credit for I just want to try
something different when I’ve done
something you know you know all the
stuff I do is you know pretty melodic
pop singer-songwriter stuff you know you
just employ different instruments and
different productions aesthetics or and
you know of course because the
songwriting is influenced by all sorts
of different things but I like the idea
that if you have a good song you can do
all sorts of things with it you know try
to convince me
bodies help stop the border who did you
grow up listening to and has it
influenced you along the way when I was
a kid a big deal for me was moved into
this tiny tiny apartment she’s my mom
and my sister and I and there was one
good thing there came of it and that was
that in this building there was cable TV
and we didn’t have that before so
finally I had access to MTV and I would
watch it all day long and I thought it
was so cool even the songs I didn’t care
for it was just so fun to hear it and
see the videos I took guitar lessons and
I learned different things there from a
guitar teacher a lot of Brazilian stuff
that sort of appealed to me strangely
you know so I was lucky I was exposed to
a lot of different music that I I picked
up on and really liked from an early age
which I think you know is really healthy
to be exposed to all sorts of music you
know you tend to move around quite a bit
so I was gonna ask do you find that your
surroundings influence your writing I
guess it does but it’s difficult to
trace exactly what it is you know to me
it’s very inspiring to be in different
communities and see different people of
course and also in a big city like New
York you can sort of shut down as well
and feel that you were sort of isolated
and not I think a really cool way
because you know everything is happening
around you but you can still choose to
sort of not be a part of it when when
that’s what you need and in in my
songwriting that’s often what I need is
that sort of isolation
now you did the soundtrack for Dan in
real life and I wanted to know how is it
different composing a soundtrack than
doing an album the singer-songwriter
perspective is often quite narcissistic
and you know I’m now no exception I
guess so it was refreshing to me to sort
of step out of my own sort of stories
and my own motivations and try to think
about other characters and also how the
music is one small part of a bigger
picture in a film you know it’s a
creative thing but it gets to be also
much more of a practical thing in the
sense that you just got to find
something that fits in the context of
something else
how do you think your music translates
live it’s all just about approaching it
with openness you know don’t don’t be
afraid of making mistakes it’s gonna
happen but like embrace all the
imperfections and in live performance
and sort of make something out of it for
have it you know and when you’re a solo
performer like I have very very often
then that’s that’s the best energy you
can get you know because you don’t have
the string section you don’t have any of
the stuff that you get used to hearing
on the record but what you do have is
something that you don’t have in the
studio when you record something that’s
spontaneity of of just live performance
and if you can sort of capture that and
share it with the audience and
communicate that that’s that’s all
thank you very much thank you
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