Rosei Lowe: "Church singing is the best therapy"

Singer Rosie Lowe, who is forgiven a great future, will become one of the headliners of the Selector Live Showcase scene on the “Pickens of the“ posters ”” on August 3 in the Kolomenskoye park. The singer from Lids debuted in 2013 with Right Thing-a dreamy non-boswall-sping, who turned to feelings after parting. Her album of 2016 “Control” studied romantic relations in a modern metropolis, and on the new album “yu” Rosie Law, in his own words, turns to the topic of love in its widest sense.

- Getting acquainted with your biography, I learned that jazz music played a large role in your life. Why did you decide to choose pop music as self-expression?

- I would not say that Jazz was so important to me: he was only one of my hobbies. I was inspired by completely different music. I like pop music since childhood: I especially liked Carol King, Stevie Wander, Michael Jackson, Annie Lennox, Johni Mitchell. I was wondering how the songs were forming.

I like jazz music, I learned to play saxophone and piano, but it so happened that at the moment I found myself in pop music, although I can’t say with confidence that this is the final point of my development.

-What pop albums have affected you the most in recent years?

- The first to come to mind is the album of Tirzah " Devotion " . It is very honest and straightforward. I would also call the album of Austin Clover Pareidolia . This is a wonderful album from a musical point of view, it looks like a trip, each element of which is organically connected with the previous and the next. I was also very impressed by the protest song Kate Tempest " EUROPE IS Lost " . It affects serious political issues, but I like that Kate does not do it in an aggressive manner. It seems that this is done with compassion. Real talent is required to talk about painful issues with empathy and understanding, not becoming an aggressor. This is very valuable.

-How do you determine your place in the modern pop-pertress?

- I can never say with confidence how my music will sound in the future: will I continue to use acoustics or go completely to electronics. I don't think too much about it. Emotions are more important to me. First of all, I follow my feelings, with the help of music, I try to capture emotions in a laconic form. It also depends on who I record the music with. That is why I love cooperation: the musical form and concept can change from one song to another, depending on who I work with.

- It is important for you to communicate with people with whom you record music, not only professionally?

- I know many artists who jump from some producers to others. I am ready for this, I love cooperation, but I would also like to maintain communication with those with whom I am already working. Now, for example, I am interested in choral music, trying to inspire people around it, I suggest that they plunge into it, but not everyone is ready for this. And for someone, this can become a real source of inspiration. I believe that you need to build the most transparent relationships with people around. I am very grateful to those who have long been with me, and always listen to them. Much of what they offer me, affects me, enriches my music. If I once had not supported someone's idea, I would not be able to move on.

- In your songs, religious images often appear. Are you a believer?

- I grew up in a family of atheists and always considered myself an atheist, but my partner is quite religious, and thanks to him I reviewed my views; Now I consider myself an agnostic. It turned out that many of my friends are religious. My partner interested me in religion, and now it is interesting to me as a phenomenon: after all, it forms his worldview. As a result - my relationship with religion began to change. I definitely began to relate to the worldview of other people with understanding. I believe that the Bible and the Qur'an are excellent literary works that can become a source of inspiration. I always liked biblical stories and iconography. They are beautiful.

I very much wanted to recreate and capture this feeling of a stunning first love, which is accompanied by confusion and confusion.

- How are your songs associated with your biography or real experience?

-Any message that is transmitted through music can be perceived in different ways. Sometimes I do not know anything about the person who wrote music, so I do not associate it with someone specific. There is no gender, no race, no age, or other background. I think it's great. Personally, I want to express my feelings as an artist, without focusing on my personality. For me, love plays a special role in creativity in its widest understanding.

- How would you describe this feeling? Are you trying to write music so that the listeners feel the same?

- I remember how I worked in the studio once in the summer. It was sunny. The birds sang outside the window. For some reason, I remembered my first love. It was a very warm, nostalgic feeling in which I drowned. I very much wanted to recreate and capture this feeling of a stunning first love, which is accompanied by confusion and confusion. It's not about making the audience to feel it. An attempt to cause feelings does not become primary for me: after all, the music does it for me. This is more like an attempt to convey my own emotions as honestly as possible. If the listeners feel the same, I will be very happy. If they do not feel this, it will be absolutely normal. You know, this is what I like in music is how the listener reacts differently to it. There are no artists in the world that everyone would like. People will always experience different feelings for different music based on their own experience. And I like it. That is why music for me is the best form of expression.

- Now you are studying for a psychotherapist. Writing music is psychotherapy? Can you say the same about listening to music?

- I can experience different emotions thanks to music and appreciate it. Music helps me overcome difficult moments in life, so I can definitely call it a form of psychotherapy. If you evaluate this experience from the position of the listener, then listening can help me work out the emotions and feelings that were hidden from me. By the way, if we talk about choral singing is the best therapy in the world. Choir music brings me to tears, it touches me as if I were plunging into the most hidden corners of my soul.

-In one interview, you said that pop music broadcasts exclusively a male view of things. How do you realize a different look in your music?

- I meant something else. I said that the conceptual direction of pop industry is determined by men-musicians, songwriters, producers, musical engineers. I am not trying to distinguish between male and female in music: there is no such thing as a gender. In music there may be various experience that receives its expression. Since male influence prevails in pop music, this experience is more expression, but the pop industry has recently become as open to everyone, so pop music can be considered the most democratic genre. It is worth working on many, but we are as close as possible to the balance.

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