Sketch of an evolution
“The resistance against outer forces first collapsed upon creation of the first sound”
“The resistance against outer forces first collapsed upon creation of the first sound”
Year 2008. The track “7 seconds” was created in conjunction with Moonbeam in a moment of clarity, when previous memories were forgotten for a split second and the present was the only conscious thought. This moment was the test for all and the underlying foundation and beginning of the evolution.
The compositions are seeking the deeper meaning of existence. This musical quest resulted in tracks like “Storm of Clouds”, “We Are In Words”, “The Lilt”, and others.
“Introspection Attempts” and “Doors Opened Inside” were the first attempts to discover her inner self. This discovery was the beginning of her artistic compositions, music made with her own hands.
Year 2011. The evolution is now in full effect. The solo project Loolacoma contains elements of trip-hop, experimental, and soul. The album “Animam” keeps the hidden motives of self-expression in balance with natural elements: The human being and music.
“A whirlwind of extraterrestrial voices has wrapped the cradle and the body.”
Interview is written and conducted by Dimitri Kechagias Radio/Club Dj/Music Journalist
Dimitri: First of all many thanks for accepting my request to do this interview…Lets start with your background and go back in time. Is it possible to tell us if any members of your family has any connection with any forms of arts including music? Are your parents supportive with your decision to get involved with EDM?
Loolacoma: Thank you for the opportunity to make this interview.
To be honest no, my parents had not a special connection to any form of arts. They had kind of “normal” jobs. But my mother once met a fortuneteller when she was pregnant with me. The fortuneteller told her that either her daughter or her granddaughter will be a singer when grown up. Since then she was very supportive and finally spend me a musical education when I was young. I learned for four years to play Cello!
Dimitri: Is it possible to choose for us the 5 most important and influential artists including music composers, djs, EDM producers, poets that have influenced the music that you are producing?
Loolacoma: Well let’s separate this on the influence some artist’s had on Avis Vox and on Loolacoma, because this was of course very different. Regarding “Avis Vox” I was rather impressed by a vocalist than by the music of a bands like: Moby, Röyksopp and Trentemöller. Some of them were even just part time guest singer for this project’s.
For Loolacoma it is more the composition of the music which gave me a strong influence. Here I would choose: Tricky, Massive Attack, James Blake, Lamb and lately CocoRosie.
Dimitri: You write wonderful meaningful lyrics for your personal tracks and for the ones that you are involved as a featured vocalist. I wonder from what kind of situations or emotions you are influenced to write those lovely and inspiring lyrics?
Loolacoma: Oh thank you. For me lyrics are loaded in a semantic way which shouldn’t be extant only for the reason of a proper rhyme. As a rule lyrics are the expression of emotions outside or inside you. I pick up often “normal” situations during daily life around me…then I start to spin a fictitious story around it which could have happened in the past or will be in the future. Sometimes it has even the character of a little fairy tail story.
Dimitri: Also what is noteworthy in your music is your fantastic ability to sing in a very emotional and deep way. I wonder if you can tell us the pop, rock, or EDM singers that you believe that have shaped the way that you are performing your lyrics.
Loolacoma: It start’s with Moonbeam and ONLY with Moonbeam and I have to admit that the leading process during our vocal recording sessions helped me a lot, because Pavel for example was very talented to explain me clearly what he wanted for his Moonbeam music ….and with every new song we created I started to understand more and more about the feeling they wanted. Ultimately with this great help I started to build on my own character.
Dimitri: Can you reveal to us from your back catalogue of your top releases your Top 3 favorite tracks and if possible to tell us something that is connected with the back ground story of each of those tracks.
Loolacoma: Ok these are:
Storm Of Clouds:
The idea for the lyrics came to me when I was thinking about the Clouds lifecycle.
It contains something very expressive.
The idea for the lyrics came to me when I was thinking about the Clouds lifecycle.
It contains something very expressive.
Disappearance:
The meaning is about the secrets and the beauty the nature provides for us.
Doors Opened Inside:
The song is from the perspective of a ghost. The ghost is living in a lonely dark room and is thinking about how it would be to touch and feel like a “normal” human being.
Dimitri: Did you compose and produce on your own the music and the lyrics for your album Animam? If yes do you have your own home studio? What equipment and music composition software you use to produce the album? Is there any particular software or hardware that is your favorite and why?
Loolacoma: I do create the music and the lyrics by myself. Regarding the mastering I got help from Moonbeam and of course this is great because of their great know how.
At home I have my own little studio. On my computer I work mainly with Logic and some favorite plug ins are: Reaktor, Massive and Zebra. Beside that I do have a vocal microphone, a few tamborines and some indian drums.
Dimitri: Are you self taught as a singer, songwriter and producer? Or you have attended music education courses? Do you think is important to have a formal music education background in order to compose EDM or this formality kills artists freedom and creativity?
Loolacoma: Well, normally a musical training or education can’t be bad, but also we all learned that there are enough genius people creating music without all that. The most important thing is always that you really want something. If you don’t, even the best musical training won’t help you to create good music.
Personally I got four years lessons how to play Chello. That was when I was a little child and I complained finally that the Chello is too heavy to carry all the time. My very kind father said in compassion: “ok you don’t have to go to the lessons anymore”. Today I regret that decision to be honest.
Dimitri: It would be great to give us a short info about some tracks of your album Animam. This can be what it means to you? Why you wrote it? Any story that you may think that happened while you produce it.
Loolacoma:
01. Butterfly
The work name was: We pay before The Future Generations
It’s a little poem about how we live in a kind of “heritage world”.
What I mean is: All things we do now, or establish our children will live in that….same way like we do live in the world our fathers, mothers or grandparents did build up for us.
It’s a little poem about how we live in a kind of “heritage world”.
What I mean is: All things we do now, or establish our children will live in that….same way like we do live in the world our fathers, mothers or grandparents did build up for us.
02. Dormant
Dormant, which will be my first real Loolacoma single release is about the world in dreams and how we can control our dreams. This song is a lot inspired by reading the books and ideas of “Carlos Castanedas”.
03. Cold Violet Skies
This song is about a vision after the “Day of Doom” and a man who survived. He is watching around and the song is about what he is seeing and the moment when he met “God”.
Dimitri: For this fantastic album you produced some amazing trailers and I guess music videos as well. Do you believe that music videos are important to visualize the music to your fans? Can you choose your favorite music video from the tracks that you have released so far?
Loolacoma: Yes I think videos can create something on top of the song itself. It is an additional way to add expression, it talks to another sense of us and that always leads into new feelings. And I love to create visual sensations, at least I try.
Of course I love all videos we did, because of all the effort and heart we put into it. One favorite is “Star Way” because the final result was so close on everything we planed beforehand. The match of the pictures in our heads and the real video is simply perfect. I also love Introspection Attempts. I really like the liveliness of the nature in that video.
Dimitri: Lets finish off this fantastic interview with some words about the Loolacoma project. When and why you decide to set up this project and what this particular name means as well?
Loolacoma: Loolacoma is a kind of combination of two words. Loola stands for «Lullaby» and «Coma» of course for the very special state of consciousness.
The project is totally a project of my self-expression and my goal is to give people some substancial input they can think about. That might sound all very ambitious, but we all know that the most of pop music talks about trivial things, so I want to spend some slight little counterbalance to that!
The project is totally a project of my self-expression and my goal is to give people some substancial input they can think about. That might sound all very ambitious, but we all know that the most of pop music talks about trivial things, so I want to spend some slight little counterbalance to that!
Many thanks to Loolacoma for her wonderful answers that contain food for thought for sure!
Many thanks to Moonbeam for offering us in their label great music from artists like Loolacoma.
Many thanks to Frank for his awesome support to organize this interview
Loolacoma - Animam Tracklist:
01. Butterfly 03:57
02. Cooga 03:48
03. Dormant 04:16
04. Cold Violet Skies 03:31
05. Wrong Side Out 03:52
06. Lullaby 04:33
07. Honest and Lonely 03:06
08. Koppa (with Leisure Hours) 04:22
09. Ooze Away 03:21
10. Clockwise Sence 03:56
11. Illuminant 04:27
12. Still Streams 03:41
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