Quiet Is The New Loud; with Jos茅 Gonz谩lez
Jos茅 Gonz谩lez, Vashti Bunyan, and Erlend 脴ye on what draws them to create quiet music.
This week, Music Life features three artists who have made their indelible marks in the world of down tempo music.
Jos茅 Gonz谩lez was born in Gothenburg in Sweden to Argentinian parents, and grew up listening to Latin folk and pop music. In 2003 he released his debut solo album 鈥榁eneer鈥�. It featured a downtempo cover of The Knife鈥檚 鈥楬eartbeats鈥� which became an international success after being featured on a TV ad campaign. He鈥檚 celebrating the album鈥檚 20th anniversary with a run of shows this year.
Talking to him is Vashti Bunyan, an English singer songwriter who began her music career in the 1960s. She left London for the Outer Hebrides, travelling in a wagon drawn by a black horse called Bess, and wrote an album about the trip, called 鈥楯ust Another Diamond Day鈥�. It was released in 1970, but had little commercial success. Vashti withdrew from music for 30 years, but by 2000, the album had acquired a cult following, and the second phase of her musical career began.
Erlend 脴ye is a Norwegian best known for being one half of the indie folk duo Kings of Convenience. He鈥檚 also front-man for the band The Whitest Boy Alive, is the co-founder of the independent label Bubbles Records, and plays extensively with trio La Comitiva.
Together they鈥檒l be talking about what draws them to create quiet music, how they approach playing it live, and it鈥檚 universal and trans-genre appeal.
In part 2 of the show, Vashti Bunyan will be taking us through a playlist she鈥檚 called 鈥楲ost and Found鈥�, a collection of songs that encapsulate the magic of rediscovering something wonderful, featuring tracks from The Blue Nile, Jim White, Lucinda Williams, plus many more.
