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Rachael Sage - Interview
She talks about the song, “One thing I wanted to convey with “Whistle
Blow,” is that moment when someone is able to find the inner strength
and to summon the courage to confront someone in a greater position of
power, whether it is in a workplace or in a relationship, when they know
that inappropriate boundaries have been crossed. When they have been
abused or wronged in some way. There are innumerable examples of this
every day when we watch the news. I have also experienced these dynamics
and just as a witness in society I see it recurrently. The story in the
video is interpreted through movement by the wonderful director Jenny He
and (we) were able to convey that specific moment when a human being is
able to say ‘No this is not right. I am not going to accept this anymore
and I am moving to a more positive space and away from this negative
energy and negative person.’
I had not worked with Jenny before, but I saw some examples of her work
and I was blown away. I have never actually worked with a female
director in this capacity and it was exciting for me. She is very
talented and she trained at NYU. When we talked, we had a lot in common
and we shared a feminine sensibility and a specific sensitivity to
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Grace Pettis - Being Personal
Talking about the song, “I Take Care Of Me Now,” she says,
“It is completely autobiographical. It is one of those first
songs that I wrote after I left my marriage of eleven years and a
relationship of fourteen years. It was something I really didn’t believe
yet, because I had been in that relationship since I was a teenager and
I couldn’t really conceive of what it would be like to take care of
myself and be alone in the world, because I had been part of a couple
for so long. I remembered thinking that I was going to be okay, and I
could put myself first and take care of myself. I wrote it as a mantra
that I could grow into.
It was like when you are a kid, and your parents buy shoes that are a
little too big for you and you grow into them. It is a song that I wrote
for myself. It is my anti-codependency (song).
The words are emotive and at times poignant, “I take care of me now /
Since I made up my mind / I’m gonna be just fine / Every day gets better
and / I got bruises, but the good news is / I take care of me now…” They
are words that describe the scars that may still remain from a
relationship that has ended, but learning to love yourself, which is of
more importance.
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Ciara Grace - Earthy and Edgy
Ciara Grace’s music is earthy, edgy with some of the vocals and music
being staccato in nature. The themes we want to say mostly dealt with
relationships, but that would not be true, because the songs were all
about relationships! Even though they were written between her high
school years and the summer immediately prior to entering college,
whether you are sixteen years old, twenty years old or forty-two years
old, there is something here for everybody to sink their teeth into,
both musically and lyrically. Yes, we are hearing the expression of
feelings from what was then a teenage songwriter, and from a female
perspective, but we think we are correct in saying that many women out
there are going to listen and say, ‘I knew a guy just like that!” or ‘I
remember that guy who treated me poorly,” and “I can’t believe I fell
for that guy.’ Now, just so we do not give you the wrong impression,
while some of these lyrics do bear the signs of feeling jaded or angry
at the time, it is important to note that these are not angry songs, at
least in our view. There are enough images and metaphors that keep this
from becoming a dark brooding album and you can sink your teeth into the
uneven beats and vocals.
We requested
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Evie Sands
“I trust in the music and then I let it go. I think it is probably a
combination of things. It is my ongoing and will be forever, my insane
passion for music, about making it, listening to it and breaking it
down. I enjoy it, but I like to figure out what is that stuff sonically,
what is going on and it is the enjoyment part of it. It is just ongoing.
It is just like I was born, and I started listening. I just get excited.
Then there is the striving to continually get better and all the skills
that are involved, whether it is continuing to be a better singer, a
better songwriter, better composer, a better musician, a better producer
and engineer. It drives who I am. |
Kori Linae Carothers
From her home in California, Kori Linae Carothers sat down with us to
talk about her life, her music and might we dare say a very interesting
date years ago, that resulted in her marriage to her husband.
“We
moved to Texas when I was 15 and that was really hard. I didn’t do
change at that age. What was really interesting about that move was
nobody cared where I came from. There was not this popularity contest
that I had in Minnesota. We moved from Minneapolis to a very tiny
farming community southwest of Minneapolis and it was one of the hardest
moves that I ever had. People would tease me, because my hearing was
crappy, and it just was not a good time for me. That is when I started
writing music,” Kori Linae Carothers explains, continuing she says, “I
was thirteen and fourteen when things really started to come to my head.
Then we moved to Texas and things got much better for me. I lived in
Dallas.”
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Fiona Joy Hawkins - New Music
Our conversation on this day, however, takes us far from those concert
venues and to the Arctic and how she has combined her music with nature
and video.
Acknowledging that her trip to the Arctic was a life changing event, she
says, “Absolutely,
it was probably the best time I ever had, and it was such an eyeopener
with the beauty there. I want to do it again, but there are so many
other things I want to do. It really made me aware of the problems there
and aware of the power of music and the power of suggestion. I was on a
boat that was full of writers, biologists, photographers and politically
involved and motivated people. We had really
famous political people and I can’t even say who. When I met all of
these people I said, all I could really do is my music. There is nothing
more that I feel I can do to help these situations. They said to me, in
some ways you can do more than many of us.
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