Formula Indie Sessions _ Interview with Nosllyah
What is your earliest memory connected to music?
Reply: Well, I think my earliest memory with music was when I was a child and listened to a group called MPB4 on a children’s TV show. They had a song called ‘A Lua’ and I remenber that the melody and harmonies hit me instantly.
Link: MPB4 – A LUA
How did your passion for creating music begin?
Reply: I believe this passion has always been a part of me, even before I was born, because I have always been extremely attracted to sounds.
What’s the story behind your current music project?
Reply: So, Nosllyah was born to be just a project to explore noises, textures and mixing cultural Brazilian rhythms from the region I was born in, with the sounds I like.
How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard your music before?
Reply: This is a little hard for me, but I can try! Hahahaha! I imagine my sund being a mixture of the harmonies of Clube da Esquina (Milton Nascimento, Lô Borges, Toninho Horta, Beto Guedes…), with the rhythms and drums of Bahia (Olodum, Timbalada, Baiana System, Fantasmão, Edson Gomes etc.), and the musics I listen to in the global modern music scene, like Knower and Thundercat.
What is one thing you’ve learned that completely changed the way you make music?
Reply: Probably was when I truly learned to listen the synths and tried to, kind of, recreate a similar sound of what I listened.
What tools, instruments, or software are essential in your creative process?
Reply: I’m a basic guy in this area, I’m only need my guitar, some MIDI keyboard, and a Daw.
Which indie artist or song are you loving right now?
Reply: So, I’m constantly listening nwe things, but I recently was introduced to an amazing Brazilian guy called Nyron Higor, who changed my mind and my sense of make music. You’ve got to listen to him, he’s just amazing!
Link: Nyron Higor – Eu estou pensando em você
How have your personal experiences influenced your music and artistic vision?
Reply: If I had to say, I would say my music is shaped by my experiences over the years, my loves, the things I see in my days, and the sounds I listen to, some of which are not music.
What emotions or messages do you hope listeners take from your work?
Reply: I think my music is not necessarily about emotions or messages for the people who listen to it. My music is more a way to express my thoughts and feverish dreams.
What’s the most important lesson music has taught you so far?
The most important lesson the music taught me is this: listen more and play only what is necessary.
Reply: I guess the moust important lesson music thaugth me is to listen more and plays only the necessary.
What is a dream venue or festival you would love to perform at?
Reply: I really never thougth about it.
If you could collaborate with any artist, past or present, who would it be and why?
Reply: I would have loved to collaborate with Frank Zappa or Karlheinz Stockhausen in the past, but now in the present I would absolutely love to collaborate with Nyrone Higgo and Beto Guedes.
Where can our listeners follow and support your music? (Website,Spotify, IG, links)
Reply: So, you can find me in Spotify ( https://open.spotify.com/intl-pt/artist/0bzL30yrC2B9SMa1dcrRvl?si=jQZnt1W5RWySDH0him3FAQ ) or searching for Nosllyah (@nosllyah.music, @nosllyah) on Instagram.
Looking toward the future, what’s your dream for the next chapter of your musical journey?
Reply: In this moment, I this is to have more ways for explore nature sounds in my next releases.
What do you hope listeners will discover about you along the way?
Reply: I hope my listeners discover more about where I came from and how that influences me all the time.
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Link: nosllyah vermelho
