Tuva Hellum Marschhäuser, who creates under the guise of Tuvaband, is known for creating deeply moving, ethereal and anguished pieces of music: songs that echo tender isolation and create an inexplicably unique mood. It feels rather fitting that the moment I sit down to chat to Tuva over Zoom (myself in Newcastle and Tuva in Berlin), that the rain starts pouring for the both of us. It’s in this setting of melancholy that our conversation begins.
“The only thing I have in mind when I’m creating is that I really like melancholic music: it makes me happy to listen to it. When I try to make a happy song it doesn t make me happy.” Tuva isn’t confined to one genre or one specific sound: instead she chooses to immerse herself in a plethora of inspirations, and ends up creating the music that she so desperately wants to hear, but has not yet found: “I kind of make what I want to hear. If I want to listen to something but it doesn t exist, I m like okay, I have to make it then
Rolling Stone Bandcamp Friday, May 2021 Edition: Support Artists by Buying This Music
The music platform is waiving its revenue share for all purchases made on May 7th. Here are some recommendations from our staff to guide your browsing
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The statistics of Bandcamp Friday speak for themselves: In the year-plus since the launch of the campaign, during which the platform has waived its revenue share for music purchased on the first Friday of each month, fans have paid artists more than $50 million dollars. “Bandcamp is like my life source,” metal auteur Trevor William Church told
Rolling Stone in 2019, no doubt speaking for many creators in the age of meager streaming royalties. Bandcamp Friday continues on May 7th read on for a slew of recommendations from
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New Music Reviews (5/3) KEXP
Each week, Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP s rotation. These reviews help our DJs decide on what they want to play. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from
Dawn Richard,
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Second Line (Merge)
This New Orleans singer/songwriter/musician/producer’s sixth solo album is an adventurous blend of R&B, house, footwork, New Orleans bounce and more, combining moody synths and propulsive rhythms with her elastic vocals and lyrics of love, lust, struggle and resilience.
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