FKA twigs complete a whole new album during the lockdown and reveal her outstanding creativity in the form of majestic lyrical adventure throughout the lockdown on the Grammy Museum’s Programs at Home series.
It is her third album that will follow the former ‘MAGDALENE’ LP, the one which has been crowned as last year’s sixth-best album.
She was ready for a virtual interview on the Grammy Museum’s Programs at Home series with moderator Scott Goldman. The chat show began with her revelation of making a brand-new album and all that happened when her life was upside down during quarantine. She found flames of inspiration in lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic.
She said, “I ended up, in actual fact, making a whole album in quarantine.” It was always there within her, the creative zeal to produce something beguiling. She added, “I just decided one day. It was kind of, maybe one-third of the way through and I just said, ‘you know what, I’m just going to make an album,’ and I just went and did it. And it was really amazing because I worked predominantly with an amazing artist and producer called El Guincho, and I did the whole thing with pretty much all of the collaborators over FaceTime.”
FKA twigs emphasized that she is “just finishing” the new record, dropping a clue that the songs are in the pipeline to be produced soon. Without confirming any release dates, she talked about her new idea of remote collaborations. The situation was so unprecedented that she had to do something she never thought she would try out in her wildest dreams.
“I was working with people I’d never met in real life and we were doing the whole thing over FaceTime and it was great because I couldn’t go in the studio at the beginning,” she said. She described the tenacious process of making new records with an excellent team. “So I was getting beats and having to work from MP3s, and then I would writing melodies in the day with [El Guincho] and then in the night I would call some of my friends in America who made music and I would have a glass of wine and chill and write lyrics and talk about what the song’s about.”
Quarantine gave her many opportunities to hone up her skills. She started learning to play piano and read sheet music to understand the intricacies of notes. She also opened up about her new wushu martial arts, and how everything had an impact on the album.
During the lockdown, she found it very difficult to manage all her physical workouts but she used the time to learn piano to compensate for her discomfort.
In her last record ‘MAGDALENE’, she worked with remarkable musicians and producers such as Nicolas Jaar, Future, Benny Blanco, Koreless, Jack Antonoff, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Skrillex.
She organized a GoFundMe campaign for sex workers to support their shortage of income for the outbreak of the virus.
Her new short film We Are The Womxn is out that explores “the dynamic healing of womxn of color”.
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