It was always a bit of a struggle. At shows in the early days, she says, Makino was nervous, fearful of the audience, of being looked at intently and intensely. Today, though, internally, Makino is doing better.
She also said she experienced a great deal of joy writing and producing her solo effort, Adult Baby. That was great. On Adult Baby , Makino indulges her soft, floating, fuzzy vocal tones, over which she programs quick, syncopated percussion, from rattles to electronic beats. But I wanted to own that. After making ten records, I know what sounds I like. To get the precise sounds she needed for Adult Baby , Makino would regularly have to travel far and wide to different studios to find the right instruments, amplifiers and modulators.
And Makino does so with a great, measured perspective, even today. Only members can comment. Become a member. Already a member? Log In. For the latest songwriting tips, reviews, podcasts, and more. That music is beautiful to express with drums, but also very hard to break through and feel like you own it. Are you still in New York? And do you think the city or other locales have affected your musical life at all?
Simone: I am in Brooklyn at the moment, and I like my area very much. There are a lot of creative people around me, and I rely on that. But I like leaving New York as much as I like coming back.
I often think about [living in] other beautiful and interesting places, but for right now this is good. The city has definitively helped shape me into who I am. Has it changed over the years? Simone: It was all of us in a room playing and recording hundreds of ideas on cassette tapes. Amedeo is the one that kept listening to everything, then went through it with us. He was very patient and meticulous about the process. Today he uses his iPhone! For Barragan , our latest album, a lot of writing happened in the studio and also individually at home.
I must say I miss the tape days, but I tend to be a nostalgic person and feel like the secret to our multiple records was just that…I mean the strong loyalty to each other and for the music we want to create. Things change, but you adapt and find your place and space and a way in that means the world to you. MD: What role did Steve Shelley play in the recordings? Did his being a drummer have any implications for you? Simone: Steve is a great drummer, and when we toured with Sonic Youth we were all very inspired from his humble and artisanal way of approaching his role.
He always looked like he was making something as he was playing. I think I understood then that my role needed to have the weight that only humility provides. Ha ha ha! But Steve was very hands-off as a producer, except he helped choose the takes—A or B. Can you point to any particular artists that might have influenced you or your bandmates along those lines?
Simone: Well, it was all about letting go and pushing forward. At the beginning I was a bit uncomfortable with Amedeo screaming his heart out, as it was very unlike him to do that, but it was all about the energy. Simone: When we decided to go without a bass player, I started to add a keyboard to my setup with a really primitive contraption, which I am going to refrain from explaining.
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