As a parting gift from 2012, I got an opportunity to do an interview with Kentin Jivek, French musician, quite versatile, known for his moving music in what might, in a simplest way, be called ambient folk. If you haven't listened to his work yet, do it now. If you have, now's your chance to hear about it in Kentin's own, inspiring words. Here's a snippet, and a link to the whole thing can be reached right below it.
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| Kentin Jivek |
Hi Kentin! First off, I’d like to thank you for doing this interview; it is a pleasure, even though it’s only by e-mail. So, here goes.
Could you start by introducing yourself? What can you tell us about your music? What does ‘Kentin Jivek’, as a music project, entail?
I’m mainly writing, composing, and producing the albums that you can hear. Before the release of the first album “La Maigreur Elégante, i’ve spent a long time on the road as a performer in theatre plays and as a musician. Then, it was time to shape all the experience through a real studio album.
The genre that you create is most often described as ‘ambient folk’. In what sense would you say that’s true? And in which ways is your music different, it varies from everything else?
Ambient Folk is a musical genre that deals with the Indian and minimalistic musical expression. You’ve just one note and then you build something around with acoustic instruments (guitar and violin). If you see closer, every song has a single note in common, even if you have maybe five different chords. That’s the main thing. It has a repercussion on the words/lyrics and what you can spread during the performances.
It’s different, because i don’t listen to music, I just enjoy vibrations in all forms, so i’m not influenced by “the big machine”.
Read the whole interview here, at KronosMortus.com
(there's also a Hungarian translation, so scroll down if you prefer it in English).
Kentin Jivek - Stig Dagerman
