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Blonde Redhead
Must Contain Elements of Magic, Serenity, Sorcery and Mystery
In the ten years since _Misery is a Butterfly,_ Blonde Redhead has released only three albums; their most recent, _Barragán,_ is a pure, sparse little thing that feels like a taking stock moment after so many years of forging ahead. _Flaunt_ caught up with the enigmatic trio after a triumphant couple of tour dates in New York.
_Where do you pull most of your inspiration? And does this change with each album or do you find yourself in a comfortable place when you being the creative process?_ I think every album feels different; our lives change from album to album, which always affects the writing process. It has never really been a specific thing that inspires a song for me and writing music is still quite a mystery, I think inspiration comes more from feeling liberated and not being afraid to make mistakes, which always seem to lead somewhere.
_The album has a very sparse feeling, is this in any way a tribute to the minimalist architecture of Luis_ _Barragán_? Kazu was very inspired by his architecture at the time of when the album was recorded but as I mentioned earlier it really isn't a concept or an idea that inspires us to write music.
_How did the four-year break \[after_ Penny Sparkle\] _affect the creative process of_ Barragán_?_ Well we toured quite extensively for _Penny Sparkle_ at which time we could not really write music. We wrote for about a year once the tour was done. We always need quite a bit of time between albums as we need to move from old songs to new.
_What inspired the move away from electronic instruments?_ We just felt the need to make something that felt different to us than what we lived through with the last album. The fact that it's more acoustic and minimal is a decision we made when trying to document these new songs and trying to find the best way to unfold them.
_You reference the moon and moonlight in several tracks; can you tell us what this means to you?_ The moon rules Kazu's sign.
_What can we look forward to?_ Hopefully, more music.
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