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I love it. WHEN YOU WERE I understand that you guys aren't too far from Alaska KING is a fantastic album. Talk about the title of it. but you are so far up the Canadian north that it's not It took a while for us to figure what to call this album but I even funny. What kind of music scene are you knew that that particular song was important and it was surrounded by? actually the last song that we had recorded. The song In the Yukon, the music scene is actually quite vibrant. A lot WHEN YOU WERE KING is about living up to your of people here make music and one of the reasons I think potential and not being a afraid of it. If there is something is the landscape and the environment. In the entire underlying in the album then that might be it. We've all territory there is just under four thousand people and it is got our own talents. We've all got our own dreams and a landmass that is pretty much the size of Alaska so it's desires and a lot of times we don't do anything with very remote and during the long winters, what do you do? I them for whatever reason. Most of the time it's because think it's a haven for creative types. There are lots of we're scared. artists and lots of musicians. There is always some kind of music happening somewhere. Well you've certainly done something with this album and now that it's out there for people to hear how do Talk about how music got started for you? How did that you feel about the finished work? happen? I am really happy with it. It exceeded my expectations. Music has always been a part of my life. My dad was The first album that I did was really produced and we actually a musician and and his mother was a trained spent a lot of time thinking about the production. This opera singer but I grew up not knowing any of that. I grew particular album I wanted to capture the emotion and up in the bush but I always wanted to do music. It had the vibe that was happening during the recording and always been a passion so when I got to my teen years we during the writing. moved to the city so I could study music. NOVEMBER 2013 – ROCKWiRED.COM PAGE 21 ROCKWiRED MAGAZiNE And what music specifically? Growing up in the bush ourselves up in the studio and we did that for about eight what kind of caught your ear? months. It was the three of us that recorded everything. My parents were hippies so I was into a lot of great BOB and ROBERT are both multi-instrumentalists. They music from the sixties and seventies. My dad listened to were able to add everything. It was a unique experience. It lot of Motown and R&B. That was what I was brought up was like being in a cocoon for a while. We really didn't know on - a lot of Canadian roots music and NEIL YOUNG and what we had until it was done. BUFFY SAINTE MARIE and stuff like that. I think that my music is definitely influenced by Canadian artists from And from the album what songs off of it resonate for you the seventies and you can probably hear that. the most and why? Certainly WHEN YOU WERE KING. That song is really self But at what point did the person who wanted to study reflective to some degree. Also there is a tune on the music become the person that writes music? How did album called ANGRY PEOPLE and sometimes I get some that get started? mixed responses to it because people are wondering if I'm I went to school to study Opera and Classical Music. That angry but it's really not about that. I wrote that song when I was the original plan. When I finished my degree I was feeling a reflection of the society and the world that we realized I wasn't cut from that cloth. I think the amount of live in. We are really surrounded by a lot of anger. For me it dedication and passion and personal sacrifice was more was an anthem on how you can't let ti beat you down. than I could give and I always loved pop music. It wasn't until after I finished school that I discovered that I had And so far have there been any reactions to the album talent for writing so I started writing music and right that have surprised you or that you didn't see coming? away I was picked up by a publisher and at that time I The album has just come out. This is an independent was living in Vancouver so I was writing for a publishing release so we were surprised at the interest in the album company for three years and that was how I cut my from places like Belgium but also in my own community. I teeth on songwriting. It was very interesting. We wrote wasn't sure how people in my own community would react. songs for young pop singers. We had markets in Asia I'm pretty well known musician in the north and I usually and Europe and the tunes that we wrote were published write a lot of happy and upbeat songs but like you said the and recorded by artists in Japan and Germany and tone of this album is a lot moodier and I wasn't sure how Switzerland. It was definitely a learning experience for me people would react to it. But the new music has been but after a while you want to branch out and step out of embraced very warmly. I think that ti resonates with a lot of that formula and that was when I started writing for people. myself. With this album out there what is next for you Talk about the process that you go through in putting musically? a song together. Playing. We are in the midst of planning for the next I'm not a laborer. I don't spend a lot of time reworking eighteen months. We hope to get to as many communities songs so usually when a song idea comes to me it can as possible here in the Yukon this winter and this summer percolate in my head for while and when I sit down to we'll probably be in Northern Europe and me and Robert write I have the structure of the song played out in my are planing a trip through the United States for a good mind. It's just matter of getting out onto paper and long period of time. We are just going to play, have some getting it out in music. For me if the song doesn't speak adventures and see the States. to me right away I usually put it in my folder and it stays there until whenever I feel the song will have a life again. In the meantime what would you like for people to come If something doesn't speak to me I'm not going to spend away with after they hear WHEN YOU WERE KING? a lot of time fussing over it. I get immense personal satisfaction when people say things like “When I'm feeling like this, I play this song” and For this album who helped you behind the mixing what I hope people go away with after listening tot his board? album is that they think that it's okay to think about This album was definitely a process. My band is a trio themselves and how they are feeling and if it speaks to that is made up of myself and my husband ROBERT VAN them to allow that to happen to allow the music to talk to LIESHOUT who plays acoustic guitar and percussion. He them. and I actually do a lot of writing together. Our producer is also our guitar player and he plays just about any stringed instrument. For this album we wanted to hold NOVEMBER 2013 – ROCKWiRED.COM PAGE 22 ROCKWiRED MAGAZiNE NOVEMBER 2013 – ROCKWiRED.COM PAGE 23 ROCKWiRED MAGAZiNE IN THE VALLEY OF LOVE AND GUNS is an amazing Wow! CD! Now that it's out there for people to hear how do Yeah.