EDMsauce Unique Interview: Lorna James
Prolific pianist and composer Lorna James is able to take over and exhibit her signature sound and magnificence. Music is second nature to this masterful musician who discovered a technique to combine seamlessly her ardour for Digital Dance music and Classical music. Her seemingly easy compositions give proof of her abilities and provides multiple cause to maintain her identify excessive on the checklist of artists to comply with up shut.
Whereas her releases certify instantaneous hits, she continues to amaze with each launch, taking her music to new locations and sharing her abilities and sound with listeners all around the world. We requested some inquiries to this up-and-coming expertise that has quite a bit in retailer for the approaching months, as that is just the start of her improbable musical journey.
Hi there Lorna James, how are you?
I’m nice thanks! Let’s do that!
Are you able to inform us extra about your self? the place are you from, what do you do?
I reside on the South Coast of England, and I’m a pianist and multi-tasking skilled, spouse and mom!
How have been you first launched to music? How do you know that is what you wished to do?
I began writing music at about the identical time that I started to speak. My mother and father got a piano as a marriage current and I began taking part in it after I was two years previous. We at all times had music on in our home, and I used to be introduced as much as an eclectic mixture of the Rolling Stones, Vangelis, Clannad, Dire Straits, people music and numerous classical piano music.
Who’re your greatest musical influences?
Chicane, Hans Zimmer and 90s Acid Home.
What’s your prime 3 favourite songs ever?
Virtually an unattainable query to reply, but when I had to decide on simply three tracks they’d be: The way in which it’s by Bruce Hornsby and the Vary, Saltwater by Chicane, and the Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams.
How would you describe your fashion in 3 phrases?
Happiness in sound, or extra particularly uplifting Melodic Home.
What’s your greatest achievement to this point?
Taking the choice to start out releasing music! I’ve been composing music for many years, and I at all times used to attend till I used to be alone earlier than I sat down on the piano. When, accidentally, through the depths of the pandemic one other musician heard what I used to be writing I used to be inspired to start out recording and releasing my compositions. I used to be fortunate sufficient to be signed to Subsume Data, who launched my first home observe ‘Dance Can be a Positive Factor’, and since then I’ve collaborated with DJ /Producer Andy Galea on ‘Outdoors Dance,’ and ‘Prepared 2 Dance’ which is to be launched on the finish of July 2022. I’ve additionally launched a number of classical piano compositions on Spotify.
Who would you prefer to collaborate with sooner or later?
I might completely like to work with Fisher, Marsh, Nora en Pure and Chris Lake.
Are you able to inform us a enjoyable reality about your self?
I’m fully pleased with some Cadbury’s crème eggs and a bottle of champagne.
What’s in retailer for Lorna James for the approaching months?
The Concern and Loathing remix of my observe ‘Dance = To Dream’ was launched by Subsume Data on July 8th, which is a summertime banger! My second collaboration with Andy Galea (aka Sol Brothers) ‘Prepared 2 Dance’ is popping out on white label on the finish of July. It’s an lively principal room observe with a hat tip to the early 90s. I’ve a number of extra tracks scheduled for launch with Andy Galea for the second half of 2022, alongside my classical releases. I’m a prolific composer on a mission to create as a lot uplifting music as attainable, so who is aware of what else is in retailer this 12 months? I’m at all times glad to offer piano chords or harmonies on different individuals’s tracks (see earlier response re: crème eggs and champagne).
Lorna James On-line:
https://www.beatport.com/artist/lorna-james/1040191