On hemlocksounds's intimate debut album, Talk Soon, the singer-songwriter also known as Carolina Chauffe weaves her relatives’ voices into cross-country folk songs to tell a story of love, family, and connection. | wowtashawow
Carolina Chauffe doesn’t like to stay in one place for very long. Some of the most dramatic turns on her life’s path have been unplanned—she’s driven by what she calls “Coincidence with a capital C.” She thrives in uncharted territory, lured by a stretch of road, a door held open six states away, or the pulsing possibility of new love. A year ago, one such coincidence led her to Chicago.
The chain of events that brought Chauffe to Oregon—and then to Chicago—began at the end of 2019, when Chauffe accepted an internship that took her to Seattle and Los Angeles for 12 weeks. She fell in love with the Pacific Northwest, and after a brief return to Louisiana to graduate from college, she packed all her belongings into her red Toyota Camry and toured her way back west, intending to settle down in Seattle.
But right before that, I’d gotten the idea from Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast. . . . I ran into her Bandcamp page, where there’s a project calledwhere she recorded a song idea every day, and I was like, “You know what, I’m grieving so much right now, and I feel like I have a lot to just get out of my body, and I think writing something every day is a way to harness that energy and try to reconnect to myself.
And it’s playful! It’s allowed me to play in a way that I have fully taken the pressure off of myself, which has opened up so many windows and allows for this kind of imaginative creativity. It gets less autobiographical sometimes, which is fun, like writing as different characters. Or the opposite happens, where it’s hyper-autobiographical and I’m just doing a recount of what happened that day. But there doesn’t have to be a through line either way. Which opened up such possibilities.
I think as the child of a hoarder, I’m a memory hoarder now. Like instead of trying to hoard physical things, I just have so much data . . . so many documents, photos, videos, recordings on my phone. And I don’t want them to just be sitting in the virtual world withering away. I want to feel like they’re still being useful somehow, and so incorporating them into my work too makes me feel like it’s not a fruitless effort.
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