Exclusive interview with Australian singer/songwriter, Sarah Blasko, whose new album What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have is out now through Universal. It’s seems like an age ago that i first interviewed you for STU magazine in the underpass at Sydney’s Town Hall Station. What are your enduring memories of that time before you signed a solo deal and became a fulltime musician? ‘Well, hi Zolton! That does seem like a long time ago – well, my enduring memories of that time are mostly of working very hard – working a couple of casual jobs while trying to get out and play as much as I could. They were very exciting times really. At that stage I was thankful for as many opportunities as I could get my hands on to play or talk about music. I remember the Stu Magazine interview was a really big deal for me’. The evolution in sound and direction across all your recordings from the first EP to the album recordings has been remarkable. Do you feel like you’re near your creative peak right now, or is that still to come? ‘I really do feel like I’m just getting my eye in, so I hope that the best is yet to come. It’s an exciting way to feel when you’ve just finished your second record. I feel really fortunate to be playing music and making records’. If someone handed you a guitar right now, what would you most likely strum on it? ‘I can’t really play songs by other people, although I having been practicing a song by a band called Deus called ‘Nothing Really Ends’. It’s a beautiful, heartbreaking song’. Sounds like you love the E Minor chord. We must be kindred souls! ‘Well, it’s one of the few chords that I actually know the name of – and one of the few that I can play on guitar!’ [see also Augie March]
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Francis said | 8 December, 2006
must’ve enjoyed interviewing her…..rah!
Zolton said | 8 December, 2006
yeah, it was hard work cuz. hard work indeed. but dammit someone to do it …
spiro said | 9 December, 2006
more back interviews from other lostat eminor ’stars’ too please, zolton.
Fiame Blasko said | 14 November, 2007
Hi Sarah
I live in Johannesburg South Africa, and we share the same last name.
So i am goning to the music store to find your cd.
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Ian M. said | 7 December, 2006
Sarah rules!! ’nuff said!!