The Manchester-based rising singer-songwriter takes us behind the scenes in the making of her new EP.
Over the past few years, Manchester-based singer-songwriter Nina Cobham has been amassing critical and public acclaim for her boundary pushing sound and profound bilingual storytelling. Last week, she returned with a new EP, “Antes”, her most coherent and eclectic body of work to date. It was written whilst in Spain, in a time that she felt uneasy with the world around her.
“Every song on this project was written in 2021, before a lot of the good things in my life right now,” she says. “Back while I was still feeling very lost and taking space to work things out. Antes’ translates to ‘Before’, I wanted to call this little project that because the place I was in when I wrote these songs is a completely different place to where I am now, it’s like a little memory capsule.”
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Nina takes us behind the scenes in the making of “Antes”…
“I started just to feel something and imagining things in the same couple of weeks, while I was staying in a house in Spain which was up the road from our house when I was a kid.”
“For the most part I was there alone, so there aren’t the most photos.”
“The 3 songs on “Antes” were done by sending stems and later finished on Zoom, I recorded / started production on “just to feel something” + “imagining things” before I wanted to bring anyone else on, then I got Jack Laboz on both, plus Zach Ezzy on “imagining things”.
“”effort in” was started in 2021 as well, we worked on that completely on Zoom.”
“Taken by the lovely Isy Townsend when she came to see me for a few days!”
“Jack and Frankie came out for a week while we worked on other songs, a lot of the photos were from then”
