{"id":11810,"date":"2012-10-18T10:48:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T10:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=11810"},"modified":"2017-03-01T13:45:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:45:55","slug":"new-noise-wild-belle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2012\/10\/18\/new-noise-wild-belle\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW NOISE:  Wild Belle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re big fans of Wild Belle, in case you hadn&#8217;t <a href=\"\/2012\/09\/exclusive-wild-belle-its-too-late\/\">noticed<\/a>. The brother-sister duo Natalie and Elliot Bergman combine a cooler-than-thou ska vibes with a laidback Afro-pop twist that doesn&#8217;t sound like anything else out there right now. Check out our interview and their new video for &#8216;Backslider&#8217; here.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2012\/10\/C201209-C-Wild-Belle-Natalie-and-Elliot-Bergman-600.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/media.wonderlandmagazine.com\/uploads\/2012\/10\/C201209-C-Wild-Belle-Natalie-and-Elliot-Bergman-600-e1350557146261.jpg\" alt=\"Wild Belle\" title=\"Wild Belle\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11812\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>So how did Wild Belle start up?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Natalie: We came together about a year ago, but throughout our lives we\u2019ve been playing music together forever. Elliot was recording a new record [with Afrobeat band Nomo] in the studio and then invited me to come in and we started recording some of my songs, and it just grew into something different. <\/p>\n<p><strong>You guys are siblings. So who&#8217;s older and who&#8217;s the boss?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elliot: Come on now&#8230; I&#8217;m much older!<\/p>\n<p>N: Elliot always invited me to come along on tours with his other band so I just felt comfortable playing with him and his musician friends at an early age. He&#8217;s definitely a guide and an influence. Elliot&#8217;s turned me onto a lot of great music at a young age.<\/p>\n<p>E: But she\u2019s very an adventurous musical consumer so she quickly took my Pharaoh Sanders and Sun Ra records, then a lot of my African funk records. We both kind of have pretty eclectic taste and that filters into Wild Belle in different ways. But Natalie is really the driving force, she writes these great pop songs that we can then doctor up in whatever way we like.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vg9obyDAa_w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>So how do songwriting duties work between the two of you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>N: A lot of the time I\u2019ll bring in a demo to the studio, we\u2019ll try something out on a synthesiser or just on a simple piano and then maybe we\u2019ll use 808 on a song rather than the crappy drum set in the basement. It\u2019s just a different process every time. Lyrically I\u2019ve written all of the lyrics on the record. I like lyrics, I like words.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the best gig you guys have ever played?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elliot: We played at the Hideout Block Party, which is in Chicago that\u2019s like, our hometown there. It was definitely the biggest show we\u2019ve played, there was like 5,000 people there. But that place is a very special place in Chicago that we\u2019ve come up through and the people who run it are a husband-and-wife team, Tim and Katie Tuten. Tim gives these elaborate speeches before every band, they take 10 minutes and he acts like you invented music or something!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you ever found people dismissing you and saying, &#8220;Oh yeah, two white kids making reggae-influenced music, whatever&#8221;? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>E: I\u2019m sure that\u2019s coming soon, but we don\u2019t have too much opposition in terms of that kind of stuff. People are pretty open-minded about what sort of sounds you can make and what kind of sounds you can enjoy and treat respectfully. We try to be honest people and honest musicians and hopefully that comes through in the music too. It\u2019s not a lot of like, put-on attitude or image. 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