{"id":39472,"date":"2014-10-27T16:22:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T16:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=39472"},"modified":"2017-03-01T12:34:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T12:34:23","slug":"new-noise-aaron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2014\/10\/27\/new-noise-aaron\/","title":{"rendered":"New Noise: Aaron"},"content":{"rendered":"

After\u00a0unveiling two remarkable tracks this year, London-based singer Aaron is finally preparing for the release of her upcoming debut EP \u2018Letters to Johnny\u2019. Her polished, moody early 80s Madonna vibe paired with some brilliantly effective vocals makes her one to watch this year, so we thought now was the perfect time to get to know the up and coming British singer a little more intimately\u2026<\/p>\n

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When did you begin making music?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

So my Grandfather is an incredible Jazz saxophonist and the coolest man I know. He\u2019s played on world tours with Diana Ross and The Commitments. From as young as I can remember, we would play together, I\u2019d sing and he\u2019d accompany me. I think I wrote my first song aged 15 and it was awful! I called it \u2018Checkpoint Charlie\u2019, I was learning about the Berlin Wall at the time and it related to that somehow. It wasn\u2019t until I started working with my manager, a couple years ago, that songwriting became a serious thing for me. She saw potential and put me in sessions without any element of pressure. I cut my teeth with some pretty badass writers and producers. I was allowed time to develop, learn my craft and figure out who I was as an artist.<\/p>\n

Can you tell me why you named your upcoming EP ‘Letters to Jonny’?<\/b><\/p>\n

It all started with Johnny Jewel, the songwriter and producer. I really got into his \u2018Italians Do It Better\u2019 label a few years back. All his stuff with Desire, Chromatics and Glass Candy is insane. So I revisited it when writing the EP, it was purely sonic inspiration at first and then I wrote \u2018Jonny\u2019 with TIEKS, which is essentially a fan girl song. It tied it all together as a conceptual EP. The premise being the songs are letters addressed to a fictional man, a character and consequence of the writer\u2019s imagination and her relationship with him unravels as the record progresses.<\/p>\n

Who would you name as your main inspirations? I definitely feel as though I can hear some early Madonna in there somewhere\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah, you\u2019re so right. Early 80\u2019s Madonna is a massive influence, especially around her \u2018True Blue\u2019 and \u2018Like a Prayer\u2019 period. My writing and taste in music is heavily influenced by what I grew up listening to. When I was little my mum was mad into Kate Bush, Madonna and Annie Lennox, real artists who changed things for women in music. Also around that time my older brother would be in his room-playing guitar along to Talking Heads, Radiohead and Red Hot Chili Peppers, whom I adopted as my favorite band as soon I hit adolescence. Once I was a little older I discovered TV on the Radio, Todd Rundgen, Little Dragon and more experimental acts like the Flaming Lips.<\/p>\n

Where do you see yourself in five years?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Hopefully having released a couple good albums, writing credible music for myself and other artists and having fun with it all, nothing too fancy. Somewhere down the line I want to open a big cat sanctuary, I love them so much I can\u2019t get over it.<\/p>\n