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<\/a><\/p>\nWe were more than thrilled when we heard that Ariana & The Rose were back from a brief hiatus and were unleashing more of their signature left-field electro-pop.<\/p>\n
After supporting Foxes on her recent UK tour and collaborating with The Nexus and Tom Fuller (Patrick Wolf), new cut ‘Give Up The Ghost’ is the perfect re-introduction from emerging New York native Ariana DiLorenzo, who alongside her band, make up the collective Ariana & The Rose.<\/p>\n
‘Give Up The Ghost’, with it’s haunting and dark undertones, merged alongside Ariana’s atmospheric vocal and swirling electro-undercurrents is set to project the contemporary popstar onto every tastemaker’s radar for tips of 2016. We caught up with her ahead of her London show tonight to find out a little more about where it all began.<\/p>\n
Give us an insight into your incredible journey \u2013 when did you realise that being a fully-fledged musician was what you wanted to do as a career?<\/strong><\/p>\n I didn\u2019t realise I wanted to pursue being a musician professionally until I was about 19 or 20. I started as a dancer when I was really young and was a part of a professional dance company at 13 which segued into musical theater and that gave way to auditioning for acting roles in film and tv as well. I was always really focused on acting, especially since New York is such a center for it, and writing my own music became a release from the grind of auditioning all the time. It wasn\u2019t until I started college, at NYU, that I began to write with other people and explore different genres. There was something really satisfying about being able to just create something whenever I felt like. \u00a0As an actor, you have to wait for someone to give you a job, unless you write your own work, as a musician, you create your own world and invite people in. \u00a0That kind of process appeals to me much more. I put a band together after I graduated and we began playing in the states and over the last couple years have found our way to the UK, which has become a second home for me.<\/p>\n Can you remember the first song you wrote? What was it about?<\/strong><\/p>\n I was 14, I think. In hindsight the lyrics were pretty cheesy, it was about liking a boy who liked someone else, of course. The verse was just a series of questions. It\u2019s a good thing I never sang it to him, he probably would have been freaked out by it.<\/p>\n Were you in any previous projects or bands before forming the Ariana & The Rose collective?<\/strong><\/p>\n I haven\u2019t been a part of any other bands. \u00a0Ariana & the Rose has taken on a few incarnations over the years though, slowly getting defined more and more. I\u2019ve been lucky to collaborate with friends and other artists on their projects, either writing together or lending vocals. It\u2019s always really nice to step out of your own artistic bubble and into someone else\u2019s for a bit.<\/p>\n Your sound seems to have evolved a lot since your previous work \u2013 was that a conscious decision to shift into more left-field territory?<\/strong><\/p>\n Yes, this new EP is definitely a departure from the music I have previously released. It wasn\u2019t so much about shifting the music more left-field or more pop, than it was about making music that I felt sounded closer to who I am right now. My goal was to have the music really feel like a synth band and be a blend of electronic and live instrumentation. I\u2019ve tried to stay very true to writing these lyrics in a way I\u2019d say them, which I think has shaped the songs in a more mature way. Previously, I had always felt the need to explain my music to people, it\u2019s this or it\u2019s that, with this new material, I feel like I can just press play and let the music speak for itself.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve heard your new track \u2018Give Up The Ghost\u2019 \u2013 how do you begin to create something like that, and what\u2019s your creative process behind your music?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n My songwriting process really changed in writing this new material. I knew I wanted to work with one producer to build and explore a cohesive sound. That way of working opened me up to exploring sounds and grooves before always thinking of a melody first. \u00a0I play piano, so in the past I\u2019ve been very much about the melodic line, but now the beginning of a song could come from anywhere, maybe a bass groove or an interesting sound. Every song starts in a different way really. Tom Fuller, who produced the EP, and I really got in synch from working together over a long period of time, honing an aesthetic through exploring different sounds. Sometimes he would mess about with an arpeggiator and build a track and I would begin writing a melody to that and then we\u2019d have my drummer come in and write a part to what we\u2019d done. That is my favourite way of writing, building the songs layer by layer, the way bands do. \u00a0Other times I\u2019d come in the studio with a song I\u2019d already written, either alone or with another writer and we would build around them and then tweak the songs as they find their path sonically. I feel like I\u2019ve found a lot of freedom in understanding the idea that there really is no right way to go about it.<\/p>\n