Getting Candid with Soran [INTERVIEW]
We’re Getting Candid in our interview with Soran.
Soran shared his mission to make music that his late mother would have loved, how he deep dives on the intricacies of different genres to learn the techniques of music creation, and why he has never listened to an entire album in his life.
Soran is a Montreal based French-Japanese singer-songwriter & producer. He’s back with hypnotic, groove-laden lead single ‘Diamond’, the first look at his upcoming album, set to be released in 2024.
You can find a transcribed excerpt of our interview below.
Name 3 Songs: You’ve been playing music since you were a young kid. You’ve also been releasing music on the internet since 2017. How do you feel like you’ve grown as an artist over this time period?
Soran: I guess the biggest growth as an artist would definitely be the fact that I’ve done a lot of full circle things like doing music for other people. I went from trying to please the audience to then only listening for myself and then kind of learning the mistakes along the way.
I lost my mom three years ago so that really puts things into perspective. I just wanted my music to be true. Like it wasn’t worth it if it wasn’t true. So it changed my way of making music a lot. So I guess the last three years were really like the most eye opening. And I think it shows in the music too, like the growth, not just in the lyrics, but in the taste. It’s like, I feel like my mom would like it
Right now you have two songs, Anna and Diamond, that are going to be off your upcoming album. But you’re talking about how you feel like things have changed in the past few years for you. Do you feel like there was a specific turning point where things started to click and you found a sound that felt true to you?
I don’t really get out of my house so I’m always in my house making something. And I kind of see myself more as a producer, so I get obsessed with a song or a genre and then I need to understand how they recorded the drums and made the whole thing feel like this. So I do that thing for like a month and make 10 or 15 songs in that genre. Some of them I write, some of them I just make the instrumentals.
In the past years, I went through maybe five or six of these little phases where I was obsessed with these genres. It amounted to certain songs that really felt like the sum of all those phases. And a lot of it was no expectation and just like letting go whatever I was feeling because of the loss of my mom. I just need to let some things out.
There was one breaking point I’d say, where I started imitating a voice. I just started singing in a voice that really wasn’t a voice that I ever did ever. And the song is also one of the first songs I wrote that wasn’t about me or someone that’s in my life. So that really, really felt good. Like it kind of made me realize that I really do want to make a change if I can with my voice.
And if I write something, I want it to be about love in some way or form. Like I always want the purpose to be some form of love.
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