We have Sofia on our road trip list this summer. Family is … a lot of shouting in Bulgaria … I dearly love it.
Goga is calling me every second week from my grandmothers house, so I can chat with him, and then have a very loud chat with my grandmother, she´s almost 90 – so it’s a lot of shouting you know. But my great-uncle Ivan is still kicking it and he is a great guy and one of my best friends in my life. Unfortunately things started to feel a bit strange for me at home, my family is kind of split and a bit torn apart because of personal reasons – that´s sad. You own a sheepskin coat that your great-uncle Ivan gave you. Sometimes it’s that plain and easy, haha.
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(smiles) I don’t want to sound rude and it’s of course not the full picture, but when I saw my GEMA Abrechnung 2 years ago (it’s the German royalties for writers), I realized that I’m definitely at the bottom of this food chain – this worked like a push factor for me. One of this jobs is a lie, but I won’t tell you which one it is. When did you know it was time for your own project?
You have already worked as a dancer, background singer and songwriter with artists like Solomun, Casper or SEEED. “I’m trying to avoid cultural cliches in the music.” There’s a lot great Bulgarian folklore music, but it’s sort of like a very strong seasoning, you have to be careful when using it, or the taste of your food becomes to one dimensional. Concerning Bulgaria and Bulgarian influences – well, it is the blood in my veins anyway, but I’m trying to avoid cultural cliches in the music. And this pressure can stomp you or lead you to higher grounds. I think Berlin is like a net spinning out of work and stressful as any metropol city is. Forced to develop your crafts in order to finish the job in order to earn a living… and then, at some random night your soul opens up and you start really expressing things, and creating. Sometimes you are in the midst of doing jobs you don’t really like, but you’re forced to do them. Inspiration is a very fluid process, I mean its not like I go to a concert or an exhibiton and return home afterwards and start writing music. To what extent does Berlin inspire you for your music? In Mavrud I think I can also hear more Bulgarian influences? How come?įor 9 years already… Just a place on this earth you start living, loving and creating, which over the years becomes a second home. “I remembered that I always wanted to write a song about a typical sort of wine from Bulgaria called Mavrud.” This started by me watching an interview with James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem, him sitting on that extremely ugly couch of red bull academy – that interview lead to a revealing moment for me – I remember calling up Victor my management the next day and telling him, dude, I’m making an album, bet your money on that!
I did my 10.000 hours studiotime then – kind of earned my degree as a producer there (smiles) and eventually I ended up having all these very personal songs on my hard drive – but to really wrap it up and finish it as a body of work. I was working for a long time on songs, even pre pandemic, always looking for that special blend in terms of production. Would you like to tell us a little bit about it? Your debut album “Motor Songs” is also in the wings.
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I remembered that I always wanted to write a song about a typical sort of wine from Bulgaria called Mavrud – I gave it a twilightish, delirious twist, added some high snares for that outkast stankonia vibe, played a blood sex magic red hot chilli peppers baseline and … started digging it… it’s TV on the radio, meets OutKast’s BOB meeting RHCP meeting again something uniquely Bulgarian. One day I started adding verses to it and I immediatly felt the urge to take this one home, I mean really home to Bulgaria. I had played the catchy synth line years ago on a borrowed Dave Smith synthesizer and the track was laying around on my laptop for ages. Of course in the car (smiles) or if you’re intending to have a nice backyard, – blockparty with good food and loads of red wine … How did this track come about? And what is the perfect moment to play it loud? Your new track Mavrud is a potpourri of different influences. We wanted to know more and talked to him about the feeling of home, cultural cliches and the revealing moment of making an album. After his first two singles ‘Golden Rope’ and ‘No Other Drug’, he releases his new piece Mavrud out of his upcoming debut album ‘Motor Songs’. While some people get melancholic or thoughtful, for the talented musician living in Berlin the only way is forward. And there must be several hearts beating in his chest, not questioning, just always pulling forward. Sofia born singer and producer Daniel Stoyanov aka Bulgarian Cartrader is a real whirlwind with an incredible energy.
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