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Stromata Extended Version by Charlotte Martin. Sonia D. Sonia D Love this album! Powerful vocals, beautiful lyrics and melodies for each song. Stunning piano work throughout! Favourite track if i had to pick just one would be : Cut the Cord.
I don't know if every person will get that but that's one of the most depressing things I've ever written. It's about someone who's taken so many pills that they off themselves at the end of the song. When talking about "Pills," she sounded concerned when talking about a press person that didn't understand why there was a funny song on the album. Charlotte reiterated that the song was not funny and "just because you dress it up with a little orchestra and a little symphony and it's a little cheeky, does not make it a happy song.
I would be able to get really vulnerable and dark but if you didn't listen carefully you'd think the song is a pretty powerful song. Not on this record. All the songs are pretty dark and I saved the hope for "Redeemed" at the end. Nobody can be okay all the time and I think this record represented the times when I was not okay at all. And I had to find some peace at the end even though I hadn't figured out what the hell I'm searching for.
I think I'm an analytical person and extremely insecure as a person but being able to express all this in music really saved my life. Charlotte is extremely passionate about her feelings and has been examining her life through her music. The process of creating, writing and producing Stromata has been a growth process for her. I feel like I've been talking to a therapist or something for the last two years while writing these songs.
She also suffered the losses of a couple of friends. I'm not really a negative person at all but I've really been hit with real life stuff that hit me the way Melissa did. But, it's been over and over and over and now that I'm on my own and married and a woman experiencing life, it's a completely different outlook from saying 'everything's okay, you know, I'm steel, but everything's okay and everything's a beautiful life' and it was important for me to make that record but now I'm comfortable with saying that everything is absolutely not okay, I'm really fucked up right now and I will work through it, even though I don't have it figured out, I will work through it.
That's what this record was creatively and on a technical level too. The production of the album was a unique experience as well. She did the record mostly on her own and emailed the tracks to her husband, Ken, who would add the production. It was extremely isolating which made it even a lot darker because I could really go there when I was doing tapes and really experiment with sounds and I was afraid of nothing.
Even though content-wise and emotionally I was afraid of everything. When I would go into the studio or feel a song coming on, I was not afraid to write about what I was feeling. And I was not afraid to try and make it all better which was a hard thing to do as a person and in my own personal life and it affected my music.
I think that was okay. And "Veins" got a little deeper. And now "Stromata" is basically the full blown war with myself. But, there's some hope at the end. There is such intensity to Charlotte that we had to find out what was her stromata. She gave great pause before answering, and said, "Oh dear.
I don't know if I can answer that question. That's a really good question, but if I tell you who that is, I can get in big trouble. If I say what certain songs are about - I wrote certain songs about certain people - and I don't think that song's about someone getting far away from me or disappearing and me not understanding why and that song was about me trying to manipulate them into being my friend and trying to control them.
I should not have been trying to control them. I was very wrong for doing that, very wrong and I learned a great lesson. You can't control people and I had a big issue for control. You can't make people be your friend. You can't force people into loving you back. And, it drove me crazy. So, Stromata is a bit crazy. When I talk about rotted drugs manipulating me, it was pretty much what was happening. Musical Discoveries asked Charlotte about some of the meanings behind the abstract lyrics on Stromata.
It kind of reminded me of The Matrix - that was the visual on it. I just couldn't get out of the pod and it was just suffocating me and the other person and everytime I would try to cut it off I'd want to go back. I didn't want to go back. It was just round and round and round and round and it's still not over, but I tried. The song it about embracing your womanhood and not being afraid to love your body. Charlotte revealed that she's a recovering anorexic so "Drip" is about her acceptance of her body, the acceptance of her body being able to feel good, and the acceptance of her body wanting another person.
I didn't want anyone to touch me and I didn't want to touch anyone. I've been well for many years and it's kind of exciting that I have no any hangups right now. It's about a lot of things, but that's one of the things it's about. Charlotte described "Keep Me in Your Pocket" as a love song. She said, "I really wanted to think how I could be attached to this person so that's why there were the lyrics about trying to be somebody's sweater, or their cigarette.
It was about the imagery. I wanted to kind of run away to England with this person so I talk about the English Channel. The English Channel doesn't really mean the English Channel - I was really meaning something completely different.
Something a little more racy. A little more PG Sue Monk Kidd wrote a book called The Dance of the Dissident Daughter and about her awakening and struggle as a woman in a man's church.
This book changed Charlotte's life a great deal. But, really, the whole thing is that you are just fine the way you are. There is nothing wrong with improving yourself for yourself, but there are misconceptions that you have to fit into this box or peer group or hang out with these important people to have relevancy in your life is such shit that I really felt that from her book and I wanted to write about it.
That I'm done doing the little dance for people, I really don't, I'm fed up. She wrote and recorded "Little Universe" in about twenty minutes, not the beats, but the song. The song and the recording was with the chord in E Flat and Charlotte sang the lyrics and the melody over it.
She sang to a click but wasn't keeping time or counting meters. There's about seven and a half, eight meter changes in a song. I just performed it live for the first time on Tuesday at a showcase and I was counting. Since she didn't originally count when she sang, she had to go back through and map out what the meters were and where the sections started.
It was not a simple process and Charlotte had to relearn the song. It seems that doing a live show with these particular songs would be a daunting task. I'm taking out a rack of computers that looks like Hal which is a whole other thing. I'm running my show through what's called a news receptor. And it's basically the brain of the PC that can run massive amounts of software. I'm playing the actual sounds on the record like the music box bells are the actual sounds I've used on "Cut the Cord" and "The Dance.
We're still trying to keep track and there's a lot of computers on stage. I get that feeling a lot, that my fate doesn't make to much sense, that I don't seem reconciled with the universe. Then I read the chorus as: "I. We're not thinking. My stromata. There also seems to be a theme of inevitability. Thinking on purpose is something I think about a lot.
I like that feeling of genuineness when you say something without even thinking about it, when it just comes out of you. Coz I have this problem of thinking out my conversations in my head before saying them, and I feel so fake and ashamed of what I have to say after that. But then again, deeper than that is the pursuit of the right words She uses personification with "The cold linoleum is talking up my shoes, deciphering the truth of us" and it kinda shows that inanimate objects understand us more than we do.
It's also kind of a juxtaposed image, since Stromata means patchwork, and linoleum tends to have patchwork designs. I think towards the end, she definitely still has a desire to love, doesn't think she ought to, and either way needs some sort of connection to make her happier.
Artists - C. Stromata is found on the album Stromata.
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