Cécile McLorin Salvant sat down for a Nonesuch Q&A about her new album, Oh Snap, covering a wide range of topics, including her songwriting process, working on the project in secret, AutoTune, bodily fluids, frogs, and embracing weirdness. You can see what she had to say in the six-part series filmed by Matthew Edginton here.
Cécile McLorin Salvant sat down for a Nonesuch Q&A about her new album, Oh Snap, covering a wide range of topics, including her songwriting process, working on the project in secret, AutoTune, bodily fluids, frogs, and embracing weirdness. The album comprises 12 very personal songs by the singer/composer (plus a cover of a verse from the Commodores’ 1977 hit “Brick House”) mostly recorded outside of a traditional studio environment. The songs showcase her genre-spanning tastes and influences from her 1990s childhood in Miami—from boy bands to grunge to classical to folk—and include party tracks with beats, samba grooves, and quiet folk songs. You can see what she had to say in the six-part series filmed by Matthew Edginton below.
For the first in the series, Cécile McLorin Salvant shares her process for writing the songs on the album:
In part 2, Salvant talks about having spent years working on Oh Snap, alone and in secret:
She shares her thoughts on audio editing and pitch-correcting programs like AutoTune in part 3:
Here, Salvant has some words about bodily fluids:
She has just one word for frogs—No:
"As we get older, it's important to get weirder, to get as weird as we are," Salvant says in the sixth and final part of the Q&A:
You can get Oh Snap on CD and vinyl and hear it here.
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