The Australian musician reveals what it took to persuade a few of Hollywood’s greatest names to work along with her.
Julia Stone has at all times been surrounded by music. Throughout a childhood spent close to the seashores north of Sydney, the singer grew up listening to and studying from her father, John Stone, who performs in a preferred native band.
After collaborating along with her equally musically gifted brother on the competition circuit of their late teenagers, the 2 fashioned their ARIA-winning folks duo, Angus & Julia Stone.
However final 12 months discovered the now Melbourne-based singer compelled to immerse herself much more, when she utterly turned her residence right into a studio for making music. “That is the primary 12 months since I moved in seven years in the past that I’ve spent the entire 12 months at residence,” Stone tells Stellar.
“My companion is a music producer, and as neither of us might go to the studio we set one up within the kitchen. Nothing about it felt regular, so we additionally did away with our routine and can be up all by means of the evening making songs after which sleep through the day.”
Echoing nearly everybody else who lived by means of 2020, she says, “It was very unusual.”
Stone might have used that point as a properly deserved break having spent the 5 years prior recording her third solo studio album, Sixty Summers, between Los Angeles and New York.
“All the music I’ve written over time has been the identical in a single sense: it’s at all times been about listening for hidden tales that aren’t simple to speak about, documenting them and turning them into one thing that isn’t simply an thought or feeling,” she says.
“This report is extra sonically and lyrically summary – it’s much less storytelling. The songs and sounds have been in my head for a very long time; I simply haven’t been in a position to get them out on this manner.”
Stone, 36, not too long ago acquired plenty of buzz for the music video for ‘Dance’, the lead single from the album, which stars Susan Sarandon and Danny Glover.
Managing to land the 2 Hollywood heavyweights, she tells Stellar, was a reach-for-the-stars gambit that paid off handsomely.
“I needed to create a video about somebody being of their 70s and happening a date for the primary time. My staff and I at all times go for the large dream first till we’re informed no, so we reached out to Danny and he learn it and beloved it.
“He requested who’s going to be the woman and we stated, ‘Who would you like to go on a date with?’ and he stated, fingers down, Susan. So, the next day we reached out to Susan’s staff they usually beloved the thought.
“It’s a type of wild issues… actors like which can be so busy and iconic and don’t say sure to music movies, particularly with an Australian artist they’ve by no means heard of.”
This 12 months, Stone says, she’s eager to lastly get out of the home and again on the highway so she will carry out her new music – significantly on residence turf.
“One of many silver linings in that is the joy of touring in regional Australia. I’m normally in Europe or the US, however now I can do a number of months touring and enjoying in locations I’ve by no means performed earlier than, which is thrilling.”
Sixty Summers is out on April 16.
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