Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another Music Monday. Today I’m featuring Ionse and his song Espíritu. Ionse is a singer songwriter from Bolivia who I met on twitch. I always enjoy watching ionse’s streams as not only does his music have a great indie vibe to it he has a collection of very cute jumpers that always makes me smile.. Ionse is always very welcoming on his streams and seems to remember little details about his viewers which I think is really nice.
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How To Listen:
Ionse’s music is available to listen to on the streaming platforms linked below or you can buy his music via Bandcamp. I have included the YouTube video for Espíritu and another of my favourite songs below.
Interview:
Tell us a little about yourself? Hello there Joanna, first of I really appreciate your interest on what I do, and i'm glad we had the chance to meet through Twitch, I'm ionse from La Paz, Bolivia I lived here my entire life, but I had the chance to travel a little bit thanks to music. What first got you into music? While i was studying Architecture, I was playing video games with a friend one day, but then he checked out his phone and worried, because he was late for his band rehearsal, i was so curious about that, that i asked him if i could go to his rehearsal with him, when we arrived at the place, the guitar player of the band was later, so they asked me if i could play the guitar, i had no idea on how, but they teached me a couple chords for a very simple song, and as soon as i felt the electric guitar with the amp sound i fell in love for ever with the sound, since then i never stopped making music. Who inspired you to make music? "Who" could be translated to "When" or "How" considering that I do music with lyrics that are related to different moments of my life and circunstances that really touch me at the moment, sometimes I imagine things that would be nice that happened me, and I just imagine myself in different scenarios, so inspiration is always there. How would you describe the music that you typically create? Very simple but with words that mean a lot to me What is your creative process like? Most of the times I just grab a guitar and start playing some chords that i like then I start mumbling vocal melodys then I start playing around with words and give structure and find a point where I like what i'm singing that follows the melody. Who would you most like to collaborate with? Anyone that shows interest I been doing a lot of collaborations this way If you could go open a show for any artist who would it be? The Drums, Cigarrettes After Sex, King Krule, Silversun Pickups What is one message you would give to your fans? Enjoy your life is later thank you think What is the most useless talent you have? My lack of Music Theory Knowledge is my most useless talent, I tried to learn many times, but I always get distracted and I can't retain the information haha Do you sing in the shower? What songs? Oh yes I do, most of the time, I do different songs it could be a very chill song like Kokomo from the beach boys or some latin song like me rehuso from Danny Ocean it depends on what I been listening lately What would you be doing right now, if it wasn't for your music career? Maybe being an Architect or doing profit sales Where have you performed? What are your favourite and least favourite venues? Do you have any upcoming shows? One of my favorite ones was when I had a music festival in Cochabamba, I was a little bit down about music, thinking that probably it wasn't for me, and I was going to this music festival without expectations, it was like a goodbye for me, but when I went to this place and I saw how people really enjoyed what I was doing, it motivated me a lot knowing that there is always someone out there who's gonna dig what you do, so since then I never stopped. How do you feel the Internet has impacted the music business? In the most and best positive way, which is amazing, if it wasn't for the internet I would be stuck locally probably, and I know we wouldn't have meet or know other artist that we enjoy nowadays, what's going on right now on the internet is fascinating it's giving everyone a chance to get known, breaking barriers, and connecting everyone who is willing to join in, for example something that I like a lot is that here in Bolivia artists would blame on the lack of support of the goverment or that we are a small country with not so much population and that is hard to reach other areas, but now with the internet everyone is in the same bag, it just depends on creating something that can move itself the rest is there, there is a bunch of platforms, that you can just expose your work and the rest will come if it's good, so there is no more excuses. On the other side what i think it's inevitable is the fact that since it's getting more accessible and easier to make music it's cool that everyone can make it, even if you have no idea about how to do it which is my case, but I think in a soon future there will be tools that will allow us to make songs on the go just with melodies that you think of, and the mass production of it will maybe play against those who study music for years and give their best effort to perform, by regular people that just play around for a bit with tools to help you out making some music, I don't quite now if this will be good or bad, I have mixed feelings about it, but maybe being a music idol, or a "famous" character might not have the impact that it has right now, as you can see it's starting to show, that for example if you go on instagram or tik tok, normal people that show themselves as they really are, are growing more than the old fashioned way of an artist that has a mysterious air gimmick, that we know to little about the lifes and we only know them for them performances, so being this said i think transparency and simplicity is getting a more welcome nowadays from my perception. What is your favourite song to perform? From my originals I think my favorite is Isla and when I cover a song I think Pursuit of Happiness at the moment. Which famous musicians do you admire? Jonathan Pierce from the Drums, Tyler The Creator, Jack Johnson, Beck, and many others What is the most trouble you've ever gotten into? Dropping out Architecture What is the best advice you've been given? If you don't do it, someone else is going to do it. Patience comes to those who wait If you could change anything about the industry, what would it be? Well, the industry it's changing itself already, labels are adapting to it, everyone can start independently and labels got a lot to pick from on who to work with, so people really needs to outstand on whatever they do, which is nature itself the "law of the strongest" can be consider here if you will like it always been, but as i mention before the best part is that everyone got the chance to try it, it's easier and more accessible, so i can't complain about the now What's next for you? I took this day off from producing to learn music theory and enjoy the music i always liked to refill myself on stuff to use in my own stuff, so i'm hoping next year i can come back and keep producing even more songs with more quality, i'm always aiming to improve and get better from the very beginning.
Thanks so much for answering my questions Ionse!
Music Monday Playlist:
You can now listen to Ionse and all other previously featured Music Monday artists in a special playlist I’ve created on Spotify.
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