I used to regularly read the New York Times obituaries, and it got me thinking about mine. It pushed me to really think about my mortality. But what really got me focused on actually finishing the songs was a period of a year of going to too many funerals, both expected and unexpected. When I am not making music, I am despondent, so I try to write, play, or sing every day. What motivated you to get back on the stage and in the recording studio?
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For a small DIY self-release with absolutely no budget for PR or marketing, it landed itself on a couple of TV shows, and lots of people were ordering it from me directly from all over. I had also felt that A Hot Hooray hadn’t been successful enough to validate pursuing music further. I went through a really pragmatic period, both my parents were sick, diagnosed with cancer, and I decided to come back to the States to finish college, get a real job - which was producing sound in a postproduction studio - and spend more time with family.
Oly: I did some collaborations with French musicians like Norman Bambi, Khoral, Relax Beat, and stateside musicians like Deceptikon. New Times: Why the long break since your EP A Hot Hooray? New Times caught up with Oly to discuss the reasons for her recording hiatus, her favorite section of the New York Times, and what it was like playing with acts like Yacht and M83. And that's when the release parties at Sweat Records and Bardot have been plotted.
To keep herself motivated, Oly has already given herself a deadline to finish her second EP: this December. It's a chillwave dance song called "Nowhere to Run," and she's going to take the stage at Gramps on Sunday night at 10 to play it. She has been passing her new demo around town recently. The Los Angeles native and long-time Miami resident put out her EP, A Hot Hooray, in 2004, that had its songs picked up by the MTV show South of Nowhere and the indie film Big Words. But since that, she's been quiet - until now. Raised on her parents' Prince and Whitney Houston records, Oly has had a long relationship with music.
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