Another interview with Nina

Interview with Nina in Dagens Nyheter

Translation is below (thanks Naylor)

Nina Persson Age: Turns 35 years on 6 September.
Family: Mom, Dad, 2 brothers, nephew and husband Nathan Larson
Career: As a singer of The Cardigans, when the song “Rise & Shine” was released 1994th When Nina was 19 years and she has since gone from success to success with hundreds of thousands of discs sold. Now a singer in the band A Camp consisting of Nina herself, her husband Nathan Larson and producer Niclas Frisk.
Album: Emmerdale (1994), Life (1995), First Band on the Moon (1996), Gran Turismo (1998), Long Gone Before Daylight (2003), Super Extra Gravity (2005). With A Camp: A Camp (2001), Colonia (2008).
Current: Played in Sweden in the summer including the Hultsfred and Storsjöyran.
Extra: Has been involved in Obama’s campaign has debuted as actor in the movie “If God wills” (2005) by Amir Chamdin.

Nina Persson: “It must never become ‘perfect’, then it becomes uninteresting.”
- When I make music and I’ll do it without instruments. It is like a melody in my head and I have to sit with someone who plays and song takes shape chord after chord.

Resistance is good. “So declares A Camp singer Nina Persson how her now world-famous musical coming to. We meet in a hotel lobby on the same day as the band arrived from New York. Nina is, despite the jetlag, comprehensive, professional and välsminkad.

And she’s easy to put words in their creative process.
- My instrument is my voice. I’m primarily a singer and writes lyrics. I am surrounded by so many talented musicians that I have both been lazy and have performance anxiety before writing melodies, “says Nina.

Nina and her team – her husband Nathan Larson and producer Niclas Frisk – working closely. The musicians put toner on it to Nina imagined. For one year she took lessons in classical piano. But Nina was never a friend of the instrument, although she learned fingerings and scales up to perfection.

- I did not know what I would use the piano – I could not imagine – I simply can not handle the tool in a satisfactory manner.

Therefore, it is often the case that Nina may be a finished melody as she writes the text. Yet she is always anxious for the creative process and say they are “suck” on to discipline themselves. Not infrequently, she is the last to deliver.

- It may sound like a contradiction but I certainly do not think it’s fun to create, at the time. Instead, I shoot on deadlines and waiting, but when I get something done, it is actually a fantastic experience!

The words will not be automatic. She may, for example, start with a phrase that sounds good or word that rings in a certain way or feel comfortable in the mouth. Sometimes it takes Nina springboard in previous productions, sometimes in a completely new feeling.

- It’s about finding a harmony and balance. It may never be “perfect”, then it becomes uninteresting. Around the golden ratio in a painting or as the need to have something sour to the sweet and something ugly into the beautiful, “says Nina, and takes the song” The Bear on the beach “, as an example.

The song occurs suddenly a sense of threat in the middle of an idyll.
- I just felt from the beginning is not quite right. It was too smooth. So Niclas created a shift that went into minor and the song fell into place.

It happens that Nina also use the instrument. Then she takes a simple synth to use to add a loop of something she thought about and heard inside his head, especially when she creates music for brass. Then get the musicians to listen and read the clinker-making.

Where do you get the melodies and words you start with?
- I listen much to radio, more than the music really. Often the songs are born out of a discussion or an interest in a topic that I and Nathan and Niclas start discussing.

Maybe it starts with a book or a political event that all three of the band is going on. There may be something they are interested or know a fascination with. Then they begin to check the data and on Amazon, they get the books and so “youtube” the. There, they find even more strange facts on the subject. Only then will the music and lyrics.

As children playing?
- Yes, we are three skulls which has j-t fun. We have our own fantasy world together where we see various scenes and situations that no one else can guess. Last, we had such opiumrök and homeless as two key words. And from the event will eventually music that others may be interpreted in a completely different way