Not Done Traveling

I wrote you a book but I left it out in the Rain. Left It there to dry but it got rained on once again. Side (but really main) blog: iwishiwishiwishiwasafish.tumblr.com

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“Such an amazing day playing with these badass women.”

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Laura Marling by Francesca Allen for Nylon

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Day 6

Laura Marling is one of my favorite voices of all time

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Semper Femina is a great name for the new album. In case you didn’t know, Laura has that phrase tattooed in one of her legs.

It’s an excerpt from a verse by roman poet Virgil: varium et mutabile semper femina. “Woman’s a various and a changeful thing.“ (John Dryden’s translation)

Shortened to Semper femina, it means “Always a woman”.

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Laura Marling @ Cafe Campus

Montreal, Quebec

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(Very quick) Translation of Laura’s article in ZeitMagazin. 

For the first time in my life I had a sense of loneliness.

I used to dream a lot and intensely but a long phase now lies behind me during which I didn’t dream at all. This phase took place in Los Angeles where I lived for a year. A love story took me there and when the love story was over I decided to stay. Los Angeles is a risky place for dreams. Everyone is very nice but even so you easily feel invisible as no one is really interested in you. And as I didn’t have any friends over there I was always walking around by myself and for the first time in my life I had a sense of loneliness. And for some reason I couldn’t even dream anymore. I went so far that at some point I tried to force my dreams back; I was thinking of specific things I wanted to dream about when I was falling asleep. Of course that didn’t work.

When I was a little girl I had this recurring nightmare that followed me for years, where I saw from afar how my sisters were caught in a maze. But I couldn’t help them. As a teenager I had, as so many children my age, a lot of exciting Harry Potter dreams.

It was never my dream to become a musician, and even today I’m not sure if this job is going to make me happy in the long run. My parents tried to put me off this path but in the end they let me do what I wanted.

Of course it helped that I was very successful from the start. I never doubted myself because everything I tried worked out. I jumped from success to success without really thinking about it. Until I recorded an album that was so bad that I had to throw the recordings out.They were simply awful. It was an insight that caught me off guard and turned my life upside down. Those songs were really really bad. I lost all confidence in my abilities as a musician. It was a nightmare, a shock for my ego.

But in hindsight that shock was very good for me. I was so shaken in my role as a musician that that I took a six months’ timeout from recording my album. I had been thinking about trying something other than music for a very long time. That’s why over the past years, In between my tours, I kept taking cooking classes and even worked in a restaurant for a while. The most important thing I learned there was that cooking is very very hard work. That’s how my ego started working properly again. Instead of giving up on my career I re-discovered my joy for music and started to record my new album. Since then I left Los Angeles for London - and I started dreaming again. However my dreams became more american. Or how else can I interpret that recently I dreamed of driving on american highways?

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Laura Marling

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“I was dealing with a lot of shit, and feeling like I wasn’t part of the planet in any way. I was like, what the fuck am I doing with my life? I had to think, am I interesting? If I took the music away, and the travel away, and I had to sit down and actually chat to somebody, would I be able to do it? The conclusion that I came to is that I would. But I don’t need to. It makes me really grateful that I do what I do. It fits me pretty perfectly.” — Laura Marling for DIY by Mike Massaro

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“A lot of people – my sisters in particular – are always like: ‘What is wrong with you? Why do you never contact us?’” she says. “And we’re really close! Like: ‘How are you so heartless?’ I used to hear that a lot: ‘You are heartless.’ That’s from people who loved me. Or being accused of having a lack of empathy. And then on that one morning, it was like: ‘Ahhhh!’ Because people want to know they are loved by whoever is around them and I didn’t really offer that to anybody.” Marling’s voice wobbles. “Oh God, it makes me sad even talking about it.”

But she has changed now? “Definitely,” she replies. (via uptownhags)

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Laura Marling - Short Movie

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Laura Marling has announced her follow-up to 2013’s Once I Was an Eagle. The new LP is titled Short Movie, and will be released on March 23 via Virgin EMI; that’s the artwork, above.

Check out the tracklist below.

Short Movie:

01. Warrior 02. False Hope 03. I Feel Your Love 04. Walk Alone 05. Strange 06. Don’t Let Me Bring You Down 07. Easy 08. Gurdjieff’s Daughter 09. Divine 10. How Can I 11. Howl At the Moon 12. Short Movie 13. Worship

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I’ve always been told that I’m an old soul. And I’m not. I just have a deep voice and a stern face. I am actually young. I hadn’t had chance to stop and think about that before.

Laura Marling X (via ms-ale-db)