This episode features snippets from interviews with musicians from the HOMOPHONIX podcast.
The aim of the HOMOPHONIX podcast is to introduce songwriters and the stories behind some of their songs. These brave independent music makers identify as part of the LGBTIQ+ community. The interviews centre around their music, not their gender or sexuality. There are some amazing stories to be told, from some incredible talent, through some beautiful tracks. Each artist’s episode contains 3 tracks and some chat in under 30 minutes.
The choice to do this podcast is not to further segregate the queer from the straight community, but rather to help normalise the human experience that is reflected in song. To share our thoughts as creative LGBTIQ people to each other, and others. Music has the power to heal, to inspire, to bring people together. There are still places in the world where being of a different sexuality is not accepted, is feared, is frowned upon, or is illegal. LGBTIQ youth face a much greater risk of depression, substance use, and suicide, due to the bullying and isolation they experience from their peers, their families, or society at large. Things are changing, and for the better – if any of these artists and their music can help make someone’s life more hopeful and positive, then that makes creating this network and podcast worth it.
Most of the people you will hear, you may not have heard, or even heard of. People who are not ‘household’ names, who are not backed by large labels with huge promotional powers. In fact, it’s their independence that makes them powerful. These writers are diligently producing their own music stemming from a deep desire and instinct to share their experiences and thoughts.
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Below are the artists featured in this episode in order of appearance. Their artist name, location and song featured is listed beneath their photo. Please click on their photo or name to find out more information and access their full interview on Homophonix.com
RAINBOW RIOTS – Stockholm, Sweden
Song featured: “Freedom”
MANDY RICH – Stockholm, Sweden
Song featured: “Regnbågarnas Stad ( City of Rainbows )”
KRISTIAN KASPERSEN – Stockholm, Sweden
Song featured: “Queer at Heart”
JESSIE LLOYD – Melbourne, Australia
Song featured: “Other Side of the Room”
ZAN – Melbourne, Australia
Song featured: “Salafi Secrets”
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CREDITS
This episode was produced by Vinn Pitcher of Homophonix.com
Editing assistance from Kim Andersson
Executive production and intro/outro by Lynn Casper
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Young Kaii – Providence, Rhode Island [Episode #262]
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Young Kaii is one of those rare artists that effortlessly brings raw emotions using just her talent and her powerful lyrics. In this episode, Homoground correspondent Maia Macdonald chats with Young Kaii about the life of being an artist, smoothies, swimming with dolphins and choosing happiness.
Songs featured: “Careless”, “Speechless” and “Memories”
You can stream the episode above, on homoground.com or via your favorite podcast app.
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Official Website
Instagram @iamyoungkaii
Twitter @YoungKaii
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CREDITS
This interview was recorded and produced by Maia Macdonald.
Executive Producer: Lynn Casper
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Sarah Jaffe – Texas / New York [Episode 252]
Growth, evolution, and what’s next with the prolific artist Sarah Jaffe. She discuss creative process, collaborating with other artists, sampling a mystery voicemail for her EP, her life in Texas and New York, and more.
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Transcription of Sarah’s story:
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Find out more about our transcription project here.CREDITS
This episode was recorded and produced by Maia Macdonald.
Executive Production and end credits hosted by Lynn Casper.
Intro Jingle by data.data.data
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Sinzere – Calgary, Alberta, Canada [Episode #254]
Tune in to episode #254 to learn more about Afro-Canadian hip hop artist Sinzere as she talks about very personal and intimate life experiences including what its been like growing up with abuse in Calgary as a queer Black woman, the importance of transparency, and how music was always there for her. We go behind the music learning more about the inspiration for the songs featured as well as the music video for her song “Posers” off her latest album “Ghetto Gabby”.
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Transcription of Sinzere’s story:
My artist name is Sinzere, obviously derives from the word sincere. What I did is I just switched the letter of “C” with the letter “Z” just to kind of give it its own identity, as a cool way to represent everything that I am. I’m very sincere to my artistry. It made a lot of sense, in that aspect. I go by the name of Sinzere. Music has kind of been with me since I was a young girl. I remember at a very young age, like around five, four or five, it was kind of like a way to escape the things that I was going through at that time. It’s always kind of been there, through my story when I really got into music and started recording records and working on production. I would say about 2012, it was self-start, it was DIY. In the beginning it was a notepad and ideas and a beat from a stereo. As I progressed and as I learned more and started taking it a little more seriously, I graduated from that to a friend’s basement, to a computer with computer headphones that had a microphone attached, super amateur, and I graduated from that to a friend’s bathroom. It started growing where, you know, we had maybe an apple tower, and a professional microphone and more things to work with. We used programs like Logic, and finally graduating to a state of the art studio. It started with just a notepad and a beat.
You can read the full transcript of Sinzere’s story on our patreon.
CREDITS
This episode was recorded and produced by Erin McGregor of Queer Public.
Executive Production and end credits hosted by Lynn Casper.
Intro Jingle by data.data.data
Interview transcription by Major Davis.
Transcriptions made possible by Queer Public Podcast who let us use their transcription software.
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