New Zealand Music Features — In Conversation

Three months after the release of Violet Hirst's debut album Donegal, Vera checks in with Violet to discuss post release blues, crawling on stage and sampling neighbourhood wind chimes.

"When I produce music, it’s so important that the music is felt, and reaching those frequencies that are hitting a point in me. I don’t care about the technicality. All of my previous music is mixed properly, but it’s all off ear and whether I feel my body getting into that space. That’s it. I’m not trying to do anything other than create the feeling."   Violet Hirst spent the evening with Vanessa Worm to talk about the making and release of her latest album Mosaics, and to explore her freewheeling expression of self through her music and movement.

"We used to make steel, but now we make music." Across the span of one year, within two seperate meetings, Violet Hirst sat down with Tāmaki Makaurau (and now Ōtautahi)-based band Ringlets, who yesterday released their debut self-titled album on US label Mutual Skies. 

..."With And In the Darkness, Hearts Aglow, it felt like there was no other place to go other than internal. To go into this subterranean zone and excavate the soul..." - Natalie Mering (Weyes Blood)