Diary, guitar, mic, laptop – each shapes the German-Ghanaian singer and songwriter’s creative output: intuitive, reflective, analogue-rooted, and emotionally precise...
Songwriting Survival Kit
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The duo DJ/producer Sepalot and songwriter/poet Angela Aux share the essential gear that’s helped shape their upcoming debut ‘Mixtape Suite’...
The electro producer combines tools from both the analog and digital worlds in order to shape his unique hybrid sound...
Uncover a creative arsenal that includes vintage guitars, coastal living and visual inspiration taken from YouTube, movies and TV shows...
Join Hope’s singer and songwriter as she sits on her piano stool facing a wall – it’s where the magic...
With her eyes firmly on the world around her, we learn all about the London alt-pop artist’s essential writing gear...
We explore the Canadian rock singer’s essential writing toolbox, including coffee, chords, space and the therapy of pen and paper...
From the kitchen table to the basement studio, one-half of the sister duo describes the essentials that shape their sound...
The folk singer-songwriter selects the five key ingredients that helped him put together his soothing new album ‘The Summer Isles’...
Curious to know more about the singer-songwriter’s process, we asked her to reveal those items she just can’t write without...
Starting with his Gibson acoustic guitar before moving to his Treehouse studio, the Feeder frontman reveals his essential writing gear...
We hear from the indie-rocker from Sunderland who’s using his guitar, iPad and Apple Mac to create his rousing music...
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