SARAH BLASKO: CINEMA SONGS

Award winning singer-songwriter, SARAH BLASKO, has released a new alt-folk EP ‘Cinema Songs’, featuring interpretations of her favorite songs of the cinema. Artrocker talks to Blasko about the record and her song selections. ‘Well, all of the movies I love - with the exception of Xanadu. I love the song but not the movie! Also, Fame is more a childhood favourite, Annie hall is pretty much my favourite film of all time and Cabaret and The Sound Of Music are two of my favourite screen musicals.’



Sarah’s music is melodic and reflective of the world she’s travelling through. Inspirations behind the songs come from the need to distance herself from that world. ‘I usually start with a feeling and a sound. It could be the sound of a few chords on the piano, and then I write from what the mood of the sound conveys to me.’

This left Artrocker to wonder, if all her records have been born and written in different places and each of these albums have a distinctly different sound, what has living and working in Los Angeles, New Zealand and Sweden brought to her music, and also, her style? She admits that where you write and record really affect on the creative outcome. ‘It seeps in somehow, even if subtly. It has to do with working with people from different musical backgrounds as well.’

And her clothing style is affected, she buys vintage wherever she goes. Like her music, her style could be seen as stories of different places. And do her stylistic influences change as her music does? ‘Yes. Different things catch your eye [when in a different place] and you want to try different approaches to express different emotions.’ Overall, she describes her clothing style as ‘old-fashioned’. At the moment, she particularly loves clothing from the 40s, and her favourite designer is Miu Miu. Coincidental, perhaps, that this season’s collection of the label carries a strong 1940s silhouette and feel to it.

All of Sarah’s movie picks happen to be quite stylish. Of course, her style inspirations are the likes of Holly Golightly in ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ or Scarlet in ‘Gone with the Wind’.

For more information on Sarah and her new EP click here and check out the archived video of ‘No Turning Back’

www.sarahblasko.com