About Autre Ne Veut: Arthur Ashin is the American singer behind Autre Ne Veut.
I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we'll see. It could be cool, or it co...
I did a lot of choral music in high school, and that was kind of my primary, stable outlet for music because I didn't feel comfortable being a soloist. It was a cool, safe space for me musically.
In the '90s, it was cool to just like R&B. But I liked Nirvana and stuff, too.
I'm not good at interacting with people and am terrified to get onstage, so I just go up there, freak out and, most of the time, pack up and go home immediately after.
In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself some basic chords and started playing with friends. Guitar inherently lends itself to be guitar music, especially when you're not good at guitar.
There were no good bands in my town. You know, there's like this magic town where every kid started a band in high school, and half of them were good and have careers based on relationships built at that time? That wasn't what my life was like at all...
I don't think I'm an intentional liar, but I'm a little bit of an exaggerator sometimes. If I'm exaggerating, and the journalist exaggerates on top of that, then we end up in funny territory.
I'd rather proliferate funny little rumors than not.
Music, even if I ended up doing something different or do end up doing something different in the long run, it's just something that is life blood. If I'm not participating in some way, I feel like I'm wasting my time.
I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.
There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that's foolish. They're not really listening.
My mom is the type of mom who wonders why I haven't used my psychology degree to become a successful clinical psychologist.
I've never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of my head.
I've never been to a psychiatrist so have never gotten to the point where I could be formally diagnosed with any disorder. But I definitely have anxiety.
I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it permits me to do some of the stuff that I would want to be doing in a way that's more comfortable and doesn't break my internal rules. It expands the ...
I've always loved singing and the catharsis of it.
I wanted to make a record that worked against the hypnagogic paradigm, for sure.
There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.
There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.
I definitely have a little Woody Allen inside of me. That is true.
