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Myself With OthersAuthor: Adam Shatz
Myself with Others is a podcast about the life of ideas, featuring conversations with creative minds in arts, culture and writing. Each of these conversations is a portrait, exploring the place between thought and expression, in the words of Lou Reed, where life is lived, creation begins and new worlds are imagined. Language: en Genres: Arts, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Arto Lindsay, part 2
Episode 10
Tuesday, 25 January, 2022
Arto Lindsay is a singer-songwriter who divides his time between Sao Paolo and New York City, and one of the most influential figures in the New York Downtown scene that emerged in the early 1980s. A member of the “No Wave” band DNA and of the avant-pop group Ambitious Lovers, Lindsay went on to become an almost romantic crooner of samba, on albums like Mundo Civilizado – even as he continues to make deliberately disruptive noises on his guitar, an instrument he’s deliberately never learned to play. This combination of pop intuition and brash experimentalism has made him a darling of the art world. In our conversation, Lindsay spoke to me about his youth in Brazil as the son of progressive American missionaries; about living under the military dictatorship and about his early years in New York City and his friendship with Jean-Michel Basquiat. He also explained why religion, like music, is all about sex, and why he still refuses to take music lessons.Links and References:Downtown 81 - Kino LorberAmbitious Lovers / EnvyMundo CivilizadoCrossing Music’s Borders in Search of Identity - New York TimesHeiner Goebbels: The Man in the Elevator - ECM
