When asked whether the more electronic sounds on Vagabon were in any way an attempt to move beyond the indie-rock scene with all of its hangups, Tamko describes the shift in sound as a "rejection of being pigeonholed." Vagabon is the stage name of Laetitia Tamko. Laetitia Tamko's second album, the soon-to-be-released, self-titled, Originally published on October 18, 2019 7:51 pm, Tamko tries out keyboards at a music shop in Brooklyn. And that pissed me off. TAMKO: I have no interest anymore of making myself small, to not be intimidating. January 6th 2021 by Mike LeSuer. ", "Flood" is about realizing that good can come out of our fragility. She was born in Cameroon, but she's lived in and around New York City ever since she was a pre-teen. Today, Tamko shared a new video for the Infinite Worlds track “Fear & Force.” Director Zadie shot the clip beautifully on 35mm film. Review: Vagabon, 'Infinite Worlds' Laetitia Tamko sings and plays guitar, synths, keyboard and drums on one of the more anticipated indie-rock records of the new year. As we sit in her red minivan and play songs from Vagabon, Tamko tells me that the beat for "Full Moon in Gemini" was a "happy accident. ", "I want to make you / A flood in my / Flood in my heart," Tamko sings on the bright and synthy "Flood." Well, then, never mind, never mind, never mind. CHANG: The 26-year-old records as Vagabon. indietronica Vagabon is Cameroon-born multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer Laetitia Tamko (born 25 October 1992 in Yaoundé, Cameroon) currently based in New York City. [2], Aos 17 anos, os pais de Tamko compraram para ela um violão Fender da Costco. She released her full-length debut, Infinite Worlds, in February 2017. Much of Infinite Worlds, the first album Tamko recorded as Vagabon, was her with a guitar, singing achingly introspective songs about the search for home and safety. Here, Tamko, doesn't so much chide the relatable relationship boomerang as self-destructive, she just marks it as just something worth noting. Tamko decided to open for a few Jamila Woods dates at the end of 2017. "It's funny, I just wanted to be a little bit extra, kind of showy about it," Tamko says. And I'm like, who's Phil Collins? 'Reservamo-nos o direito de ficar cheios quando estamos sozinhos', ela canta na música “Every Woman”. "I'm constantly thinking about 'no suffer porn, no suffer porn, no suffer porn ... that is not how I want to be talked about," Tamko said. "I think subconsciously it does," Tamko answers. CHANG: Her second self-titled album is out this week. Making Vagabon was painful because of how much pressure Tamko puts on herself; she says there was a whole period of time when she was so creatively paralyzed that she couldn't open her computer to work on arranging songs. "I don't know if I'm breaking any singing rules, but to me it doesn't matter," Tamko says. Tamko mais tarde frequentou o City College of New York e se formou na Grove School of Engineering em 2015. Nonesuch Records — home to a deep roster of musical veterans like Rhiannon Giddens, Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson — will release the album. I just made an amazing record. She describes it this way: "If I try to cover a song, I'll play it so wrong that I'll write a song. "Why can't I say that?". "I've had bandmates laugh at me because I didn't know how to speak, like, music language," Tamko says. An uncharacteristic behavior, perhaps, for a person who would describe herself as a shy kid. Vagabon is Lætitia Tamko. Tamko is no longer friends with the classmate from engineering school who inspired her to start songwriting; he told her she was "bad at guitar," and people were only interested in her music because she was a black woman. After you finish your degree, do whatever you want,'" Tamko says. And suddenly, the world opened up. $10.32. After she got back from that trip, Tamko says, "for many reasons that feel a little too personal to share, it became unlivable in my parents' house." Whichever way they go. "I feel like I made an amazing record." Laetitia Tamko naît à Yaoundé, au Cameroun en 1994 [1]. "I'm African," Tamko says. The copywriter was right to realize that the phrasing was striking, though, even if they had not gotten to the satisfying second clause — "It's just that I was so damn mad" — which hits in such a way that it makes you realize exactly the kind of mad Tamko is talking about. LAETITIA TAMKO: (Singing) I've been hiding in the smallest space. "I don't have it in me to give everyone everything / Take what you need and go" Tamko sings on "Alive and a Well," the final track of Infinite Worlds. She pauses, exasperated. She says her group text with musician friends Mitski Miyawaki (who performs as just Mitski) and Sasami Ashworth (who performs as SASAMI) "has saved [her] life so many times." Tamko says when she recorded it, she was uncomfortable with how deep her voice was. Her parents eventually surprised her with an acoustic guitar when she was 17, just about to graduate. [1] Tendo vindo de um país de língua francesa, Laetitia não sabia falar inglês no começo, mas aprendeu rapidamente e logo pôde cursar a Westchester High School com sucesso. Born In Yaoundé, Mfoundi, Centre, Cameroon Vagabon is Cameroon-born multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer Laetitia Tamko (born 25 October 1992 in Yaoundé, Cameroon) currently based in New York City. "And then when I was putting together tours and I was working on recordings, I kept going back to her because ... she's really gracious and honest about her experience.". This page was last edited on 11 March 2020, at 06:53. And I'm like, 'Who's Phil Collins? Tamko can remember the first time she realized music made her feel better than anything else. She gets visibly emotional as she recalls this time, but prefers to keep the details private. This page was last edited on 17 September 2020, at 08:25. Tamko walks with Oliver Hill, a session player on keys, guitar and viola, in Brooklyn. Vagabon performs "Every Woman" from her self-titled 2019 album, available on Nonesuch Records. It’ll either come in a harrowing lyric that sticks in the conscience, or it’ll arrive from a soft drone that gradually envelops"- DIY Magazine "Infinite Worlds" out Feb 24 2017 via Father Daughter Records Reason To Believe (ft. Courtney Barnett), released 07 January 2021 TAMKO: (Singing) When you know that it's done but you won't leave it alone, leave it alone. Alice Glass Teases Debut Album with “Suffer and Swallow” Single and Video. During boring and lonely 12-hour shifts at her mother's parcel business on the weekends, she flipped on her webcam and played covers with her newest obsession. "They're humble in their actions, but they're not humble.". After she left her family, Tamko spent her days working as a software engineer in Long Island City, and spent her nights playing DIY shows in the insular and overwhelmingly white Brooklyn indie and punk scene. "When I was deciding to finalize the deal I did with Father/Daughter, I had a really long phone call with her about her experience and about the things she learned from working with this label," Tasha says over the phone. I'm in this music thing where I'm new and I haven't been in the scene for that long. It’ll either come in a harrowing lyric that sticks in the conscience, or it’ll arrive from a soft drone that gradually envelops"- DIY Magazine "Infinite Worlds" out Feb 24 2017 via Father Daughter Records Reason To Believe (ft. Courtney Barnett), released 07 January 2021 WIKI الصفحه دى يتيمه, حاول تضيفلها لينك فى صفحات تانيه متعلقه بيها.. معلومات شخصيه الميلاد 25 اكتوبر 1992 (29 سنة) . Released in February 2017, it would be her last record under the Father/Daughter Records banner, as her self-titled follow-up would be released through Nonesuch Records in 2019. I would put my guitar in my car when everyone was asleep so that I wouldn't get questions about where I was going. She started writing songs towards the end of college, inspired by a classmate, and soon she was playing punk shows at night and driving up to the Hudson Valley on the weekends to record. "I felt so displaced. And a lot of these people went to school for it and studied jazz and had all of these, like, academic accolades to their musicianship. Find Courtney Barnett online. Este texto é disponibilizado nos termos da licença. TAMKO: My faves are not humble bragging. Laetitia Tamko is the singer, songwriter, and guitarist of Brooklyn band Vagabon. As the story goes on, though, the relationship frays. They always sound dope. [3] Em 2014, ela começou a enviar suas músicas para o Bandcamp sob o pseudônimo de Vagabon. Equal parts smoky croon and swooping shout, her vocals hook listeners right away and don't let go until the final notes of the album trail away. She was fielding other offers, from big artists that she knew personally, but ultimately she chose to tour with Woods, whom she hadn't yet met. Tasha said it felt especially important to hear another black woman tell her it's all right not to compromise, especially early in her career. I'm just different.". Esta página foi editada pela última vez às 02h10min de 4 de março de 2020. Laetitia Tamko – vocals (tracks 3, 4) Dylan Allard – vocals (tracks 3, 4, 7) ... You can help Wikipedia by expanding it This page was last edited on 10 January 2021, at 01:45 (UTC). For her 2019 fall tour with Angel Olsen, Tamko will play venues that can hold more than 2,000 people; she toured with Courtney Barnett and Julien Baker last year. "Fear & Force" by Vagabon off her album "Infinite Worlds" available now on Father/Daughter Records. NPR's Jenny Gathright caught up with Tamko in New York, and they talked about how the record shows a new level of musical confidence. The question was never whether she was welcome in rock or any popular music genre, for that matter. Tamko's parents eventually surprised her with an acoustic guitar when she was 17, just about to graduate. Her Wikipedia entry describes her as a “Cameroonian-American autodidact multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and music producer based in New York City.” I love autodidact multi-instrumentalists. ", (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "IN THE AIR TONIGHT"). Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. "I came back around / Knowing you'd wreck my s*** all over again / It's funny how I'll never regret / Going low for you," she sings on "Secret Medicine." Pop Music. Much of Laetitia Tamko's first album was her with a guitar singing about the search for home. I'm black," Tamko says. The song starts with a kind of swirly mix of strings and synth, but when the chorus kicks in, this trap-influenced beat comes along, too, and Tamko's vocals wind through the newfound structure. The others have to stand up for each other. You should have an easier time getting in at SXSW. TAMKO: (Singing) I was invited to the party. Vagabon doesn't necessarily "defy genre," to borrow an overwrought cliche, but wonders why genre even comes up when there's so much more to talk about. In May 2017, Tamko couldn't help but notice that one of Spotify's subway ads bore a passing resemblance to a lyric from "The Embers," which opens Infinite Worlds. With no release date yet, the electro-industrial songwriter’s long-anticipated debut may still be imminent. Her lyrics, in particular, were so idiosyncratic that they make a listener grateful for Tamko's strange mind. GATHRIGHT: Tamko says making this record was hard because she was using tools that were new to her. We have to, like, stand up for each other. Copyright 2019 NPR. In her short career, Vagabon has been associated with indie rock, but her new music relies on less on the guitar and more on synths, sequenced drums and strings. "I appreciate that, but I'm really not here to change any world.". On the new album's "Every Woman," Tamko lets herself sink into the lowest part of her register to sing about generational exhaustion. What does it take to feel fully alive without getting eaten alive in the process? Tamko played a cross-country tour the summer after graduation. The music of Vagabon is perfect if you want to get a little heady about this tension. That production lends a just-right balance to a song about staying still ("And I'll stay, stay with you in our bed / It feels so, so good") and knowing the moment won't last. ياوندى . Aos 13 anos, sua família se mudou para Nova Iorque para que sua mãe pudesse cursar direito. "I'm African," Tamko says. It's what I put out into the world and it's what they collectively have put back into me.". Infinite Worlds is the debut studio album by Cameroon-born musician Laetitia Tamko, under the stage name Vagabon. She worked through the accompanying instructional DVD many times over and supplemented with UltimateGuitar and YouTube. Tamko and reigning pop queen Ariana Grande make really different music, but Vagabon and thank u, next, Grande's 2019 album about love and loss, both succeed for one of the same reasons: It is refreshing to hear songs about deeply felt emotions, written from the perspective of a woman who is invested in not just being kind to others, but also kind to herself. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Infinite Worlds is the debut studio album by Cameroon-born musician Laetitia Tamko, under the stage name Vagabon. You know I hate it like that. She "adapted to that to make them feel more at ease," she says, but watching award shows on TV had given her lofty private goals. "By the time I sat down to make this record, I went from not being sure I'd be OK to touring the world like, a bazillion times and doing the only thing that makes me happy. By Hua Hs u. "And knowing that I could do that too, to someone else. She paid everyone. She packed that demand into 2017's Infinite Worlds, Vagabon's debut album. And they were like, whoa, these drums are very Phil Collins. Tamko quit her day job at the end of March 2017, a month after Infinite Worlds was released, confident enough from the album's success that she could pay her bills as a full-time musician. What I want to do with any sort of power or influence that I garner is to just shout out the people who are also deserving but because of their race, their orientation, their sexual identity - because of all these things, they somehow feel slept on. "I'm constantly thinking about 'no suffer porn, no suffer porn, no suffer porn ... that is not how I want to be talked about," she adds. ", "I'm just kind of dragging the snare through all these different plugins that I don't know what they are, I don't know what they're doing," Tamko explains. "I think it's ... for some reason, a compelling story to see how a person like me has been hurt, or feels hurt, or feels damned or doomed," Tamko says. Tamko's second album, the soon-to-be-released, self-titled Vagabon, is written from the perspective of someone who found not just the space to call home, but also a firm grip on her artistic identity, and with it, the luxury of being interested in what happens when carefully set boundaries dissolve. She recalls stumbling across a tweet where someone said she sang like she had peanut butter stuck at the roof of her mouth. I have friends like that because I'm that friend. "And a lot of those people went to school for it and studied jazz ... and I thought that was cool. 1880 New Zealand Laetesia prominens Millidge, 1988 New Zealand Laetesia pseudamoena Blest Vink, 2003 New Zealand Laetesia pulcherrima Blest 1879 New Zealand Lae She gives a self-assured laugh; she thought the image was hilarious. [6] Lançada como um vídeo único e oficial que pode ser visto em seu site, a música é um manifesto de uma jovem feminista. Does it also matter to her that her audience see her face, and know she's black? TAMKO: I was feeling myself in a different way, to be honest. Making, Tamko is not interested in being the so-called "Cameroonian girl in indie rock." ", In the photo, Laetitia Tamko sits by herself against a deep orange backdrop, wearing a sleeveless black top and a hexagonal blue hat handwoven by the L.A. hatmaker Ariana Valenzuela. I wanted to impress them.". All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Biographie. Watch the video for Home Soon from Vagabon's Vagabon for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. The question was never whether she was welcome in rock or any popular music genre, for that matter. She released an EP, Persian Garden, on Bandcamp in 2014. Vagabon performs "Every Woman" from her self-titled 2019 album, available on Nonesuch Records. GATHRIGHT: Tamko found an early musical home in New York's DIY music scene. Laetitia Tamko nasceu em Iaundé, Camarões. Laetitia Tamko, mais conhecida por seu nome artístico Vagabon, é uma multi-instrumentista, cantautora e produtora de música autodidata camaronesa-americana, baseada em Nova Iorque Biografia Primeiros anos. "It made me so emotional to read that because at that time I felt like I was so ... fragile, I could really seep through people's fingers. Both of those artists appear on Forever Underground, alongside a cast of collaborators that also includes Makonnen, Vagabon's Laetitia Tamko, GABI, Nadine's Nadia Hulett, Foxes In … "Fear & Force" by Vagabon off her album "Infinite Worlds" available now on Father/Daughter Records. She's self-taught, and she hadn't been playing for that long. For all of Tamko's emphasis on artistic independence, she also seems intensely interested in community. [7], «Girl of the Moment: Laetitia Tamko, AKA Vagabon, Has This Indie Rock Star Thing Under Control», «Freak-Folk Rising: Vagabon's Laetitia Tamko Tames Her Demons in Real Time», «Laetitia Tamko leaps into new sounds and new horizons», «Vagabon Changes Name of New Album, Announces New Release Date», https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vagabon&oldid=57658678, Atribuição-CompartilhaIgual 3.0 Não Adaptada (CC BY-SA 3.0) da Creative Commons. TAMKO: (Singing) So you moved to Colorado. She remembers screaming when she found the instrument in the bathroom (still in its box from Costco) and then setting to work learning how to play it. Much of Laetitia Tamko's first album was her with a guitar singing about the search for home. If I learn a fifth of an African song on guitar, I will learn it the wrong way and I'll make my own thing. We don't want to go to your function. She remembers screaming when she found the instrument in the bathroom (still in its box from Costco) and then setting to work learning how to play it. À l'âge de 13 ans, sa famille s'installe à New York [1] pour que sa mère puisse faire des études de droit [2].Laetitia ne parlait pas anglais au début, mais apprend vite, puis étudie avec succès à la Westchester High School. Tamko had fun making the bridge of "Flood": A fill of booming drums takes us into the chorus; It's satisfying, but definitely dramatic. "Most of your music will date back to that place.". "I guess what I'm trying to say is that this album is me doing whatever the f*** I want because I can do whatever I want, you know?". Her Wikipedia entry describes her as a “Cameroonian-American autodidact multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and music producer based in New York City.” I love autodidact multi-instrumentalists. Tamko's musical reference points are just different. Or, as Tamko puts it, "How do I deal with interpersonal relationships as a person ... whose comfort and safety can easily feel threatened? GATHRIGHT: Tamko describes her new album as a flex. TAMKO: (Singing) You know me better than that. There's an interlude in "Wits About You" — a song about not being able to let something or someone go — where Tamko makes a thinly-veiled critique of the indie-rock scene in which she found a fraught home. This slipperiness offers an answer to the political pressure that critics tend to put on Tamko's art. "I don't believe they knew how seriously I would take that.". Tamko was born 26 years ago in Cameroon, but has lived in and around New York City since she was a pre-teen; she's part of the generation that saw hip-hop become pop. "This album is resilience and strength. There's a pragmatic reason musician Laetitia Tamko goes … "You know, it's my voice and it's deeply personal and I don't want it to be perfect.". I went from not being sure I'd be OK to touring the world, like, a bazillion times and doing the only thing that makes me happy. GATHRIGHT: It does sound a lot like that iconic drum break in Collins's 1981 smash hit "In The Air Tonight. PHIL COLLINS: (Singing) Because I can feel it... TAMKO: I still don't know who Phil Collins is. Vagabon is Lætitia Tamko. Her family was in the Cameroonian capital city of Yaoundé, where she was born and spent much of her childhood. "I'm naturally soft spoken," Laetitia Tamko says. Tamko lived with her parents while she attended the engineering program at the City College of New York. GATHRIGHT: It's an attitude Tamko's adopting, too. JENNY GATHRIGHT, BYLINE: Laetitia Tamko had long dreamed of being a musician, but her parents told her there was no room for a starving artist in the family. الصفحه دى يتيمه, حاول تضيفلها لينك فى صفحات تانيه متعلقه بيها.. معلومات شخصيه الميلاد 25 اكتوبر 1992 (29 سنة) . Tamko says that "it calls you in and invites a generous listen.". Laetitia Tamko also shares plans for a live stream event scheduled for January 29. [5], Seu segundo álbum auto-intitulado (Nonesuch, 2019) é auto-produzido e explora novos sons. "And I think that's why a lot of times when I'm speaking to anybody in the media, I lead with black joy, because that feels more radical and productive to me than, 'Of course that s*** happened.'". "Because of who I represent and at what time I decided to share this music, it just became this narrative put on me that I was gonna change the world of indie rock," Tamko told The New York Times for its 2017 iteration of the time-old "women in rock" conversation. '", The drums are very Phil Collins. Laetitia Tamko is the Brooklyn-based musician behind the much buzzed about project, Vagabon. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. "But when I sing, I'm not soft spoken.". CHANG: The 26-year-old records as Vagabon. It was a Sunday, at a gathering called a reunion, in a circle of about 25 women, singing together. "That was the dream!". Laetitia Tamko nasceu em Iaundé, Camarões. She still lives on her own, but says she talks to her parents now, a thing she never expected to do again when she left. Ultimately, though, she lands on a much simpler answer. The family moved from Harlem to the Bronx, then to Westchester County, where Tamko attended high school. Vagabon is the stage name of Laetitia Tamko. Tamko has been re… read more View full artist profile But the phenomenon feels like it merits a more active phrasing. She first read the phrase "flood hands" in a book, though she can't remember which one. A maioria das músicas é escrita e tocada pela própria artista. I remember showing it to a friend when I first, like, laid down the demo. Cameroonian-american electro-pop musician, singer-songwriter. Youtubing, 'How to make hi-hats go fast.'". "I got a drummer from the jazz department at my college and a bassist that was recommended by him," Tamko says. To get pumped up to go into the studio and record, Tamko re-opened herself to music from the outside, and listened to a kind of "game day" mix of artists, mostly female rappers: early Nicki Minaj, Lil Kim. Tamko describes Vagabon as a flex: she plays many of the instruments you hear on it, and she learned the digital audio software Logic Pro so she could produce it almost entirely on her own (she is the sole producer credited on all but one song). "I grew up with a lot of people who were not interested in being self-aware," Tamko says. "And I remember showing it to a friend when I first laid down the demo, and they were like, 'Woah, these drums are very Phil Collins.' Vagabon’s music encompasses many styles; the Village Voice described it as “freak-folk” in 2016.