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Viel Erfolg, bessere Produktion

"Katchi" hatte Nick Waterhouse zusammen mit seinem Freund Leon Bridges geschrieben. Der Remix kam dann zwar nur von Nick und Ofenbach - trotzdem teilten sich die beiden die Einnahmen für den Song. Und in gewisser Hinsicht hat "Katchi" also nicht nur Nicks Stimme in Europa berühmt gemacht - sondern auch die finanzielle Grundlage gegeben, um das vierte Album zu schreiben. 

"I wouldn't have been able to make my fourth album — self-titled — without that going down, because I don't know how aware people are that having a bunch of horns and back vocalists up and not being Bruno Mars is very expensive and hard to do as a touring, independent artist. " - Nick Waterhouse

Aber nicht nur damit wir einen satten Sound auf dem vierten Album haben, hat Nick das Geld verwendet - auch seine Leidenschaft für Platten - und damit seine Sammlung - wuchs weiter. Man muss sich halt auch mal was gönnen...

"That's been the battle since I was a kid. I remember the first job I got then I was 15, my mother was so made with me, because I would spend half my paycheck buying music." - Nick Waterhouse

An dieser Stelle einen kurzen Gruß an Nicks Mama - es hat sich doch gelohnt! Die ebneten nämlich unter anderem den Weg für ein wundervolles fünftes Studio Album, Promenade Blue.

Promenade Blue

Da Nick in Los Angeles natürlich am Meer aufgewachsen ist, stellt sich bei diesem Albumtitel natürlich auch direkt die Frage, ob die Musik vom Meer inspiriert wurde. 

"Promenade Blue is more like blue as a mood, like a tinge, an atmosphere and there is a lot of blue notes in my music and there's the blues in my music. And I started to think about it as this... — all these songs seemed to have this thread going through it. So it seemed like an appropriate title." - Nick Waterhouse

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Zeitlose Musik

Mit aktuell 35 scheint Nick Waterhouse trotzdem - zumindest musikalisch - eine alte Seele zu sein. Manchmal wundert man sich beim Hören seiner Musik doch ein wenig, dass er noch so jung ist - zumindest ist das ein gängiges Klischee was Rhythm and Blues angeht.

"I mean, I don't really think I play a genre. I think I'm influenced by rhythm and blues, but I think that genres came after music. And a lot of people forget that because they're all forced to be consumers before they are enjoyers of things. And you can learn to transcend that, you can think outside of categorizing something before you get really engaged in it. It almost reminds me of people who say like 'I don't really have a type but m< ideal boyfriend or girlfriend would be this and that...' How are you ever going to meet somebody and look at them across the room and just fall in love." - Nick Waterhouse

Die Sache mit den Genres und Schubladen mag zwar engstirnig und altbacken sein - Nick Waterhouse schafft es glücklicherweise schon von Anfang an ein breites Publikum anzusprechen - und das bereits lange vor "Katchi". 

"It was pretty interesting. Starting in San Francisco, we were playing a lot of underground clubs, and it was a lot of 18 to 25-year-olds. But then as soon as I started playing slightly different rooms there, it was like — I think that my music feels universal — so we had everybody from 18 to 75-year-olds... And it has always kind of stayed that way — the audience has stayed pretty broad. And I really love knowing that. I love knowing that I'm not a part of a marketing world. I'm not a part of the cool Pitchfork-approved artists that's like more like a social scene."- Nick Waterhouse

"Records should put you in another world..."

...They can astrally project, unlock memories." schrieb Nick Waterhouse auf Social Media zum Release von Promenade Blue. Könnte man also sagen, dass Platten für den Musiker in gewisser Weise wie eine Art Seelenverwandte sind?

"Yeah, they're tunnels. Wittgenstein talks about the beetle in the box, right? There everybody's looking down into the box and none else can see in, but they're describing it to the person next to them. I record is a glance into that box. If it's a good record, I’ll listen, or I can have these emotions. But not only that — they end up like projecting their own experiences and emotions on to that layer and really, what it is, it's like ringing a bell where the wave links up with another but for three and a half minutes. And that's what I think a song is kind of supposed to be. It's going back to the Greeks, trying to tell stories that feel universal — roaming the countryside and singing these recitations of stories, you know, everybody wasn't Ulysses, but they could identify with him." - Nick Waterhouse