Enfnts Terribles

Hi Isolde, congratulations on your recent release. How does it feel now Delidomia is out

Good. I am very surprised with how good the reactions to the EP were. I didn’t expect it and it surprises me that people are telling me that I’m doing so well, while I’m already moving on, working on my first album. I’m just continuing with what I’m doing and it keeps going on.

In 2018, you’ve debuted with Illusje, which sounded slightly more jazzy. What was the trigger of the sound evolution?

It wasn’t intentional. For Delidomia, I was way more involved in the production aspect of the EP, while I’ve worked more spontaneously on Illusje. For the new songs, we took more takes and produced it more what led to the fact that it sounds less jazzy. For me personally, I’ve never intended to change the sound, but it happened naturally.

Some weeks ago, you released the video of your fantastic single “Olso”. What story do you want to tell your audience?

“Olso” is the first song of the EP and is for me the entrance to the ‘Alice In Wonderland’-Delidomia world. In the clip, I discover and enter this world. At the beginning, I see all these fantastic things and I become greedy, but once I’m really in the world, I get a feeling of suffocation, which comes with a lot of confrontations. At the end, we wanted to disrupt that feeling and atmosphere of darkness and show the light within.

The video is directed by Tobi Jonson, who does a lot of your visuals. Tell us a little bit more about collaborating with him.

Tobias is, for over five years now, one of my best friends and we had the plan to work together. I think that our two worlds really came together in Delidomia and I am happy we collaborated, but I don’t know if we’ll work together for the album. The video is visually very dark and heavy, what suits Delidomia perfectly, but as my music is currently labelled as very dark, I think I want to do something different for the album. We’ll see…

Are you planning to release another project this year?

I’m currently writing songs and there is probably an album coming sometime next year. At the end of the year, I’m planning to release some singles but we’ll see what happens. I’m not really into having too many plans and organizing big campaigns. I really just want to get my music out when it’s really ready to be released. I’m curious myself how it’ll turn out.

Something with Sylvie Kreusch and Maarten Devoldere maybe?

I’m actually living with them so we were just jamming a bit. (laughs) I really want to collaborate with someone in the future, but I don’t have any concrete plans yet. Collaborating with someone is a whole process and is a lot of work, but maybe with Maarten… ‘Maarten, could we work on something together?’.

Bring it on! We can’t wait to hear what you have in store for us next!

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