Displaying extra creativity in his left pinky finger than most of us will ever really feel in our complete lives, Cranium The Pierre took trip from getting some rays and baking delicious banana bread to steer us into his new much-anticipated launch BEBEYX3. Contemporary from cooking up a deal with with the wine-filled cherry tree nibbling LABUM, the massively creative Irish-based Stockholm-born artist tells us all with among the finest interviews we’ve performed all 12 months. Get these glasses on and let’s roll.

Llewelyn: Cranium The Pierre, how on this planet are you? Firstly, welcome to A&R Manufacturing facility and our digital sofa. Would you want a beverage and what can we get you? Firstly, how did you get your artist title? It’s a unbelievable musician’s title.

Cranium The Pierre: Good day Llewelyn! I’m feeling unbelievable thanks and I’m honored to be right here for this digital chat! I’m good for a beverage for now thanks, good friend. Ah my artist title, it began with me balding again in secondary college. My good friend began calling me Skalle Pierre (Pierre being my actual title) which is a pun on the fictional character Skalle Pär from Astrid Lindgrens ‘Ronja, the Robbers Daugher’. Skalle is Swedish for cranium, nevertheless it’s additionally a balding reference, therefore why my good friend thought it was hilarious. To be sincere, so did I and so I made it into my artists title. A few years later I made a decision to offer a extra worldwide flare and made it Cranium The Pierre!

Llewelyn: Alrighty. The place do you reside on planet Earth? I’m at present in SW London and it’s speculated to be summer season nevertheless it’s raining. Why do you keep the place you do…what makes it particular so that you can reside in?

Cranium The Pierre: Llewelyn my fellow earthling, I’m not too far-off from you, I’ve been residing in Dublin since 2020! I moved right here from Stockholm to review music at BIMM Dublin which I’m nonetheless doing, and I’m completely loving it. Not solely do I like my school and course however I’m completely in love with the gorgeous individuals of Eire, and the intimacy of Dublin. The Irish, are -in my experience- so effectively versed within the tremendous artwork of welcoming and embracing the brand new and completely different, and so they greet strangers with ease and compassion. There’s additionally pleasure and enthusiasm within the Dublin music scene that may’t actually be described, solely felt. The hard-working and extremely gifted youths of the town solely depart area for love and understanding, and the town is sufficiently small that if you wish to be part of it then all it’s important to do is come alongside. However hahaha sure it’s like solely raining right here on the minute as effectively!

Llewelyn: Okay, let’s chat about music. BEBEYX3, hip-hop and LGBTQ. How do all 3 combine and what was the inspiration behind the brand new launch? LABUM is doing fairly effectively it seems so we’re biting our lips right here in anticipation. Additionally, there’s a music video? Much more pleasure! Please…the ground is yours.

Cranium The Pierre: Thanks for the nice query! How does BEBEYX3, hip-hop and LGBTQ combine… hmm…effortlessly, I’d hope and say! That’s not supposed as a braggadocious assertion by the way in which, I like the truth that I’m a homosexual rapper however I and my life is a lot greater than that! In the end, all my creations are part of my lifelong job of documenting my life, a life I imagine to be effectively lived, and so I write about it, which embodies all elements of me. That features my love and need for males, however not roughly than another a part of me. I’m every little thing! In addition to, issues are manner cooler once they’re extra like easter-eggs anyway.

I can’t keep in mind an actual tune or artist that impressed me to make ‘BEBEYX3‘ to be sincere, a whole lot of occasions the method of creating the beat is what conjures up the theme, lyrics and the texture of my songs. I can confidently say although that the climate’s trace of summer season and profession milestones achieved on the time impressed the tune. And sure there’s a music video to go along with it and it’s attractive, if I’ll say so myself! It was shot by my very gifted good friend Joe Kelly and collectively we made one thing I’m very happy with, it’s positively my prettiest music video up to now!

Ah thanks LABUM and the world I created round it’s for sure my craziest challenge up to now and my mates and followers have been extremely type to it and me.

Llewelyn: Sounds From The Secret Orchard Periods. These sound like a dream! What’s the power discipline right here and had been you illuminated by being concerned?

Cranium The Pierre: That was my first ever actual interview and to be sincere with you, I used to be giddy past perception, and it reveals. It was fully a dream come true, and attending to be there with such gifted acts, crews, occasion coordinators, managers and many others was such an unbelievable expertise. I’d even have one thing thrilling with the SFSOS household in September!

Llewelyn: Music manufacturing. Some suppose it’s simple and a few suppose it’s exhausting. What’s it actually like and what ideas would you give kids who’re eager however aren’t certain about all of it?

Cranium The Pierre: What a stunning query! I believe it may be each however for those who don’t discover it to be that a lot enjoyable, then it can positively be extra exhausting than simple. If I used to be able to offer recommendation, then I’d say begin with the very fundamentals of what it’s you need your DAW to do for you. If you happen to make beats learn to pattern, for those who write indie-pop songs on guitar learn to document guitar and vocals. All the flowery plugins and mixing ideas and results will observe as you develop, study, and discover. Getting the fundamentals proper is all you want, and I believe that’s true for many issues. Additionally, give it time, don’t be a perfectionist and love your self.

Llewelyn: How was the launch celebration at Crow Bar in Dublin? It seems to be like we missed out on a giant celebration! Have been you proud of the response and the general vibe from the night time?

Cranium The Pierre: I believe I solely understood looking back how a lot it really meant to me that so many mates and pleasant faces had been there, and that they had been there for me, for one thing I created. It’s nonetheless exhausting to understand to be sincere. It was lovely, an evening I’ll all the time keep in mind and cherish, and most significantly, it was a lot enjoyable. To all of the people who got here, to everybody that purchased merch, posters, books, to everybody that helped on the night time, to the bartenders, simply to everybody there, thanks, ya’ll are loopy and I like you.

Llewelyn: Lastly…and as soon as once more thanks for blessing us together with your time right this moment.. who conjures up you most on this planet and who do you look as much as? Who’s your crew and what recommendation would you give your self 5 years in the past for those who may zip again in a time machine rapidly?

Cranium The Pierre: Oh thanks for all of the fantastic questions! , I wholeheartedly imagine that I’m the luckiest man alive, and that’s virtually solely due to my excellent family and friends which have impressed me every single day of my life with their wit and humor, love and compassion, knowledge and foolishness, sensitivity and anger and every little thing in between. The one which conjures up me most on this planet although is almost certainly my grandma Lena. She is an creator and writes largely kids’s-books, and her childlike, optimistic, and playful interpretation of the world might be the best present of all. She additionally gave me my armor in solitude, my love of writing. Wax (rapper), is my musical idol although, and the one which made me need to make music once I was 14.

My crew consists of myself, my supervisor and good friend Josse, my DJ and good friend Alvaro, my cameraman and good friend Joe, and all my different mates I’ve the privilege of sharing this life with. 5 years in the past I’d inform myself to return out of the closet already hahaha!

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