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“Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety - these big themes are inside us, flickering, all day.”

Quote by Arca

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Arca, born in 1990, is a talented record producer with a unique musical style that blends various elements, winning the favor of music enthusiasts. more

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“I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like "dear" and "darling" - like some kind of granny!”

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“I have an interesting relationship with my voice. I give myself tons of freedom in how to engage with my voice because I respect it a lot.”

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“There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on your breathing and your intonation than the actual words.”

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“It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words in order to go deep into the practice of making materials and textures that would express what I'm trying to say more accurately.”

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