A songwriter keen to mine the deeply private, be part of the alt-folk artist at residence as she roars ‘Like A Lion’
The superbly mild voice of Rosina Buck is a Trojan Horse on which she sneaks her deeply private lyrics into your mind, at which level you soak up the story of her life till it turns into a part of you. Take newest track Like A Lion, the primary music she has put out since 2015. Her long-awaited comeback single tells the story of the tip of a romance, at first fragile, she’s emboldened because the manufacturing stirs from beneath her ft.
Based mostly in our residence metropolis of Bristol, we’re taking the brief journey down the highway to Buck’s home, the positioning of a lot of her songwriting, in an effort to study all a few track which is directly achingly weak and hard as a lion’s roar…
I like utilizing on a regular basis language and and ease to share my journey, my coronary heart, and my story
Title: Rosina Buck
Location: Bristol, UK
Track: Like A Lion
“Hiya, I’m Rosina Buck and I’m right here, in my residence in Bristol, within the UK. That is my lounge. These are all my vegetation. I’m simply going to speak slightly bit a few track that I wrote referred to as Like A Lion. This track really was written on this home on Conduit Street; many, many songs have been written right here. I’ve lived on this home for about 11 years. Loads has occurred in between these partitions, together with going to rehab and getting sober and my journey from habit into sobriety.
“I wrote this track about six years in the past. And I began to report it. Earlier than I went into rehab, after I got here out of rehab, it was the lockdown. And so I’m now at a degree the place I’ve accomplished the observe and it’s able to be launched as a single.
“This track is a few relationship, like most of my songs, and it’s sort of my interpretation of the ultimate few weeks/months of a very chaotic and unhealthy relationship. For a protracted, very long time, after I wrote it, I used to be nonetheless very a lot in a spot of blaming the opposite individual. However now I can actually actually see that it was two those who had been hurting, and in plenty of ache, attempting to like one another, however simply hurting one another loads within the course of.
Rosina Buck on Like A Lion: “It’s a quite simple track, it’s very sincere and descriptive, like most of my songs.”
“It feels actually good to have the ability to really feel that about this track now and to have the ability to see it from that place. I really bear in mind I began penning this track within the morning. I used to be learning on the time at BIMM Bristol. I bear in mind I I began writing it within the morning, I awoke and I wrote it in about 15 minutes. I used to be like, ‘Wow, okay,’ and I went into college and performed it. Then I used to be like, ‘I actually love this track.’ And so six-years later, as I’ve journeyed my method by means of, I’m now in a spot the place I can share it from a really grateful and truthful place.
“I’m so enthusiastic about releasing the track as a result of it’s very completely different from simply me and the guitar. There’s complete manufacturing, strings and brass devices. It was recorded right here in Bristol by Tim Allen and Oliver Baldwin was the technician and so they created this epic sort of film soundtrack. It’s a quite simple track, it’s very sincere and descriptive, like most of my songs. I like utilizing on a regular basis language and and ease to share my journey, my coronary heart, and my story. So right here is Like A Lion.”
Like A Lion by Rosina Buck is out now. Discover out extra by way of rosinabuck.com
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