What does it take to feel fully alive without getting eaten alive in the process? Tamko gave specific instructions for the Vagabon cover shoot: no black, no dark colors or dark lighting. At times, her sound nods to the African musician she grew up listening to, like the Malian multi-instrumentalist Ali Farka Toure. Haley Heynderickx. Vagabon . "They're humble in their actions, but they're not humble.". Watch the video for Home Soon from Vagabon's Vagabon for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. "I feel like I made an amazing record." Youtubing, 'How to make hi-hats go fast.'". "I don't have it in me to give everyone everything / Take what you need and go" Tamko sings on "Alive and a Well," the final track of Infinite Worlds. She gives a self-assured laugh; she thought the image was hilarious. Tamko quit her day job at the end of March 2017, a month after Infinite Worlds was released, confident enough from the album's success that she could pay her bills as a full-time musician. Cameroonian-american electro-pop musician, singer-songwriter. When singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Laetitia Tamkomade her full-length debut as Vagabon, it was with the diverse, sometimes volatile Infinite Worlds. But now, hundreds of live performances later, she's embraced it. She worked through the accompanying instructional DVD many times over and supplemented with UltimateGuitar and YouTube. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; all unstructured text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. "I'm constantly thinking about 'no suffer porn, no suffer porn, no suffer porn ... that is not how I want to be talked about," Tamko said. Her Wikipedia entry describes her as a “Cameroonian-American autodidact multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and music producer based in New York City.” I love autodidact multi-instrumentalists. In the liner notes of Vagabon, she credits them for being part of the "chosen family" that made the record possible. [4] Em 2018, ela foi convidada a abrir para Courtney Barnett em sua turnê de verão na América do Norte. "And then when I was putting together tours and I was working on recordings, I kept going back to her because ... she's really gracious and honest about her experience.". She knew that black people went to Jamila Woods shows. It really waters me down. TAMKO: (Singing) All the women I meet are fired up. There's an interlude in "Wits About You" — a song about not being able to let something or someone go — where Tamko makes a thinly-veiled critique of the indie-rock scene in which she found a fraught home. She released an EP, Persian Garden, on Bandcamp in 2014. "They won't let my people in / Well then, nevermind nevermind nevermind / We don't want to go to your function.". Despite years of longing for more formal training, Tamko has come to see her musical naivete as an advantage. When asked whether the more electronic sounds on Vagabon were in any way an attempt to move beyond the indie-rock scene with all of its hangups, Tamko describes the shift in sound as a "rejection of being pigeonholed." "When I was deciding to finalize the deal I did with Father/Daughter, I had a really long phone call with her about her experience and about the things she learned from working with this label," Tasha says over the phone. Tamko is careful not to exclude any of her fans, but she notes that because she makes indie-rock music, and because of the scene she came up in, "a whole array of people" end up at her shows. Inspired by the collage-like music of Frank Ocean, she found a way to cram all of the sounds that personally move her — pop, punk, trap, African music — into this recording. Tamko played a cross-country tour the summer after graduation. singer-songwriter Vagabon is Cameroon-born multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer Laetitia Tamko (born 25 October 1992 in Yaoundé, Cameroon) currently based in New York City. NPR's Jenny Gathright caught up with Tamko in New York, and they talked about how the record shows a new level of musical confidence. And I'm like, 'Who's Phil Collins? I'm just different.". The family moved from Harlem to the Bronx, then to Westchester County, where Tamko attended high school. Her parents eventually surprised her with an acoustic guitar when she was 17, just about to graduate. Review: Vagabon, 'Infinite Worlds' Laetitia Tamko sings and plays guitar, synths, keyboard and drums on one of the more anticipated indie-rock records of the new year. Tamko is no longer friends with the classmate from engineering school who inspired her to start songwriting; he told her she was "bad at guitar," and people were only interested in her music because she was a black woman. "This album is resilience and strength. It was time for it to be explicit 'cause I'm explicit on the record.". "I'm constantly thinking about 'no suffer porn, no suffer porn, no suffer porn ... that is not how I want to be talked about," she adds. "I've had bandmates laugh at me because I didn't know how to speak, like, music language," Tamko says. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. Tamko tells me she feels lucky to have them and then corrects herself: "It's funny; I stopped using the word 'lucky.' And they were like, whoa, these drums are very Phil Collins. Her Wikipedia entry describes her as a “Cameroonian-American autodidact multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and music producer based in New York City.” I love autodidact multi-instrumentalists. TAMKO: My faves are not humble bragging. Nonesuch Records — home to a deep roster of musical veterans like Rhiannon Giddens, Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson — will release the album. Depending on who is listening and when, Vagabon lyrics can speak to relationships between friends, or romantic partners — or between a person and society. She gets visibly emotional as she recalls this time, but prefers to keep the details private. Laetitia Tamko, mais conhecida por seu nome artístico Vagabon, é uma multi-instrumentista, cantautora e produtora de música autodidata camaronesa-americana, baseada em Nova Iorque Biografia Primeiros anos. "I don't believe they knew how seriously I would take that.". The music of Vagabon is perfect if you want to get a little heady about this tension. PHIL COLLINS: (Singing) Because I can feel it... TAMKO: I still don't know who Phil Collins is. Vagabon "Vagabon finds various ways to flood the senses. The question was never whether she was welcome in rock or any popular music genre, for that matter. During boring and lonely 12-hour shifts at her mother's parcel business on the weekends, she flipped on her webcam and played covers with her newest obsession. Tamko has been recording since 2014 as … TAMKO: I've had bandmates laugh at me because I didn't know how to, like, speak, like, music language. I'm in this music thing where I'm new and I haven't been in the scene for that long. "There's just a very comforting feeling that happens when you realize the music that maybe you want to make — that it's OK for you to do it, because somebody else is doing it," Tasha says. You know I hate it like that. [6] Lançada como um vídeo único e oficial que pode ser visto em seu site, a música é um manifesto de uma jovem feminista. You should have an easier time getting in at SXSW. "Because of who I represent and at what time I decided to share this music, it just became this narrative put on me that I was gonna change the world of indie rock," Tamko told The New York Times for its 2017 iteration of the time-old "women in rock" conversation. TAMKO: Everyone just didn't think I had it in me. ", "I'm just kind of dragging the snare through all these different plugins that I don't know what they are, I don't know what they're doing," Tamko explains. And every show was practice until I got good. On "Please Don't Leave the Table," Tamko floats a Destiny's Child reference in a relaxed falsetto: "When you call, say my name, say my name." TAMKO: (Singing) I was invited to the party. CHANG: The 26-year-old records as Vagabon. She tries the folk singer, the popstar and the bedroom indie rocker all on for size. Tamko is not interested in being the so-called "Cameroonian girl in indie rock." On the new album's "Every Woman," Tamko lets herself sink into the lowest part of her register to sing about generational exhaustion. That production lends a just-right balance to a song about staying still ("And I'll stay, stay with you in our bed / It feels so, so good") and knowing the moment won't last. [2], Aos 17 anos, os pais de Tamko compraram para ela um violão Fender da Costco. O álbum também representa um movimento além da cena do indie-rock, a mudança no som é uma "rejeição de ser punido". Much of Infinite Worlds, the first album Tamko recorded as Vagabon, was her with a guitar, singing achingly introspective songs about the search for home and safety. Tamko says when she recorded it, she was uncomfortable with how deep her voice was. "Why can't I say that?". Well, then, never mind, never mind, never mind. Making, Tamko is not interested in being the so-called "Cameroonian girl in indie rock." As we sit in her red minivan and play songs from Vagabon, Tamko tells me that the beat for "Full Moon in Gemini" was a "happy accident. As it starts out, it’s an idyllic and romantic portrait of a couple on a drive together. "And knowing that I could do that too, to someone else. And I'm like, who's Phil Collins? Find Jay Burton online. But they didn't respect me enough to think that they had anything to learn from me.". "That was the dream!". She pauses, exasperated. Laetitia Tamko, mais conhecida por seu nome artístico Vagabon, é uma multi-instrumentista, cantautora e produtora de música autodidata camaronesa-americana, baseada em Nova Iorque. And that pissed me off. Laetitia Tamko nasceu em Iaundé, Camarões. They won't let my people in. "Just kind of clicking around, dragging, quantizing kind of wrong. I remember showing it to a friend when I first, like, laid down the demo. Tamko's black. "I came back around / Knowing you'd wreck my s*** all over again / It's funny how I'll never regret / Going low for you," she sings on "Secret Medicine." "I guess what I'm trying to say is that this album is me doing whatever the f*** I want because I can do whatever I want, you know?". The super talented singer / writer / producer / multi-instrumentalist Laetitia Tamko is Vagabon. Making Vagabon was painful because of how much pressure Tamko puts on herself; she says there was a whole period of time when she was so creatively paralyzed that she couldn't open her computer to work on arranging songs. Laetitia Tamko nasceu em Iaundé, Camarões. Tamko describes Vagabon as a flex: she plays many of the instruments you hear on it, and she learned the digital audio software Logic Pro so she could produce it almost entirely on her own (she is the sole producer credited on all but one song). GATHRIGHT: Tamko describes her new album as a flex. She was fielding other offers, from big artists that she knew personally, but ultimately she chose to tour with Woods, whom she hadn't yet met. ", In the photo, Laetitia Tamko sits by herself against a deep orange backdrop, wearing a sleeveless black top and a hexagonal blue hat handwoven by the L.A. hatmaker Ariana Valenzuela. It’ll either come in a harrowing lyric that sticks in the conscience, or it’ll arrive from a soft drone that gradually envelops"- DIY Magazine "Infinite Worlds" out Feb 24 2017 via Father Daughter Records Reason To Believe (ft. Courtney Barnett), released 07 January 2021 Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Images, Youtube and more on IDCrawl - the leading free people search engine. Tamko's second album, the soon-to-be-released, self-titled Vagabon, is written from the perspective of someone who found not just the space to call home, but also a firm grip on her artistic identity, and with it, the luxury of being interested in what happens when carefully set boundaries dissolve. January 6th 2021 by Mike LeSuer. It’ll either come in a harrowing lyric that sticks in the conscience, or it’ll arrive from a soft drone that gradually envelops"- DIY Magazine "Infinite Worlds" out Feb 24 2017 via Father Daughter Records Reason To Believe (ft. Courtney Barnett), released 07 January 2021 She first read the phrase "flood hands" in a book, though she can't remember which one. Vagabon doesn't necessarily "defy genre," to borrow an overwrought cliche, but wonders why genre even comes up when there's so much more to talk about. "It's the vulnerability that comes with putting down the barriers enough to let someone destroy you if that's what's going to happen," Tamko says. There's a pragmatic reason musician Laetitia Tamko goes … This slipperiness offers an answer to the political pressure that critics tend to put on Tamko's art. A maioria das músicas é escrita e tocada pela própria artista. [2] Além de vocais e guitarra, Tamko tocou bateria, teclado e sintetizador em seu álbum de 2017, Infinite Worlds. She paid everyone. Before she could bring the rest of the family over to New York, Tamko's mother worked the counter at a Jamaican restaurant in Harlem (she eventually graduated from the University of Pennsylvania). She did not listen to music while writing it because she didn't want to drown out what was already in her head, and she wanted to make music she couldn't reference anywhere else. To get pumped up to go into the studio and record, Tamko re-opened herself to music from the outside, and listened to a kind of "game day" mix of artists, mostly female rappers: early Nicki Minaj, Lil Kim. Then she got a job in tech as a programmer. I Need to Start a Garden. 'Reservamo-nos o direito de ficar cheios quando estamos sozinhos', ela canta na música “Every Woman”. الصفحه دى يتيمه, حاول تضيفلها لينك فى صفحات تانيه متعلقه بيها.. معلومات شخصيه الميلاد 25 اكتوبر 1992 (29 سنة) . "I was invited to the party," she sings. Ela aprendeu a tocar assistindo DVDs instrucionais. Tamko got right in the middle of that circle and she danced. ", (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "IN THE AIR TONIGHT"). But it is also very human to be completely torn asunder. "I grew up with a lot of people who were not interested in being self-aware," Tamko says. I wanted to impress them.". مواطنه GATHRIGHT: Tamko found an early musical home in New York's DIY music scene. TAMKO: (Singing) So you moved to Colorado. مواطنه [5], Seu segundo álbum auto-intitulado (Nonesuch, 2019) é auto-produzido e explora novos sons. GATHRIGHT: It's an attitude Tamko's adopting, too. Tasha said it felt especially important to hear another black woman tell her it's all right not to compromise, especially early in her career. I think because I've always felt victimized through my various traumas I didn't really see myself in that position — having that power.". Laetitia Tamko also shares plans for a live stream event scheduled for January 29. She was born in Cameroon, but she's lived in and around New York City ever since she was a pre-teen. "My parents always said, 'There is no room for starving artists here. Here, Tamko, doesn't so much chide the relatable relationship boomerang as self-destructive, she just marks it as just something worth noting. Tamko was born 26 years ago in Cameroon, but has lived in and around New York City since she was a pre-teen; she's part of the generation that saw hip-hop become pop. With no release date yet, the electro-industrial songwriter’s long-anticipated debut may still be imminent. If I learn a fifth of an African song on guitar, I will learn it the wrong way and I'll make my own thing. But she felt different from almost everyone else in those spaces, which tended to be white and cliquey. It was released in February 2017 under Father/Daughter Records. I wanted to learn from them. An uncharacteristic behavior, perhaps, for a person who would describe herself as a shy kid. Does it also matter to her that her audience see her face, and know she's black? JENNY GATHRIGHT, BYLINE: Laetitia Tamko had long dreamed of being a musician, but her parents told her there was no room for a starving artist in the family. And to get pumped to go into the studio and record, Tamko listened to mostly female rappers - early Nicki Minaj, Lil' Kim. Released in February 2017, it would be her last record under the Father/Daughter Records banner, as her self-titled follow-up would be released through Nonesuch Records in 2019. Laetitia Tamko – vocals (tracks 3, 4) Dylan Allard – vocals (tracks 3, 4, 7) ... You can help Wikipedia by expanding it This page was last edited on 10 January 2021, at 01:45 (UTC). GATHRIGHT: It felt like everyone was doubting her - her musical peers, her parents. Vagabon just played two sold-out NYC shows. Or, as Tamko puts it, "How do I deal with interpersonal relationships as a person ... whose comfort and safety can easily feel threatened? Find Courtney Barnett online. Laetitia Tamko naît à Yaoundé, au Cameroun en 1994 [1]. This page was last edited on 11 March 2020, at 06:53. Tamko had an understanding with her parents: the guitar was just to be a hobby, for the moments leftover after work, school and chores. '", The drums are very Phil Collins. She quit her day job a month after she released her first album. $10.32. Her family was in the Cameroonian capital city of Yaoundé, where she was born and spent much of her childhood. "I felt so displaced. They always sound dope. 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