About this episode
Lido Pimienta and Ora Cogan discuss their diverse musical backgrounds and influences.
On this week’s Talkhouse Podcast we’ve got a pair of songwriters who currently call Canada home, but whose music and backgrounds come from intriguingly different places: Lido Pimienta and Ora Cogan. Lido Pimienta is an incredibly thoughtful, thoroughly outspoken musician/artist who was born in Colombia and whose music takes inspiration from there and a dozen other places. She released her first record in 2010, but it was 2016’s experimental-leaning La Papessa that won her both the prestigious Polaris Music Prize and a bigger batch of listeners inspired by her activism and genre-jumping. The laziest comparison might be Björk, so take that for what it’s worth. Pimienta’s latest album is last year’s stirring, strange, and gorgeous La Belleza. Check out the minimal song “Mango” right here. The music made by the other person in today’s conversation, Ora Cogan, comes from a different sonic place but I think a similar emotional one. Cogan’s new album Hard Hearted Woman takes old-school West Coast singer-songwriter vibes and adds a bit of modern indie-psych edge. I hear influences like Joni Mitchell and Sharon van Etten bubbling under, but there’s something a little darker happening in…
People in this episode
Host: Talkhouse
Guests: Lido Pimienta, Ora Cogan
Topics covered
- songwriting
- music
- Canada
- interview
- activism
- indie-psych
Keywords
- Lido Pimienta
- Ora Cogan
- music
- Canada
- interview
- activism
- indie-psych
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: La Papessa, La Belleza, Hard Hearted Woman, Mango, The Smoke
Places: British Columbia, Canada, West Coast
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