{"id":2052,"date":"2021-03-01T09:17:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T17:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/603d16c9dbd978a53e17b01b"},"modified":"2021-03-01T09:17:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T17:17:19","slug":"cassandra-jenkins-hypnotic-folk-music-turns-everyday-moments-into-monuments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/authoritydaily.com\/cassandra-jenkins-hypnotic-folk-music-turns-everyday-moments-into-monuments\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassandra Jenkins\u2019 Hypnotic Folk Music Turns Everyday Moments Into Monuments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2019, she booked time in the studio with producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter <a class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/582289-Josh-Kaufman&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/582289-Josh-Kaufman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Kaufman<\/a>, whose resume includes work with the Hold Steady and the National, as well as with Taylor Swift on her two recent folk-leaning albums. Jenkins showed up with voice memos, iPhone notes, and lyrics over the course of a week, and the pair pieced together six of the album\u2019s seven tracks. \u201cShe ended up with something totally different than she had gone in looking for,\u201d Kaufman says. \u201cIt takes a certain kind of person to not feel the obligation of their previous impulse.\u201d Compared to the more structured and academic approach she took to making her debut album, 2017\u2019s <a class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nbORvOqZs4UxWKTQX10WtPDAwXUIPL8a0&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nbORvOqZs4UxWKTQX10WtPDAwXUIPL8a0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Play Till You Win<\/em><\/a>, the process of putting <em>Phenomenal Nature<\/em> together was purposefully loose. She wanted to write songs with two or three chords that she could easily play with strangers or her family members.<\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"sc-iBPRYJ sc-hRxedE eLRJRO bYZppk iframe-embed\">\n<div data-testid=\"IframeEmbedContainer\" class=\"sc-iBPRYJ sc-cuWcWY eLRJRO jagrDR\">\n<div class=\"sc-iBPRYJ sc-bTRMAZ eLRJRO gmYTSZ\"><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-fTABeZ hsqAaa IframeEmbedContent\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-same-origin\" title=\"Embedded Frame\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4SxE2Hr64pY\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Observing the world with Jenkins feels a bit like unearthing a new sense, and by the end of our walk around Central Park, she has taken note of dozens of people along the way. There was the woman with a purple beret, bright red hair, and fuzzy scarf (\u201cI\u2019m slowly working towards that in life!\u201d) and the nature lover who informed us that the owl we were looking at <a class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/17\/nyregion\/central-park-owl-barry.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/17\/nyregion\/central-park-owl-barry.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was a celebrity<\/a> (\u201cThat\u2019s why I love New Yorkers so much!\u201d). After a man informed us he found his cell phone in a snowbank after looking for it for miles, Jenkins tells me he reminded her of another guy she once met on the same path who told her she looked like a friend who had passed away. More strangers and ghosts, filed away for another time.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"responsive-asset asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-asset--invisible\"><picture class=\"asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cassandra Jenkins Hypnotic Folk Music Turns Everyday Moments Into Monuments\" class=\"responsive-image__image lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/603d185c25045acb3780ad35\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/DSCF9560.jpg\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/603d185c25045acb3780ad35\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/DSCF9560.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/603d185c25045acb3780ad35\/master\/w_1280%2Cc_limit\/DSCF9560.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/603d185c25045acb3780ad35\/master\/w_1024%2Cc_limit\/DSCF9560.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/603d185c25045acb3780ad35\/master\/w_768%2Cc_limit\/DSCF9560.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/603d185c25045acb3780ad35\/master\/w_640%2Cc_limit\/DSCF9560.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"100vw\" title=\"\"><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Pitchfork: You capture so many interactions with random people on this album. Do you feel like there\u2019s something about your personality that draws people in?<\/p>\n<p>Cassandra Jenkins: Yes, and I don\u2019t know how to stop it. I\u2019m definitely an empath but I don\u2019t know how to protect my energy. I don\u2019t have the tools the way a therapist does. I have a vulnerability and an approachability about me that will put me into a lot of strange situations, for better or for worse. I get to meet a lot of strangers, and often have really wonderful encounters, but I sometimes have a negative interaction, and it takes me a day to recover from it.<\/p>\n<p>Has that always been the case?<\/p>\n<p>I think so. I was a really, really shy kid. My parents had to teach me how to start projecting\u2014I\u2019ll always remember when they made me order a Happy Meal. And I really hated compliments. If you complimented me, I would physically crouch and hide. My parents had to really teach me how to say thank you.<\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"sc-iBPRYJ sc-hRxedE eLRJRO bYZppk iframe-embed\">\n<div data-testid=\"IframeEmbedContainer\" class=\"sc-iBPRYJ sc-cuWcWY eLRJRO jagrDR\">\n<div class=\"sc-iBPRYJ sc-bTRMAZ eLRJRO gmYTSZ\"><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-fTABeZ hsqAaa IframeEmbedContent\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-same-origin\" title=\"Embedded Frame\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F_TLHH4bss8\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>When you practice \u201ceveryday acting\u201d who do you find yourself being?<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes my frend Grey, who pops up in \u201cNew Bikini,\u201d will call me, and we\u2019ll do these little one-act role plays where I\u2019ll be like, \u201cOK, you\u2019re a telemarketer and I\u2019m a Park Avenue lady who lunches,\u201d and we\u2019ll go from there. I tend to revert to really deadpan characters that are slightly miffed by the situation but tolerating it. But we\u2019re trying to push me into being these really bombastic characters\u2014that would be ultimately the most freeing thing.<\/p>\n<div role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"4\" class=\"heading-h4\" readability=\"9.3288590604027\">Your album is named after an <a class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/listings\/2019\/mrinalini-mukherjee-phenomenal-nature&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/listings\/2019\/mrinalini-mukherjee-phenomenal-nature\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exhibition<\/a> of Indian visual artist Mrinalini Mukherjee\u2019s fantastical sculptures. How did her work influence the music?<\/div>\n<p>In many ways the security guard that I talked to at the exhibition is my mascot of the record. I was struck by the fact that this woman had stopped me and said, \u201cLet me give you an overview of this thing\u201d when in fact it was a completely subjective monologue. I loved the gall of that lady to do that. I think a lot of times when someone is offering an overview of something, it is infused with their personality. Or when someone\u2019s asking you a question, they\u2019re revealing something about themselves.<\/p>\n<p>You held day jobs digitally restoring gems at the Natural History Museum, working at a farmer\u2019s market, and as a photographer. How have all these different gigs shaped how you approach being a musician?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never been a careerist, especially in music. It\u2019s always been something I live and breathe with my family. Maybe it\u2019s also a combination of a fear of failure, or not wanting to commit myself fully because I don\u2019t want to ruin the thing that I enjoy most in life. It\u2019s part of my mental health practice to make sure I\u2019m always learning about other things and not getting absorbed in the narcissistic act of putting out my own music. This record is a great example. I really didn\u2019t think anyone was gonna hear it. But I loved making it, and it really carried me through a difficult period in my life. Music hasn\u2019t done that for me before in this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2019, she booked time in the studio with producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Josh Kaufman, whose resume includes work with the Hold Steady and the National, as well as with Taylor Swift on her two recent folk-leaning albums. 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