Those of you who have had the chance to listen to SCORZAYZEE’s debut album (which should be all of you by now, as it’s really bloody good) will know that Scorz is a very poetic human being. One that puts heart and soul into everything that he does.
As one of our Artists of the Month, Scorz kindly agreed to answer some questions for us, and gave us some proper interesting answers. Check out what he has to say below…
Note: These answers are printed (well, digitally at least) as received.
How would you describe your music to those unfamiliar with it?
Honest, funny, sad, deep, shallow, egotistical, humble, 90’s, I love rap music, I love sitting in different pockets with the flow, sometimes I hold back, sometimes I let loose, wherever the beats take me. I would be a spoken word artist with the sick producers around me. I would sum it up in one word “Scorzilla”
You left the music industry for some time; pre the success of the kickstarter campaign, what sparked the comeback for you?
I never have been fully part of the music scene I’m kind of always on the outskirts of the circles that are trending I tend to have gaps in creativity, ‘cus hey nobody wants the same voice in their ear for fifty years week in week out. I do have these spurts of wanting to make music, and this time it really clicked with the timing of the kickstarter, I’m like the moon sometimes the clouds cover all the shine and sometimes it appears in it’s full beauty. I never get bored of the moon funny enough, I always seek looking at the moon, I think there is something mystical about the veils of clouds that cover it. Sometimes the clouds look angry, sometimes they look peaceful, the kickstarter project came together like an eclipse.
Where does the name from the album come from?
“Although the term aeon may be used in reference to a period of a billion years (especially in geology, cosmology or astronomy), its more common usage is for any long, indefinite, period. Aeon can also refer to the four aeons on the Geologic Time Scale that make up the Earth’s history, the Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic, and the current aeon Phanerozoic”- Aeon.
Peace to the puzzle means accepting the maze, embracing the matrix and mystery of numbers in nature, the uncontrollable fate mixed with precise choices of free will. The options we have and the situations often surrounded by other’s people’s destinies that can influence our choices. It is the web of life, so it is peace to the puzzle of it all and making sense of the tremendous amounts of outcomes both positive and negative that we go over in our minds that shape our choices also.
What influenced the album the most?
The biggest thing that influenced the album was the amount of people who had the love and faith to want to own it, the producers, the featured artists and the kickstarter team. I kind of looked back at what everyone likes about the songs I have done and then went hunting for the right beats to make sure the picture and project went through a lyrical and musical journey. Also I wanted that warm 90’s feel that I grew up with. I’m not a big fan of electronic or fast bpm music. It just doesn’t resonate with me, I love piano’s, breaks, harmonics in singers vocals, I love how a sample can remind me of a bird singing so it triggers a whole song, or how a sample can take me to a place in my mind and remember the past which enables me to write a story.
Do you have a favourite track off the album and if so, why?
It’s a hard one and I have to be really honest so I don’t have too much of a pressured answer. The one I love the most is “lions” because of the way Nina smith put down the harmonies on the end of the second verse. really listen and she creates this amazing geometrical sound wave that could lift a magnet off a mountain.
You talk about using writing as therapy in your song `The Heart‘, are there any poets or writers you admire? If so, who?
I often write poems as facebook status’s and sometimes I write stuff that means something to those who hear it but has a total different reality to me writing it, I think feelings that are channelled through creative forms are like hugs or a punch on a bag in the gym. I admire Amir Sulaiman and as writer’s I really admire Lupe Fiasco and Chester P.
Who would you say is the most exciting artist to come from Nottingham for you right now?
TRIPLE V and R.A.F
Your show at Rescue Rooms last month was hugely anticipated and amazingly received, when will your next Nottingham show be?
02/05 Nottingham Masonic Hall (supporting THE INVISIBLE ORCHESTRA)
28/05 Detonate Festival (supporting Nas)
06/07 Oslo, Hackney (headline set)
14/07 BBC Magna Carta Weekend
25/07 Tramlines Festival Sheffield with Kid Acne
TBA Rough Trade Instore (Kickstarter Backers Party)
We’d like to thank Scorz for taking the time to answer these questions!
You can read our review of the album HERE. And you can buy the album on iTunes HERE.
Yours in Love of New Music,
Emily Rose Malone x
