Laynah - Producing Yourself
Laynah talks about learning to produce her own music as a singer-songwriter while moving between BC and Montréal.
On the Rhythm Changes Podcast, Laynah talks to me about learning to produce her own music as a singer-songwriter, moving between BC and Montréal, and many other influences on her mind.
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We talked about:
- What Laynah has learned from making 15 solo singles to-date
- Performing for the microphone
- Worrying about people judging you for your music
- Why photography is one of the arts
- Laynah’s early-2000s pop song landmarks
- Learning about freelancing and production from working as a photographer
- Which jazz artist her mother usually put on at home
- How Laynah and I go way back to the same high school band program — with Kelly Proznick & Steve Clements, plus more great music teachers
- The point when Laynah switched from mostly playing trumpet to getting excited about choir
- Her feelings on scatting and a cappella music
- Starting to write songs and play guitar in Montréal
- What she's learned from her partner, Jesse Daniel Smith
- How her cover of Keith Urban’s song “You’ll Think Of Me” came to be
- The guitar techniques that opened her mind to learning the instrument more deeply
- What’s different about how she and Jesse will approach living and home-recording in Montréal now, after a two-year move back to BC
- The kinds of places they frequent in their Montréal neighbourhood
- Martha Wainwright’s new local venue
- Keeping up with the scene on Instagram
- Why Laynah and I both appreciate YouTube
- Her most-viewed YouTube videos so far
- What she’s got in the works
- Why she and Jesse avoid worrying about their career trajectories, and artists
- What artists should consider spending money on first
- The Sheryl Crow covers Laynah did at her first gig
- Why she likes Phoebe Bridgers’ music
