A visit to a musical instrument museum with her toddler son inspired El Perro del Mar’s Sarah Assbring to recalibrate her pop sensibilities and work on what would become KoKoro. It was a “please-touch” museum where they could play the instruments, and Assbring fell in love with the percussion used in Indonesian gamelan music, and with harps from Asia and Africa. KoKoro looks outward, both musically and lyrically, to the world, and rather than a tender clinch, it’s a wholehearted bear hug of global pop sounds. Assbring will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new feature on her.
Assbring: 1998’s Sokout (“The Silence”) is a one of the most beautiful movies I’ve ever seen. It’s made by Iranian director Mohsin Makhmalbaf, who’s known for his special poetic narrative and use of symbolism coming from Sufi traditions. The beauty of the imagery in Sokout worked as a huge inspiration to the video for my song “Breadandbutter.”
Video after the jump.
