{"id":47547,"date":"2019-03-04T14:48:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T14:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=47547"},"modified":"2019-07-08T07:47:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T06:47:20","slug":"six-quick-questions-with-edward-cantu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/03\/six-quick-questions-with-edward-cantu\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Quick Questions With Edward Cantu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>We first came across Edward Cantu with his song &#8216;Coalesce&#8217;, a glorious track that feels to us a bit like a laid back version of Jackson Browne&#8217;s &#8216;Late For The Sky&#8217;, and sonically, with touches of Bon Iver&#8217;s &#8216;Holocene&#8217;, and The War On Drugs&#8217; &#8216;Knocked Down&#8217;. Looking deeper, Edward has a lot more music behind him, and an interesting backstory, so we asked him six (or more) quick questions.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>You rather suddenly shifted your focus in your spare time to music. What brought about this change, and do you recommend it to anyone who feels dissatisfied with their life? <\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think we are wired by mother nature to pursue things that, once achieved, prove to be less satisfying than we envisioned they would be. I have found that the exceptions to this are pursuits of beauty is some form or another; these tend to not disappoint.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>What advice do you have for anyone caught in a similar dilemma?<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I recommend that people find whatever it is that makes them feel closest to that which makes existence worthwhile, and, well, do more of that. &#8216;Feel&#8217; is an important word here because I suspect that what we feel defines our lives much more than what we think. This advice is simple in concept, but we tend to be a very distracted species such that record-high skyscrapers can be built by ultimately unhappy, though highly intelligent people.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>How would you describe your musical style?<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perhaps indie-folkish. I&#8217;m not really sure, and I&#8217;d love to actually hear other people&#8217;s thoughts on this. Definitely not boy-band or gangsta rap I assume. I tend to think of my style, going in anyway, as a cross between War on Drugs and Bon Iver, with some Pink Floyd sprinkled in. Perhaps it doesn&#8217;t actually sound like this, though.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Do you think you would do anything differently if you\u2019d come to this decision earlier in life? What if anything, do you think you would have done differently?<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think I would have been too nervous about money had I tried earlier in life; it would have undermined the music itself. People who pursue art from the get-go are brave folks; I admire them. Also, there&#8217;s no doubt that my life experiences influence what sound resonates with me.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Music is perhaps philosophy in a pure and impressionistic form, untainted by the projections and limits of language and conceptualization. Perhaps it&#8217;s philosophy purely in the form of energy. I think if I made music when I was younger it would not reflect an appreciation of this. It therefore probably would not reflect my current appreciation of how less can be so much more; it would have been busier and more unnecessarily urgent in feel.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>We first discovered you through your track, \u2018Coalesce\u2019; what\u2019s the song about? What was the motivation behind it? If someone were to discover your music today (and they will) which track should they listen to first? Why?<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coalesce is about reaching for something greater and feeling as if you haven&#8217;t found it though it&#8217;s within grasp. I have felt the past few years that I need to be taken away, and in the process allow myself to be taken away; to let go. By what, and of what, I&#8217;m not sure. My song &#8216;High Definition&#8217; is probably the best introduction to my music. There is something very distilled about it; like a concentrated sonic representation of me.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/577436904&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What question do you wish someone would ask you in an interview but nobody ever does?<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, this is my first &#8220;interview,&#8221; so I haven&#8217;t had the chance to establish such a wish list.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can listen to more of Edward Cantu&#8217;s music on his <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-978929372\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SoundCloud account<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We first came across Edward Cantu with his song &#8216;Coalesce&#8217;, a glorious track that feels to us a bit like a laid back version of Jackson Browne&#8217;s &#8216;Late For The Sky&#8217;, and sonically, with touches of Bon Iver&#8217;s &#8216;Holocene&#8217;, and The War On Drugs&#8217; &#8216;Knocked Down&#8217;. Looking deeper, Edward has a lot more music behind him, and an interesting backstory, so we asked him six (or more) quick questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":47548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[641],"tags":[2291,19697,19696,19698,407,9391,989,2742,7376,16296],"class_list":["post-47547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-bon-iver","tag-coalesce","tag-edward-cantu","tag-high-definition","tag-interview","tag-jackson-browne","tag-new-artist","tag-pink-floyd","tag-six-quick-questions","tag-the-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-cmT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51179,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/07\/edward-cantu-releases-new-song-return\/","url_meta":{"origin":47547,"position":0},"title":"Edward Cantu Releases New Song &#8216;Return&#8217;","author":"Emma Mages","date":"08\/07\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Edward Cantu has released his new easy to listen to song, 'Return', which is now available to stream through Soundcloud.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Releases&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Releases","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/new-releases\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Edward-Cantu-Return.png?fit=913%2C919&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Edward-Cantu-Return.png?fit=913%2C919&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Edward-Cantu-Return.png?fit=913%2C919&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Edward-Cantu-Return.png?fit=913%2C919&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":46487,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/02\/kevin-edwards-broken-wings-is-a-catchy-track-with-a-cinematic-video\/","url_meta":{"origin":47547,"position":1},"title":"Kevin Edward&#8217;s &#8216;Broken Wings&#8217; Is A Catchy Track With A Cinematic Video","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"16\/02\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Kevin Edward's 'Broken Wings' is a beautiful track with an even lovelier music video filmed on the island of Boracay, in The Philippines.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Artists&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Artists","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/new-artists\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/UPDATED-ARTWORK-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/UPDATED-ARTWORK-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/UPDATED-ARTWORK-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/UPDATED-ARTWORK-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/UPDATED-ARTWORK-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":23322,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/09\/the-essential-weekly-playlist-of-matthew-shepherd\/","url_meta":{"origin":47547,"position":2},"title":"The Essential Weekly Playlist of: Matthew Shepherd","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"23\/09\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"We introduced you to Matthew Shepherd recently, when we asked him 6 Quick Questions, and he gave us some really interesting answers. 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