Casper Sage is at some extent the place his music is not about discovering a sound however about understanding what to do with all the pieces he has lived by means of. With “PATINA,” the Nashville-based artist presents a extra outlined part, the place the songs work as a direct document of private experiences processed virtually in actual time. What as soon as felt like exploration on tasks like “Winter” now turns into a clearer proposal, the place each his voice and manufacturing carry a extra intentional course. He describes it as a struggle on nostalgia, a manner of confronting the tendency to romanticize the previous and as an alternative use it to maneuver ahead. From idea to sound, “PATINA” exhibits an artist who understands his place extra clearly and is starting to make extra assured selections about his identification.
For many who are simply discovering you, how would you describe your evolution from “Winter” EP to this new chapter with “PATINA”?
I’ve simply leaned extra closely into my voice and manufacturing round that. With “Winter,” I used to be experimenting…discovering my sound and what I preferred about my voice. Every undertaking has contextualized it higher. “PATINA” is the perfect but.
All through “PATINA,” recurring themes seem—recollections that don’t fade, the issue of letting go, love as one thing that reshapes identification, and the fixed seek for that means within the face of impermanence. How did the artistic idea behind the EP come to life?
These themes are an extension of me and what I used to be pondering and speaking about at the moment. These songs have been born from real-life expertise. It’s emotional processing in actual time. I used to be portray with blood.
You’ve additionally described “PATINA” as “a struggle on nostalgia.” Are you able to develop on what meaning to you?
Presence. Rosy retrospection haunts me and loads of these whom I’ve come to care about. Though I’m spending a lot of time in hindsight, I feel my ethos has remained constant, utilizing these experiences to tell the long run.
The place does the title come from?
Saji Abude. We spoke in-depth throughout the technique of realizing how you can tie collectively the artwork conceptually. Patina felt the perfect. It’s a optimistic reframe of getting older. Light shirts and beat-up denims. Scuffed boots and sneakers. It’s character. I attempt to put on my experiences as my garments do.
“bits + items” is the primary preview of the EP and was born from an expertise you knew wouldn’t final however would stick with you endlessly. Are you able to inform us about that second and the way you remodeled that sense of loss into one thing so sonically luminous?
I used to be deep in a love that was a lot greater than me. One thing that introduced me nearer to religion and goal.
Within the music, you speak about fragments that by no means totally disappear. Which elements of that story did you select to carry onto, and which did you understand you needed to let go of to maneuver ahead?
I didn’t and nonetheless don’t really feel a lot alternative within the matter. I feel my expertise has been one in all feeling like a precedence. I’m making an attempt to be taught to be light and fluid. To really feel freely and maintain the discernment to know when to maneuver with the present of a sense or swim towards it. To really feel is to be alive, and to be stung by life is a present.
Sonically, the undertaking carries clear ’80s references, with echoes of Phil Collins, Prince, and Michael Jackson. Are you able to stroll us by means of the method of constructing the musical identification of this document?
It was loads of revisiting issues I grew up with in the home. It’s a lot of enjoyable to decorate up emotions in a brand new manner, and I wished to seek out some new areas for my voice. I like the problem of discovering new contexts for myself… each in music and in life.
Inform us about how “i’m dying to really feel alive once more” got here collectively?
Magic. Only a day when a stroll within the park leads you to a brand new view of the town. I had some pals within the studio who skewed my power for the higher. Very playful mindset and really profound ideas. If I have been anybody music, I’d be that one.
Do you write and produce all your songs?
For probably the most half. There’s solely a music or 2 the place I didn’t contact the manufacturing. I opened as much as much more collaboration with PATINA. Writes out of the blue with Henry (Park), calling Harrison (Finks) and sending voice memos of recent concepts for him to play on. A few actually cool issues from Jake Olofsson as nicely. I like to return in with momentum and see how folks select to season it. It feels related and conversational.
For those who had to decide on, what could be your prime three tracks from the EP—those that greatest outline the core of the undertaking?
They’re all actually superb. “bits + items” and “i’m dying to really feel alive once more” are two that I pay attention again to and am probably the most pleased with, which is one thing I’ve hardly ever skilled earlier than this document.
We’ll be seeing you quickly at venues like The Echo in Los Angeles and Child’s All Proper in New York. What can audiences anticipate from this new stay period? Will the stage additionally replicate this “struggle on nostalgia”?
I’m a bit late to this, however the stay world is one I’m new to in loads of senses. I’m excited so as to add some quantity to my units and dive deep into placing them collectively. Heaps to determine nonetheless, however fortunately I’m capable of work with top-class cats. Among the greatest on the planet.
All through the interview, it turns into clear that his focus is on the method. Writing from what he feels, opening as much as collaboration with out dropping course, and constructing a sound that permits him to maneuver freely. Slightly than closing a chapter, “PATINA” opens an area for his music to maintain evolving with higher readability.
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