05 Nov, 2012
Solange is really trying to break from her sister’s shadow. She is making a comeback and finally finding herself. She sits with Vulture Magazine to explain hers newest EP that is set to release this month. She is paying for her own EP. She parted ways with her record company, Interscope, after her last album, 2008’s Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams, sold poorly. But the split was mutual: She felt trapped, particularly when Interscope tried to block her unlicensed cover of a Dirty Projectors song.
Solange says “I made my entire record on my own from top to bottom,” she says. “Everything from studio-equipment rentals to actually creating a studio.” The DIY approach befits her music, which shares some DNA with Beyoncé’s radio-friendly R&B but takes just as many cues from indie rock and eighties synth-pop. True will be distributed by Terrible Records, a tiny label co-run by her friend Chris Taylor, bassist for Grizzly Bear. (Knowles caused a blog explosion in 2009 when she brought Beyoncé and brother-in-law Jay-Z to a Grizzly Bear concert at the Williamsburg waterfront. “They’re an incredible band,” Jay said later.) “The entire album has been about me calling my friends, like, ‘Will you make a video with me?’ ‘Okay, cool. Let’s do it,’” she says.
Read the rest here you will be very pleased how down to earth Solange is.
Source:
http://tattletailzz.com/solange-knowles-singer-producer-blue-ivy-babysitter/