{"id":44,"date":"2015-10-21T15:49:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T14:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/188.166.168.151\/2015\/10\/21\/interview-with-misha-mullov-abbado\/"},"modified":"2020-05-20T19:43:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T18:43:26","slug":"interview-with-misha-mullov-abbado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/encoremusicians.com\/blog\/interview-with-misha-mullov-abbado\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Misha: The Face behind the Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We sat down with jazz bassist and composer <a href=\"https:\/\/joinencore.com\/Misha-Mullov-Abbado\">Misha Mullov-Abbado<\/a> to chat about his highly acclaimed album New Ansonia and how this &#8216;unfailingly inventive, artfully produced, and delightfully sunny debut&#8217; (The Telegraph) came to be.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 400px; height: 439px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3720520843\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mishamullov-abbado.bandcamp.com\/album\/new-ansonia\">New Ansonia by Misha Mullov-Abbado<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>I imagine you&#8217;ve been surrounded by music since you were born &#8211; what are some of your earliest musical memories?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was exposed to so much music when I was young, I don\u2019t remember the specifics. Apparently I could recognise any piece my mum was practicing and would tell her off if she skipped a bit! That said, I couldn&#8217;t tell you what those pieces are now. As for my earliest actual memories, they probably aren\u2019t classical. Growing up with music like Stevie Wonder comes to mind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was it like growing up around such famous parents?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t really dawn on me until I was about seven at a music course and this guy (who ended up being one of my best friends) came up to me and said:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Is your mum Viktoria Mullova?<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I said <em>\u2018Yeah\u2026\u2019<\/em> , to which he replied,<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Oh my God, I\u2019ve got to tell my mum!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was genuinely really surprised that it was a big deal!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/encoremusicians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-22-at-12-20-54.png\" alt=\"\" \/><img data-attachment-id=\"617\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/encoremusicians.com\/blog\/interview-with-misha-mullov-abbado\/misha_1-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/encoremusicians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/misha_1.png?fit=754%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"754,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"misha_1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/encoremusicians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/misha_1.png?fit=300%2C159&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/encoremusicians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/misha_1.png?fit=754%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-617 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/encoremusicians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/misha_1.png?resize=754%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"misha_1\" width=\"754\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/encoremusicians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/misha_1.png?w=754&amp;ssl=1 754w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/encoremusicians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/misha_1.png?resize=300%2C159&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/encoremusicians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/misha_1.png?resize=351%2C185&amp;ssl=1 351w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/encoremusicians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/misha_1.png?resize=360%2C191&amp;ssl=1 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><center><small> Victoria Mullova and Claudio Abbado &#8211; a tough act to follow&#8230; <\/small><\/center><strong>You studied music at Cambridge before completing your masters at the Royal Academy. Do you think going to university and getting an academic degree first was useful? Would you change anything in hindsight?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t change anything, I think going to uni can be very useful for some people. I know a lot of people who went to music college for their undergrad and they were typically people who&#8217;d planned to do so from an early age. University is good for musicians who aren\u2019t so sure of the direction their careers will take. The alternative for me was to apply to conservatoires for composition, and I\u2019m definitely glad I didn\u2019t do that. Now I\u2019ve found my own niche for composing and it\u2019s so much better than being judged on your writing at a conservatoire where you\u2019re not performing you own work and you can\u2019t experiment as much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would be your advice for those musicians trying to choose between university and conservatoire?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those who really know what they want to do, music college is perfect, but I&#8217;d recommend uni for those who are more indecisive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s move on to your newly released album \u2013 New Ansonia.<br \/>\nCould you explain the inspiration behind the album?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s simply the kinds of music I\u2019ve been exposed to. Every piece I\u2019ve written has been born out of a desire to explore particular musical styles. It\u2019s basically my representation of music that I love.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How long have you been working on the album?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just over a year. We ended up spending three days as a quintet in the studio, followed by a day with all the extra musicians two weeks later. Then, over the course of a month, we spent seven days mixing and finally a day of mastering. We used the last few months to promote the album before its release.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mishamullovabbado.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/sitting-in-field-2.jpg?w=770\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your composition processes?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Usually I just feel like writing a tune, which is often inspired by a piece of existing repertoire. Every single track on the album has come from me thinking \u2013 \u2018I\u2019m going to write a piece that\u2019s like this.\u2019 For example, &#8216;a swing in F minor\u2019 [Lock, Stock &amp; Shuffle]. Sometimes it\u2019ll be a month before I sit down at the <a href=\"https:\/\/encoremusicians.com\/hire\/pianists\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"12\" title=\"Hire Pianists\">piano<\/a>, or sometimes I\u2019ll do it that night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you come up with the album titles and song names?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>New Ansonia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ansonia is a completely made up word, I used to live in a house on Anson Road. We always referred to our house as Ansonia. I was thinking along the lines of \u2018New York\u2019, like a place.<\/p>\n<p><em>Real Eyes, Realise, Real Lies?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I saw it graffitied on a wall after a <a href=\"https:\/\/joinencore.com\/ulso\">ULSO (University of London Symphony Orchestra)<\/a> rehearsal. In the pizza place past Gloucester Road tube station there\u2019s loads of graffiti on the wall where people have written quotations. I remember seeing it and thinking it would be a great title for a tune. A few weeks later I wrote the song and the phrase seemed to match how I was feeling at the time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Satan, Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a strange track &#8211; it looks back to my classical background, particularly my encounters with contemporary classical. I really wanted to write something where our pianist, <a href=\"https:\/\/joinencore.com\/jacobcollier\">Jacob Collier<\/a>, could do whatever he wanted. I felt like I was often telling him what to do on the other tracks, so for this one I just let him do his own thing. The title itself is a palindrome that someone once told me and I thought it was so brilliant that I had to name a tune after it. The piece is in sonata form, and it\u2019s got an oscillating motif \u2013 so it works!<\/p>\n<p><em>Who is King Michael?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He is a good friend of ours, Michael de Souza, a guitarist. He\u2019s very inspiring!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DDSAxFu-DdU\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>How was performing on Radio 3?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah it was really nice, I had to do a little interview afterwards, and Sean Rafferty is hilarious! Everything was live, so we played a tune, and then I sat next to him for a little chat. It helped publicity as well &#8211; I was with the record label producer, and apparently sales spiked straight after the Radio 3 performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Perhaps the most clich\u00e9d phrase newly successful young musicians tend to use is that the whole experience \u2018feels surreal\u2019. Does it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It feels great, but I\u2019m very aware that this is only a first step. I know a lot of people around my age, in a similar position, recording an album. It\u2019s so easy to get ahead of yourself. I\u2019m trying not to rest on my laurels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of people doing similar things to you at the moment &#8211; what\u2019s it like working with Jacob Collier?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s on another level; a great musician who adds a great vibe. His recording experience meant that he could easily adding multitrack and cool little details here and there that have all made it onto the final recordings. I love that he\u2019s an international star but continues to live at home with his mum and sisters; she still tells him off about washing up! It\u2019s all part of his brand, though.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IuMOy_EKbIU\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>How many instruments do you actually play?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I play a bit of bass guitar, not so often nowadays but it led me to double bass. Though I don\u2019t play it as much anymore, I began learning French horn before guitar and double bass and really wanted to play it on the album. I don\u2019t really play the piano anymore but it\u2019s useful for writing. Oh, and I play the sousaphone! I realised the other day that I play more sousaphone than French horn, which is quite weird, but it makes sense being a bass player. Apparently I played the <a href=\"https:\/\/encoremusicians.com\/hire\/violinists\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Hire Violinists\">violin<\/a> for all of a day, but didn\u2019t like it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>You play a lot of different styles of music \u2013 what\u2019s your favourite genre to perform?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m trying to think of the most ideal performance setting in the world &#8211; two things that spring to mind. I love playing with my band, when everyone&#8217;s on form, the audience is listening intently and there&#8217;s heartfelt artistic creation.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing that springs to mind is a gig at a festival playing blues covers or sousaphone in a brass band. Somewhere with a huge audience and they\u2019re all dancing &#8211; that feeling is just amazing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What about the classical format for performing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I do still enjoy the classical concert hall style of performance, but the most ideal format for me would be with my band. I wouldn\u2019t call what we do classical or jazz, it\u2019s just artistic music that\u2019s mine. The other end of the spectrum for me is music which makes people dance, whether its blues, rock, folk or ceilidh, getting people to dance is amazing. These two very different performance styles are equal in my mind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you thinking about lining up festivals to perform at?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah definitely, I was talking to someone the other day about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lovesupremefestival.com\/\">Love Supreme Jazz Festival<\/a>. It would be great to get on to that. I\u2019ve been waiting till after the album release, hopefully getting some good reviews before pursuing the festival scene.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I know this is quite personal, but I think many of our readers would be interested in knowing whether you feel any extra pressure to live up to the high standards of your parents?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I do feel the pressure, its good and my parents were always good at making me practice, and making sure that I try to fulfil my musical potential. If you want to hear about pressure, my mother growing up in soviet Russia, her parents basically said as first born she would be a musician, and would practice 5 hours a day. They put all their eggs in her basket essentially.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boxset.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/mullova_brahms_violin_concerto.jpg?w=770\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does music mean to you, and what do you think it means for other people?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It makes me start thinking about God quite a lot. I\u2019m not really religious, but I believe that music could make people believe in God and already has done over the years. My view on most religions is that they\u2019re all very similar, they all come from the same place or the same kind of inspiration which is apparent in music. I feel that I actually do believe in God because of music, if only because music itself is just as unexplainable.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><center>You can listen to and buy New Ansonia here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mishamullov-abbado.bandcamp.com\">mishamullov-abbado.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citymusicfoundation.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/encoremusicians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/logo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center>Misha is supported through the generosity of the <strong>City Music Foundation<\/strong> &#8211; find out more about their work here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citymusicfoundation.org\/\">www.citymusicfoundation.org<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sat down with jazz bassist and composer Misha Mullov-Abbado to chat about his highly acclaimed album New Ansonia and how this &#8216;unfailingly inventive, artfully produced, and delightfully sunny debut&#8217; (The Telegraph) came to be. 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