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Musician Melody Prochet talks motherhood and geographical inspirations
The voice behind Melody's Echo Chamber talks to The Jakarta Post about her newest album and the colorful history of her career.
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Dreamy: The album "Melody’s Echo Chamber" has a nuance where enchanted sleep meets fever dream. (Melody's Echo Chamber/Diane Sagnier) (Melody's Echo Chamber/Diane Sagnier)
Melody Prochet talks to The Jakarta Post about her newest album and the colorful history of her career.
“I can’t believe I’m talking with someone from Indonesia,” French musician, Melody Prochet, says during a phone interview with The Jakarta Post on June 3. “I just googled how long it would take for me to get there by walking, and it says I would need 122 days.”
The 35-year-old songstress talked with an evident shyness and amiable giggles. Her personality translates beautifully into the signature voice that’s heard through her various projects, from The Narcoleptic Dancers and My Bee’s Garden to her most successful project, Melody’s Echo Chamber, later on.
Sleepy beginning
“I would love to have this kind of crazy powerful vocal but I always go back to an ethereal kind of breathy [voice],” Prochet says. “I always love [my voice] to be a part of the music, too, or maybe I’m not confident enough.”
Prochet was introduced to music by playing viola, whose role is always to be the supporting act in the orchestra.
“Viola is always the middle part in the orchestra; it’s never been the theme. It’s always the humble part in the orchestra, and I kind of like that.”
