{"id":11393,"date":"2019-04-22T12:37:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T17:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/?p=11393"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:05:11","slug":"winnipeg-state-of-mind-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2019\/04\/22\/winnipeg-state-of-mind-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg State of Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Nigel Weber<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cLest I must confess, my destiny\u2019s manifest\u201d – Lauryn Hill <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Playing Big Fun Festival in January was a big show for Marisolle Negash. She was premiering a new song with new visuals filmed by Victor Ilunga. But it was far from her first performance at a music festival. The local singer and multi-instrumentalist began performing at classical music festivals at the age of 8. Classically trained on both piano and voice, Marisolle\u2019s music has come a long way from her roots in the classical world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Marisolle and Victor first connected through Instagram. Being mutual admirers of each other\u2019s work, they decided to collaborate. Victor, who goes by the artistic name Plutoe, is a graduate of Vancouver Film School. In late 2018, after only a couple months of knowing each other, the pair were approached by Synonym Art Consultation to help produce a music video and debut it at Big Fun. Victor and Marisolle, still getting to know one another, fast-tracked the process. Marisolle describes the filming process as a learning experience for both of them as Victor \u201cwas intent on making a project that was totally up to me\u201d. With a deadline to meet, Marisolle had to quickly learn the language of film to communicate her ideas so Victor could interpret them visually. \u201cIn The Way\u201d was picked for the video \u201cvery late in the filming process\u201d and because it is \u201ca very vulnerable song.\u201d Marisolle said she was forced \u201cto get over [herself] really quickly,\u201d to get the work done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The beat for \u201cIn The Way\u201d was made by local producer, New Picasso, in one of their first collaborations together. \u201cIn The Way\u201d was the first time Marisolle was working with a visual collaborator, though she\u2019s worked with endless musical collaborators. She plays piano and sings backup vocal in Super Duty Tough Work, a group she refers to as \u201cthe dream team\u201d. She also plays shows solo, both on piano and guitar, and has worked with many different musicians in her own bands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marisolle eschews traditional musical genres like soul or jazz when referring to her sound, opting to call it \u201cmood-based\u201d. Hesitant to describe her music at all, Marisolle usually just plays her music for a curious fan. Having spent many years studying music it is no wonder that \u201cthere\u2019s a lot of classical pedagogy and approaches,\u201d to her writing style. Marisolle doesn\u2019t want a listener to be prejudice of her music based on a single-word genre that has decades of connotations. The mood-based approach allows the listener to emote with the music and feel Marisolle\u2019s mood coming through her vocals. Basing it on mood allows the music to be subjective so each listener finds their own vibe. \u201cIn The Way\u201d is driven by sparse but heavy drums, leaving room for Marisolle\u2019s voice to fill the song. The piano and bass round out the track, but it\u2019s only natural that the vocals are the focal point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having spent her formative years in classical training, Marisolle grew up playing other people\u2019s music. But that all changed when she started writing her own music and \u201crealized [she] had [her] own ideas.\u201d Marisolle acknowledges the many performances she did as a child have made her a better and more confident performer today. She sees herself standing apart from every musical genre, saying, \u201cI feel like I belong to whatever idea I\u2019m creating in the moment.\u201d The freedom and fluidity within her music is <\/p>\n\n\n\n

what makes Marisolle unlike any other musician in Winnipeg. Even though she is \u201creally supported by people who are on that same wave as well,\u201d Marisolle Negash is doing her own thing. Using her music as a form of expression, Marisolle is finding her truth, saying, \u201cmusic was a way for me to find belonging in my own narrative.\u201d
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by Nigel Weber \u201cLest I must confess, my destiny\u2019s manifest\u201d – Lauryn Hill Playing Big Fun Festival in January was a big show for Marisolle Negash. She was premiering a new song with new visuals filmed by Victor Ilunga. But it was far from her first performance at a music festival. The local singer and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11395,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11393\/revisions\/11395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}