Q&A: Quiet Blue hits our sweet spot with new release
Melbourne based Nic Georgiou has created a sassy slice of a solo music project titled Quiet Blue. The singer-songwriter yesterday dropped his second release for the year in Lost It All. My gosh it’s like a gentle kiss on the lips, cue spine-tingling chills. The song that took a just few months to write is an exploration of the lost human connections through Covid-19’s isolation period.
Georgiou’s sound has been influenced by the likes of folk icons Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens and Bright Eyes. Over the years Nic has flirted with a few different genres to create a unique blend between traditional acoustic instrumentation and electronic ambience that has manifested into something rather beautiful. His vocals are comparable to smokey bacon, hot and mighty tasty.
We had a chat with Quiet Blue about his new release, what his hangover recovery looks like and his relationship with music.
Heres a snippet of our chat:
Tell me a little about your relationship with music.
My relationship with music is very tumultuous. I think before I started writing and producing music I couldn’t spend much of my time without having music in the background, my 2017 Spotify stats were something ridiculous like 90,000 minutes of listening. But I’ve struggled to balance my enjoyment of just listening to music to my obsession with creating it. I feel as though more often or not when I’m travelling around to or from work or anywhere really I’m listening to my own demos, picking them apart, getting new ideas. So in a sense I spend probably much more time now with music than I ever have but it would be nice to start enjoying music again more for leisure.
‘Lost it All’ is such a great song, can you tell me a little bit about what this song means to you and the emotion behind it?
I wrote Lost It All over the span of a few months. Its interesting with a lot of my music, I don't often write from my own experience, I try to write songs that sort of capture a feeling that I've noticed in the world. Lost It All started off not really meaning much but through Isolation I continued to write new lyrics for it because I noticed people really struggled with being separated from each other and not being able to communicate meaningfully. If the last few months has taught us anything its that we really rely on each other to learn about things like love and to understand our own emotions. Lost It All follows how we can lose ourselves when we don’t let others in or when we cant connect with others to help us when we are in need.
Your other 2020 song ‘Jealous’ hits all the sweet spots, the music video is LEGIT, can you tell me what that was like to film and create?
This was an absolute blast. I wrote Jealous in about an hour one afternoon and it all started with that smooth piano riff in the chorus. The sense of movement that the groove in that chorus has really lends itself to dancing or commotion of some sort which I think the choreography of the music video really captures. It was a really amazing experience to work with Thomas Pike who is an absolute legend behind the camera, just seeing his vision brought to life and work harmoniously with my sonic vision was a joy.
Are you excited to get back to performing live now that venues are beginning to re-open?
I can't wait to get back out on stage! Just before COVID hit I had completely overhauled my live set from being a live band to just being solo with a lot more freedom to play my songs how I picture them when I'm writing. I got to play a show just before everything shut down and it was such a nice feeling up on stage being comfortable and excited to play each song rather than being nervous. I've written quite a few new songs while everything has been shut down so I'm chomping at the minute to get back out there!
What’s your go to hangover recovery look like?
I can't take hangovers as well as I used to so most of the time it’s a strict schedule of bed until 3, and then a short break to get a burger from Wonky Trolley (the best burgers in Melbourne). I've also started absolutely rinsing The Avatar on Netflix so I tend to have a solid 5 hour binge of that. I'll normally emerge from my room at about 6 either ready to go again, or ready to ask my roommate to make me dinner.
How would your High School teachers describe you?
It's come to my attention since leaving school a number of years ago that I was an absolute teachers pet so I'm hoping my teachers would describe me as a joy. I definitely butted heads with a lot of teachers though as I was always very sure that I was more correct than them, even though they were 30 years and 2 degrees my senior.
Still or Sparkling?
If someone else is paying, sparkling for sure but if the tab is on me you best believe I'm going for tap water.
Where do you see yourself in 3 years time?
Three years is a very long time. Ideally I want to still be making music and enjoying it as much as I do right now. It excites me to think about where music could take me and moreover, where I can take my music. The amount I've learnt and grown as a musician in the past year leads me to think that I could be doing some really amazing things that far in the future. I think If I can be making enough money to live off music by then I will really be happy because as much as I like to never put financial pressure on my music it would be good have all my time to work on my craft and really take my music as far as it will go! Most importantly though, I would probably like to have a dog by then, as much as I'm hilariously ill equipped to take care of another life, the one thing my life is missing is a furry friend to come home to.
It is a lot easier to order sparkling water when someone else is paying, that’s for sure. Go stream Lost It All on Spotify now! It’s too dreamy to not throw into your playlist.
We can’t wait to see where music takes Nic over the next few years but for now check out Quiet Blue’s new track below or head to our Work/Study/Chill From Home ✌️ playlist to hear more great songs just like this one.
By Samuel Seedsman.