{"id":14985,"date":"2023-03-10T12:25:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T12:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=14985"},"modified":"2023-03-10T12:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T12:25:12","slug":"musician-of-the-month-magdalena-jacob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2023\/03\/10\/musician-of-the-month-magdalena-jacob\/","title":{"rendered":"Musician of the Month: Magdalena Jacob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">My musical journey started with a lot of Church organ and Bohemian brass music in a tiny village in Bavaria \u2013 \u00a0and when I say village I really mean it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the age of five I developed a desperate desire to learn the guitar, because my mum had one (for her kindergarten group and she knew about four chords). At the age of five I wanted to be exactly like my mum, a genius.<\/p>\n<p>After three years I hated the guitar because after too many odd versions of Beatles covers I was just really bored and annoyed. I quit because, in the mean time, I desperately wanted to learn a random brass instrument, which I never actually managed to do.<\/p>\n<p>This tiny village where I grew up in had an unwritten rule that every kid had to learn a brass instrument to later play in the local youth brass band, in order to be part of the game. I learned the guitar and later the bass, because my dad was desperately looking for a bass player for his church band, so I was rather out of the game (and it\u2019s nice to be able to blame the string instruments for it instead of myself).<\/p>\n<p>As a child I didn\u2019t really think about becoming a musician. I didn\u2019t think it was a real job anyway. I wanted to become a vet, then a kindergarten teacher, then a writer \u2013 which somehow I considered a real job.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Solar Powered Moon Town - TRUMPET (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H-9kk3VByZk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>That one person at the party nobody gets&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As long as I can remember, I have always been that one person at the party nobody gets. According to certain rumours, some believed I was a genius. Others were convinced that I was just really high (yes, even as a child).<\/p>\n<p>Once I came dressed up to a costume party as a tasteless dressmaker. It was supposed to be funny, but in the end people just thought I was mental.<\/p>\n<p>If a costume is too close to reality, people tend to confuse it for reality. And then the costume fails and protects me at the same time. The perfect illusion is to create a mask that looks exactly like your real face. It\u2019s still a mask then. But it\u2019s also a protective shield. And it\u2019s still you, right?<\/p>\n<p>At the age of eleven I re-discovered the guitar because we randomly founded a band at some children\u2019s birthday party of a friend in order to be cool or something, and I started to compose a couple of love songs about a guy I was pretending to be in love with at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years later I moved to Berlin to become a full-time musician. I married my band mate at the time and we moved into a tiny room in a flat share together. I was actually more like a half-time busker, half-time film student and the weekends we spent touring (mostly hitchhiking) around Germany, busking and playing in bars as a guitar-duo that played sad, experimental guitar music for two guitars.<\/p>\n<p>After three years we broke up and I became a full-time film student and started to produce electronic pop music with weird spoken word elements. I was twenty-five and I felt like starting a completely new life.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Solar Powered Moon Town - OUTRO (live)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rf39e-QpS7U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The gay clown on the moon&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I recently came out as a clown which is due to the fact that I can\u2019t take myself seriously any longer. How could I write sad, dramatic poems and scream them into the world when everything my white privileged ass can possibly emotionally understand are luxury problems?<\/p>\n<p>I made myself comfortable with being ridiculous and it was quite a liberation to be stupid, and not to expect anyone to take myself seriously anymore.<\/p>\n<p>My music now is sad, but funny. It\u2019s cute. Still a lot of people don\u2019t get it and sometimes they leave the room during concerts because I\u2019m making fun about stuff that isn\u2019t funny to them.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes they insult me because in their ears, I\u2019m not doing music. Which is true, because what I\u2019m actually doing is theatre, or some kind of performance art that people would watch at night time on Arte, and be like \u201cwhat the hell made her become like that?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I sometimes ask myself the same question. But I realized people are mostly not really interested in honest answers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14988 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MagdalenaFeature.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Therapy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Music is therapy and I will make the audience my therapists as long as someone is willing to listen to my random brainfarts. Sometimes I\u2019m scared that if too many people start listening to me I will never shut the fuck up ever again. And I\u2019m also scared they would all just stop listening completely at some point.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes living in Berlin is scary. The city is so loud because everyone is trying to find someone to listen to them.\u00a0 And nobody is possibly getting enough of the attention they deserve. And unlike the village: most people are not trying to hide their problems from anyone. I mean, why should they do so?<\/p>\n<p>Life makes no sense in a city like that and is beautiful and liberating (in summer), but it\u2019s also random and scary (in winter).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve recently become a half-time film maker, a half-time musician and a babysitter and a cat and a dog sitter, and a clown.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I\u2019m not sure if I can ever go back to a serious approach to making music. Parts of me just always want to remain a clown on a tiny stage that creates something weird and funny and magical in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of me want to be an accordion-playing clown with an orchestra on their back, performing slutty lyrics in a church and crying all the time on stage. Parts of me also just want to become insta-famous or a tik-tok-star or this weird actress that is doing kind of everything and nothing at the same time and no-one knows what she\u2019s actually famous for.<\/p>\n<p>What I want to achieve next is to move to space and live-stream arthouse cinema from the moon. Make friends with many more cats. Grow my own potatoes and save the world by growing potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Generally saving the world would be great actually. Maybe that\u2019s also possible from my treehouse on the moon.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.solarpoweredmoontown.de\"><em><strong>www.solarpoweredmoontown.de<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/solarpoweredmoontown\/\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/solarpoweredmoontown\/<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My musical journey started with a lot of Church organ and Bohemian brass music in a tiny village in Bavaria \u2013 \u00a0and when I say village I really mean it. 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