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Immersive Soundscapes And Their Inherent Beauty With TARJA · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you for talking to
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  Speaker 1: heavy Maga scene and congratulations and making such an amazing album.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, thank you, very happy, happy to
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  Speaker 2: hear that.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I've got two questions. Why is the voice
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  Speaker 1: so primal? And then is the fristen always a dark shiver?
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  Speaker 2: That voice? Oh? The voice is well for me, it's everything.
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  Speaker 3: And on this record, I got to work with new
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  Speaker 3: mixing engineer actually for me, I've never worked with him before,
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  Speaker 3: called Neil Avram from Los Angeles. He really made a
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  Speaker 3: big difference in the sound of the album in general.
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  Speaker 3: So my vocals are pretty much in the front, which
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  Speaker 3: I very much like. The thing is that while I
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  Speaker 3: was working on the vocal recordings, for example, on this album.
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  Speaker 2: I felt really really.
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  Speaker 3: Free, and I hope people can hear that freedom that
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  Speaker 3: I have.
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  Speaker 1: You can you can hear it in all the different
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  Speaker 1: musical styles that you've used. I mean, I was going
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  Speaker 1: to ask you about that, Yeah, feeling of freedom, Like
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  Speaker 1: you've got tangos, there's alternative, there's electronica, you've got the
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  Speaker 1: folk violin and the classical violin, and then you've got
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  Speaker 1: all the heavy metal elements as well.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly it's the symphonic side, you know.
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  Speaker 3: It was My first love in music was classical music,
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  Speaker 3: and I started studying when I was really young, like
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  Speaker 3: six six years old, and that's my knowledge in music.
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  Speaker 3: I've been studying music all my youth until I was
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  Speaker 3: twenty something, twenty plus something, twenty three, maybe four around that,
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  Speaker 3: And in the meantime in the last years, I was
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  Speaker 3: in a heavy metal band already, but I kept on studying.
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  Speaker 3: I kept on working with the lyrical singing, and so
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  Speaker 3: that's my knowledge, and that is what I want. That
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  Speaker 3: symphonic side I want to combine to my heavy metal
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  Speaker 3: music and for my comp sisions because that side comes.
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  Speaker 2: Easy for me.
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  Speaker 3: I have learned so much from the metal scene in general,
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  Speaker 3: and since I started producing my album, since my second album,
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  Speaker 3: I've been doing that alone. It's been such a learning experience.
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  Speaker 3: But in the recent years, believe me, believe me or not,
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  Speaker 3: I really like maybe it's the age, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: but I've gotten a very I don't know, like more
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  Speaker 3: confident in what I'm doing. And I have kind of
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  Speaker 3: gotten rid of the fears and doubts that I have
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  Speaker 3: had about myself, and I believe a lot of it
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  Speaker 3: has to do with the age and being a mother
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  Speaker 3: and seeing how my daughter grows and how she is
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  Speaker 3: and all this and a life experience in general. But
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  Speaker 3: it's been fantastic to work with this album. I was
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  Speaker 3: very relaxed during the production, and voice is always there
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  Speaker 3: in present Obviously. I am a very expressive singer and
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  Speaker 3: very sensitive also, so emotion is everything the prison needs
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  Speaker 3: to be there. But it has been in my music
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  Speaker 3: ever since, you know, I started. I kind of I
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  Speaker 3: think that I have that in me.
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  Speaker 2: That.
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  Speaker 3: Ability to express myself so that people can feel when
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  Speaker 3: I sing.
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  Speaker 2: It's absolutely important for me.
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  Speaker 3: To be able to sing with my heart open, and
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  Speaker 3: that's the thing that on this album.
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  Speaker 2: That's everything Christon.
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  Speaker 1: You can hear it, yeah, I mean I think at
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  Speaker 1: Say is even more stunning when I first heard it
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  Speaker 1: as a single. It's even more stunning now in the
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  Speaker 1: context of the album when you get to it. But
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  Speaker 1: the aneumonia is just my favorite. With those beautiful club
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  Speaker 1: guitars and a piano and voice, I mean, it's just gorgeous.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't care as clever, it's really clever,
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  Speaker 1: and Danny Filth has never sounded so good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really did amazing job.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I mean it wow. But all the voices and
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  Speaker 1: all the collaborators, and even when you're working with just
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  Speaker 1: yourself and solo, it's all about the voice in its
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  Speaker 1: context and how it moves. It's it's a beautiful examination
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  Speaker 1: of how the voice is imperfect but gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a perfectionist for sure. I'm a perfectionist and I
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  Speaker 3: seek also always for perfection, but I know, and I've
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  Speaker 3: known many years, that I can never be perfect. And
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  Speaker 3: this is something that I also tried to Inhane. With
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  Speaker 3: my incredible talented musicians that are there for me. We
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  Speaker 3: work together, we arrange the music together so that they
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  Speaker 3: understand that when the when the emotion is correct, then
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  Speaker 3: it's perfect. The work is done and it doesn't need
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  Speaker 3: to be perfect technically or it doesn't need to be
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  Speaker 3: perfected with the machine or something else, because it's already there.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that's what the album is about, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: It's about it is the least experience of the voice.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, and and and.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is all the depth that there is in
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  Speaker 3: a human voice. And I also love working with Cello
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  Speaker 3: because Cello is a It has been an instrument that
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  Speaker 3: has always been very present in my albums, and this
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  Speaker 3: album I got to work with Apocalyptica and also I
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  Speaker 3: use my very dear Foralter Walter from Portugal, who is
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  Speaker 3: a cellist to play in Anemoya played a beautiful cello solo.
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  Speaker 3: Cello is like a human voice also can It's very similar.
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  Speaker 3: It has its depths and the fragileness and everything.
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  Speaker 2: So I really love the voice of a cella.
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  Speaker 3: When I was a kid, I wanted to myself learned
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  Speaker 3: to play cello, but there were no teachers around in
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  Speaker 3: my area where I was borns I couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: But it's been there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I love working with the in general, the orchestra,
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  Speaker 3: arrangement and everything on this on this album and the
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  Speaker 3: orchestra at the end.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was nice.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that cello has got that really said, it's
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  Speaker 1: got that deeper set type of emotional sound that comes
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  Speaker 1: out of the strings. I know my daughter's a violinist
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  Speaker 1: and when she uses different violins, you can hear the
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  Speaker 1: different tambre in the war in the strings and how
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  Speaker 1: much rozen supplied and like the style of Boeing that
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  Speaker 1: they're using. Yes, yes, so it's always a. It's a
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  Speaker 1: fascinating thing to watch, and here I had a cousin
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  Speaker 1: who played the cella shows really good at it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was very lucky. What are you hoping for this album?
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  Speaker 1: Where do you where do you are you going to
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  Speaker 1: tour it? Or what do you want to do?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm starting touring in October with the album October
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  Speaker 3: this year, then I do a Christmas tour at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the year and next year I will keep
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  Speaker 3: on touring with the album. And we are just now
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  Speaker 3: booking the shows, announcing, starting to announce everything. But it
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  Speaker 3: will be a long, long tour, around two years of time,
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  Speaker 3: like in general with all of my albums, I've been
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  Speaker 3: touring two years. And I really do hope that there
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  Speaker 3: is a chance opportunity given to me to come over
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  Speaker 3: to Australia because it would be like way too long
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  Speaker 3: since I was there the last time, and so it
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  Speaker 3: would be wonderful. I just want to thank all the
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  Speaker 3: fans over there supporting me and giving me their love,
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  Speaker 3: sending me their love. Nevertheless, I haven't been over there
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  Speaker 3: for a long time, but still you know, really beautiful
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  Speaker 3: messages I get all we.
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  Speaker 1: Would love to see here. It would be wonderful however
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  Speaker 1: it happens, and then watching things at the moment with yeah,
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  Speaker 1: great worry, I guess that's.
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  Speaker 2: Craziness going on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but this is exactly you know, this album for example,
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  Speaker 3: for me, when I finish it all and during it,
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking about the dreams that I've always had
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  Speaker 3: with music and how grateful I am in a way
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  Speaker 3: to really be to leave my dreams still today thanks
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  Speaker 3: to the other people supporting me. But the thing is
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  Speaker 3: that this album is talking about our dreams and the
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  Speaker 3: things is things like the fear stopping us doing what
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  Speaker 3: we love, or the fear of really looking inside to
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  Speaker 3: search for your own voice. Whatever that tells you. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's sometimes hard to listen.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 3: Like at sea, you leave the you leave the safetiness
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  Speaker 3: of the shore behind without knowing what are you going
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  Speaker 3: to face on the sea, whether it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a storm or just peaceful moment, but you go anyway,
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  Speaker 3: and at that song.
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  Speaker 2: You face the sea or the storm.
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  Speaker 3: And the sea and you've become a new person after
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  Speaker 3: you survive. And that is it's something in you can
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  Speaker 3: compare it with any difficult life situation. Many times people
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  Speaker 3: stop taking risks or they can't, you know, go and
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  Speaker 3: take risks because the fear is stopping them. And many
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  Speaker 3: times we think things way harder than they actually are
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  Speaker 3: in our little brain telling us no, no, no, you cannot,
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  Speaker 3: you cannot, cannot, even though you can.
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  Speaker 1: I think, I think that's crushing everyone at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: I really want to do it, but oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: it's really going to cost that much.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's just human life, isn't it. I mean
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  Speaker 1: everything changes. Yes, Well, I really wanted to thank you
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  Speaker 1: for like catching up with us here in Australia today.
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  Speaker 1: It's a wonderful album. You should be really happy. I
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  Speaker 1: think music fans everywhere will be happy from like, lots
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  Speaker 1: of different genres are going to take a lot out
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  Speaker 1: of this album. Yeah, so thank you for your time
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  Speaker 1: and the gift of having listening to it earlier. It
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  Speaker 1: was just amazing. If you like it, well, I really did.
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  Speaker 1: I loved it. I've been listening to it a couple
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  Speaker 1: of you know, I've been through it three times and
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  Speaker 1: you just hear more and more each listen. And I
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  Speaker 1: would love to see this played live. I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: you could get to Australia even like hook up with
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  Speaker 1: one of the symphonies here to do it, just go
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  Speaker 1: to Cube the opera House.
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  Speaker 3: It would be dream Yeah, that would be amazing, amazing,