When did you know for sure that Emotional Eternal deserved to be made? Could you take me through its origin? Your approach to making music is unhurried and you’ve said that you’re open to the possibility that there won’t necessarily be an album that needs to be made. Hayden Merrick ( Under the Radar ): The new album is stunning-it’s hard to find the right adjective. She was warm and thoughtful as she told me about the new album, the meditative spaces where she finds solace, and life’s circularity. Words such as “transcendence” crop up a few times, but they are supported by substance-the proof is in the pudding, as they say. It’s her first release in four years and the first since she became a mother, a life change that not only guides the music and lyrics but was the impetus for their existence.ĭuring our Zoom conversation, Prochet spoke with unpretentious humility. In this case, it led her to her radiant third album, Emotional Eternal, out on Domino this Friday. Once inspiration drifts into view, though, she will follow it at her own pace as far as it’ll take her. And the title of her last album, 2018’s Bon Voyage, implied that the resonance would be indefinite. In that way, she invites parallels to songwriters such as Cassandra Jenkins, whose 2021 album was titled, very literally, An Overview on Phenomenal Nature.Īs the project name suggests, Melody allows ideas to resonate. That may sound highfalutin or imprecise, but one of Prochet’s primary inspirations is the natural world-a peninsula in the south of France near her grandmother’s house, a forest of pine trees in the Alps. Listening to her music, produced under the moniker Melody’s Echo Chamber with co-conspirators Fredrik Swahn and Reine Fiske, is to enter an enveloping, otherwise inaccessible sonic reverie-an escape from the real world, a place in which to idle and fade away for a few minutes. Melody Prochet is an architect of euphonic sanctuaries.
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