songs, I’ve been writing those since about high school.
musicians channel that. I want to learn how to do that more. I’ve had moments where I felt like I had removed myself and was channeling spiritual energy through music. EVAN: My range of influence is so broad. Anything that comes from a place of emotion, passion and feeling, I like it. The project that we’re doing is a compilation of everything we’ve both ever liked and done separately. We’re mashing it together. We’re trying to find the perfect balance of listenable but original music. The whole music industry is flooded with every type of music that’s so accessible through the internet so it’s very hard to make a mark.
When you started writing music, what was it about? EVAN: I write about pain and spiritual affliction. I don’t have too many happy songs. I write about triumph as well so that might have a positive flair to them but they are mostly about emotional struggle and acceptance. LIZ: I write a mixture of what I’m thinking emotionally and what I’m seeing. I sort of put those together and write about anything that’s going on in my life. I write about other people too. I heard a story about a young woman who was killed in Philadelphia. It How did you two meet? was a really gruesome and awful thing. I write about LIZ: We met on the open mike circuit. We sorta knew things that make me think deeper into the meaning the same people. of my life and other people’s lives. EVAN: We both ended up moving back to the same area around the same time. We were just playing Where does your inspiration come from? some songs and we realized it sounded good. LIZ: We [Evan and I] talk a lot about great musicians. LIZ: We realized that we’d be compatible musically. Music comes from another place and I feel like great The harmonies worked.
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