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McKinley Dixon is a musical nomad propelled by his curiosity to explore sounds, people and the communities that breed and protect them. Born out of a necessity to write love letters to the places that guided him as well as carve out the spaces that he longed for, the Richmond, Virginia-rooted musician found himself in Chicago prior to the release of his forthcoming recordand the journey toward building a home beyond four walls seeped into the recording process.
Yeah, I think regionally, I would love for it to be more Southern. I think that it reflects where I grew up near the Mason-Dixon Line, right in the Virginia and Maryland area. It's in between sort of the South and the pseudo north. I think my sound has that. The sound draws from longing to be from one place, or having one identity that is tied to place.
Definitely. I think that with Richmond, I hit a peak. It's really great to live there and it's provided me with this comfort but didn't allow me to really want to push myself. I think everybody around me was in that same mindset. It was hard to travel, it was hard to pay rent. In a city like that, it was sleepier and quieter. I needed to go to a place where there were a lot of Black people because I needed to see what that magic was like if I was gonna make an album in eight months.
It's been great. I think that I am finding out that I'm more introverted than I thought I was, just because everybody I knew was only people that I knew back home. I was there for a decade and some change. With my friends there, you lose one or two as time goes on, and they sort of didn't really waver much. Whereas here, there are so many people, so many things going on and so much to catch your eye that I'm starting to realize, maybe I just like chillin' in the house.
Going back to your record, I hear you really playing with your voice and becoming an instrument. It's reminiscent of the physicality of jazz.what would make my voice not stand out but rather go alongside it? For this one I had demos of "Sun I Rise", "Tar Feather" and "Tyler Forever" where it's just the harp or just the strings, and I realized that with my time restraints, I couldn't do what I usually do. I don't have the ability to wait for people. So I started working with my friend from Richmond, Sam Koff. I needed another ear and he put that ear together.
I think that it embodies jazz because it's so chaotic, you know? All of us use our voice so sparsely in a way that we are very intentional with every line. Teller Bank@ starts it out with this repeated chorus then I come in and do a verse that is very close to the chest but then Alfred. is the one that really takes it home with that final verse. It's two and a half minutes and that song is more jazz to me than a lot of the record because of just the intention of it.
A lot of my music sounds like I'm talking about and to the general audience, but a lot of my music is me reflecting on me and the conversations that I've had. So people sometimes will be like, "Oh, is this your opinion on this and the weight of these things and the trauma that black people in gangs face?" No, actually. I don't even know what the fuck you're talking about! I'm just talking about my homies and my family life that made everything lead up to this point.
I really wanted this record to sound like a movie. The cover is like this space-age, anime, black-noir look and the record has this cinematic, theatrical aspect to it. I really wanted it to be like a coming-of-age movie, or a book where the pages might be moving a little too fast, but the pictures are still really nice. I aimed to make it sound like there's this kid who begins. This is where we start and you can very clearly see where we're going from here.
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