Delhia de France
Delhia de France’s remarkable voice has given colours, as well as a touch of darkness, to several releases throughout the last two years. She’s worked on electronic-music collaborations with Adriatique, and soundtrack creation for the TV series ‘Shades of Guilt’ with Robot Koch.
Tell us about yourself Delhia.
Music has always been around me in a way. I had classical piano and vocal training when I was a kid. As soon as I could write songs I dove into the local subculture when I was a teen and became interested in HipHop, Jungle, House all the while listening to a lot of Jazz and Bossa Nova.
I was part of a band project incorporating various forms of performance and media art for a long time, we've toured Europe and released 3 albums. In 2018 I decided to go solo, where I have released 2 EPs and had a couple successful remixes by the likes of Janus Rasmussen from Kiasmos, and Adriatique, who have just released another collab via their label that has been getting a lot of attention. Throughout my career I have always collaborated with different artists, mainly in the underground dance scene and since a couple of years have been working very closely with Robot Koch on several projects. We share the same love for organic textures, dark bass sounds and melancholic vibes. I'm working with him on most of my stuff, he is an incredible producer and artist.
Can you name a few inspirations for your creative process, please?
silence, water, textures, voices, ambience, sensuality
How does your creative process looks / feel like?
I either start writing on the piano or sketch a beat idea or sometimes just on a sound. I love writing on sounds and would probably produce two very different pieces if I had to use a piano or a synth for the same chords. I vibe with whatever comes. And then it's almost like a movie. I have to see something in my mind, some kind of visual connected to a feel and then i take it from there, writing the lyrics and melody and then produce the sounds around it.
When I get a track to collaborate, I love to jam over it, first impulses are always the best.
The process to me feels like carving something out of a block of marble. There's mostly a phrase that's coming up and then I follow it, see where it takes me, I have a rough idea of what it could be but will also let the music reveal it to me. It can be very physical and exhausting too. like actually carving something out of stone.
How do they feel about COVID and the impact it is making on your personal creativity and the whole music industry moving forward?
I am very privileged the way I can just hide at home in my studio. It took me a while though to stop going down the rabbit whole of information and flood of news. I live between LA and Berlin and I decided to stay in LA and not go to my home country Germany which was a bit frightening at the beginning but the best decision after all. Here I have a beautiful garden, lots of nature nearby. It calms me down and actually gives me more focus and less distraction since we can't really go out or meet people. I have been able to use this time to focus on writing my new record.
