Cassy Judy: “I Hope This Mixtape Challenges What a Musician Needs to Be.”
Punk Head: What was the creative process like for this particular EP?
Cassy Judy: The creative process for this EP was varied. I like to try and make music in as many different ways as possible. So the Trailblazer demo, I did that on an iPad 2 on GarageBand in one of the bedrooms in my mom's house. And anything else I ever did with that version of that song, never came close to capturing the original, um, raw kind of creative outbursts.
That was the “Trailblazer” demo. The other song, the first song, “Learn to Love Again,” that involved a friend of mine, a New Zealand guy Sam. And I'd seen him play the song some years ago and I wrote to him. I said, look, I really love this song, it's really special.
You should really do something with it and He wasn't that Keen on that idea. So I said, do you mind if I do so I did I recorded the song, I played some saxophone on the song, my producer, put down the guitars. And it was, you know, it was good it's it's a nice song.
Punk Head: How did you work with the producer or engineers to bring your vision for The Cassy Judy Mixtape to life?
Cassy Judy: We captured the essence of it which is something soft and sensual and there's also a yearning there. Um, so in regards to question two, I worked with Derek Turner on this one. Uh, he did the remix for I've come so far and I think he did. Something that was bright and fruity and fun, which I really love having in my music.
Punk Head: What impact do you hope The Cassy Judy Mixtape will have on your audience?
Cassy Judy: I hope people will Um, I hope this mixtape will challenge conceptions of what musicians need to be that they need to make one genre and one type of music. This is also a different turn for me because I'm rapping which um is something that I first wanted to do since I was 15 and called up a radio station and rapped down the end of the phone.
So I'm excited to have that part of my creative existence out into the world. So I always think that, you know, musical artists need to be appreciated in the full spectrum of their careers. So I hope people see this mixtape for what it is. Is a creative Exposition at a point in time.
Punk Head: What inspired you to pursue a career in music?
Cassy Judy: Wow, well, I started making music when I lived in a sharehouse in Belgium. And we sat down with Stephen and he played some chords on guitar and I started singing. And we made a song that way, it was very organic. It was a very simple song. It's, it's a lovely song and one day I might might even release it.
I just kept writing songs from that point on really. Those original songs. I'd love to put those together in a recording one day. You know, music is is the ultimate expression really of one's thoughts feelings senses, and innermost Joy. So if you can create a song and that touches one person or five people, that's great, you've really achieved something and you're on the way to having a legacy.
Punk Head: Can you share a memorable experience from a collaboration that enriched your music?
Cassy Judy: I think the most memorable experience was me taking the saxophone into the studio and, uh, Adriana putting her cello in there and, you know, Derek's a great producer. So he was really able to get her to really um, deliver that line in Spanish.
You know, this infrastructure is bringing her down, is bringing us down. And if you see the video uh you'll understand um you know, the full, the full weight of her expression. That our collaboration was able to summon and you know some of the best experiences I've ever had in the studio are the spontaneous ones that bring people together and make people smile and hopefully um some of that joy and some of that spontaneity and some of that experimentation comes through to people in the mixtape.
