Mood Board is our column where artists share a few of the things that inspired their new record. This time, the Brighton-based Swedish songwriter Nina Winder-Lind tells us about some of the music and art that inspired her new record Wild Love — out now on Transgressive.
— Annie Fell, Editor-in-chief, Talkhouse Music
1. Penny & The Quarters & Friends compilation
This compilation album floored me and definitely informed the process of making Wild Love. I don’t know much about these guys but what they are doing is immense. These songs are literally shaking with emotion and honesty. It gets me right in the gut every time. The are so raw, so naked, so spacious, and so intense at the same time. For me they stand testimony that if you put your soul and heart into something you don’t need much else really.
2. Unknown photograph
I have tried to figure out where this photograph is from but with no luck. I came across it on Pinterest and I keep coming back to it. Maybe rather than it influenced the making of the album, it summarizes a lot of what the album is about.
3. Edward Munch, The First Humans: Woman and Bear
Again, this is an image that seemed to confirm some essence of the music. It kind of translates it perfectly and I kept in it my heart whilst making the album.
4. Agnes Pelton’s Heart Music
I love Agnes Pelton very much. She makes me feel. I had this saved on my album Pinterest board for ages. Heart Music could be another name for Wild Love.
5. Marie Lieb’s Untitled
Marie Lieb made this in 1894 out of sheets in the psychiatric ward where she was institutionalized for “periodic mania.” This is kind of a huge one for me but I’ll try and be short. I find it so interesting and so sad learning about how women in the past where stigmatized and mistreated for different mental conditions. Where do you draw the line between creativity and madness? Is there a line? And how is it related to gender? When I look at this picture I see the work of a women who had a lot to say but didn’t get to say it. She has made something beautiful and expressive out of what she has been handed, the sheets of her bed in a psychiatric ward. Under different circumstances, in a different time, maybe in a different (male) body she might have been an artist, or something else. I keep reminding myself how lucky I am to get to do what I am doing. I don’t want to take it for granted.
