Nicholas Joseph - Make it Simple

So this album, Word Is On The Street, it's about regional Aotearoa New Zealand.

Yeah, a little bit.

I mean, I definitely think that that song, Make It Simple, I mean, when I wrote that song and when I wrote maybe half of the album, I was living out in Te Pahu, which is in the Waipa countryside near Hamilton.

And it was my first time kind of living in a place that isolated and Yeah, it definitely kind of like affected me in different ways, in some ways good, in some ways bad.

And so I think I was kind of like grappling a little bit with that and kind of I was interested in this sort of juxtaposition of New Zealand being this really beautiful, beautiful landscape and how lovely that can be.

But also it can be quite oppressive, I think, just all the space.

um if you're in you know maybe like not such a great headspace and that was that was the kind of headspace that i was in at the time so um yeah it was definitely a factor in in some of the themes that that came out in the writing

i grew up rurally so i understand that 100 oh that's

cool yeah i've spoken to a couple of people who said that that's resonated with him so that's been cool because you know you kind of like have these thoughts and write things and you don't really know if it's like something that people are going to be able to relate to or if it's just you know your own personal perception of things so that's really cool yeah

Yeah, it definitely resonates with me because I feel like being trapped, you think that that looks like being enclosed, but sometimes being trapped looks like just having heaps of space around you and the next person, like living person, is probably like a two kilometre walk away.

A

hundred percent.

Yeah, that's a really great way to put it.

Like I used to go for runs and walks and yeah, I would never see anyone.

And even though like if I took a photo... of where I was looking, you'd be like, well, it's so beautiful, so amazing.

And all my friends that are living overseas are like,

well,

look at how much space you've got.

Yeah, it's exactly as you said.

It can have a way of turning on you a little bit.

So I was interested in that.

So this album, Word Is On The Street, it's about regional Aotearoa New Zealand.

Yeah, a little bit.

I mean, I definitely think that that song, Make It Simple, I mean, when I wrote that song and when I wrote maybe half of the album, I was living out in Te Pahu, which is in the Waipa countryside near Hamilton.

And it was my first time kind of living in a place that isolated and Yeah, it definitely kind of like affected me in different ways, in some ways good, in some ways bad.

And so I think I was kind of like grappling a little bit with that and kind of I was interested in this sort of juxtaposition of New Zealand being this really beautiful, beautiful landscape and how lovely that can be.

But also it can be quite oppressive, I think, just all the space.

um if you're in you know maybe like not such a great headspace and that was that was the kind of headspace that i was in at the time so um yeah it was definitely a factor in in some of the themes that that came out in the writing

i grew up rurally so i understand that 100 oh that's

cool yeah i've spoken to a couple of people who said that that's resonated with him so that's been cool because you know you kind of like have these thoughts and write things and you don't really know if it's like something that people are going to be able to relate to or if it's just you know your own personal perception of things so that's really cool yeah

Yeah, it definitely resonates with me because I feel like being trapped, you think that that looks like being enclosed, but sometimes being trapped looks like just having heaps of space around you and the next person, like living person, is probably like a two kilometre walk away.

A

hundred percent.

Yeah, that's a really great way to put it.

Like I used to go for runs and walks and yeah, I would never see anyone.

And even though like if I took a photo... of where I was looking, you'd be like, well, it's so beautiful, so amazing.

And all my friends that are living overseas are like,

well,

look at how much space you've got.

Yeah, it's exactly as you said.

It can have a way of turning on you a little bit.

So I was interested in that.