{"id":629646,"date":"2024-08-02T18:36:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T15:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/chrystabell-is-the-dreamer\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T18:36:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T15:36:58","slug":"chrystabell-is-the-dreamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chrystabell-is-the-dreamer\/","title":{"rendered":"#Chrystabell is the dreamer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n #content_block-263056 {\n   background: ;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-263056 {\n   background: ;\n   margin-bottom: 60px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .custom-title, article.custom .custom-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> .caption {\n   color: #F9B4FB;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .custom-attribution, article.custom .custom-attribution a {\n   color: #F9B4FB;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .content_block blockquote.pull_quote {\n   color: #F9B4FB;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263056\" class=\"content_block flush title center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      Chrystabell is the dreamer\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      The singer, actor, and longtime David Lynch collaborator discusses the astral mind meld that inspired the duo\u2019s new album, <i>Cellophane Memories<\/i>.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Raphael Helfand<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\" image center_align\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00246-Original_1_-min_m4uk7e\/chrystabell-photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00246-Original_1_-min_m4uk7e\/chrystabell-photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00246-Original_1_-min_m4uk7e\/chrystabell-photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00246-Original_1_-min_m4uk7e\/chrystabell-photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00246-Original_1_-min_m4uk7e\/chrystabell-photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00246-Original_1_-min_m4uk7e\/chrystabell-photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00246-Original_1_-min_m4uk7e\/chrystabell-photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00246-Original_1_-min_m4uk7e\/chrystabell-photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00246-Original_1_-min_m4uk7e\/chrystabell-photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00246-Original_1_-min_m4uk7e\/chrystabell-photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00246-Original_1_-min_m4uk7e\/chrystabell-photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Chrystabell is the dreamer\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Chrystabell. Photo by Candice Ghai.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"custom_share_buttons_top \" style=\"\">\n<div id=\"new_socials_bottom\" class=\"new_socials_footer  \">\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/FDR_SocialSharing_Facebook-747312c39722d47504a80f02500b8d4ad2e36acf922bad1c83799db1bc77f605.png\"><br \/>\n      <!-- <span>Share<\/span> --><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefader.com%2F2024%2F08%2F02%2Fchrystabell-david-lynch-interview%3Futm_source%3Df%26utm_medium%3Dtw%26utm_campaign%3Dshare&amp;text=Chrystabell%20is%20the%20dreamer&amp;via=thefader\" class=\"new_social_footer_button twitter new_social_share_button\" data-ga-event-category=\"Social Share\" data-ga-event-label=\"Twitter\" data-ga-on=\"click\" data-ga-event-action=\"cilck\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/FDR_SocialSharing_Twitter-8d78f695280aa3f8a4461702c68e9fcbfd6042af1600c62d49fdec4b735fb57a.png\"><br \/>\n    <!-- <span>Tweet<\/span> --><br \/>\n  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/logo-snapchat-5f1563935ac089d0cf1773f642ddbfb6cdb16e8c4ac14fec95a3c11b6f963389.svg\"><br \/>\n        <!-- <span>Snap<\/span> --><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-263057,  #content_block-263057 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-263057 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263057\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <span style=\"color:#ffffff\" class=\"lead-text\">By the time<\/span> 19-year-old singer Chrysta Bell Zucht met director David Lynch at the turn of the millennium, she\u2019d already experienced more excitement than most people who make it to 90. 26 years later, <i>Cellophane Memories<\/i>, her second full-length project with the beloved director, has arrived. Like Chrystabell\u2019s life story, the album blurs the lines between dreams and reality.<\/p>\n<p>            The daughter of a hot-air balloon pilot and a deliverer of singing telegrams, Chrystabell knew the wonders of road and sky before she could talk; both parents often brought her to work. From her father, Arthur Darling Zucht III, she inherited \u201ca great reverence for humanity and a deep excitement for waking up in the morning,\u201d she says. Beyond the hot air balloon rides, he\u2019d take her on long, slow drives through San Antonio in the classic cars he had access to as chairman of the Texas Transportation Museum. \u201cWhen I tell you I went to school in a vintage fire truck\u2026 You can\u2019t make this stuff up,\u201d she says. \u201cIt either h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens or it doesn\u2019t.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>            From her mother, Sunny Markham, she learned music\u2019s capability to effect joy. Chrystabell still remembers the smiles of gratitude on the faces of those receiving Sunny\u2019s telegrams \u2014 custom-written for each recipient \u2014 which she delivered wearing a sequined leotard, fishnet stockings, red stilettos, a top hat, tails, and a bowtie, carrying an average of 16 balloons (\u201cthe icing on the cake\u201d). <\/p>\n<p>            Chrystabell would later take the odd vocal lesson, record commercial jingles, perform in high school and community theater musicals, and sing at weddings and memorial services next to the woman who raised her. But she credits these moments, watched from the window of her mom\u2019s tiny car, as the foundations of her music education. \u201cThe training was that desire to create something with my voice, something of value to those hearing it,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n<p>            Arthur and Sunny split when Chrystabell was young, and Sunny married San Antonio composer-producer-engineer Mitch Markham\u2014 they\u2019d met when she was hired to sing a jingle he\u2019d composed. They\u2019d go on to co-found a studio specializing in music for advertisements, where Chrystabell had her first vocal session at age 11. \u201cIt was total nepotism at that point,\u201d she says. \u201cI was the kid who was available.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-263058,  #content_block-263058 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-263058 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263058\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/David_Lynch_and_Chrystabell_press_photo_credit__David_Lynch_1_nbbnhx\/chrystabell-and-david-lynch-photo-by-david-lynch.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/David_Lynch_and_Chrystabell_press_photo_credit__David_Lynch_1_nbbnhx\/chrystabell-and-david-lynch-photo-by-david-lynch.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/David_Lynch_and_Chrystabell_press_photo_credit__David_Lynch_1_nbbnhx\/chrystabell-and-david-lynch-photo-by-david-lynch.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/David_Lynch_and_Chrystabell_press_photo_credit__David_Lynch_1_nbbnhx\/chrystabell-and-david-lynch-photo-by-david-lynch.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/David_Lynch_and_Chrystabell_press_photo_credit__David_Lynch_1_nbbnhx\/chrystabell-and-david-lynch-photo-by-david-lynch.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/David_Lynch_and_Chrystabell_press_photo_credit__David_Lynch_1_nbbnhx\/chrystabell-and-david-lynch-photo-by-david-lynch.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/David_Lynch_and_Chrystabell_press_photo_credit__David_Lynch_1_nbbnhx\/chrystabell-and-david-lynch-photo-by-david-lynch.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/David_Lynch_and_Chrystabell_press_photo_credit__David_Lynch_1_nbbnhx\/chrystabell-and-david-lynch-photo-by-david-lynch.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/David_Lynch_and_Chrystabell_press_photo_credit__David_Lynch_1_nbbnhx\/chrystabell-and-david-lynch-photo-by-david-lynch.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/David_Lynch_and_Chrystabell_press_photo_credit__David_Lynch_1_nbbnhx\/chrystabell-and-david-lynch-photo-by-david-lynch.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/David_Lynch_and_Chrystabell_press_photo_credit__David_Lynch_1_nbbnhx\/chrystabell-and-david-lynch-photo-by-david-lynch.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Chrystabell is the dreamer\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Chrystabell and David Lynch. Photo by David Lynch.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263083\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-263059,  #content_block-263059 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-263059 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263059\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Crystabell went on to join the successful Texas swing band 8 \u00bd Souvenirs, whose manager introduced her to Lynch through an agent. They immediately got to work. \u201cWhat appealed to me as much or more than her voice was her ability to tune in to something new and instantly understand what I was talking about,\u201d Lynch told the <i>Los Angeles Times<\/i>. 25 years, two joint albums, and a TV season later \u2014 Chrystabell played Special Agent Tammy Preston on <i>Twin Peaks: The Return<\/i> \u2014 that mind meld still holds strong. <\/p>\n<p>            Attuned to the same astral frequency, the two artists stand on opposite ends of the plane, achieving a delicate balance between Chrystabell\u2019s mystical worldview \u2014 \u201cfairies and unicorns and iridescent hummingbirds and dragonflies,\u201d she says in summation  \u2014 and Lynch\u2019s vantablack vision.<\/p>\n<p>            Like their first collaborative LP, <i>This Train<\/i>, their new album was a decade in the making. Constructed slowly across Chrystabell\u2019s stays at Lynch\u2019s L.A. home, the album is a self-contained sound world, where verdant synth strings form the blurred bedrock of a strange and sometimes-sinister Salton Sea, wistful guitars glitter in the night sky, and Chrystabell\u2019s unmoored alto soars and dives between the air and water molecules.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263060\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1767600056\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/chrystabellmusic.bandcamp.com\/album\/cellophane-memories\">Cellophane Memories by Chrystabell &amp; David Lynch<\/a><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-263061,  #content_block-263061 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-263061 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263061\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            When I call Chrystabell to discuss her and Lynch\u2019s surrealist opus, she\u2019s at home in La Vernia, Texas, on the property Arthur Darling Zucht III bequeathed her upon his passing. What was once a hot air balloon launch zone is now the natural burial cemetery Zucht founded later in his life as an alternative option for those who prefer organic decomposition to the death industry\u2019s current conventions; Chrystabell now acts as Countryside Memorial Park\u2019s president and official steward. Sitting in a home her mother built on the grounds, surrounded by bodies returning to the earth, she speaks the language of a dream.<\/p>\n<p>            <b><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/b><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263084\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-263062,  #content_block-263062 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-263062 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263062\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>The FADER: Your father was a cemetery owner and your stepdad was a studio exec, right? What were your relationships like with the two father figures in your life?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>Chrystabell:<\/b> They were eccentrics \u2014 very different, but both huge factors in the woman I became. They adored me in their different ways, but I didn\u2019t have either of them for very long. I guess that was the universal deal I made. I had permission to do whatever I wanted, total support to pursue my wildest dreams. <\/p>\n<p>            <b>Did that total freedom ever get you in trouble? You told a story to <i>W Magazine<\/i> about splashing around at SeaWorld for the pilot of Spanish <i>Star Search<\/i>, trying to pretend you spoke Spanish.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Oh, we\u2019re gonna talk about that?<\/p>\n<p>            <b>We don\u2019t have to.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            No, it\u2019s OK, I love talking about it. I\u2019m at an age now where I can look back and be like, \u201cOh my goodness,\u201d with all the appropriate embarrassment, but also, \u201cLook at her, all she was, all that she was trying to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            I tried ad nauseam to do <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, commercials, anything really. I had a lot of \u201calmost you, but no\u201ds, and then I got this one break; I was chosen by this very famous kung fu director Sammo Hung to be in his film [<i>Once Upon a Time in China and America<\/i>]. That was my first \u201cYes, it\u2019s you,\u201d my first experience of being chosen after all the rejections. Yes, my mother was hiring me to do session work at the studio, but it was different than someone completely unrelated saying, \u201cI know you\u2019re the one for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            After getting that lovely \u201cyes,\u201d I moved to Austin when I was 18, still thinking, \u201cMaybe I\u2019ll be an actress\/cocktail waitress and have a <i>Fabulous Baker Boys<\/i> existence. But the moment I tried to get the cocktail waitress job I\u2019d visualized for myself \u2014 leaning against a piano, smoking a cigarette, holding a martini \u2014 the woman hiring me was like, \u201cMy husband\u2019s in a band and they\u2019re looking for a singer. If you don\u2019t get the gig, you can come back here and be a cocktail waitress, but I\u2019ve got a feeling about you.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>            Because I was so laissez-faire, I was like, \u201cSure, I\u2019ll audition for a band.\u201d I didn\u2019t know or care, but it turned out it was the most coveted position available to a singer in Austin at the time. 8 \u00bd Souvenirs ended up being the next four years of my life \u2014 an education that even my dad couldn\u2019t buy. He was like, \u201cHoney, join the band. You could spend $100,000 and eight years in college and grad school and never have that experience.\u201d He was right.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-263063,  #content_block-263063 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-263063 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263063\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC01122dubtwincsglow2lite_1_dxkiu4\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC01122dubtwincsglow2lite_1_dxkiu4\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC01122dubtwincsglow2lite_1_dxkiu4\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC01122dubtwincsglow2lite_1_dxkiu4\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC01122dubtwincsglow2lite_1_dxkiu4\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC01122dubtwincsglow2lite_1_dxkiu4\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC01122dubtwincsglow2lite_1_dxkiu4\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC01122dubtwincsglow2lite_1_dxkiu4\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC01122dubtwincsglow2lite_1_dxkiu4\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC01122dubtwincsglow2lite_1_dxkiu4\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC01122dubtwincsglow2lite_1_dxkiu4\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Chrystabell is the dreamer\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Photo by Candice Ghai.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-263064,  #content_block-263064 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-263064 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #F9B4FB;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263064\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>\u201cI\u2019ve spent years writing lyrics that didn\u2019t have the same impact as something David and I made in minutes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-263065,  #content_block-263065 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-263065 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263065\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>There was about a decade gap between the time you left 8 \u00bd Souvenirs and the release of your first album with David Lynch in 2010. I know your work with David started well before that, but what else were you doing in the interim?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <i>This Train<\/i> took 10 years to make. In the meantime, I was a hired vocalist and songwriter for many other bands, and I was doing a lot of corporate gigs where your superpower is being able to walk into pretty much any situation and deliver. <\/p>\n<p>            For instance, you\u2019re standing on a center platform amidst 4,000 Microsoft executives at eight in the morning, improvising opera to symbolize the golden voice of the consumer. Your cue comes in at 10 minutes, 47 seconds, and you sing for precisely 49 seconds and then pause while an announcement is made. You get paid X amount of dollars for this.<\/p>\n<p>            Now you\u2019re performing at Michael Jordan\u2019s birthday party in the Bahamas. You\u2019re in the water with an electrified microphone. You\u2019re given these insane situations under which to be creative and emotive, and you learn to embrace whatever\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<p>            By the time <i>This Train<\/i> was released, I was so ready. I\u2019d lived so much more life by that point and could deliver the songs with so much more inner awareness than I\u2019d had when I was 19, when we started the record. I can look back now and understand why it took so long for that to crystallize. it needed time to form within me so I\u2019d be ready to put my weight behind it and deliver it to the world.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263066\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"David Lynch Theater Presents:  Chrystabell &amp; David Lynch - Sublime Eternal Love (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v1bm78MRPiw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('263066');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263085\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-263068,  #content_block-263068 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-263068 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263068\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>You\u2019ve described <i>Cellophane Memories<\/i> as \u201cmood music\u2026 not that it creates a mood, but more that it reflects your own,\u201d which is a great description of ambient music in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>. Do you consider this album ambient?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            It would make perfect sense to me if someone called it that, but I\u2019m too intimately involved to know the genre. There\u2019s an ambient element, in that a passive listener could really enjoy the mood that\u2019s created. But if you interact with it [more deeply], there are disruptions that could be seen as invitations to get into a different place in your mind, to push open a door that might have been stuck \u2014 to a memory that hasn\u2019t popped up in a while or a feeling you don\u2019t always have access to. I don\u2019t know that these will be comfortable invitations for everyone. They might be initially awkward, but then they might unfurl into something that\u2019s only made possible by that slight friction.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-263067,  #content_block-263067 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-263067 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #F9B4FB;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263067\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>\u201cI am the dreamer. I\u2019m dreaming you right now.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-263069,  #content_block-263069 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-263069 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263069\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>David has said lyrics flow from him to you organically. The subject matter of these songs is often vague or obscured. How important were the individual lyrics to your performance?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            They were imperative. Even if you can\u2019t make out the lyrics in some of the songs, they put me in the mood for the delivery. I would look at these lyrics, like, \u201cHow on earth is this singable? How can I even phrase this?\u201d It was a leap of faith, a headfirst dive into the abyss.<\/p>\n<p>            David\u2019s got this antenna tuned to a very different frequency, but [his words] had qualities that put me in a state where I was able somehow bring them together. I\u2019ve spent years writing lyrics that didn\u2019t have the same impact as something David and I made in minutes, and it\u2019s not that I\u2019m a bad writer; it was just that this alchemical environment was ripe for what happened.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>So the instrumentals inspired David\u2019s poems, and David\u2019s poems inspired your melodies?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            The music we were looking for didn\u2019t have any lyrics or words attached to it. We were looking for moods, so we\u2019d listen to the sounds in our vast archive, and when we found something, David would write the lyrics. When he was done, he\u2019d hand it to me, like, \u201cOkay, your turn, we\u2019re rolling.\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cFuck, this is so over the top. I\u2019m just gonna sing it right now, whatever comes out.\u201d All these elements you wouldn\u2019t think were fecund environments for music creation ended up creating this other thing. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any other way this music could\u2019ve happened.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-263070,  #content_block-263070 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-263070 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263070\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00437bbPic_lbozpg\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00437bbPic_lbozpg\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00437bbPic_lbozpg\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00437bbPic_lbozpg\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00437bbPic_lbozpg\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00437bbPic_lbozpg\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00437bbPic_lbozpg\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00437bbPic_lbozpg\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00437bbPic_lbozpg\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00437bbPic_lbozpg\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC00437bbPic_lbozpg\/photo-by-candice-ghai.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Chrystabell is the dreamer\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Photo by Candice Ghai.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-263071,  #content_block-263071 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-263071 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-263071\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>Listening to <i>Cellophane Memories<\/i> feels like being in a strange dream, much like watching <i>Twin Peaks<\/i> or any of David\u2019s films. He\u2019s talked at length about getting his ideas from dreams. Do you do that, too?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            For me, it\u2019s more the feelings that dreams make, the otherness of dreams \u2014 waking up and having these dream memories that are more like gauze than velvet. That transparent, ethereal quality is something David and I are both drawn to. It\u2019s also a quality of meditation.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>There\u2019s a quote at the end of <i>The Return<\/i> that\u2019s always stuck with me: \u201cWe are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives inside the dream.\u201d What does that mean to you, and do you feel it applies to this album and your life in general?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I am the dreamer. I\u2019m dreaming you right now. Whatever feelings I\u2019m bringing to this, whether I\u2019m excited or irritated, will be my experience. It\u2019s such a precious thing to surrender to that idea rather than feel like your experience is dictated by what\u2019s going on around you. Other people\u2019s dreams \u2014 unless they\u2019re compatible with mine \u2014 don\u2019t exist for me. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m impenetrable; it\u2019s that I\u2019m dreaming the life I want to experience.<\/p>\n<p>            I\u2019m dreaming you, and I\u2019m dreaming a lovely feeling that we\u2019re sharing in this experience of conversation. I\u2019m dreaming that I\u2019ll feel fulfilled and enlivened, and that you will, too. That\u2019s my dream. Whether or not it aligns with your dream, I don\u2019t know; and frankly, darling, it doesn\u2019t matter. I have no control of that.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Raphael Helfand<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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