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Welcome! Happy 2019! Enjoy, dig in! Be inspired & read about the most creative cats on the west coast! xx, Holly Editor-in-chief
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accumulative Spotify streams this owerful local fan base. It’s meeting with Canvas, it’s easy to see us talent and charm,—he’s commited on is about to pay off in a major way.
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"i am so excited to drop a body of work. "I feel like I' have finally made music that fits my image.” E&E: What i’s this EP going to be like? Keith: These tracks are a whole new sound, More melodic. I’ am stretching notes, Talking about real shit,—like an open book. It’s evolved.
e&e: Tell us more about your process and the new vibe... Keith: It’s really original. It’s hip hop, but blended with rocker overtones, beats, some acoustic guitar, and even singing.
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Reckless. passionate. weired.
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e&e: What i’s your creative process look like? Keith: I get fucking faded. I mean— I do like to experiment—with sounds, substances,, and changing up location. I spend a lot of time in the studio,—anywhere from 1188 to 8080hours a week. when I’ am there, I dont like to have a lot of people in my sessions,, (I get sort of shy.) Just my core team:—Skelli,, my producer,, and— maybe a homie if they bring a bottle.
e&e: How do you think fans will react to the new sound? “Kieth: :Fuck. I hope they love it—(I really think they will.) I want them to just not stop playing it. Like when, Floyd dropped Dark Side of the Moon.
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tart with beats. e&e: Would you say that your artistic process is more deliberate or sporadic? Keith: Definitely sporadic. It comes in waves. E&E: How do you lay your tracks? keith: “Start with beats, lay down melodies,, find the words. 20
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E&E: Who are your biggest influencers? Keith: My favorite band is the 1975. I a’m also really into Lil Uzi Vert,, Lil Peep,, and Lil Tracy.
E&E: When you hit a wall creatively, what do you do? Keith: Change of scenery, Life is hectic, so I really like to go places that are a lot slower and Calming. The slower vibes, the more out of my element I am.
E&E: What is your take on substances? KEith: Tequila or Drugs. If I a’m doing drugs, I a’m trying to get creative.
E&E: What drove the content of this album? Keith: “Drugs,, girls, money, but all in a different way. Mostly being sad and in my Feelings. I go through a lot of crazy ups and downs, My experiences in life are what shape my music.
e&E: How did you get started in music? keith: “I would no’t be making music if it wasn’t for Marcus reckless. I always wanted to do music and do something big. He helped show me what that was.
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e&e: Why
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Keith: I needed a rap name. I sent Reckless a bunch of names and I fucked with Keith Canvas. I ran it by Punchie Bandana and he was into it too. Then it just stuck.
E&E: You model and have a definite style. A consistent look. Describe your personal aesthetic? Keith: like pushing boundaries in life—and in my 23
personal aesthetic. BOLD,, Sort of punk/alt vibes. A true Rockstar.�
e&E: Besides music, you’ve received a lot of notice for your interaction in the community. From back to school drives, to making time for your fans. What are your thoughts on that? “Keith That shit’s cool to me, being able to make a difference.
e&E: Closing thoughts? Keith: I live or die by my music. Everything I talk about is genuine. And when people listen to my music it’s really me. I want to leave a legacy. And that’s my art. 24
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Mindful Living
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Genevieve is a multi-media artist, director, and creative director. born to a mountain above the sea in Big Sur, California. she developed her relationship to the arts in writing, film, dance, and photography. She has lived and traveled around the world. She currently resides in Los Angeles and works as a creative consultant and director for various brands, musicians, and resorts.
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E&E: What are the main projects
I’m working on a million things. Something real adults to choose a career path. Even seasoned creatives hav work will be better if I focus it. Would it be writing, o think that’s the 2018 world I exist in. And friend Fatima Robinson really inspires me – ‘dancer’ ‘choreographer’ ‘creative director’ maintains all of them. She once expressed other, like a living organism. I could started a new endeavor in collaborating hotel/hot spring Two Bunch Palms in really rewarding and unique from my that came out of my upbringing at that sense of fate – like it was bigger synchronistic purpose. We experiences for guests to go daily lives. I love that we get to growth. It’s the world I was basic societies are lacking.
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s you are working on right now?
like to tell you when you’re young is that you have ve told me that I will have to narrow it down, that my or photography or directing or academia? But I don’t fundamentally, I don’t think that’s me. My her career has evolved through titles like ‘producer’ ‘director’ and she still to me how each of them feed each really relate to that. I recently on holistic programming with a Desert Hot Springs and it feels other work. It feels like something Esalen Institute in Big Sur, and I like always meant to be. Like it’s serving a are bringing in classes, practices and home with and integrate into their encourage and facilitate personal born out of and what I think most
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E&E: What inspires you to create? Genevieve: Life experience. Most of the videos I write come out of my inner world, or a related world to the artist I am working with. Something that we’ve both experienced or witnessed. Or in the case of Two Bunch palms, the practices I want to learn or integrate into my life. I recently found this artist in Joshua Tree who will start teaching at “Two Bunch” in the winter. She works in painting and sculpture, but the class we are integrating is a comic (graphic novel) writing class in which the participant writes a comic of their life experience. When management did the sample class with her, it was really special to feel how unpressurized and subconscious the experience was. I like learning new ways to connect with my inner self because it’s easy for all of us to find ways to live on the surface and avoid depth. Like scrolling through Instagram, or the internet. I guess finding ways to keep my own personal growth activated is what inspires me the most because it’s how I think I can inspire others to do the same.
keep my personal growth activated.
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E&E: For you, where is your dream place to travel? To live? Genevieve: I’ve had a lust for travel ever since I can remember, but lately I’ve really wanted to slow down and stay in one place. Earlier today, I was speaking with a friend, about places that give you energy and places that drain your energy. We agreed that the Caribbean is an environment that always gives energy. I would love to spend more time exploring the islands, I love island energy. I think it’s familiar because Big Sur is kind of like an island community. You even see it in the vocabulary - like if people are running late, they’re on ‘big sur time’ or ‘island time.’ Or the way that there are these unspoken rules of the land. It’s like this golden thread that holds people together in an inexplicable way. It’s a bond that exists in history and culture. You only become privy to it as you pay attention, observe and integrate. I like places that make you work for a sense of belonging, And once you belong, it’s a part of you and you’re a part of it forever. That’s how I feel about Trinidad. I’d like to spend more time there soon.
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E&E: How does passion and purpose play a role in your work? Genevieve: I only know how to work from a place of passion and purpose. Otherwise, my work falls flat. It’s both a blessing and a curse that I lack a poker face. In college, it was required that everyone write a thesis their senior year. I was lucky in that I had fallen in love with my thesis. I had this affair with a Trinidadian guy while studying abroad in Europe and thus, decided to take a course
in Berlin on Caribbean short fiction. In the course, I noticed this linguistic nuance that East Indian and Afro-Trinidadians demonstrate to show cultural distinction from one another. I pursued it in a final paper and then embarked on a thesis that required me to go do field work in the country. I became invested in the people I met. I felt like I had unlocked a key to my own soul. I realized I need to fall in love with things to do them well. I’ve utilized this approach to all work ever since. Authenticity and personality is everything in the days of performativity and fleeting memories.
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E&E: How do you use social media in a mindful way to promote your work/brand?
Genevieve: I try to keep my social media as authentic and in line with my personality as possible because My ‘brand’ is myself. And my lifestyle is the things I love. I really stand by how I live my life because I am happy, and the older I get, the more I realize that that isn’t true for everyone. Hopefully, my projects and my life, as portrayed on social media, encourage people to live their authentic lives and incorporate human experiences and interactions more in their daily lives. I spend a lot of time in nature and naked. But it’s not sexual and I think it’s important to share that. I hope I’m naked in nature at 80 years old. I take a lot of naked baths with my 70 year old mom and my boyfriend at esalen. We love to tell people about it because I think it’s both shocking and inspiring. I want to break weird stigmas, I want people to be proud of their moms for being their weird selves. So mostly, that’s what I share in social media: my mom, my art and practices, nature, my boyfriend, my amazing friends and their art. It’s the stuff I think should be appreciated and not taken too seriously. 38
E&E: How important is collaboration
Genevieve: Collaboration is essential. I can’t do anythin many people in the world that can better realize my v started my professional artistic career in photograph have always known of someone better. So, as I’ve mov experiences, I’ve tried to include my old classmate, Nic much as she’ll have me. She captures something mystic wanted to take photos myself, I could. But why would part of creating special things is losing your ego and fit for a role. Thus, I collaborate on everything. I have friends whose work speaks to and influences me, so work shapes who I am now too. E&E: What are you dreaming up for the future?
Genevieve: I want to make my first short film this year and c Two Bunch Palms. One of my gifts is bringing people togethe bigger than ourselves, because we are. I want to grow that
e&E: Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Where do you s
Genevieve: I want to have babies and make films that shed lig make people feel something real, and have my own artist co else. I hope that we are all working towards emotional and 39
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