NAMASENDA, where the past meets the future
Namasenda has her eyes set on the future. The Swedish hyperpop musician loves action movies, rides fast cars and has released her songs on PC music and YEAR0001, two legendary labels within the contemporary music scene.“I see no point in looking back” - so that’s exactly what Parisonline asked her to do. Follow her timeline to the point where the past meets the future, Ambrosia, her newly released EP. We suggest you put your headphones on, even the stream of time sounds good when Namasenda is in charge.
PAST:
Moved to Stockholm, August 2015
“I moved to Stockholm specifically to work with this guy, I can’t tell you who, it’s a secret. We produced such good music but then we stopped working together and I stayed even though that wasn’t the plan. It’s an important time for me because now Stockholm is my whole life. I’ve always felt like it’s home for me, I guess in a way that I didn’t find in other cities.”
Soundtrack: Beautiful by A. G. Cook.
Note by N: If you listen to the song with headphones it sounds like a coin is falling. I remember walking around in Stockholm with this song and always thinking I dropped something.
Signed with PC Music, November 2018
“We had a session after my friend sent a drunk DM to A. G. Cook through my phone. I didn’t think it went well but I guess so since I signed with them. I was just happy to work with A. G because he’s awesome, that was more the goal. Back then everything was so hopeful, but then it turned out as it did. Today I can look back with love on what Alex and I produced and the relationship I got with Hannah (Diamond). But like everything around the label was a mess in all the ways you can imagine. People didn’t do their job. So leaving December last year was quite a relief."
Soundtrack: I Don’t Like by Chief Keef. Note by N: On repeat.
Europetour, November 2022
“My tour was very successful, to meet everyone who's taken part of my songs a year after releasing them was incredible. Even though it was quite tough psychologically and logically, my tourmanager was a crazy crazy man, but I mean it turned out well. Don’t ask me which cities I played in, I have no idea. But I remember London, because it was absolutely sold out”
Soundtrack: Unlimited Ammo by Namasenda. Note by N: Obviously.
PRESENT:
Releasing the EP Ambrosia, October 2023
“I remeber sitting at LAX waiting on my flight back to Sweden, thinking fuck. My plan had been to write in LA but everything sounded bad. I got an epiphany that I wanted to work with Simon (Hessman) and sent him a text like “meet me in the studio tomorrow”. Then back in Stockholm the EP started growing just like that.”
“When I was working on the EP I secretly sat in YEAR0001’s studio and one day I was out walking in Hägersten with Woesum. We talked about my song Rosa where I refer to Ambrosia and he proposed that it should be the name of the EP. I’m so proud of it, I’ve been so invested in every detail. I was going through a lot of personal stuff while making it. The name, Ambrosia, is the nectar in the ancient Greek mythology that brings them immortality. For me it’s about that, immortality, and mortality.”
Soundtrack: Ambrosia by Namasenda
FUTURE:
Upcoming album
“I’m working on a new project that I’m very excited about. I'm not sure how it’s gonna turn out yet but I walk around fantasizing about it. To finish it, to start the visual process… I think and hope it’s gonna be my best project so far. I’m really giving all my time and patience with it.”
Soundtrack: I origins film by Mike Cahill
Notes by N: IMPOSSIBLE to choose, I get more inspired by movies or stuff sometimes.
Collab with Future
“My Scorpio king, I love him so much it would be like the coolest thing. After that I could just like I don’t know, I’m done. That’s my future.”
Soundtrack: Low Life by Future ft. The Weeknd
Grammy, Billboard, VMA...
“I’m gonna win prizes. In plural.”
Soundtrack: Michiant by Bon Iver
Text: Julia Eklund & Tova Olsson Photo: Tova Olsson
