Nature, Truth, Peace, Magic: An Interview with Falcon Jane
Sara May first picked up the acoustic guitar at age 12, but
her passion for music and songwriting didn’t start until four years later. Her
musical project, Falcon Jane, started as a solo project before finding her
current lineup - Andrew McArthur, Branson Giles, Racquel Hardy and Aiden O'Brien. And those four bandmates are her biggest influence.
“You could say the current line up came together through a
series of ‘divine appointments’ - we met each other by chance, but we’re all so
like-minded and love each other so much that I think we would have ended up
finding each other eventually,” she said.
Every day she is inspired by her friends and bandmates, who
she says create gorgeous, dynamic music that’s hard not to be inspired by.
Although the project started as making a record in her bedroom, the
inspirations of nature, truth, peace and magic are what drive them to
constantly reinvent themselves.
May can’t think straight, let alone create, if she’s not
close to nature. The ability to be able to walk outside and get lost in the
sounds of the world makes up a significant amount of her songwriting.
“I am so inspired by plants and animals,” she said. “They
have a totally different type of existence than we do, and I like to
intellectually explore that, so I’m sure it comes through in my songwriting.”
Songwriting is a way for her to explore and express her
personal truth and she believes that sharing her truths give others the
opportunity to explore their own. She isn’t afraid to admit certain emotions or
believe in certain ideas and she certainly isn’t afraid to share them with
anyone that will listen.
Finding peace, emotionally and physically, is her ultimate
goal. Peace is the constant driving force in her songwriting, and she firmly
believes that achieving peace plays a major part in her songwriting.
Magic is everything else that can’t be explained. Whether it
is trusting God or the universe or whatever it may be, it’s something that she
struggles with but embraces.
With these four inspirations, she’s gone from making am
album by herself in her bedroom to borrowing microphones to use at her drummer’s
house to recording in a bona fide studio with numerous microphones and talented
engineers. Her third album, Feelin’
Freaky, is being released this summer and “Go with the Flow” is the first
single. It’s her personal favorite on the album and combines the nature, truth,
peace and magic that inspires her so much. She hopes it’s your favorite, too.
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