{"id":11555,"date":"2016-10-03T05:30:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T09:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11555"},"modified":"2016-10-03T07:13:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T11:13:02","slug":"kt-tunstall-knows-the-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/03\/kt-tunstall-knows-the-score\/","title":{"rendered":"KT Tunstall Knows the Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish singer-songwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/05\/interview-kt-tunstall\/\"><strong>KT Tunstall<\/strong><\/a> burst onto the international scene in 2004 when she scored a last-minute performance slot on the influential UK television program <i>Later \u2026 with Jools Holland<\/i>. Her solo turn \u2013 voice, guitar and looping pedal \u2013 earned her recognition and spurred sales of her debut album, <i>Eye to the Telescope<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Four more albums and supporting tours followed, with Tunstall consistently earning both critical plaudits and commercial success. A few of her songs \u2013 \u201cSuddenly I See\u201d most prominent among them \u2013 have become fixed into public consciousness thanks to use in films, TV shows and commercials. But in 2014, Tunstall left her career behind, moving to Venice Beach in California and enrolling in the Sundance film composers&#8217; lab. For awhile it looked like her time as a pop performer was over.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11556\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/kt_tunstall_2016.jpg\" alt=\"kt_tunstall_2016\" width=\"500\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/kt_tunstall_2016.jpg 500w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/kt_tunstall_2016-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a really wonderful diversion, and came at the perfect time for me,\u201d says Tunstall, \u201cwhen I really didn&#8217;t think I was going to make records for awhile. I was going to take a substantial hiatus.\u201d She had committed to learning the demanding skill of film scoring. \u201cIt&#8217;s something that I had wanted to do for a long time,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Tunstall notes that the program at Skywalker Ranch \u201cwas extraordinary, the most incredible learning curve of my adult life.\u201d She quickly learned that film scoring is very different from pop songwriting. \u201cFirst of all,\u201d she says, \u201cyou&#8217;re working for someone else. You are collaborating toward the finished work of a bigger project. And there&#8217;s a lot of subtlety and nuance to scoring that isn&#8217;t automatically understandable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=as_ss_li_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B01I2DL8OS&#038;asins=B01I2DL8OS&#038;linkId=8899c015ad5559229d6b361b88980134&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The experience served Tunstall well when she made the decision to return to her pop career. The results are displayed on her latest album, <i>KIN<\/i>, out September 9. The lessons she learned writing for film informed her songwriting and arranging for <i>KIN<\/i>. \u201cOn this record, I&#8217;ve actually come back quite solidly to traditional songwriting structure,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I feel that from a musical point of view, I&#8217;m managing to utilize the emotional language of the instrumentation in a way that perhaps I haven&#8217;t done on previous records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She describes the finished songs on KIN as \u201c Technicolor magic mushroom expanded versions\u201d of the songs she originally demoed on her laptop. \u201cI love a song being a journey,\u201d she says. \u201cThe more color you can add to that with the instrumentation, the better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall burst onto the international scene in 2004 when she scored a last-minute performance slot on the influential UK television program Later \u2026 with Jools Holland. 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