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And that was really interesting, because when you open yourself up to – I don’t know how to explain it, it’s so abstract, but when you open yourself up to the creative muse, there’s aspects of it that don’t make sense to you. For me, writing, especially this record, it felt more like divination, where ideas would come to me – instead of trying to feign control over the ideas, I let them pass through me as this kind of unconscious flow of inspiration. In Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Jung described The Red Book as an attempt to find meaning in “an incessant stream of fantasies had been released.” Does the creative process ever feel that way to you, or is that too much of an exaggeration? Now I think about my dreams from a more symbolic standpoint than literal, and that’s been really interesting. So every dream is so idiosyncratic and unique to the person dreaming it. Jung has a whole system for dream analysis that really is heavy on the use of intrinsic symbols – symbols that are not only not just universal symbols, but personal symbols. Through all of that, I got really interested in Jungian analysis, but his mystical bent as well – I was very curious to learn more about that.ĭo you tend to extract meaning from your own dreams in the same way now, or has reading his work changed how you see that world? There’s something about dreams that’s so potent, and it feels like you’re really accessing other realms when you’re dreaming. In fact, while I was an angsty teen, I would consider my dream life to be my, like, main life, and then my secondary life is the waking life. The way he approaches the human mind – it makes sense to me because I grew up really loving my dreams. That forced me to have to confront a lot of the parts of myself that weren’t serving me or weren’t healthy for me, and in doing that, I really got interested in Jungian analysis and Carl Jung in general. I had just gone through a really difficult period of my life, just immense amount of growth in a short period of time, and a lot of change happened in my personal life. When I turned 30, I bought myself a copy of The Red Book. Read the interview and stream the record below. We caught up with Nika Roza Danilova to talk about the inspirations behind her new Zola Jesus album, Arkhon. It’s all connected, necessary, and profoundly, viscerally real. It makes liberation and healing sound less like a distant dream than goals worth pursuing, creating a space where no form of darkness is suppressed. The musician is known for transforming her sound with each release, but her latest, a collaboration with co-producer Randall Dunn and percussionist/drummer Matt Chamberlain, is one of the most gripping, fully-realized, and transcendent efforts of her career a fearless dive into the unknown that never settles in one place.
On Arkhon, which emerged from a period of intense reckoning and growth, she channels them with a similar combination of empathy and conviction, but the struggles that pervade it feel personal as well as political, intimate and vast, urgent and ancient.
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The inspirations she cites for Arkhon – psychoanalytic texts, early civilizations, Egyptian deities, mystics and shamans – may seem too abstract and conceptual on the surface, but are all inextricably tied to the same sense of purpose: a desire to break free from the limitations of the material world and embrace a boundless, collective spirit.Įxistential angst, fear, uncertainty: these are all forces that have crept into Danilova’s gothic art-pop in the past, particularly on 2017’s crushingly beautiful Okovi. For Danilova, who has become increasingly more vocal about the technocratic, exploitative systems that constrict modern society, its resonance is more pertinent than ever.
It is also a relevant term in Gnosticism, a mystical sect of Christianity that the Slavic-American artist was drawn to during the making of the record the Gnostics believed in the idea of “flawed gods” who gained power and influence by corrupting human civilization. Arkhon, the title of Nika Roza Danilova’s sixth album as Zola Jesus, means ruler in Ancient Greek.
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