LUCI FERRUM: Pain and vulnerability?

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“…. as if all the pain and vulnerability was pouring out of my throat and heart.”

3 facts:
– Luci Ferrum started making music in 2021 and has released a few singles since then. The most recent is “Take Me”.
– She was born in Russia and has lived in the Dominican Republic for a long time. Returning is not an option for her, especially as she is an opponent of the current political regime.

Unusual?

Only Nine Inch Nails on the list? Luci laughs: “First and foremost, Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails are my bible. “As for other artists, I adore Skinny Puppy, Portishead and Massive Attack”. And now she makes electronic music herself. She had been told that she couldn’t sing and shouldn’t make music. At 31, she drew a traumatic experience that changed everything: “I felt the urge to get so many feelings out of me that had been inside me for a long time and had been silenced,” she opens up to us and continues: “I believe that we carry good and evil within us. I feel this duality within me. My light side is rather shy, dorky, childish and then there is this other side of me that is very dark, sensual, vengeful and bloodthirsty. I balance them out. That’s my path to healing.”

With skin and hair

When she started writing “Take Me”, “the lyrics and melody immediately bubbled out of my soul.” After about two hours, she began to sing: “It was as if all the pain and vulnerability was pouring out of my throat and my heart.” Luci plays with the erotic aspects, but it goes much deeper: “It’s a song about the vulnerability of being with someone and completely surrendering yourself. And it is, without a doubt, yet another failed attempt to accept yourself through intimacy with another person.”

Claudia Zinn-Zinnenburg

You will find the interview in print in our May/June issue as well as a detailed review: