Dalal Bruchmann was born on a Walpurgis Night, the night that celebrates the coming spring. “I grew up in the country, in a family that loves nature, animals and art. My mother is a painter and scientist and my greatest mentor. She taught me to trust myself to make quick decisions in life because it doesn’t matter if they turn out to be wrong, you can change them just as quickly. ”She also said that the best thing to do is to learn about your immediate world learns when you leave them behind and look at them from a different angle – “and that’s exactly what I did. I packed my violin and moved to the Big Apple in 2011. “
Career start in the USA. While her debut work “Taste The Night” made it into the Billboard Breakout Charts, she did her Bachelor of Arts in animation, VFX and film. After being badly poisoned by carbon monoxide from a broken boiler, she moved to Los Angeles and, as she says, went back to her roots and started composing classical music. With the record producer Nate “Impact” Jolley she founded “Dalal and the Impact Band”. In 2017 she made her first classical debut “The Quiet He art” (The Orchard) and she began to write film music. As a solo artist, she released two albums and six singles, in 2018 and 2019 with piano compositions by the composer Ludovico Einaudi for Warner Classics. Romantic piano pieces have a special meaning for Dalal, as her ancestor Franz von Bruchmann was a friend and supporter of Franz Schubert, who set some of his poems to music.
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Love of challenges. It is important for the composer and singer to keep doing something new. “I love the variety and the constant challenge of rethinking. With ‘Beyond Moving’, for example, I was allowed to immerse myself in the African world of music and had the opportunity to accompany the classical music with African instruments and rhythms. ‘Hurt By Paradise’ was wonderful as I wrote the solo piano soundtrack with my good friend Jeff Franzel. ‘The Shot’ was also brilliant because I love history and developed a special friendship with the director and his wife. The music for this was mixed on Dolby Digital 7.1 Surround Sound for the cinemas and it was incredible to see it that way. And ‘Braided’ was great because we shot the video on Super 8 with real film. ”The successful and versatile artist, who is very interested in astronomy and loves history, can relax while riding and gardening. And sometimes she gets a few hours of sleep, as she says with a smile.
Dalal met the artist Maesa Pullman through the filmmaker Jaclyn Bethany. Together they wrote the soundtrack for Bethany’s psychodrama ‘Indigo Valley’ and are working on the score for her second feature film ‘Highway One’. “Maesa and I get on extremely well, we like to cook together and now we even bake our own bread,” reveals Dalal.
For the setting of “Indigo Valley” Dalal and Maesa received a nomination from the Hollywood Music in Media Awards for the best original music. “We’re not creating for the award, but it’s a great honor and a nice confirmation. And it’s always great to have a reason for a small celebration and a piece of cake, ”adds Dalal with a smile.
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Lockdown and new projects. The sudden lockdown was a serious turning point for them too. “That day Maesa and I had the last session for the ‘Under The Lantern Lit Sky’ project and had already started on ‘Highway One’. All sessions and recordings then took place via Zoom and we had to switch from the ensemble setup to the solo setup. Personally, I think that the lockdown was a complete nonsense with serious lasting changes. ”Now they are working on“ Highway One ”, a film with 35 originally created songs and pieces. “Then we start working on the film ‘Before The World Set On Fire’. I am working with my producer Nate Jolley on a jazz R&B pop album entitled ‘Synthesis’ and also on an EP in the electronic dance genre. ”
Every art its freedom. Dalal will probably not be able to visit her home in Styria for a long time, although she missed her grandparents very much. The global situation is very worrying for them. “If the mistake becomes your own trap, it has drastic consequences for humanity and nature. Our social currency has suffered a severe blow and in many ways democracy has become a luxury. But I think that increasing critical voices are calling for systematic change, and I look forward to a change in our individual, and as a result of this, collective way of thinking. The world and art will move forward, but it is up to all of us how this will happen. I am firm in my belief in a future with less political influence, more personal responsibility and more ethics. In Austria in the 1900s we had a movement called the Secessionist Art Movement, which I really appreciate. Her motto sounds truer today than ever before: ‘At all times your art, every art your freedom. “
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