Tylea: Lynch Mob.

Tylea launches The Imaginary Music Score at The Healer on Saturday.

Over the past few months it’s been a far more common occurrence to catch Gota Cola vocalist Tylea performing as a soloist. And there’s a good reason why in the form of her six track solo release Tylea & The Imaginary Music Score, which gets its official airing on Saturday night.

“It’s very different on a number of levels that a band release. It hard to explain, but it’s quite different from every step from writing to the way it’s released. It’s kind of more my vision. It’s a collective vision with the people I’m involved in, but it’s more direct and rely more on my decision making in the song writing process.”

“With Gota Cola we generally discuss things a lot, and come to an end point afterwards. Even the way you approach the guitar is different when you play with other people, and you’ve got so much more space when you’re solo.”

The intimacy of her new recording can catch the listener quite off guard if you’re expecting the often-luscious soundscapes of the Gota Cola releases. In solo mode Tylea strips her tracks back to their rawest elements, almost pure emotion transferred through a voice and guitar.

“The songs I write are all very personal to me. Music is such a personal thing for me that whatever I do has that personal slant. Writing music and getting to connect with other people and express things is my priority. That’s my favourite things about music for me, and always has been. It’s important to me to get the vocal ideas out. I did solo stuff before Gota Cola, but I don’t think I’ve ever been that confident with it before.”

That would probably surprise a lot of people…

“Yeah, it does sound a bit strange. With Gota Cola I was probably not as confident as I could have been. Gota Cola taught me that it’s not just about writing songs, but that there’s more of a sense of aesthetic to the music. With this I’m getting back to more basic concepts. I fiddled with the idea that guitar playing was my calling, but it’s just a part of it. The vocal ideas are really important at the moment.”

The launch show should prove to be quite a unique event, themed to provide a David Lynch like experience.

“I’ve got a bit of an affinity with the way David Lynch approaches directing. That’s how songwriting works for me; it’s a kind of layered subconscious approach that’s unfolding. Songwriting to me is like that dream process. It just evolves and happens. David Lynch is kind of like relaxation for me. It’s nice to see someone developing over a long period of time and become more and more multi dimensional and becoming an amazing artist. I really respect that whole development.”

“It’s kind of how I’m approaching music. Music is such a lifelong development for me. The show we’re putting on, the David Lynch stuff, I have a friend called Jill, and we talk about movies and David Lynch. We decided to do something along that vein of though for the show. We’ve been talking about this for the last few months.”