The Artist Explains: Christian Cohle - 'Ghost'
Dublin-born producer and songwriter Christian Cohle has us left with quite the gift when it comes to his most recent single ‘Ghost’. A track that is taken from his forthcoming album ‘Holy Trouble’ (due out later this year), the song sees Christian creating a dark and grounded pop sound that offers something fresh to the genre. He took a moment to explain the song in more depth.
So your track ‘Ghost’ is out now, can you tell us what the track is about?
I had just relapsed, I was feeling pretty down on myself, spiritually at a loss and overwhelmed with everything going on internally and externally. Ghost was in some way processing all of that, I think.
It is the second track from your forthcoming album ‘Holy Trouble’ - how is that coming along?
It's finished! I'm really proud of it.
You began writing songs as a teenager - do your songs differ now from how they were when you were younger?
Yeah, definitely. I'm a slow learner, but as I get older, I have more skills at hand to express how I feel. The interface between your abstract sense of things, following on to how you translate that into the music, gets sharper. Atleast I like to hope it does!
What are your earliest musical memories?
God, I dunno. I've always been around music growing up, my parents listened to a lot of music, so it's always been there and something I probably take for granted. One succinct memory I have, was when my friend got Outkast's 'Mrs Jackson' on cassette tape. He was a few years older than me, but I would have been about six or seven, I guess! That was my introduction to Outkast, who remains to be one of my favorite groups to this day.
You produce a lot of your music yourself, what led you to do that?
Probably, being a megalomaniac, and just how I connect with music. I like to really serve the songs. If I don't have as much input into their conception as possible, I feel like I'm not doing my job.