Digging this Mad Eye Moody muzak.
Zola Jesus is the stage name of 22 year-old Russian-American Nika Roza Danilova. She was raised in Merrill, Wisconsin on over 100 acres of forest. About the experience, she says: “I was delusional as a kid; I never spent a lot of time around other people…When you live around a lot of people in a city and that synthesized stimulation, you can get lost in that’s the hustle and bustle. When you grow up in the country you have nothing to stimulate you but what you seek.”
Growing up, she was exposed to a hunter’s environment and a survivalist’s worldview. “My dad was a hunter so there would constantly be animal parts all over the place. He’d be out in the forest and bring back deer heads hoping that animals would eat the flesh and leave a skull. But it wouldn’t happen. There would just be a deer head hanging from a tree branch you could literally bump into… We ate deer and pheasant and venison and all this meat that my dad would go out and kill.”
— Basil
