A visit to a musical instrument museum with her toddler son inspired El Perro del Mar’s Sarah Assbring to recalibrate her pop sensibilities and work on what would become KoKoro. It was a “please-touch” museum where they could play the instruments, and Assbring fell in love with the percussion used in Indonesian gamelan music, and with harps from Asia and Africa. KoKoro looks outward, both musically and lyrically, to the world, and rather than a tender clinch, it’s a wholehearted bear hug of global pop sounds. Assbring will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new feature on her.
Nicole Walker is a Swedish stylist and art director and has a multitude of other talents that seem endless. For me, just being around her is pure inspiration and fun. Nothing seems impossible around her. We started our collaboration with my video for “Breadandbutter,” and we haven’t really stopped since then. Our work together is based on a mutual idea of growth and limitlessness, and I cannot really describe how much she’s meant for me and the visualization of KoKoro. Her part in KoKoro is huge.
More photos after the jump.
—set decoration by Nicole Walker; photos by Marcus Palmqvist
