Osca – Trumpet

Osca saw the release of their debut EP Blood recently, and Trumpet was our favorite of four tracks. Introspective and wide with reverberated falsetto harmonies that bring Chris Martin of Coldplay to mind, lead vocalist Jack Kenworthy had this to say in an interview with Q Magazine:

Trumpet was inspired by a novel I was given of the same title. The book is about the life of Joss Moody, a jazz trumpeter in the 50s, who was born a female but chose to live his life as a man in order to pursue a career as a musician. It discusses the question of true identity in relation to our own actions – when Joss was playing the trumpet his gender and sexual identity became irrelevant. I really liked this idea of individuality and it became the basis for the lyrics of the song. The idea of telling someone to be who you are and not to be afraid of that. The line ‘It all doesn’t matter, let the trumpet sound’ is a direct reference to the book.

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