Anthe on Björk, Iceland, and Writing Dream Worlds | Oktaves Podcast (Ep. 2)

Anthe is a Belgian singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer with roots in Italy, now based in Iceland. In this episode of the Oktaves Podcast – Talks with Musicians, Anthe opens up about her lifelong relationship with music, her deep connection to Iceland and Nordic soundscapes, and her desire to create music that feels like stepping into a dream world.From playing piano and singing on stage at four years old to studying music at university, Anthe shares how classical piano, experimental techniques, and songwriting shaped her voice. She talks about Björk as a lifelong influence, why Iceland felt like a magnetic place she needed to experience, and how nature, space, and silence affect her creativity.The conversation explores her writing process starting from piano improvisation, working with strings and string quartets, prepared piano, sampling organic sounds, and building songs that breathe rather than follow strict pop formulas. Anthe also reflects on performing in intimate spaces like chapels, filling rooms through live performance rather than algorithms, and the challenge of having too much unreleased music waiting on her laptop.A thoughtful, poetic episode about curiosity, imagination, and building a musical world that invites listeners to slow down and feel.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Welcome to the Oktaves podcast🎙️ Talks with musicians! Where we uplift local musicians voices.This podcast is about chatting about and sharing with each other tips and tricks on how to succeed in the music industry as an independent musician, with an emphasis on branding and marketing, and overall management, whether your goal is to stay forever independent or get label-ready. We are very passionate about breaking the cycle of gatekeeping in the industry, so we strive towards bringing you conversations where these layers of the onion will be peeled one by one.We are also here to uplift and shed light on independent (or previously independent) musicians in our community, who are so kind to share their struggles, their wins, successes, their strategies, and advice or some secrets possibly to how they got there.🔗 Follow Oktaves:https://instagram.com/withoktaveshttps://facebook.com/oktaveshttps://tiktok.com/@withoktaves