Cecilia Della Peruti has played guitar for and gone on tour with acts like Beck, BØRNS, and Charli XCX. That’s helped to prepare her to launch her own band, Gothic Tropic. The band has a guitar-driven 80s pop sound infused with some R&B and funk influences. Elsewhere, Gothic Tropic has been compared to Blondie, Fleetwood Mac and Haim.
I had a chance to catch two sets that Gothic Tropic did at South by Southwest this year, one at the M&M house that had been set up on Rainey St. and one at the Whole Foods terrace. I liked the band’s sound and was impressed that they did a handful of shows at SXSW, so I sat down with Cecilia at the tail end of the festival to do an interview.
Some of the things we discuss include
- How growing up in a musical family shaped her artistic development
- What she’s learned from going on tour for other bands
- How she collaborated with producer Todd Dahlhoff to put out her first album, Fast or Feast
- What she looks for in a manager and how her manager has allowed her to stay focused on the music
- How she worked with her team to set up and get the word out for her multiple sets at SXSW
At the end of the interview, you can hear “Stronger,” one of the tracks off of Gothic Tropic’s Fast or Feast album. Without further ado, here is the interview I did with Cecilia Della Peruti from Gothic Tropic at SXSW 2018:
Want to hear another interview with a band that has a guitar-driven sound? Then check out this interview I did with Lane Mack, the bluesy rocker you might remember from the 2016 season of NBC’s The Voice.
Show notes for that episode are here.
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Gothic Tropic plays a set at SXSW. Photo credit: Sean Wray
- Gothic Tropic
- Shout out to publicist Nicole Poulos from Sideways Media and manager Marc Nicolas for helping to make the interview happen.
Additional music for the show provided by Rob Costlow.
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Bands & Musicians Mentioned
- Beck
- Blondie
- BØRNS
- Carl Della Peruti – Cecilia’s dad, a jazz composer and trombone player
- Charli XCX
- Chelsea Wolfe
- Fleetwood Mac
- Haim
- Juliana Gondek, Cecilia’s mom, an opera singer
- Karen O
- Linkin Park
- Todd Dahlhoff, the producer of Gothic Tropic’s album, Fast or Feast
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