Music, Art, Surf, Lies & Rebirth Chat with Spiritually Metal Chloe Trujillo

0:04 Hi, you love, done to censure, w for se Wow, for you your what a world screams and dams. It is pipe Man here on the Adventures Pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm excited about our next guest because she is a true artist in every sense of the word. So let's welcome to a show. Chloe Truehio, how are you?

0:45 I'm great? Thank you for that great intro. Oh but it is like, you know, it's funny. You don't find many people like you that have so many diverse creative a Bill. It's like a lot of times people focus on one area and they're kind of okay maybe in other areas, but man, you just seem to be like the creator of all creatives. Thank you. When did it all start for you? Like, when did you start getting into art and creativity and music and all of it. I think I always was. I mean, for ever since I can remember, this was my outlet. I always say I was a very shy child, and so it through my artwork and secretly writing songs, not really sharing, but like it was just allowing me to express myself in a safe space. And I don't know, I just it was always there. I was always addicted to create, you know, I was all I always had ideas coming into my brain and I had to just let them out somehow.

2:07 So it's yeah, and if I let them, it was like that overflowing just I remember. You know, there's always moments in life where you don't have like you know, like in school, for example, I had like homework to do. I had the pressure of my dad, like wanted me to be the best in my class of everything and all that, and it let little room for creativity. And that always made me like I had all this stuff like like I'm not in my stomach like I had. I have all these things I need to you know, let out. And same thing happens when I first had my kids, you know, I took care of them, and it's a twenty four to seven job. It's like NonStop job.

2:53 And like when they would take naps instead of me sleeping or cleaning the you know, the house or whatever, I would be like I have to paint something, I have to write something, I have to So it's it's always been like that. And it's actually almost like a what do you I would like a self care like it's it's kind of a healing tool. If I don't let it out, then it's gonna build up and I don't feel that great. So yeah, that's so true too, because I am a huge believer that like any kind of art and getting into that zone of it is like the best therapy of or the best escape from everything, and you can just like you know, like just dive into it and forget about everything else. And funny, my dad he used to you know, he was an artist that would go on these you know, different you know moment because you know, and he would like sometimes for three days just all he would do was paint for three days. Like you didn't want to get near him. He might paint you, you know that much in the zone. But that's what was healing, you know. And like I look at his art and I knew him very well, so I could see his personality in his art, both the light and the darkness. M yeah, yeah, that is how you get out,

4:26 you know, no matter what it is. Absolutely yeah. So now you have this new EP coming out and you have this new song that came in December. Yeah, my first question is, Okay, we have the album cover art behind here. Did you do the album cover or the song for the single, the art for the single yeah. We yeah, So I mean for each of them, like the you know, the first single, which was as the Sky's Falling Down. Actually the art was taken from the video shoot of that same song, and this, Yeah, I chose this image even though it was not specifically first taken for this song, but I had the image of like at first, you know, when I wrote the song, I had the visuals of a cloaked person with the hands open to the sky and it was almost like releasing like I felt like, you know, I had the vision of releasing like old pieces like pieces of paper with writings on it that were like representing the old beliefs and all of that, and being like my first vision was being barefoot on the ground and letting that healing energy coming, you know, and being released into the

6:01 and and then I found this image that was taken from a totally different project that was never used, and I was like, well, this is very similar to what I want to convey as far as the message behind that song. And so that's that's how, yeah, that's how I use this image. That's pretty cool. And it's funny how you say that too, because when I first saw the image and listen to the song at the same time. My first thought was, man, this is really badass because it's it's it like combines two parts of my personality, got the metal part and the spiritual part. And then I thought of and you might think this is wild that this just came into my head, but I'm like, she should go on tour with High Loan. Yeah, I love it, right, yeah, it'll be like perfect.

6:55 That's song I would love to I I, uh for the Savage Land project. I don't know if you heard of that. Oh yeah, I'm well familiar with it. Yeah. Yes, And. We did a video and I did it. Yeah. And so that's when I met Hi Loom and I didn't know much about them, and then I was like so curious and I watch it. I'm like, oh my god, this is so cool, so great. So I appreciate you saying that because I love I love. Them and I yeah, yeah, I mean it's wild too. Same for me, like I never really heard of them until Okay. So I go on tour and I do coverage of music festivals here in the US, UK, Europe, and I was at Hellfest. I had an interview set up with with them, but I didn't know who they were at first, and like, my role is, well, I have to go see their set because you know, I can't promote their music if I'm not being there and being the fan, you know. And I was like I couldn't believe first, like how many people were just from this from Hellfest, one of the biggest festivals in the world, were just gravitating to them. And then I just sat up there up front and I was like, in awe.

8:15 I think it was like one of the first time thousands of concerts in my life. I was just like I was like in a trance. Yeah, well it was so cool. No, it was. It was amazing. And I I the same thing. I didn't know much about them. And then when we shot that video and we did a little ceremony and I got to to actually give happy to one of the guys, and I'm like, oh my god, I've received happy. I don't know if you know what it is. It's like the pure tobacco. And then yeah, somebody knows, and I've received it, so I know what it feels like. But I've never given it to somebody anybody.

8:57 And we did this whole video clip. Uh, and it's it's just yeah, it was. It was amazing, and that's how I discovered. I was like, who's Hilong? And then I watched a lot of their videos with their gear and full on like metal meets spiritual Like you said, like like totally ceremony on the stage at a metal festival. It's it's uh, it was so cool. So yeah, so I thought of that too, because like your music matches that style of course. But then when I saw this art, I was like, wow that And then you were talking about wearing the cloak and as you were talking before, and I just confirmed it even more.

9:43 You know, yeah, because all my lyrics and and and you know, has that the spiritual connectation, So you have like the first you know, everything has deeper meanings. You can take the superficial meaning, but then it has like a deeper underlying meaning to whatever degree you want to understand the song. So for me, yeah, it's a very spiritual process, even the way I write. So yeah, so I appreciate your saying that because thank you for recognizing this. You're welcome and you do walk your talk because you are a healer and you do reiki, and I mean, like see, I think it just goes all hand in hand and that's what's cool about it.

10:30 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've always been fascinated with what we don't see, you know, like the you know, energy, what you know, we can feel and sense things, but some things cannot be explained in the physical world so much, no doubt. So it's like, yeah, so that always fascinated me. And you know, I mean when I was super young, I was always wondering what happened. I know a lot of us wonder like what happens? Like is there a life after death? Is there this? What? What are ghosts? You know? What are spirits? What are this? And that?

11:11 And then and then you know, it gets super curious very young, and read a lot of books about you know, all kinds of different uh uh, what do you call it? Like belief systems, you know, not just religions, but also different belief systems and seeing and trying to digest it all and trying to make up my own mind and trying to experience things and and trying to get clues of what really is going on. So yeah, nice, And you know what I have to say too, because I've been looking the whole time we're talking. But that piece of art behind you with the eye with the blue eye, that is freaking amazing.

11:54 Oh. I think it's so good that it's hard to even concentrate on the interview at times because it like kind of draws you in. And that's what good art is and stuff like that, you know. Wow. So so the new EP, Rebirth, Uh, tell us what that's all about, because I love that too. Like I'm also a motivational speaker, so I love the positive message in the song lives and you know, just all together and rebirth like it says it all yeah. And and and you know, I called it rebirth also for that reason. And I felt like I came to a time, so I released. I actually removed my old catalog from streaming platforms. I'm going to re release, remaster some of the songs and re release them as we go.

12:47 But I felt like there's there's this new energy. I don't know how to call it, like this this, and that's why it was a rebirth. And I felt like I want to to share more of my truth and it could be universal truths too, because there's a lot of similarity, Like we're all connected, right, so, and I choose to do this without censoring myself. So that's how I felt like it's a rebirth, just letting it out without trying to be somebody I'm not and not trying to necessarily please everybody, like not like just be true, yeah, like true. So this is how why I chose the to call it rebirth, because it's just like a new birth and now like peeling all the layers and letting it all shown, and yeah.

13:47 It's the only way we move forward, right, like, as long as we keep holding on to all those past limiting beliefs and past trauma and everything else. You know, it's the only way to move on exactly. And it's but it's not an easy journey, no, you know it's uh yeah, it's true. We got to just go through and then you know there's ups and downs and like I talk in one of the songs too, like you know this is. Life, yeah totally. And like in the single lies, I mean, you hit the nail on the head in my opinion, because it's like we do sit there and we tell these lies to ourselves, and I think it inhibits our healing because if you're not truthful with yourself, forget anybody else.

14:39 But you have to be truthful with yourself in order to move forward and to heal. Yeah. Absolutely, and it's not easy because yours of programming and it's you know, like I said, it's like peeling layer by layer. And you know, absolutely. Yeah. So I also want to say, Okay, so I'm in South Florida and I'm totally bummed because I was actually thinking of going to art based on Miami this year and then I had something else come up and I saw one of your I think it was one of your Instagram reels. Yeah, you were shipping off a surfboard. Yeah, Miami, and that see I also surf. So that's badass because I like when I go to all the art shows.

15:30 That's my favorite part of the art show are the surfboards that are painted amazing. So I want to hear about your surfboard art. I you know, I started painting on surfboards many many years ago through Billabong Billabong Europe. They commissioned me to paint on a couple boards and for inside their store, you know, on display, and I never thought of it, like, okay, I know I have to surf, you know, in my family, everybody serfs. I mean, my husband and my son are the ones that are going all the time in the cold California waters.

16:14 That's where I started back in La Now I go to Costa Rica where it's always warm. Yeah, I learned. I actually learned to surf when I was seventeen in the Canary Islands live. You know, I'm from Paris, France, and it was like warm water, clear water, perfect, nobody. Out, you know, nice. So it was it was nice. But I always find like there's a very similarity with like surfing, because I felt like it's a very spiritual experience too. You're out, you have to be in the present moment, you're out in the ocean. You're you know, you're just you and your board, and it's it's there's a magical thing about it.

16:57 And and uh, I got really inspired after the Billa bone thing. I'm like, I love to paint on this. So now I kind of reclaim like all the old surfboards that either come from my husband or my son that they don't use, or or people that toss away surfboard, I reclaim them and I, you know, I just prep them and paint on them. So I actually have a couple of I'm gonna use some more surf art for this hotel in La uh and then I'm gonna I'm gonna be part of another surfboard show in May in Malibu at the Tracy Park Gallery. That's gonna be cool.

17:43 So i have a lot of new boards to paint, so I'm so excited. I have some that are actually laying outside in the sun to get the walks off, you know, right, I kind of clean them up, you know. But yeah, well that's like, okay, So one of my best friends he passed away last year, but he custom designed me a surfboard with my logo on it, and you know, like my podcast logo has me in a wave. Okay, but he's like a famous nose rider, designer, pro surfing champion from the sixties. He's pretty well known in that La area, Bob Purvy. And like, I've been afraid to even put it in the water because I don't want to ruin it because it's like and now, especially since he's passed away, I'm like, wow again, I can't. I can't use that board.

18:37 I know most people because my boards are also surfable, but most people that buy my boards are just hanging them in their homes, you know, right. But I tested, like the first board not for Billabon Billa bon. I trusted them and it was for display. But the first board I made that I was sailing, you know, in the gallery. I tested it. I went out and made sure just in case the people wanted to take it out that it was okay, and it was well, you know, and it was all fine. So yeah, So I have to tell you a funny story since you mentioned your son. Okay, So I interviewed Tye at one of the wimmer festivals. Yeah, and it was when he cut his hair short. Oh yeah, And so I asked him during the interview, I kid, you not like, what made you cut your hair? Like most kids at that age, they're like And he said, You're gonna love his answer. He was rebelling because everybody is family has long hair. I thought that was the best answer ever. So funny. So what else do you want to say or talk about or let the listeners know not only about the new EP, but and the new single, your art also your Boulevard device project.

20:04 Yeah, well, you know, I'm actually in the process of launching a new website, which is still gonna be chlod Trahillo dot Com, but I'm redesigning it so I'll have a lot of the news in there. I'll be updated. I'm very active on social media chlod for hel for all news. But yeah, like I said, I have a lot of art shows coming up for twenty twenty six. The video, the music video for Lives actually is going to come out at the end of February, so yeah, on my YouTube sex and we had a blast shooting it.

20:48 We shot it like right before Christmas, I think it was December twenty second, and it's gonna have some cool animation and some cool stuff in it, so I'm super excited. And then the full EP will be released early March. And I've been writing a lot of new songs and I'm actually excited about them because I want to do like a full album after this with Boulevard Device. We just toured Australia in this past November, so that's going to be. Yeah, it's going to be also new music videos on that and as well what else. I started the process last year of writing a book, so I'm excited about that. But that's going to be a long that's a long project, you know. Oh yeah, a couple of notebooks full of my writings. But you know, it's it's really cool to process everything and kind of put words in a different way, not in songs.

21:53 But in a it's it's totally different. So that'll remind me of another funny story. Okay, So my head engineer here at the stage. He passed away a couple of years ago, but he was a musician and I came to him with this song one time that I wrote. And I'm a book author, like I have published book, you know, and that's the type of writer I am. So I wrote this song and I said, I need your help. I need you to turn this into a song. Okay, let's collaborate together with him and his girlfriend. They were a country rock duo. And I'm like, I need your help turn this into an actual song. And he laughed at me because he looked at him was like, the hell is this a book? And then, as you know, it's so hard to like when you have objective outsiders, because he was saying, can we take this out? I'm like, no, that's important. Like everything he was asking take out to try to shorten it to a song. No, that's important that needs to stay in there. I mean we finally ended up doing it. I just acquiesced, okay, do whatever you want, and we made the song. But it is so different is my point to write a book that So now I'm even more impressed because like the fact that you'll write a song and write a book, it is a process. Yeah, and you said how long? You know, It's funny the book I published. I've written several books,

23:23 but I've only published one. And the one I published it took me six months to write the first half half of the book because I stopped. And you know how that goes. It's like you just stop and it's like and then it took me like one day to do the second half. Wow, because as soon as it came back to me that I was right, I just did it. And you know how that's how it goes with anything with art too. Yeah. You know my dad when he would paint stuff, it never stayed the scene, like he was constantly reforming it and looking at it and finding something. Yeah, do you do that too? Sometimes? Yeah?

24:03 It's like I I you know, when you're so deep in any type of work, I feel you're so deep into it. Yeah, I like to step away to kind of at it with either you know, look at it with fresh eyes or listen to it with fresh ears, or you know, whatever you're creating. But yeah, it's it's yeah, it's wild. Right, thank you? Yeah, exactly. So tell everybody how they can reach you on not only your website, but all your socials and looked out for all the great stuff you have coming out in twenty twenty six. Yeah, so most of it is easy. It's chlotriho c h l o e t r u j I l l o so chluy tr heo dot com. For my website, we're gonna launch. It's the old one is still up, but it's gonna be all updated. So it's it's gonna be launched within the next month. We have some little tweaks to add. And then Instagram kluytr he I think there's still a Facebook YouTube. All that is should be kluychr you so you can find me there. I'm pretty active on Instagram. I keep it up so you hear about all the news about all my art shows, music concerts, fashion shows and all of that. It's it's gonna be yeah.

25:30 On there. I love it, and they can't listen to my show anymore unless they buy your merch agree whatever it may be, that's the rule. I like it well. Thanks a lot for giving us such great art. And I say art because it's all of the art that you give us, and we need art more than ever nowadays, you know, so we could unite together and be happy and get rid of all the negativity. And I thank you for being a part of that. And thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man. Thank you for having me on your show. Appreciate it, Thank.

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