Gandhi is My Gun with Rancho Relaxo - An Interview

Rancho Relaxo, nome um tanto quanto esquisito para muitos porém para envolvidos com o submundo dos bons sons o nome soa como um belissimo wall of sound, e não a toa quando recebi o email contendo o release e me convidado para a audição em primeirissima mão do segundo album dos caras meu sorriso foi de ponta a ponta.

E a sonoridade do Rancho Relaxo amadureceu brutalmente o som ficou mais denso e dark em determinados pontos, mas pouco importa a qualidade inegavel desses amantes incondicionais de Velvet Underground e J&MC só poderia nos trazer algo soberbo como é este Diamond Black, candidatissimo a um dos grandes albuns que serão esquecidos de todas as listas dos melhores do ano.

Porém aqui no TBTCI o Rancho Relaxo tem creditos de sobra e não a toa nos concedeu uma entrevista bem especifica sobre curiosidades e desejos pessoais dos caras, sugiro caçar sua copia de Diamond Black imediatamente e use de trilha sonora para a leitura da entrevista.

***** Interview with Rancho Relaxo *****

Q. When did Rancho Relaxo starts, tell us about the history...

it started in late 2002 after gathering some cheap instruments and jamming to “Sister Ray” all night.I had written a bunch of poetry and was transforming it into music. We made art movies inspired by David lynch, mixed with heavy mind experiments and long travels. We put music to film , film to music, garbage into art. It kind of came naturally, the process of creating levitated out of everything we did. The country side of norway is big, vast and lonely, a void... nothing that reflected back and we could shape everything in a very free way.

Q: Who are your influences?

Nansen, the third wave of psychedelic music, now time, Stone Roses. We are friends of electricity, like Tesla.

Q. Made a list of 5 albuns of all time…

Velvet Underground , the first (penisbanan)

Jesus and Mary Chain – Darklands

Brian Jonestown Massacre – Take it from the man

The Byrds – Notorious byrds brothers

The doors – strange days

Q. How do you fell playing alive?

Playing live feels good, its something we have done too little. Our situation makes it a challenge to play live. We are very scattered around norway so to get together needs some planning. We hope this will change.

Q. How do you describe Rancho Relaxo sounds?

Electrical Hypnophonic Rain

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the new album and what´s the difference between the 1st and new one?

No difference really, the only thing that has changed is the equipment. Our first album we recorded on a 4 track tape machine...now we have some more tracks. We have no fixed process really...the backing vocals of one of the songs on the new album (Diamond Black) was recorded through a vacuum cleaner, you know...stuff like this.

Q. What´s represents the shoegazer classic era to the band?

I dont know. Can you tell us. It has been much rain lately. Teenage Filmstar maybe.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?

Himalaya, Colour, 22 Degrees Taurus, The Hidden Ratio, The Koolaid Electric Company,Paths of Prakriti a norwegian band, danish band The Revolution. There are many good bands around.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?

On our record Into Trouble from 2010 we have a cover of The Koolaid Electric Company`s “Untitled1”. Its more a ambient psychokinesis then a cover really. On our first record we have a hidden track, a Them song. We have also recorded a version of Tommy Roe`s Sheila and Jesus and Mary Chain`s On the Wall (the Barbed wired kisses version). We like to try different things.

Q: What´s the plans for future....

Playing

Q: Any parting words?

Ofte omtales dyptgående endringer i tenkesett som en revolusjon, men dette er ofte mer å kalle et paradigmeskifte.
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Thanks Inge!!

http://www.myspace.com/theranchorelaxocompany
http://www.lastfm.com.br/music/Rancho+Relaxo

Spanish Air with Ask For Joy

Março de 2012 dá inicio a uma nova fase dentro do TBTCI, a partir de agora TBTCI tem a honra de contar com a participação do mestre Cicero J., amigo, irmão, comparsa e amante dos bons sons, Cicero já era parte da familia TBTCI porém a partir deste post sua colaboração torna-se efetiva dentro do blog, ofertando a todos resenhas, devaneios e opiniões através de suas verdades.

Para mim é como disse uma honra pois estava focado diretamente nas entrevistas e permanecerei dentro deste contexto ficando meu irmão Cicero responsavel sobre demais textos.

E o inicio não poderia ser em melhor com o novissimo e absolutamente inspirado EP do predileto da cada Ask for Joy.

Eu Renato Malizia tenho o prazer te postar o debut de meu irmão Cicero J.

Ask For Joy - Safe Words

Por Cicero J.

Tudo que é inexplorado sempre é um muro de incertezas e dúvidas, em vários campos, seja no esporte, na política ou na musica. Musica sempre considerei como algo básico na vida de qualquer pessoa, ok voces irão dizer que é uma opinião pessoal, sim é , mas, pensem...uma pessoa que não gosta de crianças, árvores, animais e principalmente musica, meus amigos essa pessoa com certeza tem um sério caso de patologia, enfim, aqui nesse Blog respira-se musica e a pessoa responsável por ele tambem, aqui vc encontra informações, novidades e principalmente amor, para apaixonados pela musica aqui é um refugo das mesmices musicais que assolam o cenário ‘’hype’’( puta que pariu, que expressão é essa?) e ser convidado (bem, não é bem esse termo, fui imposto ahahahahaha) para escrever algo sobre musica me pegou de surpresa, confesso que não domino a destreza que nosso grande Renato conduz suas matérias aqui, mas tentarei dar minha humilde contribuição, quero deixar algo bem claro, minhas divagações são totalmente pessoais,não pretendo e nem tenho condições de ser um critico musical, mesmo porque sempre achei que esse tipo de profissional é ou foi um musico frustado...chega de enrolação.

Aaron Rosseto ou se preferirem ASK FOR JOY, pensem em solidão e melancolia traduzida em canções,vindo de uma região em voga no quesito musica (Texas/Austin) citando apenas 2 vizinhos geográficos (Ringo Deathstarr/Black Angels) não significa que iremos ouvir paredes de guitarras de um e psicodelia de outro, não, ASK FOR JOY bebeu da mesma fonte que sairam inspirações de um cacife de HEAVEN OR LAS VEGAS, JUST FOR A DAY e isso fica claro na audição do mais recente ep que estou ouvindo Safe Words e incubido de falar sobre essas 4 pérolas, GENTLE GIRL abre de maneira soberba e com um refrão fantástico que com certeza não irá passar batido nos ouvidos dos mais atentos, CLOSER TO TANYA é de uma tristeza gritante Aaron canta com a alma e sintetizadores dão o tom de melancolia, o triste nunca foi tão belo ouvindo essa canção, TO-NIGHT me tirou do torpor soturno ao ouvir uma pegada mais “ensolarada’’devido ao drum machine foda e como o titulo sugere, vamos para a noite onde todos os gatos são pardos. SWOON fecha o ep, uma versão que mostra o quanto Aaron amadureceu musicalmente, ou seja, se vc já ouviu ASK FOR JOY com certeza sabe do que estou falando e se você ainda não ouviu,meu caro,está esperando o que?

http://askforjoy.bandcamp.com/

Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside) with Le Recourder Larouge

Quando ouvi pela primeira vez o termo "a banda de um homem só" achei absolutamente fantastico, sinceramente não me recordo quem foi o responsável pelo texto que li, mas a banda eu me lembro perfeitamente, nada mais nada menos do que o grandioso e inimitável Ultra Vivid Scene ou se você preferir Ralske, que na minha opinião foi o percursor do genero Dreampop, há controversias, mas até aí sem problemas, o fato é que a introdução feita aqui serve apenas de ilustrativo para citar que atualmente o termo "a banda de um homem só" virou algo normal, logicamente pela tecnologia absurda que vivenciamos, o que de fato é valioso para talentos que antes jamais atingiriam seus bairros, por este ponto de vista a web é um poderoso veiculo de propagação da boa musica.

E foi atraves da rede que recebi o contato imediato de Rei Soto, soa estranho a você? Entendo, a mim também soou mas, lendo atentamente o conteudo do email e vale ressaltar, com uma tremenda humildade, Rei Soto sugeriu a este que vos escreve ouvir seu projeto DIY intitulado Le Recourder Larouge, e na apresentação de seu banda situou como influências o shoegazer clássico. Obvio que ouvi os dois Eps...aaaah qualidade acima da media, guitarras inspiradissimas e um belissimo cartão de visitas ao mundo do subterraneo dos bons sons.

O som? Shoegazer meus caros, com roupagem atual e altamente assoviavel e trejeitos de indie rock americano dos mais inspiradores, leia-se Dinosaur Jr e Smashing Pumpinks, fase inicial, sim sim, se alguem de gravadoras quiser apostar, sugiro Rei Soto e seu Le Recourder Larouge.

E para melhor ilustrar as ideias e a concepção dos Eps, o TBTCI apresenta Rei Soto soltando um track by track dos dois eps....ah sim ambos gratuitos no bandcamp, link no final do post, aproveitem!!!

Track by Track - Le Recourder Larouge by Rei Soto

"L" EP (released 11/22/11)

1. "Don't Talk To Me That Way" - My main influences musically were My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus And Mary Chain. My use of the whammy bar on the guitar during the intro (0:00-0:41) was definitely influenced by My Bloody Valentine and the use of feedback towards the end (4:04-4:26) was influenced by My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus And Mary Chain.

Tonally, I just wanted a killer, dense fuzz sound that might ideally be called the "signature Le Recourder Larouge fuzz". But my fuzz tones were definitely influenced by Deadsy, The Smashing Pumpkins' "Siamese Dream" album, and the self-titled Cold album.

Vocally I was influenced by My Bloody Valentine and Ringo Deathstarr. Specifically the background vocals were influenced by the female vocalists of My Bloody Valentine and Ringo Deathstarr.

Lyrically, the song is about an ex-girlfriend of mine. We had tried to become friends months after our break-up but her attitude towards me had drastically changed. She was doing well for herself at the time and she seemed to think that she could talk to me like I was beneath her, like she forgot I was the one that was there for her when she had no one. I began writing the song minutes after our last argument.

2. "Dream Of You" - My main influence really came from a comment my best friend made once. He had heard some new songs by The Depreciation Guild at the time and described them as sounding like "depressing prom music". That stuck with me and I set out to write what I thought "depressing prom music" might sound like. I wrote the song in 3/4 waltz time because it felt appropriate for "depressing prom music". But I definitely was influenced by The Depreciation Guild and The Smashing Pumpkins when I wrote the song.

Tonally, since the song is made out of 3 verses, I concentrated on making each verse sound a little bit different from each other texturally. But not so different that it took away from the main feeling of the song.

Vocally, I was influenced by My Bloody Valentine and The Depreciation Guild.

Lyrically, the song is about me not being able to accept breaking up with an ex-girlfriend.

Longing for her and hoping that things will be back the way they used to be but knowing deep inside that I am not worthy and that perhaps love isn't even real at all.

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"E" EP (released 02/14/12)

1. "Say That You Love Me" - I am not sure what influenced me musically to write this song as a whole but I suspect that some of the effects I used were probably influenced by Finger Eleven. The intro was definitely influenced by The Depreciation Guild and The Raveonettes. And the bridge (3:27-3:39) was probably influenced by The Smashing Pumpkins. I am not sure who influenced some of the bluesy guitar licks during the 2nd verse (2:04-2:33) and although the guitar solo (3:50-4:25) makes heavy use of the whammy bar I am not sure where the influence came from especially since certain aspects of the guitar solo are also bluesy.

Tonally, I was going for a very dense signature sound again that was influenced by Deadsy, The Smashing Pumpkins' "Siamese Dream" album, and the self-titled Cold album.

Vocally, I was influenced by My Bloody Valentine and The Depreciation Guild.

Lyrically, the song is about a time when I was dating a woman and even though it was "understood" that nothing serious would come out of it, I think deep inside we both wanted the other to feel more, probably to feed some deep-rooted loneliness or insecurity. Neither of us would admit to our real feelings to each other, let alone ourselves. We just pretended that nothing meant anything and that neither wanted more. But I think deep inside I wanted her to love me and to always come back to me and I think she wanted me to feel the same exact things for her. But we never admitted it to each other.

2. "Danielle Harris" - Musically and tonally I was influenced by 30 Seconds To Mars' "A Beautiful Lie" album and The Smashing Pumpkins' "Siamese Dream" album. The intro (0:37-1:49) was influenced by the Japanese band envy. And the outro (5:53-7:00) was influenced by The Cure's "Disintegration" album.

Vocally, I was influenced by My Bloody Valentine and The Depreciation Guild.

Lyrically, the song is about when I was 6 years old and went to go see "Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers" in theatres with my parents. I immediately developed a huge crush on the child actress Danielle Harris and that crush remains to this very day. She was probably my first huge childhood crush and for all of these years she's held a special place in my heart because that day, when I saw her in the movie for the first time, was the first time I'd ever felt anything that intense for anyone. It was the first time a girl made me feel so strongly and I feel like whatever it was that I was feeling that day was my first taste of what love could be like. Not that I fell in love with her but what I felt was something I had never felt before. It was completely innocent and pure and it came from a real and unassuming place. It felt as if Cupid was making himself known to me. From that moment on, I knew that whatever "love" was, I wanted it.

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Thanks Rei Soto....

http://lerecourderlarouge.bandcamp.com/

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari At Dopamine - Mozz Special

Data: 10/03/2012
Local: Dopamine´s Place

with:
Dimitry (The Boss)
Rob Son (The Other Boss)

and
Cicero (Xiita´s Presence)
Marcos (Other Xiita´s Presence)

Motivos essencias para que você não perca esta edição:
Mini especiais dentro das sessions de cada DJ contemplando Smiths e Morrissey afinal no dia 11/03 ou seja um dia após este Dopa teremos o mestre imortal Stephen Patrick Morrissey junto de nós, preciso dizer algo mais ou basta!?!??!?!

Night and the City with Silo Halo - An Interview

Contatos imediatos via web são rotineiros, e o mais novo objeto de adoração do TBTCI atende pela alcunha de Silo Halo, art noise da melhor qualidade que viaja entre o shoegazer psicodelico até as praias mais experimentais do art rock, e a banda chegou até o TBTCI através de sua gravadora a Etxe Records, e o debut Night and The City que saira dia 12 de abril proximo pode ser considerado desde já um dos grandes albuns do ano, este trio de Washington DC impressiona pela qualidade e suas nuances de wall of sound, e o mais impressionante é ao ler a entrevista concedida com exclusidade ao TBTCI que os caras são absolutamente fanaticos por Big Black, daí precisa dizer mais alguma coisa, melhor não, a ser saborear a exclusivissima entrevista já clássica ao TBTCI, amigos guardem este nome, Silo Halo.

***** Interview with Silo Halo *****

Q. When did Silo Halo starts, tell us about the history... and perhaps your influences?

We started playing together not long after meeting one another, a few years ago. We connected easily and almost immediately. We were- and still are- very motivated by a need to write, play, and record as often as possible.

Q: Who are your influences?

We’re influenced by our lives and the lives of people who we know, read about, listen to, and see.

Q. Made a list of 5 albums of all time…

Big Black “Lungs”

Big Black “Headache”

Big Black “Songs About Fucking”

Big Black “Atomizer”

Big Black “Racer-X”

Q. How do you fell playing alive?

We love playing live. The ideal live show for us is a communal event involving engagement and stimulation among the people who play and the people who come to the show. We prefer to play shows where the situation lends itself to mutual respect among the people hosting the show as well as the other acts who are on the bill. We like to play with other mixed gender bands whenever possible. We don’t avoid unusual or challenging situations; the wild-card factor is often interesting. But we avoid scenarios where we don’t know where the money from the door is going, or where it’s obvious that the core values of the other artists on the bill don’t jibe with the basic elements of where we come from; fairness, respect, clear motives.

Q. How do you describe Silo Halo sounds?

We use live drums on recordings and a drum machine when we play live, and then some variation of the traditional bass, guitar, and organ configuration. We switch off singing lead and backing vocals. Our approach to songwriting tends to be heavily focused on lyrics and ideas. We use chords, melodies, and arrangements as vehicles for conveying those themes and ideas. The choices that we make in arranging and recording usually involve referring back to the overall concept of the song.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording Night and the City album?

We recorded the album in a series of short bursts. We’d record for a couple of days, and then spend time rehearsing and playing shows, then go back to recording, and then play more shows and work on other songs. We record in one of our homes- where we also practice- to 16-track, so the environment allows for a comfort level that can in turn seep into the recorded versions of those songs. We mixed the album in one of our other houses. We have worked on arrangements and compositions in all three of our homes. The familiarity of home greatly outweighs any concern over not being in a professional studio with fancy equipment. Plus we have ability to work around our various schedules and the demands of our day jobs.

Q. What´s represents the shoegazer classic era to the band?

In general we don’t really think of times or places as classic, even those that we remember as birthing a lot of music that remains important to us. We’re mostly concerned with the present. Christin didn’t even know what “shoegazer” was when we started the band. She comes from more of a punk and hardcore background.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?

There are loads of new bands who we recommend hearing. Many of our friends and people who we like to play shows with are also our favorite bands- Fangs Out, We Are Hex, Get A Tan, Screen Vinyl Image, Ceremony, The Water, Kohoutek and HotChaCha come to mind. In the broader universe of ‘new’ music, we like Weekend, Skull Defeckts, Disappears, Girl in a Coma, and Dum Dum Girls.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?

The Antiques “I Want A Cat for my Birthday.”

http://dimdigdesign.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/birthday-cats/

Q: What´s the plans for future....

Recording more songs and playing more shows. We all want to make music until we’re old and grey. We hope that will include making music together for a long time. Our record will be available worldwide on April 10th, 2012. You can pre-order it on 180g vinyl (with full MP3 download) or CD at Etxe Records: http://etxerecords.com/store/

Q: Any parting words?

Thank you very much, Renato, for taking the time to talk with us. We appreciate it. We would love to play in Sao Paulo some day.
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Thanks Silo Halo

http://etxerecords.com/bands/
https://www.facebook.com/silohalo

Night and the City with Silo Halo - An Interview

Contatos imediatos via web são rotineiros, e o mais novo objeto de adoração do TBTCI atende pela alcunha de Silo Halo, art noise da melhor qualidade que viaja entre o shoegazer psicodelico até as praias mais experimentais do art rock, e a banda chegou até o TBTCI através de sua gravadora a Etxe Records, e o debut Night and The City que saira dia 12 de abril proximo pode ser considerado desde já um dos grandes albuns do ano, este trio de Washington DC impressiona pela qualidade e suas nuances de wall of sound, e o mais impressionante é ao ler a entrevista concedida com exclusidade ao TBTCI que os caras são absolutamente fanaticos por Big Black, daí precisa dizer mais alguma coisa, melhor não, a ser saborear a exclusivissima entrevista já clássica ao TBTCI, amigos guardem este nome, Silo Halo.

***** Interview with Silo Halo *****

Q. When did Silo Halo starts, tell us about the history... and perhaps your influences?

We started playing together not long after meeting one another, a few years ago. We connected easily and almost immediately. We were- and still are- very motivated by a need to write, play, and record as often as possible.

Q: Who are your influences?

We’re influenced by our lives and the lives of people who we know, read about, listen to, and see.

Q. Made a list of 5 albums of all time…

Big Black “Lungs”

Big Black “Headache”

Big Black “Songs About Fucking”

Big Black “Atomizer”

Big Black “Racer-X”

Q. How do you fell playing alive?

We love playing live. The ideal live show for us is a communal event involving engagement and stimulation among the people who play and the people who come to the show. We prefer to play shows where the situation lends itself to mutual respect among the people hosting the show as well as the other acts who are on the bill. We like to play with other mixed gender bands whenever possible. We don’t avoid unusual or challenging situations; the wild-card factor is often interesting. But we avoid scenarios where we don’t know where the money from the door is going, or where it’s obvious that the core values of the other artists on the bill don’t jibe with the basic elements of where we come from; fairness, respect, clear motives.

Q. How do you describe Silo Halo sounds?

We use live drums on recordings and a drum machine when we play live, and then some variation of the traditional bass, guitar, and organ configuration. We switch off singing lead and backing vocals. Our approach to songwriting tends to be heavily focused on lyrics and ideas. We use chords, melodies, and arrangements as vehicles for conveying those themes and ideas. The choices that we make in arranging and recording usually involve referring back to the overall concept of the song.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording Night and the City album?

We recorded the album in a series of short bursts. We’d record for a couple of days, and then spend time rehearsing and playing shows, then go back to recording, and then play more shows and work on other songs. We record in one of our homes- where we also practice- to 16-track, so the environment allows for a comfort level that can in turn seep into the recorded versions of those songs. We mixed the album in one of our other houses. We have worked on arrangements and compositions in all three of our homes. The familiarity of home greatly outweighs any concern over not being in a professional studio with fancy equipment. Plus we have ability to work around our various schedules and the demands of our day jobs.

Q. What´s represents the shoegazer classic era to the band?

In general we don’t really think of times or places as classic, even those that we remember as birthing a lot of music that remains important to us. We’re mostly concerned with the present. Christin didn’t even know what “shoegazer” was when we started the band. She comes from more of a punk and hardcore background.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?

There are loads of new bands who we recommend hearing. Many of our friends and people who we like to play shows with are also our favorite bands- Fangs Out, We Are Hex, Get A Tan, Screen Vinyl Image, Ceremony, The Water, Kohoutek and HotChaCha come to mind. In the broader universe of ‘new’ music, we like Weekend, Skull Defeckts, Disappears, Girl in a Coma, and Dum Dum Girls.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?

The Antiques “I Want A Cat for my Birthday.”

http://dimdigdesign.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/birthday-cats/

Q: What´s the plans for future....

Recording more songs and playing more shows. We all want to make music until we’re old and grey. We hope that will include making music together for a long time. Our record will be available worldwide on April 10th, 2012. You can pre-order it on 180g vinyl (with full MP3 download) or CD at Etxe Records: http://etxerecords.com/store/

Q: Any parting words?

Thank you very much, Renato, for taking the time to talk with us. We appreciate it. We would love to play in Sao Paulo some day.
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Thanks Silo Halo

http://etxerecords.com/bands/
https://www.facebook.com/silohalo

No Love Lost with Lautmusik - An Interview

Amigos, amigos, depois de um periodo de ressaca aqui no TBTCI a tendencia é retornar com todas as pedradas possiveis e imaginaveis para me redimir da ausência e para iniciar ataco logo de cara com uma das melhores bandas brasileiras atuais os gauchos da Lautmusik que simplesmente jogaram na nossa cara um dos melhores albuns do ano passado o debut Lost In Tropics, uma cacetada nos timpanos sem tempo para respirar, também pudera as influências são calcadas nos classicos do post punk, art noise e shoegazer, simplesmente basta dizer que se você ainda não ouvi Lost In Tropics deveria fazer um favor a si próprio e correr atrás urgente, desta pequena obra prima do underground nacional, e para melhor explicar o porque, como, quando e quais as reais intenções da Lautmusik nada mais perfeito do que saber dos caras o que eles tem a dizer, Srs e Sras, Lautmusik no TBTCI com a maior honra.

**** Interview with Lautmusik *****

Q Quando tudo começou? Porque Lautmusik?

A. Tudo começou em abril de 2006, quando o Prati (nosso baterista) e o Richard (nosso ex-guitarrista, hoje na Loomer), que trabalhavam na mesma empresa, começaram a falar sobre música e decidiram se juntar pra tocar. Chamaram a Marina (nossa ex-baixista, hoje na Electric Mind), que era amiga do Prati de um chat sobre o The Cure no mIRC (ou ICQ, não lembro agora). Eu não conhecia nenhum deles, mas disse pra um amigo em comum "ah, que legal, sempre quis cantar", apresentações foram feitas e, depois de ser devidamente sabatinada quanto ao meu gosto musical, acabei entrando na banda logo em seguida, em maio. Lautmusik significa "música alta" em alemão, e achamos que era um nome bem descritivo de como a gente soa. Também gostamos da sonoridade do idioma: temos duas músicas em alemão, "Zeitgeist", do segundo EP (2008), e "Mai", do álbum (2011).

Q. Quais as Influencias da banda?

A. Nossas influências são extremamente variadas - dá pra ter uma noção delas lendo um recente post nosso no Floga-se em que cada um dos integrantes citou seus 5 "discos da vida" (http://www.botequimdeideias.com.br/flogase/os-discos-da-vida-lautmusik/). Acho que o que mais transparece diretamente na sonoridade da banda é um misto de pós-punk dos 80, shoegaze/guitar rock dos 90 e punk dos 70, com uma pitadas de stoner e até de metal aqui e ali, mas ouso dizer que acho que o nosso som é atual. Como eu sempre gosto de frisar, não gostamos de revival, nem queremos emular algum movimento ou banda específicos. Claro que é inevitável que tudo aquilo que a gente ouve seja de alguma forma traduzido na nossa música, mas não é intencional. Uma coisa que eu vejo bastante são bandas sendo assimiladas a alguma outra, algo como "o (insira aqui o nome da banda) brasileiro", e também movimentos de resgate de um determinado período ou gênero musical. Acho isso até certo ponto natural, porque o ouvinte (e às vezes o próprio músico) quer se identificar com algo que conheça, mas não penso que isso acrescente muita coisa.

Q. Na opinião de vocês a cena inicial das guitar bands nacionais como brincando de deus, Pin ups, Secod Come, Low Dream entre outras tiveram influência no trabalho de vocês?

A. Pode-se dizer que sim, indiretamente. Eu só conheci a maioria dessas depois de a Laut ter sido formada, através do Richard (nosso ex-guitarrista), que é fã. São grandes bandas (também gosto bastante de Sonic Disruptor).

Q. E sobre a atual cena nacional, parece que nasce uma banda nova e boa a cada semana em cada esquina, quais bandas vocês recomendam atualmente?

A. De fato, muitas bandas excelentes têm aparecido no Brasil, provavelmente porque o "faça você mesmo", no atual estágio da tecnologia, ficou bastante simplificado. Hoje dá pra gravar material de qualidade bastante boa gastando pouco e os meios de divulgação estão ao alcance da mão. O problema é que, com esse volume de informações, é preciso filtrar bastante, mas no fim das contas ainda se sai ganhando, acho eu. Cada integrante da banda tem suas preferidas, mas gosto muito de Violeta de Outono, The Tamborines (que é 2/3 brasileira, mas vale), FireFriend, Damn Laser Vampires (conto que eles voltem, como prometeram!), Macaco Bong, Walverdes e ouvi muitas coisas interessantíssimas em 2011 (Starfire Connective Sound, Team.Radio, Labirinto, This Lonely Crowd, Lavalsa e mais uns tantos). Tem também um "levante" relativamente recente de bandas de ótima qualidade aqui no Rio Grande do Sul que não dá pra deixar de citar (Loomer, Hangovers, Medialunas e Badhoneys - todas com integrantes em comum - metroidE, Monstro Motor, Telecines e Dating Robots, por exemplo).

Q. Como foi o processo de gravação do Lost in Tropics?

A. Foi dividido em duas etapas: gravamos quatro faixas que seriam lançadas como EP, mas no meio do processo saíram várias composições novas e fizemos um esforço concentrado e gravamos mais 7 pra integrar o álbum. Apesar disso, acho que o álbum ficou coeso, apesar de variado. Sempre procuramos fazer músicas diferentes entre si mas que ao mesmo tempo sejam bem características nossas. O processo de gravação foi também bastante divertido, porque gravar com o Japa (Eduardo Suwa, nosso produtor) é sempre muito bacana, e um aprendizado.

Q. Qual a sensação de tocar ao vivo? Como foram os shows no ano passado?

A. Poucas sensações se comparam à de estar em um palco. É excepcionalmente divertido. A Laut não toca com muita frequência: no ano passado, como estávamos compondo e gravando álbum e clipe, fizemos só dois shows, no fim do ano - um pra lançar o clipe e outro pra lançar o álbum. Neste ano faremos mais shows, pra divulgar o disco.

Q. Quais bandas gringas da atualidade vocês recomendam?

A. Os guris certamente teriam várias recomendações, mas vou falar aqui do que tenho ouvido: sou muito fã do A Place to Bury Strangers, que eu acho que se destaca das outras bandas noisy porque o barulho serve a um propósito e a melodia não fica em segundo plano. Vi um show deles em 2009 e achei sensacional. Gosto de viajar pra ver shows, e outro que achei excepcional foi o do Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (não consigo entender por que eles são subestimados por tanta gente). No fim do mês vou ver o Kasabian, outra banda que eu recomendo muitíssimo (sem contar que "Velociraptor!" é um baita título de disco). Ouço bastante o Darker My Love, que me foi apresentado pelo Murilo, nosso guitarrista, The Vandelles, gostei bastante dos últimos dos Arctic Monkeys (que vou ver em abril) e do The Kills e, no momento, aguardo ansiosamente o novo do Garbage.

Q. Quais os 5 melhores álbuns de todos os tempos para a Lautmusik?

A. Bah, essa pergunta é praticamente impossível de responder! Já sofremos pra indicar 5 cada um. Falando só por mim, na matéria do Floga-se citei os que mais marcaram momentos da minha vida - não necessariamente os que acho melhores: Ramones - Rocket to Russia (embora prefira o primeiro), Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Cocteau Twins - Treasure, The Jesus & Mary Chain - Automatic (embora prefira o Psychocandy) e Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures.

Q. Quais os próximos passos para a Lautmusik?

A. Queremos continuar compondo pra lançar um segundo álbum (estamos em férias agora, mas em dezembro já compusemos mais uma música nova), talvez gravar mais um clipe e fazer uns shows por aí, mas o principal, mesmo, é continuar tendo nosso momento semanal de diversão nos ensaios e botando a criatividade a funcionar.

Q. Alguma coisa a mais para nos contar?

A. Leitores do blog, em julho tocaremos em SP - apareçam!

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http://www.myspace.com/lautmusik
http://soundcloud.com/lautmusik

Dead Flowers or As Flores do Mal At Dopamine

Where: Dopamine´s Place
When: 25/02/2012
With:
Dimitry Uziel (The Boss)
Rob Son (The Other Boss)
and

Special Xiita Guest: Plinio Cesar
with
Mr. Blue (The Eternal)

não indicado a indiekids!!!

Touched By The Hand of Xiita At Dopamine´s

Data: 11/02/2012
Local: Dopamine´s Place

With:
Dimitry (The Boss)
Rob Son (The Other Boss)
and
Renato Malizia (The Passenger)
and
Mr. Blue (Ethereal Presence)

preparem os protetores auriculares...

Venus in Furs At Dopamine 28/01/2012

Especialissima edição da melhor festa underground de São Paulo, com os seguintes atrativos:

Dimitry Uziel (The Boss) - Bday

Rob Son (The Other Boss ) - Returns

Presença Xiita da Noite - Adriano Ravon soltando pedradas musicais....

IMPERDIVEL

Lazer Guided Melodies with Thee Piatcions - An Interview

Há mais ou menos 1 mes ou pouco mais ou pouco menos do que isso, em um domingo ensolarado de manha estava lendo vendo minhas coisas pessoais na internet e de repente um de meus amigos altamente psych soltou um post sobre uma banda intitulada The Piatcions, fiquei curioso já pela capa, psych total, dai o termo druggy sounds, iiiiih dai fodeu, procedencia dos caras Italia, na hora que começou a rolar o album Senseless Sense, foi amor a primeira audição, doses cavalares de Spacemen 3, VU, Spiritualized, Brian Jonestown Massacre, dai é covardia, os italianos são demais, simplesmente peguei e postei o bandcamp dos caras e veio o contato imediato Dave Piatcions Cocks o cara da banda fazendo contato com este que vos escreve dai, trocamos ideiais, gostos pessoais similares e a proposta de rolar uma entrevista foi aceita de cara, sem contar outros projetos que serão divulgados brevemente, o fato é que TBTCI e Piatcions tem como religião Spacemen 3, dai virou amizade e a entrevista esta na sequencia, ah o album, poxa é indispensavel, só isso que eu posso dizer!!!

***** Interview with Thee Piatcions *****

Q. When did Piatcions starts, tell us about the history...

A. Piatcions started few years ago when I and Dave found the drummer we where looking for, Dario. Born as a more garage oriented band we changed line up a couple of times (Dario T., Skaio) before find the right feelings as a 3 man band. During this time our music grew with us till it becomes what it is now.

Q: Who are your influences?

A. We have so many different influences; the principal inspiration comes from all the phsyc/space scene: stuff like my bloody valentine, jesus and mary chain, spacemen 3.. but there are many nuances that come from much more bands.

Q. Made a list of 5 albuns of all time…

• Beatles / Sgt Peppers

• Rolling Stones / 12x5

• Velvet Underground / The Velvet Underground & Nico

• Primal Scream / Vanishing Point

• Spiritualized / Ladies & Gentlemen we’re floating in the space

Q. How do you fell playing alive?

A. It's so exciting and funny! When we play live we do our best, regardless of how much people is watching us, but if you see a lot of people jumping and dancing your music you feel a strong charge and it affects your feelings about playing, as well as the upshot of the show. In addition we play that kind of music that enable you to clear your mind and just think about feelings, while you're playing.

Q. How do you describe Piatcions sounds?

A. We've always looked for a great combination between catchy melodies, wall-of-sound ambients and unconventional sound textures. If I have to use adjectives I'd say Loud, Fat and Intense.

Q. What´s represents the shoegazer classic era to the band?

A. Our latest album has been recorded in so much time; A. we put a lot of work in it and it gave us satisfaction. When we record, tracks are constantly changing, from the first record to the last mix, and this helps us to make songs like they are in our minds.

Q.What does the shoegazer classic era represent to the band?

A. Shoegaze has been a turning point for us. When we began discovering the classic shoegaze scene we were a garage band; since then we kept finding out new stuff and acquiring more and more influences. The basic sounds are so similiar to then, but the end product has been

strongly influenced.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?francy

A. Underground scene is full of new interesting bands I realize it everytime we tour Europe. In England they have Tamborines, Eat light become light, Koolaid Electric Company, One unique signal. France has Zombie Zombie, Dalai Lama Rama Fafafa and Moloko Velocet and even Iceland has bands like Singapore Sling, the, Dead Skeletons and Go-Go Darkness. New-Psych scene has become bigger and bigger during these last years.

Q: What´s the plans for future...

A. For the near future we're planning a couple of tours in Europe; we'll go in UK in the third week of February for some gigs and in April

we'll go in Scandinavia. Then we hope we could arrange a tour in USA. It would be wonderful! For the farer future we can just wait and see what happens!

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http://www.piatcions.org/
http://iblametheparentsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/piatcions-senseless-sense
https://www.facebook.com/Piatcions

White Cross with Megaphonic Thrift - An Interview

Depois do estardalhaço do debut Decay Decoy os noruegueses alucinados do Megaphonic Thrift anunciaram via Club AC30 a pré venda do próximo petardo homonimo que estara disponiel dia 06 de fevereiro proximo, ansiedade por aqui não falta, e como é de praxe o capricho da produção com selo de qualidade Club AC30 já avisa no site, vinil branco, coisa finissima, para uma banda que é altamente alucinante, barulheira com pés e cabeças enfurnados em SY, Serena Maneesh e afins, ou seja noise shoegazer rock altamente qualificado, e o TBTCI aproveitando o ensejo encabeça a primeira entrevista pré novo album, e isso não é para quem quer é só para quem pode!!!!Srs Megaphonic Thrift!!!

***** Interview with Megaphonic Thrift *****

Q. When did Megaphonic Thrift e starts, tell us about the history...
A. Richard formed The Megaphonic Thrift after his former band, Stereo21, came to an end. He first asked Feddi, singer and guitarist from Casiokids, to play the drums, and later keyboardist and singer Linn joined on bass. The idea was to get a rawer expression, by combining people with different musical backgrounds and have them play instruments they normally didn't. When we needed someone to be on the more stabil side of guitar playing (in contrast to Richards madness), we asked Njål to join to fulfill our soundscape.

Q: Who are your influences?
A. We get influenced by movies, books, food, art, people, cities and music. Its especially inspiring to lissten to our friends making music. We often work together with different people - helping eachother out in the studio and stuff - and when other people make such great music, it kind of drives you to wanna go do it too.

Q. Made a list of 5 albuns of all time…
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Motorpsycho - little lucid moments

Spiritualized- Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space

Beck - sea change
Tortoise - tnt

Q. How do you fell playing alive?
A. Playing live is a great kick for us. Its the best thing we do. We are known for beeing facemelting and blowing people's heads off. In a good way off course! We love sound, and want to bring as much of it as we can out to the audience. We really like to record music, and play with crazy ideas in the studio, but it is while playing live we truly have the total control ourselves. The lisstener don't get to choose the volume, the order of the songs - and the songs differ and develop every time we play them live.

Q. How do you describe Megaphonic Thrift sounds?
A. Loud, noisy, melodic, intense, psychedelic, rhythmic, strange.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the new album?
A. We actually made all the songs on the new album together. On our first album, Decay Decoy, Richard did most of the song writing. This time it just became naturally for us to make it all together by jamming. Thats kind of the reason why we decided to just call the album The Megaphonic Thrift. Cause it's 100% us as a band.

Q. What´s represents the shoegazer classic era to the band?
A. We wouldn't really describe ourselves as a shoegaze band, but we use some elements in our music. For us I guess the most important influences in the shoegaze music is bands like My bloody valentine and off course Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized. With Loveless, MBV revolutionized music. And the way Jason Pierce has made such great music by making songs so simple and minimalistic - yet so powerful and unique - is admirable and inspiring.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
A. Would like to recommend some bands from our home city Bergen, Nowray:

Check out Hypertext, Lovecult, Syntax TerrOrkester, Young Dreams and Electric Eye.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
A. We actually never played any cover songs this far. Would love to noise up some good old Neil Young songs.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
A. 2012 is all about our new album. Touring as much as we can, play as many festivals as possible and spread good music to people. We also hope to get the chance to go to Japan next fall.

Q: Any parting words?
A. Check out our new album! Released worldwide the 11th of februray.

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https://www.facebook.com/megaphonicthrift
http://www.myspace.com/megaphonicthrift

Disorder with Karate Free Stylers

Primeiro post de 2012, retornando com força total o TBTCI inicia o ano com muita ambição e inumeros projetos a serem tocados no desenrolar do ano e para inicia-lo em grande estilo apresentando em primeirissima mão o combo polones Karate Free Stylers dica mais do perfeita do amigo Tom Lugo, socio de carteirinha qui do TBTCI e para os mais desavisados dono da Patetico Records, casa do Karate Free Stylers e mentor do patrimonio Stellarscope. Por inumeros motivos a estreia de uma banda da Patetico tem a ver com os projetos do ano, mas isso é outra historia, e aqui é hora e vez do KFS, poloneses pos punkers com um teor de agressividade absurdo, para tirar o folego de quem estiver pela frente, o clima esfumaçado mesclado com o noise abrasivo de um APTBS é latente, as guitarras gritam, clamam por atenção, o clima gelido das canções vão se estendendo por todo o debut At Least We Are Able To Breathe, é isso pos punk gelido e frio, leia The Sound, Joy Division envolvo a area noiser do APTBS sem tirar nem por, uma metralhadora ensandecida atirando para todos sem qualquer tipo de piedade. E como de praxe a primeira entrevista do ano com total apoio de Tom Lugo, Sras e Srs Karate Free Stylers.

***** Interview with Karate Free Stylers *****

Q. When did Karate Free Stylers starts, tell us about the history...

Originally, KFS started about 5 years ago, when we were at school. I met my band mates, because with one I was going to to the same class for 6 years and with the other one we both had a meeting at our first rehearsal, because we were looking for a drummer. At first we were playing some cover songs, but then we started writing our own material. So we always say that "professionally" we started about 3 years ago.

Q: Who are your influences?

Our influences are very varied. Our bass player's probably favourite band is The Clash and he's rather into this type of music. But he also loves The Jesus And Mary Chain Me and the drummer are very into Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine. Bu personally I am also into Deerhunter and Atlas Sound and noise rocky type of music. I also love classic rock, blues (Robert Johnson is my god :D).

Q. Made a list of 5 albuns of all time…

My personal list:

1. Nirvana- Nevermind

2. Sonic Youth- Goo

3. My Bloody Valentine- Loveless

4. The Jesus and Mary Chain- Psychocandy

5. Deerhunter- Microcastle

This list refers to albums that were inspiring me through years. But for me best from the best band in the world is Led Zeppelin! I also love The Beatles, Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones. You should have asked me about top ten...or 50...or 100 albums

Q. How do you fell playing alive?

When I play at home I rather play acoustic than electric guitar and I prefer blues or classic rock songs. Why? For every type of music you have to get to know some basics and for me these classic songs develop skills, they show you how guitar reacts to your playing, to your type of sound. I play electric mostly on rehearsals and there I'm trying out some effects (delays, choruses, fuzzes etc.), but when I'm at home I love to play some oldschool Missisipi blues with a slide and open E tuning. These two types of my inspirations have different effects on me,but I'm always extremely happy. Music and guitars are my whole world. When I'm on stage, I forget about any problems, I'm free and I can do whatever I want. This is my place on earth.

Q. How do you describe Karate Free Stylers sounds?

I think that KFS plays rock'n'roll music heavily inspired by punk rock and first indie bands like Pixies. We mix it with wall of sound inspired by MBV. When people ask me what kind of genre we are, I always say: "We play noise rock". And I think that it is the best term.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the new ep?

Recording process...I think it was very simple. All songs were previously prepared during the rehearsals. Only "Another Dawn Fades" was finished in the studio. I recorded all guitar parts on my Epiphone Supernova Cherry Red, bunch of effects and borrowed Sunn Model T (probably 120 watts) and Marshall JCM900 cab. Our bass player was recording with his Ashdown 180 watt amp and Squier P bass and MXR bass Di +. Our drummer used his old green Yamaha Stage Custom with Mapex snare drum and Zildjan plates. We've done it in probably 4/5 days. Marcin Klimczak, who was our producer and owner of the Mustache Ministry Studio, didn't want our material to be overproduced. We wanted it to be more crude but also full in sound.

Q. What´s represents the shoegazer classic era to the band?

From this shoegazer classic era I think we only have this wall of sound in some moments of our songs. I think that this part of shoegaze inspires me the most.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?

Huh, I know many new bands that are awesome. I love No Age, Japandroids, Male Bonding and Deerhunter, but from these less known I adore Slowness, 93MilesFromTheSun. I can also recommend some polish bands: Kiev Office, The Spouds, The Black Tapes, Teenagers, Lora Lie. These all band are great!

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?

I think that I would like to cover No Age's "Everybody's Down" and The Beatles' "I want You (She's So Heavy)". But that's my opinion. I don't know if my band mates would like to cover any song

Q: What´s the plans for future....

We want to make a Polish tour. We are planning it now with our manager. Probably we will go with our friends from The Spouds. We would als like to make some gigs abroad but unfortunaely know we can't afford that. We also think about recording our first full-lenght, but I think that we have time for that. And we want to be famous

Q: Any parting words?

Listen to music, buy CD's, watch gigs!!!
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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Karate-Free-Stylers/133569190024298
http://karatefreestylers.bandcamp.com/album/weird-nightmares-sp