Seagulls with Follow The Sea - An Interview

Outro expoente da onda sueca shoegazer é o Follow The Sea, as vezes lembrando a primeira fase do Ride já em outras mais noise pop chegando quase a ser confundido com uma banda america da Slumberland dos 90´s, os caras realmente impressionaram-se no seu ep independente do ano passado, as quatro faixas do homônimo ep são coesas e sem cair para o lado etéreo da coisa, os caras pegam mesmo nas ambiências e na urgência de seu som.

Vem material novo em breve e certamente vem coisa boa pela frente, fiquemos então atentos ao passos do Follow The Sea.

***** Interview with Follow The Sea *****

Q. When did Follow The Sea starts, tell us about the history...
In the spring of 2013 we packed up our instruments, a computer and a friend who is a recording engineer and set up everything in a summer house located on an island outside of Stockholm. We stayed there for a couple of days, recording the four track EP that we released (uploaded) on our bandcamp later in July. The EP got a few good reviews and we got to open for Ringo Deathstarr and GUM on their European tour that fall, when they played in Stockholm.

We got into shoegaze music a couple of years back and with Follow the Sea we wanted to see what we could do as a duo. The recordings and early gigs felt really good so we have continued to experiment and explore and just try to make as much noise as two people possibly can.

Q: Who are your influences?
I guess we’re a bit more into heavier kind of music than most shoegazers. A Place to Bury Strangers and Ringo Deathstarr are bands that we tend to come back to a lot. When we started playing music about ten years ago, Swedish punk bands like Ebba Grön and Imperiet were big influences. Blood Red Shoes is a band that has really inspired us to go for the duo setting.

Q. Made a list of 5 albuns of all time
This one’s hard, because we sometimes have different taste in music, so we’ll divide it.

We can agree on In Utero (Nirvana)
Magnus: The Velvet Underground and Nico Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (The Flaming Lips)
Erik: Loveless... no Soulaki… Loveless. You are free (Cat Power)

Q. How do you fell playing alive?
Being a duo is both awesome and really sucky at the same time. It makes a lot of things smoother and freer, but puts a lot more pressure on us as musicians and songwriters. We’re a bit bipolar in our attitude towards our music. We like it simple as well as big and stuffed with awesomeness. Dynamic as well as droning. We always love being loud though. Like, really loud.

Q. How do you describe Follow the Sea´s sounds?
Noise pop. Just three or four chords with a lot of fuzz. We like to keep it simple with a few jazz chords here and there. We don’t like following any musical rules: we started out playing punk music and we want to keep a bit of that feeling in our sound. Recently we have grown tired of the standard guitar tuning so we’ve started to experiment with alternative tunings on the new material. We’ll see how that goes, it sounds great but we don’t want to end up carrying too many Jazzmasters around…

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
The four songs out now are recorded by a friend of ours called Joakim Flinckman. We tracked it just the tree of us using his mobile recording equipment in a small house in the Stockholm archipelago (hint to the band name right there). We had a Ludwig Vistalite drum kit set up in the biggest room and a Music Man guitar amp in the adjacent sauna. Joakim did the mixes in his studio and it was a really smooth experience.

After that we wanted to do a lot more experimenting which led to us recording five songs ourselves and mixing it in our rehearsal space (a closed-down water cleaning facility). These songs are waiting to be released right now. On them there is a mix of live-takes as well as a lot of overdubs, singing into kick drums, experimenting with mic placements and stuff like that. Just having a good time and taking our time with the recordings. There are even some synths and samples on there, though you’ll need good ears to pick them up.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Our Stockholm shoegaze friends Star Horse for sure, great songs, great sound. We also like Jaguwar, especially the Muffhead song. Outside of the shoegaze genre there is a really awesome Irish band called Fight Like Apes, crazy synth-punk.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
Ever since I (Erik) played GTA Vice City I have wanted to do a cover of Flock of Seagulls ”I ran”. Otherwise maybe some Velvet underground B-side or Kate Bush. We’re not that into covers so I guess it would take a while before we play one live or record one.

I’m (Magnus) getting ready for work tomorrow. I’m doing sound and picture in a small, noisy control room, but because the king (of Sweden) is there I have to wear a tie and stuff. That got me thinking about a cover of Blood Red Shoes’ “Getting Boring by the Sea”. Maybe we’ll do a “Getting pretty for the king” sometime…

Q: What´s the plans for future....
We’ll release a new EP very soon. And gigs very soon too. That’s really all we’re allowed to say for now.
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https://followthesea.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/followthesea

Metamatic with Kline Coma Xero - An Interview

Kline Coma Xero é Tony Williams, e já pelo nome do projeto dá pra sacar qual é o lance, minimal wave e muito Kraftwerk na música matematicamente linear do cara.

Kline Coma Xero (MR-036) é o debute que saiu agora em junho em formato k7 é uma literalmente viagem a eletrônica alemã aliada a vanguarda de Sheffield, leia-se Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbling Gristle e outros, transportando-a para nossas tempos.

Um deleite para os fãs de synths.

***** Interview with Kline Coma Xero *****

Q. When did Kline Coma Xero starts, tell us about the history...
The project started in June of 2012. I was writing a lot of experimental music at the time and wanted to try something a little more structured and defined with vocals. My goal was to keep everything simple and stick to a pure analogue signal path as much as possible, which is very difficult to do given all the options available in writing electronic music nowadays. So I set up a Roland TR-606, a Sequential Circuits Pro One, and a Roland SH-3 and wrote just one track. Initially I didn't play it for anyone for 2 months because I felt very self conscious of it. You see I hadn't done vocals for a very long time and I wasn't sure how it would be received. At some point I got the courage and just put it on SoundCloud. I figured no one would listen to it, but to my surprise many people did listen to it, and liked it. That song was "Left Behind".

Q: Who are your influences?
Mostly my influences are from literature I have read over the years. I had an obsession with JG Ballard early on in the writing process of my debut album, I ended up reading almost all his works. I felt that immersing myself in his work was important at the time because he was so influential to early electronic musicians in the 70's and early 80's. I needed to understand why.

Q. Made a list of 5 albums of all time…
In no particular order:
John Foxx - Metamatic
Cabaret Voltaire - The Crackdown
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
OMD - Organization
Front 242 - Geography

Q. How do you fell playing alive?
So far I have been doing only studio work. However that may change in the future, I will have to let you know!

Q. How do you describe Kline Coma Xero´s sounds?
I want things to sound as natural as possible in regards to the instruments being used in a track. I like the subtle imperfections and idiosyncrasies that certain instruments have which is one of the reasons I am drawn to I use analogue instruments. Many of the synthesizers I use I built or modified myself. I just recently finished building an Arp 2600 clone which I am excited to use on some future releases.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
Like a lot of bands in this genre I too try to stay away from the computer as much as possible. Inevitably your music must end up in the digital realm for people to enjoy, but that is usually in the final phase for me. I sequence everything using a variety of hardware sequencers and I record onto a Tascam TSR-8 reel to reel. It's a pretty clean format and it allows a lot of headroom for things. There are several songs on the debut album which were based on live sequencing sessions done late at night which I recorded and added to at a later date. I find those tracks the most interesting, the spontaneity of writing like that pushed a track in a direction I had not thought of prior to hitting record.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Most of the music I listen to is pretty old, but I do enjoy the works of newer bands like RED RED RED, Roladex, and Ortrotace.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
If I ever did a cover I would try to do something out of genre, not even from an electronic band. Maybe something from Buddy Holly or some 50's rock track.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
I will be writing new material in the fall. Most of my song writing is in short 2-3 week stretches. I read somewhere that Cabaret Voltaire wrote the album "The Crackdown" in 4 days on mostly borrowed equipment. Every time I write music I think about that. It forces me to set limits on what will be used in the writing process. These limits keep me focused and force me to be creative within a set of boundaries. Some of the best music ever written is from forced creativity.

Q: Any parting words?
Thank you for contacting me, and thank you for listening to my music!
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https://medicalrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kline-coma-xero-mr-036
https://www.facebook.com/klinecomaxero

Atomizer with Odonis Odonis

O Odonis Odonis é dessas bandas que dá pra jogar na cara de qualquer cretino que venha dizer que o rock morreu e o cacete a quatro.

Doses cavalares de noise, surf, pos punk, industrialices e tudo de mais barulhento e perturbador que foi feito nas geracões anteriores é a praia dos canadenses.

Simplesmente dois discos absolutamente irretocáveis, o Hollandaze de 2011 é brutal, barulho gratuito e esporrento, e o fantástico Hard Boiled Soft Boiled desse ano é um passo maior a desconstrucão até mesmo deles próprios.

Música apropriada para o caos, e o TBTCI enfim descolou um bate papo com o cara, Dean Tzenos, momento maior aqui nestas páginas.

***** Interview with Odonis Odonis *****

Q. When did Odonis Odonis starts tell us about the history...
A. Started around 2009 as a bedroom project. I was writing a 1-3 songs a day for a year then went to B.C. and record Hard Boiled Soft Boiled that summer. Then spent another year putting the live show together and finishing Hollandaze. It all came out of one creative burst of energy

Q: Who are your influences?
A.It changes all the time but originally it was 80's industrial, late 70's early 80's post punk and late 80's early 90's shoegaze with a hint of surf music.

Q. Made a list of 5 albums of all time…
A. Pixies - Doolittle
Ministry - Twitch
Liars - they threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top
Wire - Chairs Missing New Order - Power, Corruption and lies
Big Black - Atomizer

Q. How do you feel playing live?
A. Quite good

Q. How do you describe Odonis Odonis' sounds?
A.Industrial surf-gaze, industrial post-gaze

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
I demo everything at home, usually starting with drum and bass. Then layer everything else on top. Then we de-construct it live and piece it all back together in the studio

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
A. Gesaffelstein, Run the Jewels, Girlband, Yvette, lots of Toronto bands, Weaves, HSY, Greys, Mexican Slang, Soupcans

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
A.Probably something like Love and Rockets or the cramps.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
A.We are writing a new record right now. It's going to sound a lot different from our previous records. That's mostly what we are focusing on until next year. Then it will be back to touring.

Q: Any parting words?
A. Try the new Taco Loco from Taco Bell
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https://www.facebook.com/odonisodonis
https://odonisodonis.bandcamp.com
http://buzzrecords.ca
http://odonisodonis.com

The Devil May Care with Mary and The Hookers - An Interview

Os suecos do Mary and The Hookers são aquela tipica banda que já nos primeiros acordes você instantaneamente solta consigo mesmo "afffffffff", neo psicodelismo bruto e uma das grandes canções psych dos últimos tempos, Save Yourself é o nome da pérola.

Esta tudo contido nos quatro minutos e dois segundos de pura trip, tem 60´s, tem shoegazer, tem psych, tem BJM, tem absolutamente tudo certo na medida certa, uma canção que poderia certamente virar hit, ou algum tipo de hino, mas vocês bem sabem como são as coisas, mas por aqui é predileta mesmo.

Logo menos vem um 7" oficial da banda que ainda esta por escrever sua própria história, e como de praxe o TBTCI traz do submundo para a superfície, boa viagem com Mary and The Hookers.

***** Interview with Mary and The Hookers *****

Q. When did Mary and The Hookers starts, tell us about the history...
Mary & The Hookers was formed in the summer of 2012 in Stockholm Sweden. I (Christian) met Robin (Our ex guitarist) in a bar and talked music over a few beers. After a couple days later we came to the conclusion that we should start a band. So i started to write some material for us to play. we wrote a few songs together and realized that we needed to be more people in the band, that's when we met Peter who still play guitar and a bunch of other people that is history now. We played as a 8-piece band in a few Local shows here in stockholm, recorded our first EP "You Made me/Schizophrenia" & our single "Save Yourself". Later on we went to London for a 5 days tour. After a long time of brawl & trouble between band members we decided to change the lineup wich today is, Christian Jansson - Vocals, Guitar Peter högås - Guitar Simon Linder - Guitar Oskar Nylén ­ - Bass Niklas Mellberg - Drums

Q: Who are your influences?
A lot of 80s, 90s Psych bands, Folk music from around the world, nuggets garage bands from the 60s

Q. Made a list of 5 albums of all time…
Ravi Shankar - Music of India
Rolling Stones - Satanic Majesties Request
Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Darklands
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Give It Back!

Q. How do you fell playing live?
"You've released the fucking fury " -Yngwie Malmsteens, haha. I would say that we have something meditative together when we play live.

Q. How do you describe Mary & The Hookers´ sounds?
Space,Death,Love & anxiety

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
Most often we write something together in the rehearsal room and then call our friend Stefan Brändström who owns the studio "Dustward" in Gamla Stan here in Stockholm. He got alot of cool vintage stuff to borrow when we are recording.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
There is so many bands so i will just name drop some stuff, The Junkyard Liberty, The Mushroom Club, The Wands, The Babe Rainbow, Vibravoid, The Laurels, Orange Revival etc..

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
I think The Answer - Why You Smile would be cool to do!

Q: What´s the plans for future....
We are recording a 7"inch vinyl "Sonic Freedom" which we will release soon and hopefully get on tour next year!

Q: Any parting words?
"Make music evil"
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https://www.facebook.com/MaryAndTheHookers
https://soundcloud.com/marynthehookers

Disasteriod with The Anna Thompsons - An Interview

Entrevista póstuma no TBCTI, triste até, ver uma das melhores girl groups atuais sucumbir em menos de 2 anos.

As alemãs do The Anna Thompsons são um caso altamente curioso de como se lançar um disco absolutamente grudento, a´la Blondie nos grandes anos, o homônimo lançado no início de 2014 é absolutamente fantástico, girl groups, punk bubblegum açucaradamente viciante e em alta rotação, mas as meninas simplesmente acabaram a banda e não houve tempo para degustar o quão saboroso é o som delas.

The Anna Thompsons deixa seus seguidores órfãos e sedentos por seus novos projetos, o TBTCI esta nesse montante aguardando os próximos capítulos, mas que o disquinho delas é fodástico, ah isso é.

***** Interview with The Anna Thompsons *****

Q. When did Anna Thompsons starts, tell us about the history...
Ambika - It was the fall of 2011 and the leaves had already started their decomposition for regeneration. Meanwhile, at an unlisted address in Berlin a paint by numbers text study of Being and Nothingess emerged as The Anna Thompsons. Ens causa sui!

Ana - Ambika asked me one day to join her music choir, I didn't know exactly what she meant but I coulnd't help to say yes! I really liked her music projects and It appealed like a fun and challenging adventure. I had just started my piano lessons and it was the perfect timing to finally have a band, an idea that I had always fantasized with!

Karen - In 2011 Ambika made a Facebook post calling on musicians or any lonely people that might want to get together and form some sort of a musical collaboration. I was one of the lonely people and it changed my life.

Q: Who are your influences?
Ambika - Virginia Woolf, the Romans, Klaus Nomi, Tootie from The Facts of Life, The Smiths, Simone de Beauvoir, The Slits, X, Brian Eno, Monty Python, Kate Bush, Mo-Dettes, existentialists, The Velvet Underground, Stereo Total, Flannery O'Connor, Marianne Faithful, Judith Butler, Blondie, The Raincoats, The Kinks, Alan Partridge, Gandhi, David Bowie, David Attenborough, David Byrne, David Sedaris, and the Queen of England.

Ana - The Beach Boys, The Go Go's, The Bay City Rollers, The Association...

Karen - Dead Moon, Kate Bush, Cate Le Bon and on and on..

Q. Made a list of 5 albuns of all time…
Ambika - The Beach Boys – Pet SoundsBrian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! The Golden Record on Voyager I and II The Anna Thompsons – The Anna Thompsons

Ana - Beach Boys "Pet Sounds", The Jesus & Mary Chain "Phsycocandy", The zombies "Odessey and oracle", The Rolling Stones "Aftermath", The Almighty Defenders "The Almighty Defenders"

Karen - Captain Beefheart 'Safe As Milk', David Bowie 'The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust', The Modern Lovers 'The Modern Lovers', The Stooges 'Fun House', The Beatles 'Rubber Soul'....at least today, that is.

Q. How do you fell playing live?
Ambika - Better than playing dead. (Sorry I couldn't help it.)

Ana - It was terrifying at the begining! As a photographer I'm used to be behind the scenes... so it was definitely a big set up change! It wouldn't take long though for all of us to feel really good on stage playing music together. That is definitely what kept us going! There was something there... Unfortunately it wasn't enough to make it last... Same old story. Still a big pity!

Karen - Challenged, exhilarated and a bit ridiculous.

Q. How do you describe Thompsons´s sounds?
Ambika - With other sounds in the form of words.

Ana - We were always concerned about not having a sound and i still can't think of a proper name for us! Drunk colleague boy rock was definitely the best one!

Karen - Finds itself floating in the genres of pop, punk, garage and rock with tones of 60s girl groups, I suppose....I stole that quote.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
Ambika - If making an album is like fucking, then this was totally wham-bam-thank-you-mam. We had three days in a cellar studio with no windows, and an exploding toilet, a temporary drummer and King Khan. Use your imagination.

Ana - Very challenging, hard working definitely... It's your baby, the final product! It's funny how we obssesed about having the right sounds, we were even not happy sometimes with the results... and now when I hear our album I really love all the songs!

Karen - It was a very laborious experience with much learning, but a lot of fun was had.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Ambika - Brabrabra, The Lovely Eggs, The Deep, Michael Knight, Gelbart, Molly Nilsson

Ana - Sara Band, they are recording their album right now in Berlin and they are amazing.

Karen - I am listening to a lot of Cate Le Bon, whom I mentioned above, at the moment. She has been recording since 2009, so I figure that can be considered new since a lot of the stuff I listen to is most often by dead or nearly dead people.

Q. Why the band RiP?Q: What´s the plans for future....
Ambika - The band broke up? Nobody told me.

The future's so bright I gotta wear shades! How soon is now? Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir? But seriously... I'm writing a novel about feminists, and aliens from an orgasming planet, which aren't mutually exclusive, and narcolepsy, which I'm pretty sure will get me nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature. Let's be realistic though, I might not win. And music... my new shizznit projects: The Pink Death, a smidgen like The Anna Thompsons but on LSD and moonbeams. Coming soon to an ear near you! Razor Vajynas, or Razor Cunts, we haven't decided on the name yet and may end up calling ourselves The Good Protestants, is a cello riot girl band, certainly not for the faint of heart, i.e. those with pre-existing heart conditions and pregnant ladies. Otherwise, surviving global warming by creating a time machine and going back to New York circa 1979.

All my ridiculous projects will be up on my website when I finally get arsed to building it: http://www.ambikathompson.com/
Ana - It's one of those life misteries. Definitely we are all very proud of our little baby! And when the time comes, we will start making music again! And we will have a band reunion when we are 50 and play in Benidorm!

Karen - Nothing lasts forever. We all have or are hoping to move on to other things and not have The Anna Thompsons be our last stop individually music wise. That being said, I think that we can all agree that we are proud of what we achieved during our run together.

Q: Any parting words?
Ambika - Ukončete prosím výstup a nástup, dveře se zavírají

Ana - Hasta la vista!

Karen - We've still got a lot of albums and merch to sell, so please contact us and help keep our legacy alive!:)
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https://theannathompsons.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/TheAnnaThompsons
http://theannathompsons.wix.com/anna

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She´s a Devil with Minuit Machine - An Interview

Após o fim do Phosphor, Hélène voltou para sua cidade natal Paris e após ouvir a voz de Amandine fundou o duo Minuit Machine.

Coldwave densa e hipnótica, gélida e sedutora, assim é o ep Blue Moon lançado em outubro do ano passado e que agora dará espaço a o debute das garotas Live & Destroy que pelas audições esta simplesmente fascinante, os synths mais cinzentos do que nunca servem de textura para a voz obsessivamente emocional de Amandine.

Fácil fácil um dos grande álbuns de nova coldwave deste 2014, para se apaixonar de imediato.

***** Interview with Minuit Machine *****

Q. When did Minuit Machine starts tell us about the history...
H - I started thinking about it in june 2013, when I was touring with my former band Phosphor, a coldwave band from London. I moved back to Paris, my home town, a few months before and I was travelling each month to practice and play some gigs with them. It was working pretty well but I really wanted to start a side project in my city. During the summer, I composed a few songs and I put an ad online at the end of august to find another member for Minuit Machine. That’s how Amandine found me! When I heard her voice, I knew it was exactly the kind of lyrics and vocals that I was looking for! We released together our first EP « Blue Moon » in October 2013.

Q: Who are your influences?
A – I believe all the bands I’ve been listening to since I was old enough to truly care about music and understand it influence both my lyrics and the melodies. So I would say: The Cure, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Pulp, Pink Floyd, Roxette, Nirvana, IamX, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, The Kills, Radiohead and New Order.

H - I don’t fall in love often in music but when I do, I’m kinda obsessional, I can listen to one song or an album a hundred times without becoming sick of it. That’s the case for Xeno&Oaklander, The Human League, Depeche Mode, The Frozen Autumn, Gold Zebra, Linea Aspera, Tears for Fears, Turquoise Days… among others.

Q. Made a list of 5 albums of all time…
H - Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Turquoise Days - Alternative Strategies
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
Xeno & Oaklander - Sentinelle

A – Depeche Mode – Playing the Angels
Erasure – The Innocents
The Cure – Desintegration
IamX – Kingdom of Welcome addiction
Pulp – Different class

Q. How do you fell playing live?
H - I’m always really nervous just before going on stage. Like « Why am I doing this to myself?! » but as soon as I start playing the synth, the anxiety disappears and I feel so good, so proud to doing this. And when the gig is over, I think « what, already? » and I’m so looking forward for the next one.

A – Going on stage brings up lots of different emotions: fear, excitement, doubt, bliss, joy, sadness and pride. In the end, all of the negative feelings I was having before disappear and I feel relief and pure happiness.

Q. How do you describe Minuit Machine sounds?
H - I would describe it like something really emotional, dark, powerful. The melody is very important to me and I’m working on the sound until it makes me feel something. Sometimes sadness, melancholy, sometimes hope, letting go but always a strong emotion.

A- Minuit Machine’s sound is, I believe, very deep emotionally speaking. I think people can either adore us or hate us, there is no in-between. Both Hélène and I give a lot of ourselves to share our emotions while creating the melodies and sounds.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
H - I often start to compose the electronic drums and in general, it’s what gives all the atmosphere of the song. Then I compose the melodies with different synths, try different sounds and I record the whole song in a row. When we got the whole structure, I sent it to Amandine.

A – When Hélène sends me the demos, I listen to them over and over again. When I feel the global atmosphere of the track, I start composing a melody. And then, I write the lyrics, which suit this atmosphere.

H - Finally, I mix all the tracks and rework all the sounds, drums, add new melody, powerful basslines etc. until we’re both satisfied with the song.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
H /A - Ash Code, H o r d, SATO SATO, Ideomatic, Coctail Twins, Hante…

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
H - I really don’t know! But maybe it would be interesting to make a cover of a band that is not from the synthwave scene at all, maybe an 90’s alternative rock band like The Breeders or Garbage or Radiohead for example.

A – Just like Hélène, I would love to make a cover of a band that has nothing to do with our music. I think it would be so fun to find an emblematic artist of the 90’s (I’m obsessed with this period…) like Nirvana and make a brand new version.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
A – I can’t wait to start touring in November and to work on our second album. I hope we’ll be able to keep on making the music we love for as long as possible.

H - We’ll begin the composition of the second album very soon. We already have lots of ideas for it so we’re looking forward to starting! In november, we’re going to tour in Europe to promote the album but we really hope to tour worldwide one day, maybe for the next album?

Q: Any parting words?
A – I feel so grateful for what we could achieve: an EP, a first album, a tour… Sometimes I can’t even realize! Many, many thanks to the people who have been supporting us since the very beginning and who helped us making it real. I hope I’ll get to meet some of them on tour in November J.

H - Thanks a lot to all the people who believe in us, love our music and show their support. It means so much to us…
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https://minuitmachine.bandcamp.com
http://soundcloud.com/minuit-machine
https://www.facebook.com/minuitmachine

Medicine Cabinet with Hookworms - An Interview

Uma das bandas mais bacanas da atualidade, som sujão, chapadão, psicodélico, estridente e mais uma montão de adjetivos que já usaram por aí pra definir essa pancadaria que pega tudo de mais sujo e barulhento que foi feito em décadas passadas e atualiza a parafernália toda para os tempos atuais.

O Hookworms lançou um dos grandes discos de 2013 o irrepreensível Pearl Mystic, e se prepara pra soltar o próximo The Hum que já pelos aperitivos que soltaram vem mais uma carga pesada de sujeira infestada de microfonia e muitos psicotrópicos.

E daí é lógico que eles não poderiam faltar aqui nas páginas do TBTCI.

É pra se embriagar e chapar total, e bem que alguém poderia ter o lampejo de trazer o "Amarelão" para o Brasil.

***** Interview with Hookworms *****

Q: When did Hookworms start, tell us about the history?
A: Hookworms started in the winter of 2009, practicing in a dusty basement on the outskirts of Leeds.

Q: Who are your influences?
A: Numerous and infinite, including (but not limited to): the Velvet Underground, the Modern Lovers, Spacemen 3, the Stooges, Suicide, the MC5, Stereolab, Pure X, Neil Young, Can, Wilco...

Q: Make a list of the best 5 albums of all time…
A: Today I would say:
White Light/White Heat,
Haha Sound,
The Modern Lovers,
Perfect Prescription,
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

Q: How do you feel playing live?
A: Playing live is a huge release for us, we get to let out all our demons for half an hour and be swallowed by the noise.

Q: How do you describe Hookworms' sounds?
A: Loud, repetitive, hypnotic, cathartic.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
A: Some songs are built up and written layer after layer in the studio, others are fully formed in the practice room by the time we come round to recording.

Q: Which new bands would you recommended?
A: Virginia Wing, Golden Teacher, Listening Center, Ultimate Painting, Soft Walls, Menace Beach, Galaxians...

Q: Which bands would you love to make a cover version of?
A: We have only ever played two cover versions, one by Beat Happening and one by the Velvet Underground.

Q: What’s the plan for future?
A: We have a new album ‘The Hum’ coming out in November on Weird World Records.

Q: Any parting words?
A: Don’t drink and drive, eat pizza and die.
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https://www.facebook.com/Hookworms
https://hookworms.bandcamp.com

Children of God with Flowers of Yes! - An Interview

Depois que conheci Marc Kellaway através do já comentado aqui Distortion Girls, trocamos vários e-mails e em nossas conversas ele me sugeriu a audição dos dinamarqueses do Flowers of Yes!, banda da qual ele também faz parte, e endossou dizendo que apostava que eu iria gostar.

Dito e feito, fui ouvir November último álbum deles do ano passado, e me rendi facilmente, lógico, não seria diferente, folk drone apocalíptico evocando Current 93, Swans Bad Seeds, músicas longas e em looping guiadas pelas vozes da baixista Tanja e da vocalista Marie Aurup a ambientação é tecida por Marc inúmeros instrumentos e Martin, idem.

Ouvir o Flowers of Yes! é deixar ser penetrado pela música e não ter preocupação com as consequências, para audições introspectivas e privadas.

***** Interview witt Flowers of Yes! *****

Q. When did Flowers of Yes starts, tell us about the history...
Well, we have mutal friends and so knew each other before starting to play together (you know, the way record geeks tend to sniff each other out) and when we in 2005 we ended up working the same place teaching Danish to immigrants, we decided to make a band. In the beginning it was mostly as an outlet for the kind of stuff our "real" bands wasn't really into doing - endless drones, ecstatic noise loop jamming, 70s protest folk songs - but then at some point we started to get ambitious...

Q: Who are your influences?
We are rather omnivorous when it comes to music, but at one point the goal was to end up with something exactly between Vibrachatedral Orchestra and Wolfgang Voigt's Gas. Other influences might be the lovely no-fi jewels of The Dead C, Swans around "Soundtracks for the blind", and a lot of jammy 70s bands like Greatful Death and Quicksilver Messenger Service

Q. Made a list of 5 albuns of all time…
Um, we're cheaters, and as this is an impossible task, so instead we've made a kinda random list of 13 really really really great records we dearly love:

Alice Coltrane: A monastic trio (Impulse!)
Vibrachatedral Orchestra: Versatile Arab Chord Chart (VHF)
Lisa Germano: In the maybe world (Young God)
Michael Pisaro/Toshiya Tsunoda: Crosshatches (Erstwhile)
Deepchord present Echospace: Liumin reduced (Modern Love)
Swans: Soundtracks for the blind (Young God)
Current 93: Aleph at hallucinatory mountain (Coptic Cat)
The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve)
Vikki Jackman: Whispering pages (Faraway Press)
The Cure: Pornography (Fiction)
Hüsker Dü: Land Speed Record (New alliance)
Einsturzende Neubauten: 1/2 Mensch (Some bizzare)
Andrew Chalk: East of the sun (Faraway Press)

Q. How do you fell playing alive?
Being mostly a studio bound project we have only played live once ever, in 2010, very late at night at a folk festival on a small Danish island. By the time we got to the second song, only around 15 people were left in the audience. It was probably quite the strange mess we presented, but the next day two people from the remaning audience told us independently of each other that it had sounded a bit like Swans, which is very unlikely, but still made os happy.

Q. How do you describe Flowers of Yes' sounds?
Never ending electrically fueled folk drones of labour and love with voices from the eternal spheres of never ever ending space

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
Almost all our music take as a starting point recordings of our improvisations, which then gets heavily edited, layered, overdubbed and gradually forced into the shape of songs, which are then forced into the shape of albums. For some of the songs of our upcoming album, we had a recording sessions in an empty high school auditorium to achieve this very large reverbed sound (also the basic material for our "Goodbye Drone"-tape on Steak au Zoo) but usually the finished songs end up a nice mixture of recordings from various spaces. We quite like auditory confusion!

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
We've been long time fans of the amazing Danish band Family Underground, who've made a lot of beautiful records. The real deal, though, is seeing them live, where they have this magical ability to make time disappear. Visit them here: http://dreamsyndicatehigh.blogspot.dk/

Apart from this, people into the more droney/beat driven aspects of Flowers of Yes! might appreciate Marc's long running solo project Exquisite Russian Brides based mostly based on old tapes, electric violin and hissy tape recordings. There are sounds and cheap records (and vinyl!) here: http://exquisiterussianbrides.bandcamp.com/

Beside that it more about record labels - we're quite into all the beautiful stuff that keep coming on labels like Touch, Modern Love and 12k.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
We already have a cover of Tom Rapp's "Fourth day of july" which are a magnificent song. Michael Gira's "I see them all lined up" are an other old favorite it would be nice to do, or perhaps something by Neil Young, who's written so many beautiful songs. Oh, and one day to try to tackle "A love supreme" would be great (though total sacrilege!)

Q: What´s the plans for future....
We are in the process of mixing our new album, which will probably be called "Silence & Trust" and hopefully be out by the end of 2014/beginning of 2015 on The Cat Box Corp. Apart from this, we've got a few other albums lined up, which need some working over still, but might materialize in 2015. At the moment we're living more or less as far from each other, as it is possible in Denmark, but the plans are also to find a way to work on new stuff long distance and basically flood the world gradually with sound.

Q: Any parting words?
Nice talking with you and lovely, if your sounds could travel all the way from Denmark to Brazil !
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https://flowersofyes.bandcamp.com/album
https://www.facebook.com/FlowersOfYes

Paperhouse with Weltraum - An Interview

Krautrock aliado a pancadaria gratuita do stoner, esse é o Weltraum, alemães insanos e doentios, algo parecido com o White Hills porém extremamente mais esquizofrênico.

Um discografia independente simplesmente absurda com mais de 40 lançamentos, todavia oficialmente o debute data de 2009 e atende pelo nome de Magnólia, que diga-se de passagem é uma viagem ao centro da mente e do universo, mas o último lançado agora em 2014, Spirituality é mais intenso ainda, destaque para a catarse final com mais de 20 minutos de esbórnia chamada Colorb.Death.

Música para ouvidos e pessoas tortas, deve ser mantido fora do alcance de indie kids.

***** Interview with Weltraum *****

Q. When did weltraum starts, tell us about the history.. .
We startet in 1999 as a jam-session-project, more out of a kind of fun. Lots of people having just fun playing,drinking and smoking on a old farmers attic. Since then, only 2 (Boris/guitars&mixing and me/drums/visuals/layout &management) are still on board. We had really a lot of members during that time, and it had been very productive in every "phase" since 2005. We made like 40 different CDs - the first official Release was in 2009 with "Magnolia".

Q: Who are your influences?
Everybody in the band had very different influences. But there´s a kind of congruence in atmospheric ethno-styles such as Dead can Dance, Wave-Punk as Joy Division, Krautrock-stuff like CAN and even Stoner with KYUSS. So as a Jam-Band we always colaborated with other Jam-Bands, we loved to see it as a gathering of musicians like in the beginning of weltraum.

Q. How do you fell playing alive? How do you describe weltraum´s sounds?
Our main idea of having a live-concert is to fall into trance while jamming, mindrising up to space taking with all the people listening to it. We like to let our Sounds merging together to sound like one huge morphing thing. So maybe you can seperate the Drums from the melodic instruments, but these are often just a cluster of sounds.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
Of course we will never do a cover-song. Our songs may contain fracture and elements of all the music we love, but thats unconscious.

Q: What´s the plans for future.. We start to work on a new Release this autumn, hopefully we may release it until may 2015. We also like to play some more concerts in the next summer, 2013 and 2014 we didn´t play a lot cause Dora/Bass and I , we became parents again.. So there´s a lot of kids around the Bands Members. Dr. D/synth is the most productive Member with 6 Kids, Armin/Djembe is father of 5, I have 3 Kids. So we are not having any Tour-planning. Just having fun with some concerts. ..

Q: Any parting words?
Thanx for your questions,
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https://www.facebook.com/weltraum.tv

http://www.weltraum.tv/

Time To Sleep with Naïveté - An Interview

Quando recebi o single de estréia do Naïveté fiquei fascinado com a candura, o refinamento de Time To Sleep, pensei comigo, e os caras são de Salvador, incrível!!!

Uma sonoridade como disse refinida, lembrando Aztec Camera, Smiths, Prefab Sprout, coisa que os meninos nem eram nascidos quando este que vos escreve os ouvia, e imediatamente após algumas audições em repeat logicamente que fiz contato com eles e o resultado esta abaixo, um pouco do que é o Naïveté e o que os caras vão aprontar.

Para ficar de olhos e ouvidos extremamente atentos.

***** Interview with Naïveté *****

Q. Quando Naïveté começou? Qual a origem do nome? (prefiro sem o artigo, se você não se importar)
Eu e Vinícius nos conhecemos na festa de aniversário de um amigo em comum, há uns dois anos. Um dia ele pôs uma gravação de "Soldier of Love" no facebook e eu gostei um bocado da voz dele. Foi só no fim do ano passado que começamos a conversar sobre a possibilidade de investir em música e no início desse que começamos a nos encontrar, sempre às tardes dos finais-de-semana. O nome vem do francês, significa ingenuidade, inocência, falta de experiência, esse tipo de coisa.

Q. Quais as influências de vocês?
Em comum, principalmente Velvet Underground, Billie Holiday e Chet Baker. Particularmente, as bandas das quais não consigo me livrar são Cardigans, Carpenters, Hole e Young Marble Giants (apesar do catálogo pouco extenso). O Stuart Moxham, dessa última banda, ouviu em primeira mão nosso single e conversou brevemente comigo sobre - foi bem surreal porque Colossal Youth é um dos álbuns que eu mais escutei e não imaginava um dia ter contato com nenhum dos artistas por trás dele. Acho que Vinícius consegue gostar de umas coisas ainda mais discrepantes entre si (Etta James, Buddy Holly, Cat Power) do que eu e volta e meia me apresenta umas músicas e clipes que eu adoro e não sei de onde ele tira!

Q. Como é a cena atual de Salvador?
Diversa, rica e ao mesmo tempo refém de um panorama pouco favorável aos artistas que decidem desenvolver um trabalho autoral. Escutei bastante, nos últimos dias, o E.P. do Osahar, "Índigo" ( https://soundcloud.com/osahar/sets/indigo ), mas não tenho ouvido falar dele, por exemplo; conheci graças ao irmão de um amigo.

Q. Como foi o processo de gravação e composição do single Time to Sleep?
Foram três encontros. A agenda de Vinícius não é exatamente flexível, então tivemos que nos virar. Já tinhamos nos decidido pela presença do contrabaixo vertical, só não sabíamos quem tocaria. André Tavares, nosso produtor, entrou em contato com Giroux e resolveu nosso problema. No primeiro dia, fizemos uma guia de voz e guitarra. No segundo, o baixo foi gravado, sem a presença do cantor e nos encontramos uma última vez para fazer a voz e guitarra definitivas - além das gotinhas que gravamos com uma taça e conta-gotas. A composição já existia há algum tempo, em minha cabeça, mas precisava da voz de Vinícius para efetivamente tomar a forma que tomou.

Q. Quais os planos futuros da Naiveté?
Ainda pretendemos lançar um clipe para ajudar a promover esse single e então a idéia é fazer um E.P. baseado em notas pessoais de cantor. Escrevi a letra de "Time to Sleep", mas a intenção daqui em diante é que seja um papel cada vez menos meu - tenho me sentido muito mais confortável com qualquer coisa que Vinícius escreve que com minhas próprias letras.


Q. Considereções finais
Não subestimem o valor de uma boa noite de sono.
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https://soundcloud.com/douxnaivete/timetosleep
https://www.facebook.com/douxnaivete

Disintegration with Alles - An Interview

Minimal wave em sua totalidade, sintetizadores a postos e a serviço das pistas cinzentas e esfumaçadas nos quatro cantos do mundo, este é que o duo polonês Alles mostra no k7 Post, lançado pela gravadora mexicana Mecanica, especializada no estilo.

Um sequência matadora de canções gélidas, dançantes e pra se acabar na pista.

Certamente se algum DJ esperto lançar o Alles nas pistas vai virar hit, quer valer?

***** Interview with Alles *****

Q. When did Alles starts, tell us about the history...
1. P: We started 1 year ago. We both played in other bands, but when we met each other and start talking about music, ideas and all the things around us, it was clear for us that we had to do something with it.

M: And we did. We started to have regular meetings. On the beginning we were talking about whole conception, our beliefs, politics, then we started to work on music and lyrics.

Q: Who are your influences?
2. P: Life is an influence. I dont have any "heros". Words for me are very importent. Lyrics I write
are about: no meaning of life, no hope, but also about facing and dealing with all difficulties.

Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
3. P: It's still changing. One day something is very exciting, next day it isn’t.

M: It’s really hard to mention only five, but let’s try: Ewa Braun - Esion, Crass - Feeding Of The
5000, Post Regiment - Czarzły, Pink Turns Blue - If Two Worlds Kiss, The Cure - Disintegration.
I think this bands had big influence on my perception of music.


Q. How do you fell playing alive?
4. P: When I play alive I feel I'm in a different world. People are watching me and I'm still standing
on stage, singing, dancing and... fighting. But when the lights turn off I'm alone again and I „fade to grey”.

M: I am trying to focus on my parts. I am „shoegazer" a bit ;).

Q. How do you describe Alles´ sounds?
5. M: I don’t know, but when we started we wanted to be punks of electronic age. I would leave
this question for people who listen to our music as probably they know better.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
6. M: One day I met Paweł and he told me something like that: I have lyrics for whole album. And I said: Shit, I need to make some music! So I started working on it at home (I don’t own professional equipment) and recording my ideas day after day. Then I listened to it after few days and decided what was good and what waas wrong. After few weeks music was ready, but quality wasn’t best. We decided to go to our trusted friend Paweł Cieślak of Hasselhoff Studio and ask him to record and produce this stuff. It took some time, but we were really satisfied with final result.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
7. M: I know they all have much more experience than we have, but…: Keluar, Peine Perdue, Soft Metals, 77tm, Minuit Machine…. to mention just few.

Q: Which bands you love to make a cover version?
8. P: We would like to do some covers of old polish punk rock songs, as some lyrics are still important for us.

M: …and these lyrics are still up to date.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
9. P: We plan to record the second album.

M: First of all we wanted to say that vinyl version of our debut album is going to be released on October (you can pre-order here: http://www.mecanica.bigcartel.com/product/alles-post-limited-lp

Also before we will start working on second album, we want to record these punk covers,
maybe two, maybe three. Can’t tell you which bands and which songs - this willl be surprise :).

Q: Any parting words?
10. P: No gods, Mo masters.

 M: See you on gigs. Take Care!
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https://www.facebook.com/allesmusic
https://mecanica.bandcamp.com/album/post-cassette

Tarantino Psycho Pop with Sick Hyenas - An Interview

Na boa, o dia que o Tarantino ouvir Sick Hyenas certeza que eles virarão prediletas para as trilhas sonoras dos filmes dos caras.

É exatamente isso que senti ao ouvir a avalanche esporrenta surfisticamente psycho do Sick Hyenas, o último álbum é fantástico, saiu agora em maio desse ano e é isso tudo aí que escrevi e muito Spaghetti Western barulhento mesmo.

Pra ouvir alto, bem alto e preferencialmente alto.

***** Interview with Sick Hyenas *****

Q. When did Sick Hyenas starts, tell us about the history...
A. We started Sick Hyenas in October 2011. We three had been the leftovers of the b and we had before. It was more like a experimental project that turned out to be a real band then.

Q: Who are your influences?
A. Old and new stuff. But we listened to a lot of The Cramps and Gun Club stuff while we wrote our first songs.

Q. Made a list of 5 albuns of all time…
A. This isn't easy to answer. But Gun Cub's "Fire Of Love" is definitely on it. I really dig the White Fence "Family Perfume" records #1 and #2 a lot. And at the moment all in the band are totally in love with the new La Luz album "It's Alive". The last one might be a 7". "Human Fly" by The Cramps.

Q. How do you fell playing alive?
A. Drunk!

Q. How do you describe Sick Hyenas´ sounds?
A. Tarantino Psycho Pop.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
A. We record a lot while we write the songs, so we do most of the settings simultaneously. So when the song is done, we just record the final version. While we mix it, we do the overdubs like vocals, guitars and other weird sounds. And it's done

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
A. We met the band Papaya Fuzz from Fribourg in Switzerland. They are really awesome. Totally recommend them.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
A. Jay Reatard. And we do!!

Q: What´s the plans for future....
A. New recordings and a new record. And we try to tour the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK next year. So if you want to book us, hit us up!!

Q: Any parting words?
A. We have a new 7" coming out on Six Tonnes De Chairs Records (http://sixtonnesdechair.bigcartel.com/) at the end of the year. Have an eye on that, cause it's looking beautiful
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https://sickhyenas.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/SickHyenas
http://sixtonnesdechair.bigcartel.com

Dark Tales of Will Z. - An Interview

Will Z pode soar completamente não familiar a você, mas só como cartão de visitas o cara criou a Cosmic Trip Machine Band, trabalhou com o cultuado projeto de acid folk Book of AM além de tocar com pessoal do naipe de Daevid Allen e Gilli Smyth do patrimônio do space rock o Gong, tá bom ou ainda precisa de mais um pouco? Ok, ok, então  o Sr Will Z tem uma discografia extensa e fincada em algo mais ou menos como um folk dark psych, o cara acabou de lançar um discaço chamado Dark Tales of Will Z.

Se você não conhece, dê uma chance a você mesmo e boa viagem.

***** Interview with Will Z. *****

Q. When did you start to make music, tell us about the history?
I make music since I’m 9 years old. I studied mainly classical guitar and church choir (not really groovy!). Later, I discovered a new world when I started to study contemporary and electronic music. In the same time, rock was everywhere on TV and radio. It was the 90’s and, during more than 10 years, I played in a lot of bands but they were very bad and far away from the music I really wanted to record and produce.

2008 was another beginning as Cosmic Trip Machine with The Lord Space Devil Trilogy. First, we were just three friends: JP, the owner of NoHype Studio; Majnun, focused on guitars, and myself playing all instruments and singing. Then, it became a band with additional drummers. Finally, oG, who was working in the same studio than us, became a friend and a great collaborator. We were so naive when we started the project. That’s why, I guess, people love so much our three first albums: they love their freedom and honesty. In 2011, Majnun left the band because he was ill. After that, the followings years, we tried several comebacks with Cosmic Trip Machine but, even if we had great moments, in the end, we thought it was the time to carry on alone: the magic was gone.

During my 2011 forced break, I had the great opportunity to record and produce the ‘cult’ folk project, The Book of AM, with original members, Carmeta, Leslie and Juan; to meet Daevid Allen from Gong and to record music with him and Gilli Smyth. After that experience, I discovered it was the kind of music I wanted to play, but I felt it would be a solo adventure... with a little help from my friends.

Q: Who are your influences?
My first musical emotions, when I was a kid, were three LP: Abbey Road by The Beatles, Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd and... Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky. When I was a teenager, I was deeply influenced by Syd Barrett and Black Sabbath. Since 2000, I explore psychedelic, folk and experimental genres, as a musician and a listener. In the same day, I can begin with something perfectly clean like The Beach Boys and finish by an obscure drone album. There’s a link between all these artists for me and that’s why my music is a mixture of styles. I’m also influenced by movies and books.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time.
In no particular order...

Pink Floyd, Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Beach Boys, Smile
Love, Forever Changes
Pretty Things, SF Sorrow
Ramases, Space Hymns
…and millions of others.

Q. How do you feel playing live?
I thought I wasn’t a huge fan of making concerts, only consider them as part of the job, but, in fact, I discovered I’m not a huge fan of making concerts in the part of my country because, here in South of Belgium, few people like psychedelic and stoner music and promoters are more interested by selling drinks. When I play in North or East, it’s a total different mood. Recently, I played in Germany and the audience was amazing. They even mentioned my name in the local newspaper. In these conditions, I like to play live and to interact with audience, even if, in the end, I prefer studio work.

Q. How do you describe your sounds?
Psychedelic, Mysticism, Dream, Kosmische Music, heavy, stoner, experimental, gothic... Some people are lost when they listen to my albums because it’s impossible for them to put me into a box. There are a lot of bands in my head and they are all playing together.

My first album, Shambhala Album, was a meditation album, produced and distributed in 10 days, recorded right after Book of AM sessions in Mallorca, influenced by these great artists, and Daevid Allen glissando work, especially Sacred Geometry.

Later that year, during one month, I composed every day a song or, at least, an idea for an opus called 12 Visions: it was a new approach that required a lot of self-discipline. The lyrics were inspired by The twelve philosophical keys, a book by Basil Valentine (allegedly an alchemist monk) and J-K Huysmans novel, Là-bas. At the end of September 2012, I made a dream about a succubus musician with a background of constant tube noises, which led me to take interest in Satanism. I read a lot about that subject, and my music became darker and darker. My new idea was to create the negative version of my first solo meditation project. The highlight of this evil period was Hermetic Spell, recorded with Cosmic Trip Machine and Alice Artaud. We played by night, only with candles lights and all dressed in capes. It was a black musical mass exploring unknown and terrifying landscapes.

After 12 Visions, I had two possibilities: to explore obscure and dark heavy sounds or to come to light playing peaceful folk. It was impossible for me to choose, so I worked on two albums at same time. The first one will be out this month at Headspin Records and it is called Dark Tales of Will Z. You will find heavy drone, experimental doom, psychedelic rock and gothic music.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
Usually, the first sessions take place at my home. I work on demos which lead to a first complete version. I like to use the Brian Wilson Smile method: to record different parts as individual songs and to make a montage to obtain a final track. If I need a bigger sound, I bring back the project to NoHype Studio, a magical place where you still work with tapes. I record and mix my music like in 60’s / 70’s and I use computer to create the final montage.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
I remember when I was a teenager and I told people “I want to play psychedelic rock”, everybody laughed at me saying “hippies are dead” and this kind of shit. Today, every rock band is “psychedelic” even when they don’t know what it really means. I like musicians who have their personal vision. I feel connected with Rocket Recordings team. Chris, one of the two label owners, likes Dark Tales of Will Z. and he helped me with good advices. I can say my album is better now thanks to him. I feel connected with Agarttha, a talented video director and musician. She’s the director of the second video from my new album and she worked for Seirom (Roadburn Records) and Locrian (Relapse Records). Like 12 Visions, her album called A Water Which Does Not Wet Hands is inspired by alchemy. I’m in touch with an Australian folk band, Trappist Afterland; they contacted me because they’re huge fans of Book of AM and their music is great. And you have a lot of great underground German musicians like Datashock. In Giessen, I met a psych-stoner band called White Widow with Laura, a great singer, and excellent musicians, but you never heard about them because, even if there are a lot of psychedelic and stoner bands, it’s always the same 5 or 10 playing everywhere.

Q: Which bands would you love to make a cover version?
I was in touch with Fruits de Mer Records. They asked me a cover and I sent two songs: Orange Skies by Love (the Bryan MacLean original version) and Day-Dream by Ash Ra Tempel crossed with Planet Caravan by Black Sabbath, but the result wasn’t really good, so hopefully the release was cancelled. To be honest, I don’t like cover versions. Sadly, here in Belgium, you have a strong tradition of cover bands. My drummer, Sammy Goldstein, played in many cover bands in the past but now he wants to be in the creation like us and he’s fed up with all that scene. I know it’s the better way to make a lot of gigs and for promoters a better way to sell drinks (very important, remember?). It’s easy and people come, drink a beer and spend some time (and money) with friends while a band is playing an awful Smoke on the Water cover on stage. I don’t understand why musicians deny their personality to copy famous bands.

Q: What are the plans for future?
Now, I'm focused on the release of Dark Tales of Will Z. at Headspin Records in September. Then, I’ll look for gigs next year to play live the album with my “new” band called Evil Tarot.The line-up will be Sammy on drums, oG on bass/glissando, I’ll play guitar and sing, and maybe we’ll have guests.

Meanwhile, I’m working on a new project, a long meditation piece about Jainism and reincarnation with the help from musicians I like.

I will go to Scotland to finish The Book of Intxixu with Juan and Leslie from Book of AM - Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth are involved in the project too. We began two years ago and we’ll need one or two years to finish it but it’s a very important album to me because it will be the last to have vocals of Carmeta Mansilla (passed away few months ago).

And I’m planning to go to NoHype Studio to record an album born ten years ago and based on Swan Lake music.

Q: Any parting words?
Thanks for the interview and to support psychedelic underground acts.
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http://www.willz.be
https://www.facebook.com/willz.be
http://openyoureyesprod.com
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Nightclubbing with Buzz Kull - An Interview

Noise pop dark, algo entre The KVB e o Crocodiles, é mais ou menos isso que o Buzz Kull, duo de Sydney, Austrália faz e faz de uma forma extremamente singular, ao mesmo tempo dançante e sombrio, barulhento e atmosférico, o EP independente Heat é a porta de entrada para o mundo pessoal do Buzz Kull, ainda sem nenhum ainda, mas que Marc, metade do Buzz Kull promete nesta entrevista para o ano que vem, e desde já ficamos ansiosos pelo novo material da banda.

Certamente o Buzz Kull seria fazedor de hits nos inferninhos de outros tempos mas, quem sabe isso não possa mudar, não é?

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***** Interview with Buzz Kull *****

Q. When did Buzz Kull starts tell us about the history…
At the time I was playing in an experimental rock band with a close friend of mine and my life was coming to a cross road without me knowing what path to take.
My decision in the end was to lay real low, not see anybody for a few months, gather my thoughts and maybe do some writing/recording on my own minus the social life distractions.

At the time I had no intention of making a new band or project. "I Disappear” was the first recording and I needed a place to store the tracks, so I made a soundcloud account incase i lost the recordings to a faulty hard drive.

After arriving home from work I found my soundcloud inbox and email was flooded with people all over the world wanting to write about the band.

I was later on the phone to my friend Rebecca whom I was in a band with at the time and asked if she would like to be a part of Buzz Kull.

Since then we have had people come and go, Rebecca was away in Europe for almost a year when we first began to perform so i was asking friends if they could fill in.

Q: Who are your influences?
Mostly film, they contain every element I need to feel driven from the visuals, stories, sounds and emotions. I watch so many films to the point where my girlfriend may think i am bat shit crazy.

Although, I have recently become more focused on the production of the music I listen to, in result, may be the reason why it takes more time for me to release new songs now because the perfectionist within is taking over.

I still beat myself up over the glitches and faults I hear in my old tracks, although there are some that just happen to work perfect within the song that it is just one of those mistakes that were meant to be.

Q. Made a list of 5 albuns of all time…
Albums are hard me to individually select, though I have been listening to some classic OMD, The Human League, Depeche Mode and some more modern stuff like Eaters, Total Control, Parquet Courts and HTRK.

Q. How do you fell playing alive?
its a bit of an emotional roller coaster for myself because I know it would cost a lot of money to make the perfect show in my vision, so i continue to find loop holes to come close to a more cost efficient alternative.

When we perform in Australia, they feel a little odd because our sound does not match the environment we live in nor the lifestyle most people lead so we make the most of whats on offer.

Q. How do you describe Buzz Kull´s sounds?
I feel the old songs were along the lines of being claustrophobic and the recent work is what it is like for Buzz Kull to come out of its shell and reveal itself now that its aware of its surroundings.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
I write everything from home starting with a mass amount of drum machine and bass tracks together and gradually building the instrumentals.

After the instrumental track is complete, I listen to the tracks as i do work around the house and make up the vocal hooks.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Eaters, Mere Woman, Multiple Man, White Hex, Mezko, Total Control, HTRK, Dark Bells, Concrete Floor, Cyndies, Spirit Valley, Virgin Blood, Workshop, Lebanon Hanover, Selofan.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
This always plagues my mind every time I hear old favourites, I am thinking about Billy Idol - eyes without a face or Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing

Q: What´s the plans for future….
For the remainder of year, I shall carry on with recording new material and perform in Australia. The plan was to have an album to release early next year and I am in the midst of organising a european tour for 2015 and maybe back to the US.

Q: Any parting words?
Im a man of few words
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Thanks

http://soundcloud.com/buzzkull

http://buzzkull.bandcamp.com/
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http://triplejunearthed.com/BuzzKull
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