Francesca Pizzo e Angelo Casarrubia formam o Melampus, diretamente da Itália, o duo soltou um álbum exuberante chamado Hexagon Garden.
Fazendo conexões com Siouxsie e o Creatures, incluindo elementos de sadcore, os mantras de Doors o teatro dark do Bauhaus e com uma identidade peculiar o Melampus cria sensações e delírios musicais em um trabalho primoroso e de rara beleza.
Apesar de toda a ambientação escura do álbum é possível ver a luz em inúmeros momentos, um disco que precisa ser escutado a qualquer preço.
***** Interview with Melampus *****
Q. When did Melampus start, tell us the story...
- The project started in late 2011. Gelo and I were playing with other bands and wanted to create something different. We asked ourselves "why don't we try and see what comes out?". We wrote four songs in just a couple of months and recorded our first ep. When Locomotiv Records asked us to produce a full length record (Ode Road, 2012) we were amazed.
Q: Who are your influences?
- It's not easy to say. At the beginning the sound of Doors, Low, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees influenced us because we both really love these bands. But every time we enter the studio to record new stuff time has passed, we've listened to something new and our minds have changed.
Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
- Tricky question!
Dead Can Dance "Serpent's egg",
Bill Fay "Time of the last persecution",
Nico "Desertshore",
Crime and the city solution "Room of light",
Doors "Waiting for the sun"
Q. How do you feel playing live?
- It might sound a bit funny but I can proudly say we still feel exited every time we step on stage. Other musicians have told us "it's just a matter of time" before the excitement dies down, but after 3 years on the road we think that if you don't get excited when you are playing, something is terribly wrong.
Q. How do you describe Melampus sound?
- I would simply call it "light and dark"
Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs.
- We usually start with a draft of voice and guitar or voice and bass line recorded in our home studio. Then we start to layer it with drums and other few instruments. Our rule has always been "less is more", so we try to stop just before we reach too much. Most of the work is done at home, then in the studio we just make it perfect.
Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
- We recommend Sonic Jesus, an Italian band whose first album "Neither virtue nor anger" is out now via Fuzz Club Records. And also Hallelujah, an Italian punk noise band with hardcore flashes and a crazy girl at the drums.
Q: Which bands would you love to make a cover version of?
- We are playing live a cover version of "Twist in my sobriety" by Takita Tikaram in these last few months. But we'd also like to cover "She's in parties", by Bauhaus
Q: What´s the plan for the future....
- We hurry all the time when a new album is out, we don't hit pause. We go on writing new songs and thinking about what's next. But this time we are trying to enjoy the tour and take some more time to grow wiser. The tour has just begun in Italy and this autumn/winter we're also planning to play some gigs in Europe.
Q: Any parting words?
- Keep doing what makes you happy. And if they say your work is dark, go on anyway.
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Uma pequena história, quando conheci o The Offering através do MySpace eles já havia basicamente acabado, isso deve ter sido próximo de 2007 quando eles lançaram o debute homônimo e eu me apaixonei de imediato pelo álbum, mesmo porque eles faziam parte de uma safra de bandas que me resgataram do lixo que reinava, salvo raríssimas exceções, o fato é que o The Offering ao lado do Skywave, Alcian Blue e de outra obscura banda chama Sex Conscious Young Moderns trouxeram aquela chama que ardeu novamente, a vontade de resgatar tudo que havia ficado perdido comigo. Em comum o The Offering, Skywave, Alcian Blue e o próprio Sex Conscious Young Moderns resgataram o pós punk gélido e o colocaram no meio do barulho do J&Mc e do shoegazer.
Porém o The Offering acabou como basicamente todas as demais bandas só que todas elas com exceção do SCYM retornaram em grande estilo, porém o The Offering não, demorou, mas enfim eles estão na ativa novamente, com uma grande ajuda de Mr Paul Baker.
E o material novo esta simplesmente maravilhoso, só escutar A Cavity In My Head ou Hole In My Consciousness ou ainda The World You Wanted e perceber que esta tudo lá, intacto e melhor mais poderoso ainda.
Que venha o novo disco do The Offering, há muito o TBTCI aguarda por isso.
Vida longa ao grande The Offering.
***** Interview with The Offering *****
Q. When did The Offering started, tell us about the history...
Andrew: The Offering actually started outside of a small house located in a soy field in Richmond, Virginia back in 2005. Originally, Charles and I were the sole members. It was pretty awesome because playing out there in the middle of nowhere offered some pretty nice acoustics. That sound really lent itself to the feel of a series of emotions that were floating around at the time. We played shows around Virginia for a while and picked up a second guitarist Billy Noom, and Keyboardist
Chris Critzer .We played some more shows then then made our first album with John Fedowitz doing the recording.
We became dysfunctional (Mea Culpa.) when I left for Seattle and the band continued without me and went “deeper into the drug”, so to speak, with a rawer widely psych sound. They added a new guitarist Shane Huffman, a drummer Bryan Shatzer, did a small east coast tour, and broke up.
After a couple of side projects and random songs here and there, the whole thing kind of got shoved into the back of a closet for a few years.
We got back together in 2013 with Paul Baker (Skywave, Ceremony, and recently Static Daydream.) Collaborating on some tracks and eventually another album came together and so... here we are once again.
Charles: Andrew basically covered it, but I also kind of see the band's history not only as a big part in how we've crafted our sound, but also as the evolution of mine and Andrew's relationship as both
friends and musicians. Andrew and I have played music together for nearly as long as we've known each other (since we were about 14 years old). We started a ska/punk band in the early 90s called
Deadfish that eventually turned into a straight up punk band called Pack21, both of which were active in Fredericksburg, Virginia. As members of those bands separated, I started a post-hardcore band with some friends called February Confidential and Andrew came to play with us for a few shows and maybe wrote a song or two with us. Once that died, Andrew and I reconciled in Richmond, Virginia and conceptualized what would soon become The Offering. We moved back to Fredericksburg and started playing shows with our like minded friends in Ceremony, Alcian Blue (now Screen Vinyl Image), and others that had emerged onto the scene. Regardless of all of that, Andrew and I have been through hell together (and often times apart), but we always found a way to
harness our experiences and ideas into a cohesive vision. This latest record, 'Re', is the culmination of all of those years of turmoil, grief, anxiety, excitement, and growth. It is our current state of being, so to speak. Paul Baker has been critical in helping us reimagine our sound, and I'd go as far as to say we couldn't have done any of it without him. We are both really looking forward to Paul's further influence on our songwriting.
Q: Who are your influences?
Charles: Screen Vinyl Image, Static Daydream, 13th Floor Elevators, Joy Division, Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, Skywave, the Pixies, Black Sabbath.
Andrew: Depeche Mode, Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division, New Order, Lee Hazlewood, Magnetic Fields, some 60’s surf and a bit of 90's nostalgia
Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
Andrew: Dead Milkmen- Beelzebubba, Depeche Mode- Violator, Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine, Deltron 3030 - S/T, Chad Mitchell Trio - At the bitter End.
Charles: Joy Division-Unknown Pleasures, The Cure-Disintegration, The Beach Boys-Pet Sounds, The Zombies-Odessey and Oracle, Captain Beefheart-Safe as Milk.
Q. How do you feel playing live?
Andrew: Love it
Charles: I love to play live. My ears hate it.
Q. How do you describe The Offering sounds?
Charles: This is kind of a tough question because I feel like we have taken the sound in a variety of different directions. I remember doing an interview a few years ago where they compared our sound to a darker John Hughes film (though it can be argued that many of Hughes' films have their own sort of darkness to them). I responded that I felt like if it's going to be tied to that 80s thing that was kind of surging at the time that I'd compare it more to a Bret Easton Ellis novel. But that's all kind of metaphorical stuff. The truth of it is that we trend towards writing believable songs, with meaningful lyrics and sometimes dark or melancholic themes. That's just what we gravitate to as song writers. I like to think that the music takes on a sort of pop sensibility but with dark and noisy chaotic undertones. After all, that's sort of the state of human nature if you really think about it, a dark uninhibited soul at the root of our being, masked by all of the things our environment and our biology instills in us as necessary components to our survival as a species. Happiness is but an illusion to the ordinary human state, in my opinion. It's just one of many masks we wear so we are able to keep ourselves alive. That's what the Offering is, to me; another one of mine and Andrew's
masks.
Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
Andrew: Sometimes it’s made in a shed so hot the motor of the box fan we’re using to cool ourselves stalls out. So if some songs make you thirsty for more, you’re probably just thirsty in general by
subliminal suggestion. Other days one of us will crank something out and we all show up at my apartment to model it into something that feels real.
Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Charles: Static Daydream, Screen Vinyl Image, Teething Veils, Billy Noom, and Bob Marlow's Weekender Music.
Andrew: All those guys work extremely hard independently with what they put out and have even helped us along the way. They're definitely motivating people. They really stoke the desire to play. Some other bands i like are Eagulls as well as Crocodiles.
Q: Which band would you love to make a cover version of?
Charles: We have messed around with the idea of covering Killing Joke, TSOL, and maybe even the Adolescents. Some old punk rock stuff for sure.
Q: What´s the plans for future....
Andrew: We really hope to make another raw album.
Charles: Our plans are pretty static. Maybe play some shows. Get this new album widely distributed. Perhaps put it out on vinyl, too. That's all we've been focused on.
Q: Any parting words?
Andrew: If you can’t do it today you should always do it tomorrow.
Charles: Get it done today because you might not have tomorrow
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Quantas e quantas vezes você já pensou, suspirou por aí com essa frase matadora!?!? Várias não!?!?! Ah eu também, afinal estávamos lá, vivendo naqueles loucos e insanos anos de não haver o dia de amanhã, o que importava era o momento, e com a música foi a mesma coisa.
Daí ao ler a entrevista com os caras do Future Age, diretamente de San Diego e lá no final da entrevista eles dizem a mesma coisa, é tipo, amor a primeira lida, ou audição melhor dizendo, mesmo porque Limited by Infinity o último ep deles ou Got It From An Asteriod ambos lançados este ano, deixam claro o que o Future Age esta interessado, reler todos aqueles áureos anos, passando por basicamente todas as vertentes dos 90´s.
Tipo, tem que ouvir o Future Age e sair pra rua e curtir a noite.
***** Interview with Future Age *****
Q. When did Future Age started, tell us about the history...
Chris: Future Age was started by Michael, our guitarist and singer. I used to play in another band with Michael a couple of years back. After the first incarnation of Future Age dwindled out, Michael asked me to come in on bass.
Michael: Future Age started over a year ago. I had so many influences during that time which fueled a whole new style of songwriting, and has since has led to the music we play today.
Q: Who are your influences?
C: In terms of my bass playing style, my biggest influences are Simon Gallup from The Cure, Andy Rourke from The Smiths, and Matt Freeman from Operation Ivy and Rancid. In terms of the bass lines I create for Future Age, I delve more into the influence of My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Durutti Column, Slowdive, and Paris Angels.
M: My biggest influences would be: Failure, Hum, Dinosaur Jr, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, and the list goes on... I've always been drawn by huge swallowing guitars and have definitely mimicked that in my music.
Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
C: 1) My Bloody Valentine – “Isn’t Anything”
2) Paris Angels – “Sundew”
3) The Smiths – “Strangeways, Here We Come”
4) The Jesus & Mary Chain – “Psychocandy”
5) Crimpshrine – “The Sound of a New World Being Born”
M: Off the top of my head... Smashing Pumpkins "Gish", Failure's "Fantastic Planet", Modest Mouse "The Lonesome Crowdest West", Dinosaur Jr "Green Mind", and Slowdive's "Souvlaki".
Q. How do you feel playing live?
C: I feel free. I feel like I can just thrash about or lean against the wall, or do whatever, and it will be alright. It is a wonderful outlet for pent-up frustrations and other types of negative energies. I like to take the garbage life throws at me and turn it into something creative and enjoyable for others.
M: Playing live has always been a place for me to express pent up feelings that I've had for an extended time. So, if I'm having a bad week, playing a show really helps to release all of my negativity!
Q. How do you describe Future Age sounds?
C: I’d describe Future Age’s sound as a mixture between Hum, Dinosaur Jr., and Failure, with undertones of the song “Mayonnaise” by The Smashing Pumpkins running throughout.
M: Future Age is basically a melting pot of all of my favorite bands. When I listen to music, even music I've been listening to for years, I'm absorbing what I hear like a sponge (and sometimes without even knowing it!) When I'm songwriting, all of my inspirations coincide, and I always end up with something really interesting.
Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
C: We basically lay down individual tracks in Michael’s bedroom using his computer software and a compression microphone.
M: Future Age's recording process is quite funny actually... I actually do all of the recording from my house. I've been using Logic Pro 9 for years, and have learned so much to be able to make our recordings as presentable as they are. I'd like to get more equipment, however I'm very satisfied with what we can produce right now, and I'm in no rush to expand!
Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
C: I’d have to recommend B’z, Boris, Karate, Pinback, and The Durutti Column.
M: One of my favorite new bands is Whirr, I believe they are located in San Francisco and tour often. They're a great example of being inspired by all of the great 90s shoegaze bands, but they have a heavier element which I love. Another awesome band, who actually just played a show with is Young Lovers. They're a shoegaze/dream pop band in Los Angeles with an amazing live sound. I would suggest both of these bands to anyone who wants to be blown away.
Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
C: f I was doing a cover band I’d be in a Durutti Column cover band. I’m pretty sure that’s never been done.
M: We would definitely be a Queens of the Stone Age cover band, (Kings of the Ice Age).
Q: What´s the plans for future....
M: It's in my hopes that somewhere down the road, we gain a real following. Within the past few months it's seemed very promising, we've played at places we never thought we were going to play, and people have really been enjoying the music. So I'll continue to release music, and for free too, because I just simply want people to listen. I think a lot of people would enjoy what we're bringing to the table. Most of the music I make is very reminiscent of the 90s, which is an era of music that I think most would agree left too soon, so we're going to bring it back to everyone.
C: My plans are pretty much exactly the same as Michael’s plans.
Q: Any parting words?
C: Bring back the nineties!
M: BRING BACK THE 90s!!
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Ouvir List, álbum do duo alemão The Amount of The Light We Give Off é um exercício infernal de autodestruição, sempre soturnos e sombrios e ruidosos, algo como o cruzamento lento e doloroso entre Bauhaus e A Place to Bury Strangers.
Não existe amor, aqui os temas são obscuros e densos, todo o sentimento é barulhento e negro.
Grande disco, grande banda, altamente recomendado.
***** Interview with The Amount of The Light We Give Off *****
Q. When did The Amount of The Light We Give Off started, tell us about the history...
1) We started around 2011 playing music, then got into doing two people work - so TAOL came into being around 2012
Q: Who are your influences?
2) Many bands, from classic stuff ranging from LedZep and Purple to Joy Division, The Stone Roses to newer things like A Place to bury strangers. Generally Rico ist more experimenting and me (Nick), I like more easyy to listen things but generally we listen to anything. Literally
Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
3) Next question Emoticon smile
Q. How do you feel playing live?
4) Good. It isnt easy right now as we are georaphically separated - also a reason why currently there hasnt been any new sound- but it would be gr8. A bit scary too Emoticon smile
Q. How do you describe The Amount of The Light We Give Off sounds?
5) We have been defined in many ways - we try to sound original and in doing so, carry a message in our music. Its not to us to describe the sound and I dont particularly like putting things into boxes
Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
6) Tiring Emoticon smile Rico makes most of the music although we work on it together too - we have a good understanding of what works for one another. We review the different stages and I get the lyrics out. I go into the woods at night and try to find them somewhere. There or bars or other places that will inspire me - or try to get a broken heart - always works great too. In the end we record
Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
7) Difficult one. I couldnt reccomend any at the moment. Im listening to very average stuff right now- like Death Cab for Cutie. If You want new, I suggest one justs goes and explores. They are there, the "new amazing bands"
Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
8) We are not really a cover band. But who knows, maybe we´ll get inspired sometime
Q: What´s the plans for future....
9) Live, grow, have fun, be free and make more music
Q: Any parting words?
10) Live, respect, engage, have fun and be free! TAOL!
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Vamos começar dessa vez diferente, sugiro a você, ir direto no bandcamp (link abaixo da entrevista) entre na página dos estadunidenses do Boxing Festish e vá direto para o ep China, feito isso, pule propositalmente a primeira música Ozymandias e vá direto para La Dolce, e aí começamos por aqui.
Um brisa suave, uma viagem sútil, aquele frescor do começo de uma boa trip vai te envolvendo, é isso, psicodelia moderna tem algumas facetas bem diferentes, ou podem ser sombrias e caóticas, ou viajantes e cíclicas ou simplesmente podem te fazer levitar sutilmente sem que o ácido seja tão forte assim, e é ai que entra o Boxing Festish.
Uma viagem bacana sem contra indicações, para agradar xiitas e todo mundo. Acima.
***** Interview with Boxing Fetish *****
Q. When did Boxing Fetish started, tell us about the history...
A. I (Nick Alexandroff) recorded our first song 'Living in Paintings' when I started college last fall. I made it on garageband, and the final product was good enough to make a new Facebook and Soundcloud page. I was playing in another band called Ota Benga' at this point. By november Ota Benga disbanded. I started recording our EP 'CHINA' in late november. By January, I formed the live band. For the past few months we've started playing our first shows, and released the EP 3 days ago.
Q: Who are your influences?
A. My influences are, Tame Impala, Diiv, Mac Demarco, Melody's Echo Chamber, Quilt, Pond, Walter Tv, Homeshake.
Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
A. 5. Innerspeaker
4. Dark Side of the moon
3. Salad Days
2. Magical Mystery Tour
1. Beggars Banquet
Q. How do you feel playing live?
A. I feel like I'm at work. I enjoy the stress, I feel like I'm in a trance, and I don't leave that trance until I walk off the stage. When me practice, I go crazy. As my music got more professionally sounding, and more enjoyable to hear, practicing and playing live became more of a spiritual experience.
Q. How do you describe Boxing Fetish sounds?
A. Boxing Fetish when It's recorded, is me on every instrument, so when I hear it, It sounds like me. I think boxing fetish sounds fuzzy, colorful, some times lo fi, sometimes poppy, sometimes psychedelic, sometimes really dreamy. Live it sounds tight, and a way more like a band, rather then a recording project.
Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
A. I usually have some idea of what I want to do prior to recording. I strum together a rough idea for a guitar riff, then i add drums. Then everything else. Vocals always go Last.
Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
A. Homeshake, Mile Me deaf, Ultimate Painting, Jerry Paper, Tonstartssbandht, Girl Band, Viet - Cong, Jimmy Whispers, Twin Peaks, Quilt.
Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
A. I would probably want to cover 'What is and What should never be' by Led Zeppelin.
Q: What´s the plans for future....
A. Spend the summer playing the biggest shows that we can put together, release a properly mixed and mastered six song EP. Hopefully organize a tour for the fall or winter. Then maybe by 2016 or 2017, play an international tour, hopefully with some festivals in there.
Q: Any parting words?
A. Thank you so much for the support and the listen. We will let you know if we ever come down to Sao Paulo Brazil.
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Usualmente as bandas orientais tem um forte apelo calcado no Loveless mas no caso dos chineses do The White Tulips a sombra do MBV é apenas uma das facetas e referências dos caras, aqui o barulho é alimentado pela barulheira do Dinosaur Jr. mesclado com o shoegazer.
O debute dos caras acabou de sair, Fondle foi lançado no início de maio e é daqueles discos pra colocar no volume máximo e sair pra rua, seja dando uma volta de skate, ou ouvindo em headphones altíssimos pra curtir a vida.
Grande estreia de uma belíssima nova banda, vida longa ao The White Tulips.
***** Interview with The White Tulips *****
Q. When did The White Tulips started, tell us about the history...
We all live in Amoy,a seaside city in the south of China.In the autumn of 2012,we met each other by a coincidence.The original members are guitarist Soda、bassist Qi and drummer Lynn.At first we intended to be a cover band covering Dinosaur Dr. but then we found we could collision out something different and create sounds in the “the white tulips” way.The drummer Lynn left Amoy and went back to Taiwan in the Jan of 2013,so that our drummer Milk joined us from 2013 until now.
Q: Who are your influences?
What influenced us most are some shoegaze bands in 90's America and Europe and some lofi bands in 90's America.
Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
The Sundays Reading--Writing and Arithmetic
Mazzy Star-- Among My Swan
Dinosaur Jr.-- Farm
Girls—Album
Honeydip—Portable Audio Science
Q. How do you feel playing live?
Soda:I hope we are a punk band while playing live
Qi:I feel nervous and the light on the stage was dazzling.And I also have a feeling that “What?The live time is over? It passed so quickly!”
Milk: Release all my energy.
Q:How do you describe The White Tulips sounds?
The sounds is our language to express our thoughts、mood、feelings and so on.It come from our hearts.
Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
We bought a recording machine and rent a practice room.And placed all the microphones ourselves.Fristlly we recorded the tracks of drums,then recorded guitar’s and bass’s . Also the mixing and master type done ourselves.So you can see that we do recording in a DIY way.It’s really hard but worthy.
Q. Which new bands do you recommended
“Broken Little Sister”,a band from Japan
Q: Which bands would you love to make a cover version of?
Of course Dinosaur Jr.
Q: What´s the plan for the future....
Write new songs and record them.Perform in different citys and maybe in other country.
Q: Any parting words?
Thank you for your invitation of the interview.We are pretty glad to share with you.Hope we can meet one day
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Set Your Lightning Fire Free acabou de ser lançado mês passado pelo duo Shana Falana, além dela, Shana Falana o outro lado do duo é composto por Michael Amari, e o resultado desta combinação explode em profusão de espiritualidade em formatos oras ruidosos já em outros intimistas e quase contemplativos, um álbum definitivamente complexo e possuído. Um exemplo perfeito dessa maravilha é Go, uma poderosa combinação de sensualidade vide os vocais de Shana quase que evocando o ouvinte a adentrar a fúria da canção tudo isso envolvente a um hipnótico wall of sound.
Daqueles discos que tornam-se obrigatórios desde os primeiros acordes.
Genial.
***** Interview with Shana Falana *****
Q. When did Shana Falana start, tell us about the history... Shana Falana started in San Francisco in 1995 out of a DIY scene/venue in the mission district, with the likes of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Miranda July, Kyp from TVOTR and many others... I was influenced by all the music around me and started making my own, thus leaving SF for NY in 2003 to pursue my own music career in the Brooklyn music scene.
Q: Who are your influences? I love Kim Gordon, PJ Harvey, Lisa Gerard (dead can dance), all the 4AD bands of the 90's, Hugo Largo, anything dissonant and/or drenched in reverbs, I love medieval music!
Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time… 1. PJ Harvey, To Bring You My Love 2. Mazzy Star, So Tonight That I Might See 3. Black Angels, Directions To See A Ghost 4. Julianna Barwick, The Magic Place 5. Sonic Youth, Day Dream Nation
Q. How do you feel playing live? Depends on if we have a soundcheck and how the sound guy mixes all our backing tracks! I also sometimes forget that our projections mesmerize the audience and so when we are live and I see them with blank faces it can throw me off... but these are small things over all, I love playing live!
Q. How do you describe Shana Falana sounds? Like being in a church, with sub-bass tones rummbling your guts, lyrically-chanty and hopefully a sense of spiritual atmosphere that lifts you up and heightens your senses!
Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs? We worked with Dan Goodwin of Isokon Studio's in Woodstock NY, he is super supportive and intuitive, it was the fastest and easiest time I've ever had in a studio, I usually have to argue a bit about the amount of reverb I want or how I want to record my looping chanty vocals. Dan just knew how to do everything, and we worked tracking for 7 days, I recorded the vocals in my bathroom and we were done after a few passes at mixing... He's my guy now, I loved this experience!
Q. Which new bands do you recommended Love this question, Breakfast in Fur, Battle Ave, Monogold, Quitzow, INNIS, Buffal Sex Change, (all NY bands) Chastity Belt (Seattle), Broncho (Oklahoma) too many to mention honestly...
Q: Which bands would you love to make a cover version of? I like covering Bauhaus, PJ Harvey, Ty Segall
Q: What´s the plan for the future.... Keep touring and recording, hopefully going back over to EU sometime next fall/winter!
Q: Any parting words? Thank you SO MUCH, I love your blog! I'm a fan :) * * * Thanks
E a América do Sul comparece novamente ao TBTCI depois de menos de 24 horas, ontem os chilenos do Trementina estamparam estas páginas e agora diretamente de Quito, Equador, mais uma pérola chamada Sexores e um deslumbrante debute lançado ano passado chamado Historias de Frio.
Passeando claramente pelo shoegazer original de bandas da Scene, notadamente Ride e Slowdive e aliando pinceladas de Cocteau Twins e pós punk e fazendo conexões com atualidades como Beach Fossils e outros representantes da facção mais sonhadora das canções perfeitas, os equatorianos, criaram em sua estreia um álbum hipnótico e repleto de atmosferas sonhadoras.
Para nenhum gazer botar defeito.
***** Interview with Sexores *****
Q. When did Sexores started, tell us about the history... 1. The band started in 2010 as a four people project. One year later, only two people stayed and the sound was changing totally, more focused on guitars than electronic instruments. In 2013, we moved to Barcelona because Ecuador kills bands. Ecuador is not a country for Shoegaze and Dream Pop. There is no a music industry. Between 2010 and 2015, we have released two studio albums, one maxi-single and three singles. Now, we are a two-headed band: Emilia Bahamonde and me (David Yépez), but we have an additional member for playing live.
Q: Who are your influences? 2. We have lots. Maybe the Wall of Sound is our main influence, but for our future releases, we are listening stuff of OMD, Tears for Fears, The Human League, The House of Love, The Soft Moon, The Radio Dept. Also, we love Glasvegas, Dirty Beaches, Beach House, Dum Dum Girls, The Raveonettes...
Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time… 3. Glasvegas - Glasvegas | The Cure - Disintegration | OMD - Architecture & Morality | Beach House - Bloom | The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Q. How do you feel playing live? 4. Playing live is a curious thing. It depends of the circumstances, I think. The public, the venue, the bands. We are shy people, very shoegazers. The public is important to have a great gig. We've had great gigs in Europe, specially, where the public has knowledge of music. We are looking forward to play in Peru, we have two gigs in Lima in july.
Q. How do you describe Sexores sounds? 5. Someday I read a review of our work that describes perfectly our sound: "Sexores is the relationship between light and dark, surrounded by touching resonances. Musically, it's a tender mixture of Shoegaze and Dream Pop, headed by wispy clouds of vocals in the middle of a wasteland".
Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs? 6. We are always looking for a characteristic sound. First, we create the songs or the lyrics, then, we rehearse until getting the perfect combination between guitars, vocals and programming. Only when this is done, we enter to the studio. It's a long process. There is always the part of Sexores seeking places to build natural atmospheres to record, this is another important step to us.
Q. Which new bands do you recommended 7. We love the music of Motorama, Ghost Transmission, Orquídea, Teenage Daydreams, Demure For Sure, Nite Fields, Sobrenadar, White Water... There is a blast of great bands in some specific places.
Q: Which bands would you love to make a cover version of? 8. We are trying to make a version of (I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena. It's a song of Sandra. Actually, we have a crush with the 80s music.
Q: What´s the plan for the future.... 9. We are working on new stuff. We hope to release a new album by the next year, maybe an EP by the end of 2015. Depends of our time. Also, we are looking for some gigs in Southamerica, we have a couple in Lima in july.
Q: Any parting words? 10. Thank you so much for the space on TBTCI, and thank you to all the people that is listening to our music in every single place of the planet. Love and respect to our listeners. Once again, thank you so much for the interview, Renato. * * * Thanks
Uma literal viagem introspectiva, vislumbrando imagens e paisagens distantes, algo como o caos transformando-se em calmaria, o refúgio, o colo para a proteção, sem haver necessidade de medos.
A música dos estadunidenses do Oceanside Static parece ser feita para quando é necessário buscar a saída para tranquilizar a alma. Evocando referências da rural psychedelic do Flying Saucer Attack, mas apenas na parte de ambientação e experimentação, deixando o caos a parte, ainda ecos de Windy & Carl, o Oceanside Static criou seu debute, Madrona, lançado ano passado e que aparentemente passou completamente despercebido.
Mas o TBTCI avisa, se você se encontrar em qualquer lugar com o Oceanside Static, adentre e sinta o poderio de hipnose da música dos caras, absolutamente ACIMA.
***** Interview with Oceanside Static *****
Q. When did Oceanside Static started, tell us about the history...
1. The group was somewhat of a transformation from an earlier project with the addition Kimball after he found a house near Portland with Brandon in 2013. We all had an appreciation for experimental music and it just seemed to work while recording The Madrona Demo And here we are.
Q: Who are your influences?
2. A tough one for everybody to identify. Everybody seems to like everything for one reason or another. Tea. Puppies. Going to the Park. Eating Thai food. Life is pretty inspiring as is.
Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
3. After hours of deliberation, we managed to settle on:
(in no particular order)
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
Bold as Love - Jim Hendrix
Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective
Dusk at Cubist Castle - The Olivia Tremor Control
Q. How do you feel playing live?
4. The energy while playing live is about as large or animated as we've tried to make it sound while recording. There's just a lot more noise, and we tend to not stop playing the whole time. Occasionally, there's howling involved. It's a great deal of fun.
Q. How do you describe Oceanside Static sounds? 5.
Our sound is ever changing, so it is hard to pinpoint what our current 'sound' would be.
Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
6. We record our own stuff and it has been working out really well. Working on your own recordings give you a lot more freedom with your sounds and makes the process way less stressful.
Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
7. Some bands we know which maybe (fairly) new: Bangbakc Entendre Entendre Jack the Spitter Mãscaras It's hard to name a lot of 'new' bands, but there is a lot of good albums that came out this year. Some of our favorites include: To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar Jenny Death - Death Grips Powder - Bones PBVSGR - Panda Bear Godspeed you! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress.
Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
8. The Twin Peeks theme back to back to the X-Files theme, then we end it with the Seinfeld theme. Gotta have dat sexy slap bass.
Q: What´s the plans for future....
9. We just hope our future remains productive and we continue to maintain a creative mindset play shows. We're actually recording an EP currently and it has been our main focus.
Q: Any parting words?
10. Thanks so much for talking to us. Stay based.
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Os shoegazers chilenos do Trementina estão fazendo um belo barulho da América do Sul até o Japão.
Seguindo os passos não somente musicais, vide as influências claras, de MBV e J&MC, mas também em termos de shows, como disse da América do Sul ao Japão, o shoegazer grudento do Trementina vem conquistando fãs e mais fãs.
Vocalização menina (o) com riffs e ruídos grudentos é impossível não sair pulando ao ouvir o Trementina.
Simplesmente delicioso.
***** Interview with Trementina *****
Q. When did Trementina started, tell us about the history...
Our band started as a game between a couple of friends bored because of the rain and cold of their small town. We uploaded a song on soundcloud, just looking for sharing what we wanted to hear. By the time we started the band, there wasn't any shoegaze, noise or noise pop band in our country, so we've tried to create what we always saw and wanted to be part of but it was too far away from us.
Our music had better reception than we could imagine. We were contact by different labels, radio stations and magazines. And everything came from nothing, our couple of songs just spread and suddenly we are living in the capital of our country just living for this, our music.
Q: Who are your influences?
the jesus and mary chain, my bloody valentine, dinosaur jr, yo la tengo, yuck and ringo deathstarr, between others.
Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
Yuck-Yuck
Astrobrite- pinkshinyultrablast
The jesus and mary chain - Psycho candy
Ariel pink - pom pom
The stooges- The stooges
Q. How do you feel playing live?
That's why we live for.
Q. How do you describe Trementina sounds?
Groggy noisy and shiny.
Q. Which new bands do you recommended
La ola que queria ser chau from argentina, eva&jhon from peru and my light shines for you from our country, chile.
Q: Which bands would you love to make a cover version of?
Actually, I'd love to version any song of belle sebastian and yo la tengo, i'm personally obsessed with them. I'm vanessa by the way :)
Q: What´s the plan for the future....
Finish what we have to do in our country, and move to the USA this next year, with a new album, ready to tour.
Q: Any parting words?
Just do what you fancy.
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Elegância, sofisticação, são alguns dos adjetivos que podem ser aplicados a música do Silent Pictures, um grande aglomerado de influências e referências que são captadas em seus álbuns e eps.
Passeando entre shoegazer, dreampop, pós punk, bebendo em fontes clássicas como Roxy e Bowie, o Silent Pictures é exuberante em todas as possibilidades sonoras das quais penetra.
Under Exposed uma compilação de singles, eps é uma ótima introdução a música do Silent Pictures.
Apaixone-se.
***** Interview with Silent Pictures *****
Q. When did Silent Pictures start, tell us about the history...
A. After performing since the early 1990's in the San Francisco Bay Area I really started to wonder if was all worth it. By 1995 I had recorded on two lost Shoegaze LPs with Valeria and Your Precious You and watched Britpop kill bands like RIDE and elevate the likes of Oasis and Pearl Jam. Friends like BJM and Dandys were starting to gain exposure but still I felt it an excellent time to check out. After some years living in Santa Cruz and later Beijing China, I started experimenting more and more in electronic music, it was a blissful time. I started listening to everything, discounted and pirated... Whatever I could find in a bin. By the Early 2000's I moved back to San Francisco and started to promote music I'd been writing overseas. I ran into Rick Maymi from imajinary friends and BJM and he told me about a band he was going to join called Mellow Drunk and met Leigh Gregory and I joined on bass. I highly recommend any of those three albums. They are great work. During that time my roommate started an all girl band of SF post punk lesbians called Boyskout. She cleverly coaxed me into joining and we released three albums and had some worldwide success. By 2008 those projects ran their course and I started really getting into recording and writing for Silent Pictures. Sometimes I'd bring in a session friend or two to flesh out the tracks. That's where a lot of the first three EPs, Silent Pictures, Loretta and Cosmic Slumber Party came from. By 2010 I started releasing them on Green Fuse Records. I remember our first show was opening for Gene Loves Jezebel, The Blank Tapes and Sky Parade at the Knockout in the mission, it was me with sequencers and a 12 string guitar. There's a great video of our cover of Bob Dylan's Baby Blue that was filmed live that night. All the early work had a hand made film which I created. Some are really quite beautiful like Ricochet. That's what got friend Rene Love from Valeria who was living in NYC in touch with me. We started working together and recorded some of the first LPs tracks like Postcards and History of Rome. He started to record more and more with me which is why in the credits he is the only band member on Under Exposed released in 2013 with John Fryer of 4AD and mute records as producer.
Then Rene moved to Italy for awhile and I found a permanent band with David Conrad on Drums, Jafar Green on Bass and Christina Stanley on Keys. We've performed some festivals and noteworthy shows and started focusing on recording our 2nd LP at the end of 2014. We are nearing the end of that journey and will have new music released in 2015.
Q: Who are your influences?
Bowie, Eno, Bryan Ferry, Tom Petty, Love & Rockets, The Church, Chameleons, JAMC, Creation Records, 4AD
Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
This is tough as my mood changes but at the moment:
Barbed Wire Kisses - JAMC
Electric Warrior or The Slider - T-Rex
Any Roxy Music Album
Any David Bowie Album
Edith Piaf or Spacemen3
Q. How do you feel playing live?
A: I enjoying playing live and we are all very comfortable. If less than 100 show up or thousands of people, It doesn't really matter to us. We've all had plenty of time playing lots of gigs over the years. Silent Pictures is a far more polished band than earlier bands I've been involved in.
Q. How do you describe Silent Pictures sounds?
A: I would say our first LP sounds a bit like a lost 4AD record. I have always been interested in lush reverbs and delays but also memorable riffs and changes. More about the song than being psychedelic or hazy for the sake of it. Always really loved hooky Eno like keyboard sounds and classic arrangements. Our new record expands a range of sounds from the late 70's, 80's through the early 90's in terms of production quality and choices in gear, instruments and recording techniques. The song writing is much more expansive. From classic late 50's Rock, 60's Psych, 70's Glam and Post Punk, 80's Alternative and Ethereal through to today's sounds...
Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
A: Working with John definitely influenced some of the sounds of the first record. After all he helped shape the sounds of the Cocteau Twins, Lush, Chapterhouse, Bauhaus, much of the original alternative and psych music from the 80's and 90's. I would send him stems to his studio in Norway and in the morning I would hear a mix. Then I'd tweak with it and transfer it back.
For our second LP it's been different. We have a real band. The performances are live played and not overly technical, not full of fancy edits and loops. We designed it to sound exactly as we performed it live at Skylab Studios. We are using entirely mic'd analog signals and then later mixed it through Dave Grohl's Sound City Neve 8028 Board. It was quite daunting working there while realizing the significance... So many classic albums: Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Nirvana, Weezer... So many major release albums pass through that desk. Like being part of history.
Q: Which new bands do you recommend?
New Pants (from China) The Horrors The Soft Moon The Black Angels Fever The Ghost
Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
A: Well we've recorded or performed a few. From OMD, Wire, Pale Saints to The Field Mice. The next one I'd like to record is..?
Q: What´s the plans for future....
A: Our future plans include releasing our 2nd LP and additionally our first LP on vinyl. We will continue performances through tours and festivals
Q: Any parting words?
A: Silent Pictures would like to thank all of people around the world that continue to be interested in our work, promote and enjoy our music.
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Com Lou Reed e Velvet Underground como ídolos acima de tudo e todos o quarteto californiano Wild Wild Wets pega o lado negro do Vu e condensa com a psicodelia moderna, gerando trips mais coloridas do que negras, algo como Coney Island baby recheada de alucinógenos.
14th Floor o debute do Wild Wild Wets é pra ouvir alto, em todos os sentidos e preferencialmente curtindo a noite.
Acima.
***** Interview with Wild Wild Wets *****
Q. When did Wild Wild Wets started, tell us about the history...
We started conceiving the project in 2011 & played our 1st gig w/ Night Beats & Cosmonauts in May 2012. We've undergone a few lineup changes since then, but the evolution has been strengthening. We've kept our operation pretty DIY up until now, but have been getting help from some very rad people. We just released our 1st LP, "14th Floor" through a French label, Big Tomato Records & are finishing up our next record as we speak, but not sure how or who will be putting it out yet.
Q: Who are your influences?
I grew up in NJ & always idolized The Velvet Underground / Lou Reed. Then from there its just the lineage of bands who were also inspired by them. The list is just too long
Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
In no particular order
• VU
• S/T
• Loaded
• White Light White Heat
• Coney Island Baby
Q. How do you feel playing live?
We feel quite at home on stage. We have honed in our party-psych vibes the last few years to create an energetic audio/visual experience. Live music has always been my first goal in most bands I've been in over recording/releasing/shopping to labels/etc, with WWWets we get to explore the benefits of doing both well. We've been putting on San Diego Freak Out events to showcase other live acts we love from all over. They've been pretty successful nights that will hopefully lead to a bigger festival in the future.
Q. How do you describe Wild Wild Wets sounds?
We call it Party-Psych, but really we dabble in a few different pools. Some songs can be surfy, post-punk, kraut, drone, R&B inspired. Dark & Dancey is always what I seek in our music writing. We've been playing with Jason Crane(Rocket FromThe Crypt) on congas recently & that has brought in all sorts of new rhythms on our music, old & new. It's been quite fun, we are stoked to have him play Desert Daze with us this year.
Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
Basically, the band as a whole writes & records the songs together & then Taejon & myself do all of the overdubs & necessary weirdness with our great friend, Chris Kasych up at Seahorse Sounds in Los Angeles. His space & methods have really helped shape the exploration on these recordings.
Q. Which new bands do you recommended
Emerald Rats, Tropical Popsicle, Other Bodies
Q: Which bands would you love to make a cover version of?
I'm trying to get Taejon into covering "Do It Again" by The Beach Boys. We shall see. Always wanted to cover "You Showed Me" by The Turtles, too.
Q: What´s the plan for the future....
Get someone jived up on our next record so we can release that one soon too! Get back in the studio to record the 3rd record we've been writing.... then Euro tour? Full US tour? South America???? Looking forward to all of it.
Q: Any parting words?
Can we stay at your place whenever we are in Sao Paulo? =P
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Chega a ser espetacular dar de cara com uma banda como o Stalls nos dias de hoje, uma sonoridade extremamente singular, remetendo diretamente a ícones como Richard Hell e o Voidods, Magazine, Wire, Bowie era Berlin, e soando completamente atual.
Dúvida? Peque o cassete homônimo dos caras lançado agora em janeiro pela espertíssimaVacant Stare Records e confira você mesmo.
Um discaço para ouvir bem alto e chutando tudo que estiver pela frente.
Estreia espetacular do Stalls.
***** Interview with Stalls *****
Q. When did Stalls started, tell us about the history...
I started Stalls when I found myself without a band. I had been playing drums and guitar in Bay Area bands for a handful of years, but had never fronted a project. So when a bunch of projects came to an end at the beginning of 2014, I started staying home a lot and demoing songs. A couple months later our drummer Nick Clark and I recorded the EP with an old bandmate of mine (Geoff Saba) at his home studio (Itinerant Home Recordings) in East Oakland. Now we're a full band with Ray Seraphin on bass and Joel Cusumano on synth.
Q: Who are your influences?
My friend Jasper made me a mix of a bunch of recordings that Robert Quine played guitar on before he died. There are a bunch of Richard Hell and the Voidoids songs, some later Lou Reed recordings-- it's a great mix. Quine's guitar style is pretty bizarre, always somewhat out of key. It made a big impression on me.
Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
I don't listen to music that often. I don't have a record player or even a computer right now. But here are five albums I've listened to and liked:
"Pop Crimes" - Rowland S. Howard
"Freaks" - Pulp
"Songs From a Room" - Leonard Cohen
"Scott 3" - Scott Walker
"Lodger" - David Bowie
Q. How do you feel playing live?
It depends. Sometimes I'm happy, sometimes angry. Performing is a nice opportunity to not think about feelings, which I probably spend too much time doing.
Q. How do you describe Stalls sounds?
Nervous.
Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
I recorded the bass and drums live with Nick (Clark), and then I overdubbed the rest of the EP. We didn't do anything too crazy, though we did record in a warehouse with an incredibly high ceiling. The people who live there have ceremonies where they burn incense and suspend themselves by putting hooks through their skin.
Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Oakland bands only: Baus, Talkies, Mall Walk, Mansion, Uffizi, Forest Floor, Brasil (the band, not, uh, your country).
Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
I'd like to do a cover of Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes" but Taylor Swift already beat me to it. It seems kind of gauche to do a version after she already did one.
Q: What´s the plans for future....
I'm gonna clean my room.
Pós punk, art noise, punk, ou tudo isso junto e mais um bocado de caos é o que se ouve em Krew, dos poloneses do Schröttersburg.
Um disco perfeitamente caótico e repleto de ecos de tudo que citei acima mais um monte de referências a tudo que foi criado de mais dissonante e caótico na música.
Os caras não permitem um segundo sequer para respirar, pra se ouvir alto e bem alto.
***** Interview with Schröttersburg *****
Q. When did Schröttersburg start, tell us about the history...
Schröttersburg was created in 2008, but in actual line up we have been playing since 2011. In 2013 we made a demo named „Demencje“. At the beginning of this year Polish independent label Extinction Records released our first album „Krew“.
Q: Who are your influences? Tell about your inspirations
We are listening to a lot of kinds of music like: new wave, noise rock, kraut rock, industrial, dub from 70s, punk, free jazz and free impro etc. Most of our songs were born from improvisations. We often play and choose the best parts from the material.
Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time;
It’s so difficult but I will try:
Throbbing Gristle – D.O.A. -
X-Mal Deutschland – Fetisch -
The Cure – Faith –
Loop – A Gilded Eternity -
Swans – Cop –
Five albums are not enough for me. I should also add some records of Psychic Tv, Can, Coil, Nurse With Wound, Crass, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Boredoms, Column One, Napalm Death, Ewa Braun, early Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Godflesh, Bauhaus, Rudimentary Peni, Novy Svet, Big Black, Einsturzende Neubauten, Kraftwerk….
Q. How do you feel playing live?
We really like playing live and try to make every concert different from another. We use visual art to intense our sound. Sometimes we also use some nontypical „instruments“ like chains, grinders or metal junks. During our concerts we try to be inside our music. To be a sound. It’s great when the audience also takes part in the performance. Feel our sounds.
Q. How do you describe Schröttersburg sounds?
This is a question to you. We are only making this music. For us, it’s a mixture of new wave sounds with some noise influences. Everything depends on moods or situations. As I said before we are opened for various sounds.
Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
We recorded our demo „Demencje“ playing together, after that we added vocals. The debut album „Krew“ was made in a different way. We recorded every instrument separately. I think the first way is better because we are a live band and the sound is more aggressive and raw. It‘s more like music from our concerts.
Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
There are a lot of amazing bands around the world. Maybe I will recommend few good Polish ones like: Ukryte Zalety Sysytemu, Boanerges, Wszaniec, [peru], Wieże Fabryk, Kandahar, Rigor Mortiss, Maszyny i Motyle, ANSA and many , many more.
Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of ?
We have talked about that in a band. There are many good, old bands we would like to cover. Maybe something from underground, Polish punk ? Time will tell.
Q: What are the plans for the future....
Play gigs, create music and have fun with that. We have made new songs for another album. Now we are practising and hope to record the ones at the end of this year.
Q: Any parting words
Thank you for interest. Support underground and D.I.Y. scene!
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Kiedy założyliście Schrottersburg, opowiedz o historii zespołu… Schröttersburg został założony w 2008 roku, jednak w obecnym składzie gramy od 2011. Dwa lata temu wydaliśmy własnym sumptem demo „Demencje”. Na początku tego roku Extinction Records z Gdańska wypuściła nasz debiutancki album „Krew”.
Czy możesz opowiedzieć o waszych inspiracjach ? Słuchamy dużo, bardzo różnej muzyki: nowej fali, kraut rocka, industrialu, noise rocka, starego dubu z lat siedemdziesiątych, punka, free jazzu czy muzyki improwizowanej i tak dalej. Większość naszych utworów powstaje z improwizacji. Gramy, próbujemy i wybieramy najlepsze jej części.
Przedstaw swoją listę pięciu płyt wszechczasów: To będzie bardzo trudne, ale spróbuję: Throbbing Gristle – D.O.A. - X-Mal Deutschland – Fetisch - The Cure – Faith – Loop – A Gilded Eternity - Swans – Cop –
Pięć albumów to jednak zbyt mało dla mnie. Pewnie dodałbym płyty Psychic Tv, Can, Coil, Nurse With Wound, Crass, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Boredoms, Column One, Napalm Death, Ewy Braun, Pink Floyd z Sydem Barrettem, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Godflesh, Bauhaus, Rudimentary Peni, Novy Svet, Big Black, Einsturzende Neubauten, Kraftwerk….
Co czujesz grają na żywo ? Bardzo lubimy koncerty i próbujemy, żeby każdy z nich był inny. Czasami używamy wizualizacji by wzmocnić nasz przekaz. Oprócz tego wykorzystujemy różnego typu przedmioty „wydające dźwięki” – łańcuchy, blachy, szlifierki. Podczas naszych koncertów próbujemy być „wewnątrz” naszej muzyki. Być dźwiękiem. Cieszymy się gdy publiczność próbuje być też częścią naszych wystąpień.
Jakbyś określił dźwięki Schröttersburg ? To właściwie pytanie do ciebie. Dla nas jest to jakby połączenie nowo-falowych dźwięków z dużym wpływem noise rocka. Wszystko zależy od nastroju i sytuacji, kiedy gramy. Tak jak wcześniej napisałem jesteśmy otwarci na różne dźwięki.
Opowiedz o procesie nagrywania utworów Nasze demo „Demencje” nagrywaliśmy „na setkę”. Natomiast debiut „Krew” stworzyliśmy w inny sposób. Nagrywając każdy instrument oddzielnie. Myślę jednak, że pierwszy sposób jest lepszy ponieważ jesteśmy zespołem koncertowym. Wtedy dźwięki są bardziej surowe, agresywniejsze. Podobne do tych na gigach.
Jakie zespoły byś polecił ? Jest masa wspaniałych zespołów na całym świecie. Może polecę kilka, bardzo dobrych, polskich zespołów: Ukryte Zalety Sysytemu, Boanerges, Wszaniec, [peru], Wieże Fabryk, Kandahar, Rigor Mortiss, Maszyny i Motyle, ANSA i wiele, wiele innych.
Przeróbkę jakiego zespołu chcielibyście zrobić? Rozmawialiśmy kilka razy o tym w zespole. Jest dużo fajnych kapel, których utwory chcielibyśmy zagrać. Może coś z dorobku polskich, podziemnych, punkowych grup ? Czas pokaże.
Jakie są wasze plany na przyszłość ? Koncertować, tworzyć i mieć dużo przyjemności z tego. Jakiś czas temu zrobiliśmy materiał na nowy album. Teraz ogrywamy go na próbach. Mam nadzieje, że uda nam się go nagrać jeszcze w tym roku.
Słowo na koniec Bardzo ci dziękujemy za zainteresowanie. Wspierajcie underground oraz scene D.I.Y. ! Pozdrawiamy!!!
Os holandeses do Mountain State vem chamando a atenção dos iniciados no submundo dos bons sons, pela sua doce talentosa sensibilidade para criar pérolas ensolaradas de perfect pop.
Dreampop, indie clássico, e muito romantismo fazem parte de Kairos o segundo ep lançado agora em feveiro.
Uma banda para se apaixonar, certamente.
***** Interview with Mountain States *****
Q. When did Mountain States start, tell us about the history...
Back in 2012 Mountain States consisted out of three members, Bart Vogelaar (drums), Dennis Wintjes (guitar and vocals) and Niek Leermakers (bass guitar and backing vocals). Early 2013, the three of us recorded 'El Sombrero', our first single. Shortly thereafter Niek moved to Barcelona. Over time Mountain States reinvented itself by recruiting Alex Popelier (guitar) and Jeroen Popelier (bass guitar). We basically rehearsed all summer the year after and near the end we released our first E.P., which sports the songs SKY, Home, El Sombrero and Jura. In 2014 we started playing live. Next to that we continued writing songs for a follow up to our self-titled E.P., which resulted in the release of Kairos early 2015. As of now we’re kinda in the middle of doing shows to promote our music and writing new material for a much desired mini-album. Overall we’re still figuring out a lot of novelties as we go along. We’re definitely stoked by all the opportunities we are given at this point.
Q: Who are your influences?
There is a great deal of bands that inspire us, both bands that have already retired as well as bands that have originated in the recent past. So here it goes: The Smiths, Nirvana, The Cure, Joy Division, Blink 182, Death Cab for Cutie, DIIV, Beach Fossils, Real Estate, Ducktails, Kurt Vile and the Violators, The War on Drugs, Blood Orange, and so on and so on… Next to the music that inspires us, we are at times also inspired by literature, film and architecture, and life in general, too.
Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
Alex; Blink 182 – Enema of the State. Each and every song on this album is so fucking catchy! These songs have been with me from my years as a teenager up until now and have never failed to move me. I definitely like the themes that deal with being young and how to cope with that and moreover I am also very fond on the sense of “good times” that this album so strikingly puts to the front.
Bart; Beach Fossils - What a Pleasure. At the moment the music and the sound of this band, as well as the how the band carries itself have an increasingly intriguing effect on me. This album, which actually is an E.P., really inspires me to shape the ways in which Mountain States makes music and deals with everything entailed by it. From the lyrics to the sound of the guitars or the drums on this record, it all makes me super exited to get up and make music myself too.
Dennis; Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism. For me lyrics are always at the starting point of writing music. Personally I feel that the lyrics on this album really showcase one of the best examples of faultlessly describing moments and feelings, which I admire a lot. The accompanying music perfectly provides for that cinematic sphere, which makes the album my all-time favorite.
Jeroen; The Band – Music from Big Pink. I enjoy music a lot when I’m in my safety zone. But I fully understand the music I love most when I’m outside of that zone. That is, when I’m really depressed or super hyped about life. One of the albums that really gets to me is Music from Big Pink by The Band. Every time something profound passes by, I’ll be singing along to one of the great songs on this album. I think that therefore it rightfully deserves to be my all-time favorite.
Q. How do you feel playing live?
We love playing live! It’s great to be able to present out music to an audience and we’re really grateful for it. We have done a great deal of different shows since we started playing live in 2014. We’ve seen a variety of venues and have stood for small groups of people as well as had a taste of how it is to play for larger crowds. We like dealing with all these types of new experiences. And we like to discover new places and meet new people. At this point we appreciate both playing at festivals during the summers and playing in the smallest of basements, we want to take it all in right now.
Q. How do you describe Mountain States’ sounds?
Dutch music platform Subbacultcha quite strikingly dubbed us “guitar pop-janglers”. We’re kind of fond of that label I guess. Anything circling around the labels dream pop or shoegaze could also correctly define the music that we make. However, we always try to surpass the limits that these labels propose. Everything we feel comfortable with could potentially be incorporated into the sound of Mountain States. Defining that sound is basically what encompasses the musical inquiry that the four of us are engaged in.
Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
Normally we lay the track down by recording drums, bass guitar and both guitar parts. If the take is good enough, we start to record other layers of music, such as another guitar part or the usage of some effects. Lastly, we add the vocals and try to figure out if we are satisfied or not. Off course we’ll also make sure the recordings are mixed and mastered. However, we do not want to overdo any of the recordings. We prefer to keep a sense of us playing the songs together in the final versions of the songs.
Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Some more new than others, but these is a list of bands we’re really into right now: Beach Fossils, Mac Demarco, Wavves, FIDLAR, Ariel Pink, Twerps, Kevin Morby, The Babies, French Films, Craft Spells, Veronica Falls, Wavves, and the list goes on…
Q: Which band would you love to make a cover version of?
Alex; Phil Collins.
Bart; The Smiths.
Dennis; Ducktails.
Jeroen; The Cure.
Q: What´s the plan for the future?
Besides playing a lot of shows, we also got other plans for upcoming year. Right now we're working on a video clip for the track 'Hologram' of Kairos. We hope to finish it before the summer. Next to that we are working on new songs, too. We try to challenge ourselves and come up with new sounds. In 2016 we're going to record our first album, which probably will contain somewhere between eight to ten new songs. Above all we will continue to enjoy playing in a band together!
Q: Any parting words?
First of all, thank you so much for the interview. Hope you have a nice and sunny day all the way over in Brazil. Next to that, enjoy our music and hopefully share it with the rest of the world!
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