SIlver Rocket with Creepoid - An Interview

Simplesmente uma daquelas bandas que tem tudo pra arrebentar tudo mas que por enquanto permanece restrita a iniciados, estou falando do Creepoid da Philadelphia, que em 2011 jogou no mundo Horse Heaven, um petardo altamente viciante.

Nuances de Sonic Youth e um apelo pop considerável os caras caminham por shoegazing, noise, alt rock e com propriedade já estão ensaiando vôos mais altos, vão fazer parte do SXSW e estão preparando o que será talvez o debut de "verdade" que virá ao mundo dia 04/03 próximo, ou seja, nada mais perfeito do que o TBTCI antecipar a esbórnia toda aqui nestas páginas, srs, Creepoid na área.

***** Interview with Creepoid *****

Q. When did Creepoid start, tell us about the history...
December of 2009, Sean came over to Pat and I's house and got snowed in. He was stuck there for a couple of days so out of cabin fever, the boys went into the basement and started jamming on some songs Sean had in the back of his mind. It started sounding awesome down there, so they laid down the tracks to tape, and asked me to try some back up vocals. We decided to ask our friend Pete Joe to see what he could come up with on second guitar , and it all just sort of fell into place after that.

Q: Who are your influences?
We all have different influences but I'd say major themes are : The Silver Jews, Beck, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Unwound.... other 90s bands that feed our nostalgia

Q. Made a list of 5 albums of all time…
Geez, I don't know about of ALL TIME, but these albums have stood the test of time for me

Sonic Youth - Day Dream Nation
The Shipping News - Save Everything
MBV - Loveless
Joy Division - Unknown PleasuresThe Jam - All Mod Cons

Q. How do you feel playing live?
I can say personally that I feel incredible playing live. It's the most fun part of being in a band - because you're able to share this thing you've made in an immediate way. We've played some great shows with some amazing bands, but the best shows are always the ones where the crowd is right there with us - in our face, pushing, shoving and being a part of the experience.

Q. How do you describe Creepoid sounds?
Dark, Unsatisfied, Aching, Howls

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
We generally always have a few things that are somewhat unresolved that we figure out in the process of recording. Perhaps we work best under pressure. "Horse Heaven" was recorded with the awesome Kyle "Slick" Johnson at Fancy Time Studio in 2010, and we returned to do drums and vocals with him for the "CREEPOID" S/T. We're now moving into doing our own engineering, and building our own studio. Our newest releases coming out later in the year will all be self engineered.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Hookworms, Fletcher Johnson, Hunters,The Diamond Center,

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
We talk about doing covers a lot, but we almost never do. One time we covered "Fume" by Beck and that kind of ruled.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
We're going to tour as much as possible this year - dates in SXSW, Pouzza Fest in Montreal are some of the highlights.  There are also some more surprises coming up soon, notably a one sided 12" to be released on Record Store Day!

Q: Any parting words?
Be kind.
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http://creepoid.bandcamp.com/album/horse-heaven
https://www.facebook.com/creepoid

Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere with The Frowning Clouds - An Interview

E a Austrália esta se tornando uma meca de psych, garagem e psicodelia, e acrescente aí toques poderosos de Mod também, assim é o The Frowning Clouds.

Psicodelia inglesa e mod este é o caminho que o Frowning Clouds percorre em suas albuns, transpirando Kinks, Monks, Who, Small Faces pra tudo que é lado, obviamente com a cara dos nossos tempos, mas se o menos desatento ouvir Whereabout o último dos caras pode certamente dizer que os caras são dos 60´s tamanha a ambientacão melódica.

Whereabout é grudento como toda boa psicodelia britânica da época áurea o era, e isso aqui neste contexto é especial delicioso, pegue-se ouvindo Propellers e sinta na pele.

O The Frowning Clouds vai certamente fazer seu dia muito mais feliz, acredite....

***** Interview with The Frowning Clouds *****

Q. When did The Frowning Clouds starts, tell us about the history...
A: We started about 5-6 years ago. Just Nick and I (Zak) doing acoustic versions of Velvet Underground songs etc. Its was really really bad. I went to school with Daff who wanted to join and knew a guy Ben who played drums. Just been jamming ever since.

Q: Who are your influences?
A: A lot of things. Musically speaking I guess all the old 60s pop/psych/garage, 70s british glam, new wave etc. Heaps of things outside of music can have an influence too, movies, books.. Just people who have done great things.

Q. Made a list of 5 albuns of all time…
A. This list is always changing, here's five that I like... T

he Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy
The Move - The Move
Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow
The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society

Q. How do you fell playing alive?
A. Yeah it's what being a band is all about. It's fun and I like playing the songs a little different every time.

Q. How do you describe The Frowning Clouds sounds?
A. 3 guitars, bass, drums, sometimes keyboard and reverb and fuzz and wah wah.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
A. It's different every time. The album we just recorded (not released yet) was done at our home with a friend who came and recorded us on his computer. It was quick, cheap, easy and stress free. The Album will be out sometime this year

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
A. Any of our friends bands. There's lots of good music around at the moment.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
A. We havn't done any covers in a long time and I don't really like doing them.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
A. Make more songs.

Q: Any parting words?
A."be your self, no one else, burn the flag"
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http://saturnorecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-frowning-clouds-whereabouts
https://www.facebook.com/thefrowningclouds

In Out Of Grace with The Rifle Movement - An Interview

Diretamente do México, ou poderia ser Seatle, o lance é que o The Rifle Movement, tem um pé, ou melhor tem a banda inteira na sonoridade da Sub Pop, quando a Sub Pop era a Sub Pop de verdade, guitarreira nervosa, sabbath pra tudo que é lado, toques de Touch and Go e Blast First, esse é o ep de estréia Carbonera Ojo Caliente, lógico que não esperem a podreira de outrora, mas o Rifle Movement cumpre otimamente o recado, principalmente na poderosa Disierto, música de gente grande.

***** Interview with The Rifle Movement *****

Q. When did Rifle Movement starts, tell us about the history...
It started on February 2013, Pepe (Bass) and i (Mauricio – Guitar/Vocals) we’re playing just for fun.. but in that time he was playing drums, then i meet Zavala (Drums) at school. Because Zavala played drums only, Pepe started playing Bass.. and we started playing for fun.. party and stuff.. i guess.

Q: Who are your influences?
Em.. i think The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Neil Young, Dead Meadow, etc..

Q. Made a list of 5 albums of all time…
Well, it’s kind of hard.. but i think this are our favorites, not in order..
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home (Mauricio)
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper (Zavala)
The Velvet Underground – White Light / White Heat (Mauricio)
Ten – Pearl Jam (Pepe)
Cream – Wheels of Fire (All of us)

Q. How do you fell playing alive?
Well, it’s like pizza, the best thing.

Q. How do you describe Rifle Movement sounds?
People feeling like it’s Saturday everyday.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
Well, go to the studio, buy some beer and pizza and just record drums then bass then guitar then vocals.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Parquet Courts.. The Underground Youth.. also in our city, Leon Mexico, is starting a pretty good scene.. like Hexagrams, Ladymen, 33 (good metal) etc..

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
The Velvet Underground – Sister Ray

Q: What´s the plans for future....
Playing, non stop.

Q: Any parting words?
Keep on rocking in the Free world.
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https://riflemovement.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TheRifleMovement?fref=ts

And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out with No Wave Cinema - An Interview

2014 já deu provas de que sera um belíssimo ano musical, alguns belos albuns já saíram e estamos ainda no início do ano, o que me deixa extremamente entusiasmado.

Um desses belos albuns é Sunsets by Midnight, do No Wave Cinema, na verdade mais uma banda de um homem só, no caso Jonathan Carom, o cara criou um shoegazer dreampop lo-fi daqueles de fazer abrir sorrisos de ponta a ponta, uma doce candura perpetua todo o trabalho do No Wave Cinema, Sunsets by Midnight que saiu na semana passada é sedutor do inicio ao fim.

Mas daí, Mr Carom não contente, já soltou outro album a ser lancado em abril e que já esta livre e disponível pra download no bandcamp do No Wave Cinema que atende pelo título de Shu Qi, mas dream pop ainda que o anterior, Shu Qi é um mix de Ultra Vivid Scene e Pale Saints pra fica na melhor definicão, uma delicia isso sim.

***** Interview with No Wave Cinema *****

Q. When did No Wave Cinema starts, tell us about the history...
No Wave Cinema started in October of 2013 which was towards the fall of last year in my cozy bedroom. The name No Wave Cinema comes from an underground New York City film movement from 1976-1985 which was established in the lower east side. One can argue that this film movement is similar to French New Wave in the likes of Godard and Tuffaut during the 50's and 60's. A ground breaking movement for American Independent Cinema at that time.

Q: Who are your influences?
The Durutti Column, Yo La Tengo, My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Slowdive, Spacemen 3, Galaxie 500, Shocking Pinks, The Radio Dept.

Q. Made a list of 5 albums of all time…
Not in any particular order.

1. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
2. Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
3. Galaxie 500 - Peel Sessions
4. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
5. My Favorite - The Happiest Days of Our Lives

Q. How do you fell playing alive?
At this time I haven't had the opportunity to play live as No Wave Cinema is a personal solo project of mine. I love making records late at night in the comfort of my own bedroom. I would compare my songs as self portraits that you would find in a art gallery.

Q. How do you describe No Wave Cinema sounds?
My sound started as ambient shoegaze and now it has progressed into dream pop gems drenched in reverb.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
I record on an 8 track Roland which has its limitations. I do not dub or cut my tracks. I play each track in full and masters them in the end. As for the song process, I like to start with some rarity chords on my jazzmaster and then adding the bass, keys, drums and finally my vocals, Which I like to bury just to make the songs a little more interesting on a second listen.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Shocking Pinks, The Raveonettes, Craft Spells, Au Revoir Simone, The Beets, Best Coast, Carsick Cars, Human Television, M83, The Radio Dept, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, and Travelling Wave.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
I cover a mean version of "Just Like Honey" from The Jesus And Mary Chain. I haven't officially recorded yet but I have this one down to the ground.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
I just received word from an independent label named Peer Group Records from Colorado. I'm working with them on releasing my catalog in a limited cassette tape on a 60mins run. I'm extremely excited for my future.

Q: Any parting words?
I have yet to be abandoned in a stream of no consciousness.
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http://nowavecinema.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/NoWaveCinema

Black Mettalic with Floorian - An Interivew

Desde 2004 o Floorian vem despejando doses extremas de psicodelia stoner, psicodelia shoegazer ou chame como quiser, o debut What The Buzzing de 2004 é ótimo exemplo pra que você iniciante, adentre a este mundo soturno, perigoso e psicodélico do Floorian.

What the Buzzing é dissonante, estridente e viajante, como toda grande obra de psicodelia deve ser, outros ótimos exemplares são More Friend e Cosmosaic, respectivamente de 2009 e 2012, discos raros de serem encontrados por ai, mas que repletem exatamente o poderio do Floorian, andamentos hipnóticos, decifram o lado mágico da psicodelia, um verdadeiro amor declarado por BJM ecoa em toda a obra, e não a toa o pessoal do BJM é grande fã do Floorian, então, quem sou eu pra fazer o oposto? Há tempos já sou discipulo dos caras, se você precisa ferozmente de uma banda pra adorar, é possível que o Floorian seja exatamente o que você procura.

***** Interview wth Floorian *****

Q. Who are your influences?
Chronologically speaking... the Beatles' psychedelic-era stuff; early to mid-period Pink Floyd; Joy Division; '80s Paisley Underground bands (The Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade, Opal); late 80s/early 90s U.K. psych and shoegaze (Spacemen 3, Bevis Frond, Sun Dial, Catherine Wheel, Ride), the Brian Jonestown Massacre, some postrock stuff (Godspeed You Black Emperor, Mogwai) and heavy stoner psych (early Monster Magnet, Bardo Pond).

Q. Made a list of 5 albuns of all time…
The Beatles -- Revolver
Pink Floyd -- The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Opal -- Happy Nightmare Baby
Sun Dial -- Other Way Out
Catherine Wheel -- Ferment
The Brian Jonestown Massacre -- Give It Back!

Q. How do you fell playing alive?
Playing shows is what makes it all worthwhile. We have our own projector, and there's nothing better than firing up some trippy visuals, cranking up the amps and freaking people out! It's totally cathartic. It gets tougher after each album to come up with a new set, when older favorites get bumped to make room for new songs, but we always try to feature a wide variety of styles and sounds, with stuff from each of our albums. Our most recent set includes: Sine Qua Non How Far, How Fast Symptoms Alone Heavium The Lower Room Daze Aether Spill We wish we were able to play more shows, but we all have careers with day jobs, families and other interests... so we do our best with the time we have. We're not able to hit the road for a month or more, but we try to hook up with like-minded bands and do as much regional touring as possible, basically anywhere within a 12-hour drive. We were lucky to join up with the Brian Jonestown Massacre for a week-long string of shows on their 2010 tour... those guys were awesome, what an amazing trip! We also enjoyed a rapturous tour of the west coast for a week in May 2012, and last year we played in Chicago and the magnificent Bathysphere Festival in Minneapolis during the July 4th weekend. We're still dreaming of doing a week in Europe someday... tomorrow never knows!

Q. How do you describe Floorian sounds?

Various combinations of dark, spacey, melodic, hypnotic, heavy, trippy, atmospheric, noisey, droney, gloomy and groovy... all channeled through vintage gear. Or, as a fan said after one of our shows long ago, "elegant, yet... threatening."

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
Our mantra for writing and recording has always been "every song is a new adventure". We have no set way of writing and recording, we're always looking for new ways to approach the process. Our earliest songs in the late '90s were recorded at Diamond Mine Studio here in Columbus, but shortly thereafter we got ProTools and have been DIY ever since. We've done everything from loosely structured, largely improvised live recordings with no overdubs, to meticulously crafted compositions recorded piece-by-piece. We recorded "Aether Spill" live in a cave at Olentangy Indian Caverns on a Tascam digital 8-track and finished it in ProTools. The "untitled instrumental" piece posted on youtube was a live improvisation recorded in a basement with a Zoom H2 portable digital recorder. We don't have the luxury of being able to record drums and loud guitars at our home studio, but with an IMac and ProTools, we're totally mobile and able to record things at a variety of places, as the track listing notes on our website can attest. The best thing about doing everything ourselves is the freedom we're afforded to get exactly what we want, without the time restrictions of a studio... which can also be the worst thing, because sometimes it takes forever to get things done!

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Some of our favorite bands from the past few years include Quest For Fire (sadly, they broke up last year), Nordic Nomadic (solo project from Chad Ross of Quest For Fire... brilliant psych folk!), Ty Segall, Sleepy Sun, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, Chatham Rise, and Christian Bland & The Revelators, to name a few.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
We've actually recorded a few covers over the years. The first was for a Brian Jonestown Massacre tribute album back in 2002 which never saw the light of day. It was a mash-up of 3 BJM tunes called "In Around Who", and you can download it on our website. We also covered "Vegetable Man", Syd Barrett's swan song with Pink Floyd, as part of The Vegetable Man Project on the Italian label Oggetti Volanti back in 2004. The last one we did was "Sway", for a Spiritualized tribute album that also fell through. More information on these can be found on our website. We also played a few covers in our earliest shows, mainly because we didn't have enough originals yet! The songs we played were "The Inner Light" by The Beatles, "No Good Trying" by Syd Barrett, and "No Shine For The Shoes" by Plasticland. Ahh, yes... the good old daze!

Q: What´s the plans for future....
We're in the midst of recording our fourth album, and we're planning to play some select shows throughout the year.

Q: Any parting words?
Thank you so much for your interest in Floorian! We're always blown away when we discover how many fans we have around the globe. Keep on keepin' on!
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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Floorian/274872402582795?ref=stream
http://www.floorian.com/

The Sound of Confusion with First Communion Afterparty - An Interview

Dia meio triste esse de hoje, acabei de tomar conhecimento da morte do grande Bob Casale guitarrista do DEVO, uma grande perda, um cara inventivo de uma banda absolutamente genial.

Deixando atriste notícia de lado, agora nas páginas do TBTCI é a vez do combo psychgazer do First Communion Afterparty, que em dezembro do ano passado soltou o delirante Earth Heat Sound, encharcado de psicodelismo a´la BJM, carregado de nuances shoegazer principalmente nos vocais.

O debut do FCAP passou absolutamente despercebido mas não por tanto tempo, o TBTCI aqui faz as pazes com o esquecimento, e mergulha por completo nesta simbiose de muralhas psicodélicas, Earth Heat Sound é daqueles albuns de se viciar instantaneamente, inebriantemente majestoso, pérola fundamental em discotecas que se prezem, com o aval do TBTCI é óbvio.

***** Interview with First Communion Afterparty *****

Q. When did First Communion Afterparty form? tell us your story….
We formed in the summer of 2005. Carin had just returned from University when I asked her if she wanted to pursue the idea of being in band. We turned to MySpace and searched profiles of people that lived in town that were into the same bands. Thats how we found our first line up. In the beginning it was myself and 5 girls. We were more of a cult than a band, making up our own scene in a little basement in South Minneapolis. Over time we started to branch out and meet other kids as various Psych bands toured through town. By 2007 through word of mouth the local media started picking up on our name. The next few years would see several line up changes and by 2009 we had released a full length album, started touring and had solidified an official line up.

Q: What are your influences?
We are all influenced heavily on Brit Pop, Shoegaze, 60's Psych and 70's rock and roll.

Q. Your 5 albums of all time…
1. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
2. Sonic Youth - Dirty
3. The Beatles 1967-1970 (Blue Album)
4. Stone Roses - Self Title
5. Brian Jonestown Massacre - Methadrone

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Playing live really brings out a range of emotions and there are so many factors that come along with that. You know the vibe is right when you get goosebumps. Then again sometimes its a complete shit show, nothing is going right, the underage bass player is shit faced and on the floor by the first song and none of your pedals are working. That is my idea of hell. Q. How do you describe First Communion Afterparty' sounds? When I think of our sound I kind of think about a soup that has been made out of all of these delicious left overs. Throw your favorite parts in a big pot and turn up the heat. The end product is familiar but there are many surprises floating around.

Q: Tell us about the recording process....
We are big fans of recording live. We like to get the scratch tracks all recorded together then we go in and do our over dubbing. From there we often pick the songs apart and experiment with new ideas and sounds.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
I think Tame Impala are hands down one of the best bands I have heard in the last ten years. I also really like Grass Widow.

Q: Which band and song would you like to cover?
We had for a time talked about covering the Nancy Sinatra / Lee Hazelwood song "Lightning's Girl" but never got around to making it a reality. We aren't big on covers anyway. It is very rare to find a band that can even come close to reproducing a song that is better than the original. Kurt Cobain was really good at that but he's dead

Q: What are the plans for the future….
As far as the future of FCAP I really can't say. We are toying with the idea of releasing one more EP but I am pretty much focusing all of my time on my new band Driftwood Pyre.

Q: Any parting words?
I hope this doesnt sound too corny but seriously follow your dreams. Dont give up when shit gets messy. Stay focused on the positive and love life because we arent here for long so lets make the most of it.
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http://pictureinmyearrecords.bandcamp.com/album/earth-heat-sound-2
https://www.facebook.com/FirstCommunionAfterparty

Pharmacokinetics with The Kingdom of The Holy Sun - An Interview

Desde 2012 o The Kingdom of The Holy Sun, nos brinda com preciosidades psicodélicas altamente calcadas na obra de Syd Barret e principalmente BJM, é inegável a influência de Anton Newcombe no trabalho dos caras, mas a psicodelia xamânica do Kingdom of The Holy Sun vai além, busca a salvacão da alma via Jason Pierce e o Spiritualized e ao mesmo tempo busca a transgressão via psico trópicos e alucinógenos musicais.

Pouco menos de um mês atrás nos brindaram com o EP Pharmaco Revisted, que mais parece ser uma seita elevando as mentes e corpos desta para esferas extra sensoriais, música para transcender corpo e alma, música para medicão e tratamento da mente.

E ainda escutamos que a música atual esta morta, nada de bom é feito, bom eu só digo que estes seres necessitam de um pouco mais de ensinamentos psico alucinógenos ou sei lá, talvez eu e vocês estejamos um tanto quanto além disso tudo, o fato é que o Kingdom of The Holy Sun nos indica a cura, basta saber se queremos nos curar.....

***** Interview with The Kingdom of The Holy Sun *****

Q. When did Kingdom of the holy Sun start; tell us about the history...
The band started a little over a year and a half ago. I had been writing music for a while but never had any interest in sharing it with an audience. Once I was able to achieve some semblance of stability in my life, I decided that I wanted to create something with the intent of sharing it with an audience.

Q: Who are your influences?
The Cure, Joy Division, Bowie, Beatles, Slowdive, The Nuggets Compilation, Spacemen 3, Shoegaze, Post-punk, Syd Barrett, Dutronc, Gainsbourg. Tons of non-English language music from Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Lyrically it’s significantly different. French existentialism was a huge influence on me, as well as poets such as Rimbaud, Rilke or Baudelaire. Themes concerning human psychosis, death, religion, sex and interpersonal conflicts, global politics have been a lyrical preoccupation. How humanity relates to such themes as religion and sex, is where I see most things go wrong in the world.

As far as arrangement…getting my hands on a copy of The Beatles - Complete Scores was really influential. I’ve been into the arrangement side of music for a while and I find it fascinating how some bands put their music together.

Q. Made a list of 5 albums of all time…
This is certainly not easy…I couldn’t be held to 5 sorry.

Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn (including Candy and a Currant bun and Scream thy last Scream from around the same era)

The Monks - Black Monk Time
Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription
Slowdive - Souvlaki
The Cure - Pornography
Joy Division -Closer
David Bowie – Low (or anything from The Berlin era)
Jacques Dutronc - Et moi, et moi, et moi
Cocteau Twins - Head over Heels

Q. How do you feel playing live?
It’s difficult to describe but it comes close to the Aristotelian cathartic experience for me. In addition, it’s great opportunity to meet new bands and people in the crowd after the show.

Q. How do you describe Kingdom of The Holy Sun sounds?
Not sure. You tell me. I’m not really self-reflective about what I do really. I feel once you create something and it becomes part of a discourse, it no longer “belongs” to the creator. Once something is done too, I tend to want to move onto the next thing.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
I don’t typically begin with a riff or melody; instead I occasionally have a concept that could be challenging to work out or song idea that I want to get out of my head. Sometimes I have an idea that consists of desperate style that I want to bring together into one song. I often times can hear the full arrangement in my head including the rhythm of the drums or what the solo should sound like. I make it a goal to try and demo out a song or two a week if I have time. Once a demo has been recorded for a new song, I generally then switch gears and listen to the demo repeatedly, even ad nauseam with the goal of approaching the demo with a critical ear and examine if something is wrong or not working with the song.

As far as recording in the studio, it is basically an extension of this process. I typically know what need to be recorded before we even begin.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Lots of great music right now. Here’s a few bands:

Holy Wave, Tales of Murder and Dust, Dead Horse One, Jetman Jet Team, Blondi Salvation, Kikagaku Moyo

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
"I'm a Tangerine" from Tommy James and the Shondells

“Lambaya Püf De” from Barış Manço

“Demain, ça ira” from Les Lutins

Possibly something from Jacques Dutronc or The Cure.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
Hopefully release 2 new full length albums this year. Our 3rd West Coast tour in the Spring. Big future plans is a European tour.

Q: Any parting words?
“Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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http://kingdomoftheholysun.bandcamp.com/album/pharmaco-revisted-ep
https://www.facebook.com/kingdomoftheholysun

Take Me To The Other Side with Electric Moon - An Interview

Há tempos estava para escrever algo sobre o espetacular Electric Moon. Eis que chegou a hora, os alemães freaks do Electric Moon são como mitos da cena psych, acid, kraut européia, respeitados por 11 entre 10 psych maníacos muito devido ao frenesi de suas perfomances ao vivo, verdadeiras trips intermináveis, com dissonâncias profundas por vezes pesadas em outras tenras, que transformam-se em cataclismas orgiásticos de puro space rock.

Com uma discografia imensa, repleta de cdrs, albuns, splits, piratas, oficiais e não oficiais, tudo é misterioso e regado a uma acidez fortíssima, a dica é comecar pelo estupendo Flaming Lake, daí é cair direto no dilacerante Inferno.

Os caras estão com um novíssimo trabalho a ser lancado em marco e ao que tudo indica será mais um delirante objeto de viagem explícita, esteja preparado porque o ticket é somente de ia, a volta jamais será garantida.....

***** Interview with Electric Moon *****

Q. When did Electric Moon starts, tell us about the history...
Sula: ELECTRIC MOON were founded in late 2009 by paintingartist / bassplayer Komet Lulu and Sula Bassana, who mainly plays guitar in Electric Moon, but also organ, synthesizer...Founder Drummer was Pablo Carneval, in early 2011 replaced by Alex, who was replaced by Michael in summer 2012, till spring 2013.

Now with Marcus Schnitzler on Drums, who is member of The Spacelords.
Our first gig (and the second also) was at Duna Jam (Italy) 2010.

Q: Who are your influences?
Sula: From Tangerine Dream to Hawkwind, from Wipers to Yo La Tengo, from Earth to Jupiter and back to inner mind...
Lulu: Spacemen3 and all the rat-tails of them like Spiritualized, Spectrum, Alpha Stone. Then Loop. Early Pink Floyd. Hendrix. Can.

Q. Made a list of 5 albums of all time…
Sula: uh, only 5??? This is hard! OK, maybe this: Man-Maximum Darkness, Hawkwind-Do Re Mi, Far Out-s/t, The Collectors-s/t, Tangerine Dream-Rubycon. Really hard... much more on my list... J
Lulu: I think I lose control at this moment!

Q. How do you fell playing alive?
Marcus: Do you mean, how do you feel playing live?-well, playing live is the real experience because of the interaction with the public. But there are fantastic moments in the studio / rehearsal room too.

Lulu: Ha, ha, ha. I think I really fell playing. But I am still alive!!!

Sula: It can be the best trip!!!

Q. How do you describe Electric Moon sounds?
Sula: Psychedelic!!! ;-) Mind lifting, endless, infernal, spaced out!

Lulu: Psychedelic acid confusion of coloured mind bubbles blowing your mind to endless ecstasy. Or so.

Sula: Yeeees, THAT’s it! J

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
Marcus: Most of the songs are recorded live: Either in concert or in a studio session.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Marcus: The Spacelords, Giöbia, Papir, Deep Space.

Sula: Papir, The Spacelords, Giöbia, Krautzone, Deep Space, Tracker, Seven That Spells, Farflung, Föllakzoid, Vibravoid...

Lulu: Krautzone. The Spacelords. Dave and Marcus said it, so... same, same, same etc...

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
Sula: We already did one each of Eric Burdon & the Animals and Tangerine Dream.

Marcus: I don't really like to cover songs from other bands.

Lulu: I want to cover soundtrack themes from science fiction movies / series like UFO. But I do not like to cover a song to sound exactly like the original. To cover a song as a good job, for me it’s like taking the inspiration from the original and transform it into a how-i-would-have-done-it. But I do not like covers which try to sound like the original. For me it’s important to keep your own sound. Blah.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
Marcus: To make more music/concerts, records.

Sula: New albums in progress. First a live double-LP and a CD „Mind Explosion“ of our mindblowing gig in Feldkirch, Austria, from September 2013. Also we work on our new studio album and on a 10“ for a UK label. And yes, more gigs... check out our homepage for news: www.electricmoon.de

Lulu: .... aaaaaaand I want to play on a festival that happens on the moon!

Q: Any parting words?
Sula: Don’t miss our sideprojects!
www.zonesix.de
http://krautzone.soundawesome.com
www.sulabassana.de
http://kometlulu.soundawesome.com

Lulu: Well – that’s really a good point. And also do not miss our drummer’s other band: the SPACELORDS!
www.thespacelords.com

And – live your life! – don’t let „them“ catch you! - fckthsystm
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https://www.facebook.com/The.Electric.Moon?fref=ts
http://www.electricmoon.de/

Pearl with Travelling Wave - An Interview

Não somente uma entrevista no TBTCI, mas uma verdadeira premiere, com extrema honra o TBTCI em primeira mão exibe o novíssimo, e diga-se de passagem maravilha clip da Travelling Wave a faixa de abertura do majestoso T-Wave To Your Face.

Diretamente de Piracicaba para o mundo do shoegazer, noise, psych moderno, o duo T. Altafini (guitarra e voz) e C. Alleoni (synth e voz) jogou ao mundo via bandcamp, link lá no final da entrevista uma preciosidade ainda pouco digerida por aqui, eu digo por aqui em se tratando de Brasil, pois lá fora, já deram entrevistas, já foram mencionados em tudo que é canto, e aqui o merecido destaque não veio, o que chega a ser um absurdo, principalmente porque T-Wave é magistral, ecos de Cranes, MBV, J&MC, pra ficar nos óbvios é evidente, todavia a roupagem atual é mais notória ainda, digo que o Travelling Wave esta no mesmo nível de gente como Underground Youth, KVB, e outros grandes do submundo dos bons sons.

Evidentemente que  Travelling Wave virou predileto do TBTCI, e certamente vai virar seu também, não mais perca cada passo deles, e em breve, muito breve eles podem estar frente a frente com vocês.....

***** Interview with Travelling Wave *****

Q. Como surgiu o TW? Conte-nos a história
Nosso projeto anterior chamava-se Totem Provoc e vivemos coisas legais com essa banda, vários shows, lançamos um video na MTV Brasil e fizemos uma mini-tour de 3 apresentações em Bs As, Argentina.

Essa banda acabou mas continuamos produzindo, é algo muito natural pra nós e faz parte da nossa vida. Além disso moramos no interior de SP, aqui não tem muita coisa pra fazer, aí fazemos música…

Então, quando já tínhamos um bom número de canções novas, resolvemos criar esse novo projeto Travelling Wave, que até então era virtual mas nesse exato momento está se tranformando em real.

Por enquanto somos um duo, T. Altafini (guitarra e voz) e C. Alleoni (synth e voz).

Sinceramente, o que torna essas canções possivelmente interessantes é a despretensão. Foram criadas por puro divertimento e sem nenhum tipo de pressão ou expectativa.

Q. Quais as influencias?
Syd Barrett/Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, The Rolling Stones, Jesus And Mary Chain, Flaming Lips, The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Radiohead, TV On The Radio, A Place to Bury Strangers, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The KVB, Moon Duo, Ty Segall, The Underground Youth …

Q. Como vocês definem a sonoridade da banda?
Esse projeto tem encontrado espaço junto a um público ligado a gêneros do noiserock como shoegaze, dreampop, neo-psychedelic. Adoramos esses estilos e ouvimos muito isso, mas não fazemos música pensando em soar como as bandas desse estilo ou de outro. Também gostamos de blues, stoner rock, folk, metal, electronica, e por aí vai….

Q. Como é o processo de composição e gravação?
Gravamos e editamos em casa, nosso material tem uma sonoridade assumidamente Lo-Fi e a divulgação é totalmente independente. Mas procuramos um selo que nos ajude a promover o projeto.

Valorizamos nessas produções o acaso, o improviso e o take one. É como se fosse um filme-documentário, temos um plano de ação mas não um roteiro.

Q. Como é a sensação de tocar ao vivo?
Uma vez o Mike Cormier do The Volta Sound disse algo sobre isso, aqui mesmo nesse blog: “So I feel that playing live music is one of the few true UFO mysteries we can witness”. Pelo que já experimentamos anteriormente, podemos dizer que é realmente essa coisa meio mágica.

A idéia é que em nossa performance sejamos um duo. As vezes temos vontade de incorporar um baterista no lugar dos beats, pra ter mais punch, pausas e variações ao vivo, seria ótimo!

Q. Se voces fossem gravar uma cover, qual seria?
Neste momento seria Delirium ou Dystopia, do The Underground Youth. Ou então uma versão elétrica para Sleeper do Ty Segall.

Q. Quais os planos para o futuro?
Nosso maior objetivo é viajar com esse projeto, o mais longe possível. Terminar e lançar algumas tracks que já temos em pré-produção, escrever novas músicas, videos, etc.

Q. Alguma mensagem para o mundo?
Bem, já que o colapso, a barbárie e o caos são iminentes, vamos nos divertir por enquanto. Como diria o Dr. Timothy Leary: “Turn on, tune in, drop out”.
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http://travellingwave.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/travelling.wave?ref=ts&fref=ts

Wives in Orbit with The Telstar Sound Drone

Diretamente de Copenhagen para o mundo do psych moderno, toques fortíssimos de Kraut, experimentalismo, Red Crayola e afins, este é o Telstar Drone Sound.

Comedown é o nome da pérola que se tivesse caído nestas páginas anteriormente já estaria há tempos sendo um dos prediletos deste que vos escreve. Comedown é de junho do ano passado e impressiona, pouco menos de 30 minutos é o tempo da trip.

Viagens pesadas e intensas, não há trégua durante todo o album, e Cabin Fever pra fechar de forma orgasmática.

O TSD pode facilmente se tornar sua banda predileta a partir de agora, dúvida? Experimente então....

***** Interview with Telstar Sound Drone *****

Q. When did TTSD starts, tell us about the history...
A. In 2007, I convinced Mads to join me in a project called Les Aprés L'amour Sonnes. The idéa was to add sound to old educational movies, playing along with the projections. Mads and I grew up in a small porttown in the western part of Denmark. We rehearsed at the same complex and one day we ended up in the same band. For most parts we've stuck together since that. We both moved to Copenhagen, where we met Sean. The project then slowly evolved into what has become TSD.

Q: Who are your influences?
A.There are many! We get our inspirations from alot of different places. Not just the psychedelic genres, if that term even means something these days... Obviously we're into a lot of music from the 60's. Ultimate Spinach, Red Crayola, The Byrds, Cold Sun, Velvet Underground, Furekaaben, Silver Apples, 13th Floor Elevators, The Rolling Stones and early Pink Floyd. But alot of bands from the 80's and 90's play a huge part aswell; Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Sonic Youth, The Flaming Lips, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Blur. I've always had a fetich for the old electronic music pioneers like Stockhausen, Schaefer, Derbyshire, Pade etc., Sean grew up with hiphop and folk and Mads has a more classic rock background... I think all of this is somewhat evident in our sound.

Q. Made a list of 5 albums of all time…
A. I'll not even try to answer that! But I'll tell you some of the things I like in records! I like records that keeps feeling alive even though you've heard them a thousand times, records that grows on you and keep getting better, records that don't give a fuck about living up to peoples expectations of what they should be or contain, records that have their own universe, records that don't strive to please, uncompromising records, records that are not just two hits and fillers for the rest, records that embrace the format of a a full length record, records that leave you hungry, records that can change the way you feel and set you in a different mood. Records that make you forget everything else around you.

Q. How do you fell playing alive?
A. For me personally, I think it's always been a mixed fealing of escapism and pressence. I try to let go, embrace the moment and get carried away. Ofcourse it dosen't always work. It's kinda like meditating.

Q. How do you describe TTSD sounds?
A. As far as possible I try not to. How i see it dosen't fit how somebody else see it anyway. And frankly I'd rather leave it open and let people decide for themselves. We don't mind people putting labels on our music, you can't avoid that as a fairly new band, but we're really not interested in trying to live up to any expectations of what we should sound like. We just do what we feel like doing. It sounds like it does because we did it and thats how we sound. Propably because we've listened to the records we have listened to.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
A. We recorded all of the songs for Comedown ourselves at our rehearselspace, an old WWII underground airraid shelter. Borrowing mics and whatnot from friends... Since it isn't possible to play together at the same time, we did one instrument at a time. The recordings we're mostly done in short sessions, inbetween touring with other bands. Most of the songs was far from finished when we started recording, so a lot of writing was done simuntaneously. For a while, I even moved in, isolating myself to finish writing the songs. We decided early on that we wanted to make a record that felt alive and embraced the moment. For better or worse. Basically we set a dogma. No click tracks and only a couple af takes for each song. Then we made do with what was. We didn't do any drum editing or stuff like that either. It was pretty much about losing control and see what happened. To take this even further, we invited some guests to play on the tracks. The Hobbit(ex- On trial, Spids Nøgenhat etc.) plays a lot of guitar on the album, Christian Norup(ex-Highway Child, Bite The Bullet etc.) did some bass and Kaare Joensen (Robot, Baby Woodrose) did some modular synth parts, assisted by his daugther Norma J. We didn't tell them what to play, but gave everybody a couple of takes. Deciding later on if it would make the mix or not... The Hobbit in perticular did some really good stuff! Finally we live-mixed the record at Black Tornado Studio in Copenhagen with Dr. Hansen. The studio has a nice cosy atmosphere and the best list of vintage gear you can imagine, it just keeps getting better and better.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended? A. I have to admit that I've been pretty rooted in our own stuff lately, not having much time to keep up with never bands. But I really dig Stuff like Amen Dunes, Connan Mockasin, The Wands, and I'm really looking forward to the upcomming Anders album.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
A. For the past couple of years we have been doing Red Krayola's Hurricane Figther Plane at live shows. It's a killer song! It have been covered by a ton af bands, but I think we take it somewhere new and make it our own. For a while now, we have been talking about doing a cover of Primal Scream's Higher Than The Sun. We did this once, very spontaniously at a jamsession at our friends place. It worked really great. Unfortunately we were pretty strung out while doing it, so nobody remembers what they actually did. Maybe we'll try to record it sometime.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
A. We have just finished the mixing and mastering of a single, which is to be released on Copenhagen based label Subsuburban during the spring. It's gonna be a pretty neat package! But I can't say much more about it at this time. You'll have to stay updated... We've just returned from Germany we're we did a handfull of gigs. The response was amazing, so we hope to do some more touring during the next year. We're also trying to get enough material together for a new album.

Q: Any parting words?
A. Yeah! Can you get us a gig in Brazil?!
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https://www.facebook.com/telstarsounddrone?fref=ts
http://www.telstarsounddrone.blogspot.dk/
http://telstarsounddrone.bandcamp.com/album/comedown

When The Sun Hits with My Red Dress - An Interview

Shoegazer no topo. My Red Dress é o encontro de dois integrantes de duas das mais instigantes bandas da nova geracão do shoegazer, Sophia do LSD and The Searching for God e Ryan do Moonbeams, juntaram-se e já de cara soltaram duas pérolas em forma de 7", 6, 2, 13 é o nome do rebento e as faixas Dream e Secrets sintetizam a sonoridade do My Red Dress, shoegazer clássico, sem fírulas, sem eterismos, o lance é criar paredes sonoras e sobrepor as camadas e mais camadas de guitarras, soterrando os vocais e celebrar a si próprio, ou seja, perfeicão.

Que venham os próximos capítulos....

***** Interview with My Red Dress *****

1. When did My Red Dress form? Tell us your story….
I began creating the music for the "6 2 12" single in January 2013. I worked on these two tracks for a long time, constantly adding and editing minor details. I wanted to do something a bit darker and more electronic than the music I was making with Moonbeams. I also knew that I did not want to sing on these tracks.

These tracks were sitting on my computer without vocals for a few months. I was really hoping that my friend Sophia (who I knew from LSD and the Search for God) would contribute vocals, but I was afraid that she wouldn't be into my music. I contacted her and sent her the tracks...she liked them and sent me some wonderful vocal tracks in return. I added those to the mix and finished the songs fairly quickly. This was around May/June 2013. Our songwriting partnership is extremely easy and enjoyable. We're planning on rehearsing for shows very soon and we will hopefully be putting another 7" and an LP out in the not too distant future.

 2. What are your influences?
For this project, I'm very influenced by the Cocteau Twins, the Cure, Belong, Grouper, Lovesliescrushing, and Miranda Sex Garden. Sophia and I both are pretty big into some of the darker 4AD groups, Mazzy Star, and My Bloody Valentine...I think this comes through pretty clearly.

3. Your 5 albums of all time…
Lilys-Eccsame the Photon Band, MBV-Isn't Anything, Smiths-Louder Than Bombs, Slowdive-Souvlaki, Skywave-Echodrone. This list seems a little too safe now that I see it written...

4. How do you feel playing live?
I like live performance, but we have not done it yet with this project. We will do it when the time is right and we have a few more songs. I will only play in dimly-lit rooms, though. That's a requirement.

5. How do you describe My Red Dress' sounds?
Blown-out, dark, and sensual. Black with flashes of silver.

6. Tell us about the recording process....
I sequence a drumbeat, which is comprised of several drum samples I have acquired over the years. I then come up with a general chord progression that fits the beat. I usually do this on guitar. After this stage, I add bass, synths, and multiple guitar parts. I do this part very quickly. I then add very small details and tweak with the tracks I've already added. I do several unorthodox things with this group. I often will record clean guitar parts, but will dirty them up by running them through my guitar pedalboard, which is plugged into an overdriven amp. I will then send that signal into either my digital 8 track recorded or my analog 4 track cassette recorder. I have tried to replicate this process on a computer, but pushing the levels on a broken 4 track recorder into the red does something to guitar sound that cannot quite be replicated through other means.

After I spend an embarrassing amount of time adding and manipulating a song's minor details, I send the song to Sophia. She records and sends me her vocal tracks, which I then edit, add effects to, and then mix in with the existing tracks. I love receiving her vocal tracks because I never know what they will sound like until I get them and they are always phenomenal. She has only contributed vocal parts to the project so far, but she will be playing guitar on our forthcoming recordings.

We do all of our recording at home as well, which I think is important. I like to try to have as much control over the process as possible. Studio settings make me a bit nervous and I often think that my methods would drive an experienced engineer to suicide. I'm very particular about the sound I want for this project...home recording is the best way to attain it.

7. Which new bands do you recommend?
The new Stargazer Lilies is absolutely incredible! I highly recommend that record. In San Francisco, I love Modern Charms, Chasms, and Cruel Summer. Lorelle Meets the Obsolete is really interesting as well!

8. Which band and song would you like to cover?
Wonderful by Teach Me Tiger. I love this band and know next to nothing about them. You can find the song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GKKAxC3d2U

9. What are the plans for the future….
We're going to start rehearsing and playing shows fairly soon. I also want to constantly release new material...handmade cassettes and vinyl. We're tired of digital. We're hoping to play some shows and maybe do a split record with a band we admire as well...I'd love to do this soon with my friends from Pink Playground.

10. Any parting words?
Thank you so much, Renato!
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http://myreddress.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/myreddress

Anthem of the Sun with The Sun Blindness - An Interview

Melbourne, Austrália, muito antes do Tame Impala surgir com o revivalista psicodélico, a cidade já respirava ecos sessentistas e setentistas cortesia do The Sun Blindness, um comboio de freaks fanáticos por Grateful Dead e toda a época das trips insanas de LSD.

Pena que os caras estão em um hiato desde 2011, algumas mudancas de formacão, surtiram esse tempo de pausa, o ultimo registro em estúdio é o genial Far Arden, que muito bem poderia ter sido lancado em 1969 que seria um dos grande clássicos da época, tamanho o experimentalismo ácido, faixas como Minutes to go ou Journey Through The Valley of O são puros delírios.

O TBTCI aguarda ansiosamente os próximos capítulos dessa saga do The Sun Blindness.

***** Interview with The Sun Blindness *****

Q. When did The Sun Blindness form? tell us your story….

I was working the graveyard shift at a supermarket in 2003, packing shelves all night. Duncan started working there too, and we soon became friends. Due, initially, to our mutual love of smoking pot. We got into the habit of going back to my house in the morning after a long night at work, where we'd get stoned and play guitar for hours, long experimental jams. I was into psychedelic music and culture in a *big* way, especially anything related to the sixties. I turned Duncan onto LSD in 2004 and soon after we got our shit together and actually started the band and started writing actual songs. We took the name from an obscure John Cale drone record from 1965 called "Sun Blindness Music". We did our first gig in February 2005. I should mention that psychedelics aren't for everyone, and I'm sure there's been plenty of great psychedelic music created by people who've never indulged, but it's impossible to discuss our band and music without mentioning them, because they were and still are one of the most significant driving forces behind what we're trying to create and express. It is what it is.

Q: What are your influences?
Well, I can only speak for myself, Duncan would probably give you an entirely different answer. That said; I grew up listening to a lot of Sixties music, the usual suspects like The Doors, Beatles, Pink Floyd, 13th Floor Elevators. 'The Piper At The Gates of Dawn' was definitely one of my biggest influences. Around the time we got the band going, I was obsessed with the eighties band Spacemen 3, and a lot of our early, pre-album stuff was an attempt to emulate them. I used to collect a lot of psychedelic music compilations from the sixties, things like Nuggets, Rubble, Chocolate Soup For Diabetics, Fading Yellow. They were a huge influence on me, especially the production. I'll never forget when I first heard the Pretty Things song 'Defecting Grey'.. it blew my head off. I was into some modern stuff too, like early Gomez, Kid-A era Radiohead, and a guy called P.G. Six. I don't know if you could call it an influence, but we were both really into the first Interpol album 'Turn On The Bright Lights' at the time. When we recorded 'Like Pearly Clouds', I was heavily into The Incredible String Band, The Beach Boys and The Millenium, who did a great album called "Begin". And I loved the freewheeling, eccentric, enthusiastic psychedelia of the Brian Jonestown Massacre's album "Their Satanic Majesties Second Request". When I heard that album I could hear so many little nods (some overt, some subtle) to classic psychedelic songs from the past. It was inspiring. I was also heavily into Terence Mckenna and William Blake when we recorded "Like Pearly Clouds". Psilocybin mushrooms and DMT were a huge influence on me at that time, and their presence permeates that album. In contrast, our second album "Far Arden", was an acid soaked affair; LSD was what was around for that one.

Q. Your 5 albums of all time…

- The Doors - The Doors (1967)
- Skip Spence - Oar (1968)
- The Grateful Dead - Live/Dead (1969)
- P.G. Six - Parlor Tricks & Porch Favorites (2001)
- David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name (1971)

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Sometimes it's wonderful, sometimes it's terrible. When we started doing gigs we did them as a duo, with two electric guitars and lots of pedals. It was a strange setup, but it was cool. Later on we picked up a full band with drums, bass, keyboards, etc. These days we're back to a duo, with one acoustic guitar and one electric. Trying to convert the lush soundscapes of the albums into a live setting has been a constant struggle, because it's inevitably going to sound very different and stripped back, which confuses people. When it works, and the people you're playing for are into it, it can be transcendent and feels great. When it doesn't, and people are generally disinterested or talking through your show, it can be frustrating... "Transmitting but not receiving", as Roky Erickson used to say.

Q. How do you describe Sun Blindness' sounds?
Dreamy, cosmic, sincere psychedelia.. a feeling of wonder, of looking beyond the veil. Too much modern music is self consciously ironic and phony.

Q: Tell us about the recording process....
We generally record at home, on a combination of 4-tracks, some simple PC audio software with a good mixing board and a few decent mics. It's a low-fi affair, but I'm satisfied with the results. Especially after Kramer, our mastering wizard, scrubs it down and makes it shine. The first album was a very lo-fi affair; I ran literally everything through a 15 watt Vox Cambridge Celestion amplifier. Including the vocals... I had a special lead to connect a microphone to a guitar pedal, such as a delay, then into the amp where I used the spring reverb on the amp and the in-built tremolo if needed. I'd layer several harmony parts on top of each other this way, and the result was a really warm vocal sound which I really liked. Even the tambourines and shakers went through that amp. We had to improvise in this way because we had no money to buy better recording equipment. Still don't! But I'm glad we did it that way.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
There's a lot of amazing psychedelic music being made at the moment.. Animal Collective come to mind. The Laurels, from Sydney, are a great band; we kind of came up in the same scene as them around 2005/2006, and have spent many years partying together and crashing at each others houses when we tour. They play druggy shoegaze music at staggering volumes, it's fantastic. To be honest, I don't listen to a lot of new music, partly out of laziness and partly because I tend to get obsessed with certain periods and genres of older music, and spend so much time involved in exploring that stuff that I tend to neglect new stuff. In other words my finger is thoroughly not on the pulse of new music, whatsoever... I'm very insular in my listening habits. I get obsessive about one thing, then move on to another. When it was made doesn't matter to me - I've come to regard anything I haven't heard as new; regardless of when it was made. Both Duncan and I have been very into old country music in the last few years, people like George Jones, Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams. I'm a huge Grateful Dead fan, too.

Q: Which band and song would you like to cover?
Thousands, but my latest idea/obsession is to cover "Son (We've Kept The Room Just The Way You Left It)" by Michaelangelo. It's sort of become a tradition for us to cover an obscure psych song at the end of an album.. We did 'Lazy Livin' by the on the first album, and 'Journey Through The Valley Of O' by Relatively Clean Rivers on the second. I

Q: What are the plans for the future….
Well I think the future is a concept, it never arrives, there's only this moment. That said; to get our personal lives together enough so that we can finish recording our next album, and to play live more.

Q: Any parting words?
A quote from Jack Kerouac -
"Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl or boy by a fireside, why not go to your desire and laugh?"
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http://soundcloud.com/sunblindness
http://thesunblindness.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/sunblindness

Heaven Scent with Philip Parfitt - An Interview

Alguns momentos da vida são realmente especiais, e este que agora o TBTCI compartilha com vocês é de extrema importância para este que vos escreve, voltemos ao longínquo 1982, Phil Parfitt o mestre, mentor e criador de uma das mais subestimadas bandas daquela época, que teve sua fonte explicitadamente calcada na obra do VU, que jogou ao mundo obras primas como Up, Heaven Scent e outras mais, este mesmo Phil Parfitt trabalhou com gente do cacife de Jason Pierce, Peter Kember, Terry Bickers, formou o Oedipussy com o pessoal do Levitation e agora com absoluta exclusividade para o TBTCI, me concedeu a honra de ser o primeiro veículo a expor seu mais novo trabaho Philip Parfitt and Friends, a ser lancado em abril,  o nome da pérola é I´m not the mand I used to be, que esta disponível, ou melhor três faixas em aberto no bandcamp, link lá no final da entrevista.

I´m not the man I used to be, é delirantemente acústico, calcado em suas influências e em sua trajetória de guitar hero, Philip criou um album espetacularmente sedutor, viciante, delirante, excitante, calmo, e com referências dele próprio, uma verdade obra prima dos novos tempos, Philip é um trovador errante que permanece nos agraciando com seu maior amor, a música.

O TBTCI só agradece e com extremo orgulho, a entrevista com o mestre e toda a história narrada por ele próprio, deliciem-se.

***** Interview with Philip Parfitt *****

Q. When did you begin to get interested in music?
A.1 AS FAR BACK AS i can remember 3 years old…in fact all I ever wanted to be was a musician/artist …used to listen a lot to my older brothers playing …Stones,Spencer davis,floyd,kinks yardbirds,cream etc the list is endless...

Q. When did the Perfect Disaster start?
Tell us a story A.2.Blimey ok …the group name The Perfect Disaster was around 1982…The line up was of course very different…the line up that is more recognisable to that which released most music.started in 1984.that's when I recruited Danny Cross gtr and Malcolm Catto drums to join Alison Pate gtr and myself . I mostly played Sax and vox and a little gtr at this point mainly using gtr for composition. It was in 84 we recorded Over you by the Velvet Underground……

Q. What are your influences?
A.3…well the thing that changed my like really was that there was a band who played music I wanted to play myself…namely the Velvets…but as I said earlier I wanted to a musician from about 5 I imagined I was in the Small faces and The Spencer Davies group among others….but the Velvets…I discovered in my early teens and that blew me off…later the Stooges it was through my first big Love, Early Bowie ..That I discovered these two big influences.Then I retraced my steps a little to look again at the stuff that my brothers were into and then got really into Syd Barret,Kevin Ayers,Nick drake and the English Psche scene …people would often say I looked like Donovan at this point.circa 67..I would try to gatecrash my brothers parties and hang out .

Q. How were the shows at that time?
A.4. well in the town where I lived all the sixties bands came by …the Who,hendrix,Animals,Stones all of them..my first gig I remember was in a small room …200 …lots of people smoking ganga/strong smell petuli…and the Light show was one Red light bulb…the band was covers band playing Raunchy r&b Jimmy reed etc ..they were rather fucking awesome as I remember…I was about 10…

Q. What are your favourite Perfect Disaster Record/song?
A.5. My favourite TPD album is Up..because the vibe is correct.

Q. Why Perfect Disaster rip?
A.6. We didn't actually split.John Saltwell keeps telling me he's expecting a call asking him to rehearse…eheheh.but I mentally around 91 needed a break as it had taken a long time and a lot out of me ….

Q. After the end of Perfect Disaster, you worked with Jason Pierce, how was this partnership?
A7. In fact I started writing some songs with Jason around 92 I think…we were going to do album but it didn't materialise he Spiritualised instead…he Played a little on Divan though.a8.. Well it was very nice I had a great time making the Divan album …I wrote all the songs and recorded them in London with all my friends coming to play..So Jason as mentioned ,Terry Bickers,house of love,Levitation,along with Dave Francolini and larence Okeef also Levitation/Jazz Butcher.as well as Other fine Musicians and singers Carole mcmurray /Janette Sewell…that was 94.

Q. In 1995 you created the Oedipussy how was this epoch? Q. In early April you will release the album I'm not the man I used to be, with the new project Phillip Parfitt and Friends, as was the creation of this new project? Tell us the story?
A. 9.Well the answer to this question could be a book in itself …so to save you the pain of that therapy session I'll give you the abridged form…I have already recorded three albums that haven't as yet been released…2nd Oedipussy and some more projects.that will surface but for various reasons haven't yet…I got so fed up with the 'industry of music' that I decided well ..to drop out…of it…I'd had enough .however I couldn't stop writing or recording and after many years and a lot of people saying c'mon Phil you should get your shit together man etcetc .I thought well why not ..afterall it is in my system/blood, it is one of my life sources…I'd already split from the uk at this point and become a recluse almost..Eventually I was tracked down by some persistent friends /fans and the ball started to roll.I wanted to do something though very different from the Oedipussy and the Perfect Disaster as an artist I need to evolve ..but In fact I just need to find myself again. this album features Only acoustic instruments save for a tiny bit of electric bass..my fellow players on this were some old friends from The perfect Disaster/spacemen three and some new guys who are specialists in ancient music…I was particularly interested in Medieval drones…kinda like Organic feedback…overlaying harmonic textures.mixed in with a voice and acoustic guitar…I chose to use my Daughter Candy as one of the vocalists because I love her voice but also I knew she'd get it…I tried my best to Raise her with as wide a range of music as possible everything from Ravi Shankar to Ennio Morricone with a large dose of v.u …60's 70's etc you name …and of course like all kids when they get 12 they fly on their own …but she first sang in a studio with me when she was 6 so she can do that no sweat ..she does the Angel very well…sorry I'm Rambling and this the short version…anyway tucked away deep in the Countryside seeing hardly anyone …we began to piece it all together..and We just played the songs to my friends till I found the right vibes…I wasn't in a hurry you understand it was just more important to be in a place of my own creation /musically and finding ways to get my friends to explore this plain.

Q. Have you heard any new bands that you recommend?
A.10.…haha man if you like I could send you a list of all the stuff I listen too and you might think me mad …but wow I listen to Nature for my inspiration…the wind the rain the river the animals…the machines the tools.the long wave radio badly tuned oscilating against the refrigerator hum..I listen to the sound of the Earth it self…it's all music to me…people make melodies when they speak they don't even know but I am listening….


Q. What are your plans for the future?
A.11. well I have a lot of songs to record a lot of songs …time is its own maker..But since we are on the subject I already have work in progress and one very nice guy from an American band guitarist nice and producer of a lot of great work has expressed an interest to work together so I hope that comes off.

Q. Any parting words ...
A.12 parting words well thank you all of you who have kept the faith …I hope you are not disappointed in this new work.it is there it is done ..maybe I don't catch you this time …then maybe next .
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