sexta-feira, 9 de dezembro de 2011

Haus der Luge with Sobre a Maquina


Não acredito em cena nacional underground, prefiro crer que existem movimentos isolados tipo no RS, temos a Transfusão, a Sinewave, e temos uma caralhada de bandas dispersas tentando criar algo relevante e inovador, e vou ser sincero, a ebulição da cena underground do underground nacional esta realmente recheada de ótimas bandas, mas infelizmente aqui no Brasil as coisas caminham de forma desconexa porque quem comanda a musica usualmente não entende absolutamente nada de musica, e o trabalho dos musicos e suas bandas são dificies, inumeros reveses e inumeras acabam sucumbindo pelo sistema hipocrita.

Agora em contrapartida me deixa extremamente orgulhoso, saber que algumas bandas fogem do amadorismo e da mesmice e criam algo absolutamente inovador, com conteudo e com conceito proprio acima de tudo, pessoas que realmente acreditam que possa existir qualidade fora o amadorismo latente que é notorio quando falamos de underground.

Uma dessas bandas atende pela alcunha de Sobre a Maquina, pequeno intervalo aqui, tomei conhecimento através do Fernando da revista online Floga-se onde ele me disse, Renatão ouça isso, é indigesto, quero ouvir tua opinião a respeito. Ok, demorei um pouco mas acabei ouvindo após um bate papo com Cadu Tenorio um dos mentores da banda, e fiquei literalmente chocado, aqueles drones, me foderam literalmente, Lingua Negra a faixa de abertura do EP Areia é algo fora do contexto atual da musica nacional seja alternativa ou não, o experimentalismo explicito é decupado pelos integrantes de forma minuciosa e perfeccionista, cada detalhe, cada nuance é sentida a cada audição. Lingua Negra é extremamente dificil de ser analisada friamente, Einstürzende Neubauten, PIL, Throbbing Gristle, Krautrock, leia-se NEU! pode ser o que vem primeiramente a cabeça ouvindo isso, acrescente os loops e drones do Loop, a perversão do Suicide, Mogwai, mas veja vem isso não é post rock, isso é post industrial, post sei lá o que é inqualificavel , se é que a palavra existe, o som do Sobre a Maquina e a obra prima Lingua Negra.

Se você conseguiu passar pelo choque de Lingua Negra, o clima torna-se mais ameno em Barca, durante minha primeira audição comentei com o Cadu, que me lembrou absurdamente o Durutti Column, e após ver o que ele proprio escreveu reafirmo, seria algo como se Vini Reilly fizesse um duo com Blixa Bargeld, um clima de desespero clamando saudade ronda a musica inteira....ainda temos Foz e Garça, que segundo Cadu é a resumo do Sobre a Maquina.

Simplesmente um dos melhores albuns nacionais que foram lançados em muito muito tempo, sem contar na parte da arte que é um conceito a parte....Ah sim vale ressaltar que teremos uma rara oportunidade no da 21/01/2012 de poder conferir o poder sonoro do Sobre a Maquina aqui em São Paulo.

E mais, convidei Cadu para realizar um track by track do Areia para que o TBTCI e todos os interessados possam adentrar mais e mais no mundo pessoal do Sobre a Maquina. Aproveitem.



Track by Track com Cadu Tenorio - Sobre a Maquina "Areia"

Bem, idéia interessante do Malizia me convidar pra escrever um faixa a faixa do Areia. Começo isso dizendo que não costumo pensar minha produção sonora a partir de outros trabalhos, não passa pela minha cabeça reproduzir, muito menos referendar explicitamente nenhum outro trabalho artistico. Tenho por mim o desejo - talvez idiota, talvez não - de fazer um som próprio. Agora é inegável que muita coisa influencia esse processo. Desde a formação músical, o que você ouve, o que te agrada até suas visões de mundo. Enfim, vamos tentar aqui, de forma breve e sem delongas.

Língua Negra
Essa música foi idealizada por ultimo no contexto do disco, mas desde o ínicio pensava que precisaria de uma faixa como ela para abrir. Queria que ela seguisse um groove hipnótico através de uma percussão tensa e pesada, porém minimal, algo que fosse uma espécie de saída do Decompor... Synths e vozes jogados de forma doentia por cima criando os ápices e climas. A batida tinha que ser especial, tive a idéia de montar um set de percussão metalizada que junto aos efeitos fizesse a base hipnótica desse som, as microfonias foram feitas a partir de manipulação do volume para com a sala. A música concreta e o early-industrial do Neubauten, SPK e Throbbing Gristle sempre fizeram minha cabeça, e não teria pensado nessa batida tocada com uma velha bomba de bicicleta, um triângulo(sim o instrumento de forró e samba) e a base de aluminio de um ventilador. Unimos isso a microfonação com reverb e delay milimétricamente dosados e conseguimos o resultado desejado. Considero o riff de baixo de fato hipnotizante, impossível negar as raízes que pelo menos ao meu ver viriam do Joy Division, apesar de tudo. Ela é o abre alas do cd porque de certa forma desemboca como uma "língua negra" no que está por vir haha. O climax ou o final, como preferir, acabou virando algo que me remete de leve à trabalhos como os do Fennesz e Tim Hecker, é o único momento onde uma guitarra tocada com o delay invertido surge pra complementar os synths. Ao meu a música não poderia terminar diferente cai como uma luva no Início de Barca. Creio que o Kraut do Faust e o Can tenham sido boas influências pra esse disco também.

Barca
Foi a primeira faixa a ficar pronta. Foi criada num momento de muita saudade. De certa forma tenho que admitir que é uma música "romântica" à seu modo caótico e inconformado haha. As percussões e sons metálizados gerados pelo desnível do ventilador com o chão de mármore - as velocidades do ventilador o faziam tremer e bater com as "pernas de base" desníveladas nesse chão criando um som motorizado bem interessante -. Esses sons foram gravados com um condenser próximo ao chão, eu e Emygdio resolvemos cobrir tudo - ventilador, barras de ferro -, inclusive nós mesmos com um edredom pra abafar a ambiência externa, enquanto rolava o feedback natural dos motores e batidas no chão tocamos as barras de aluminio e aço inspirados pela violência sonora das velhas barcas que atravessam a baía de guanabara - costumo fazer essa travessia Rio/Niterói com certa frequência e sempre fico fascinado, pra quem não conhece é algo assustador o som dessas barcas, como seria quase impossível gravar o som direto de lá com qualidade, resolvemos criar algo inspirado naquilo. A travessia em sí foi minha inspiração, a baía é um contraste de beleza e degradação intensa que é mais ou menos a balança que pende nessa música. O tema de piano bem simples e quase onipresente costura toda a loucura berrante das guitarras e dos sintetizadores. Tudo culmina num ápice que considero emocionante haha, a bateria é uma das que mais demorei a fazer na história da banda, prestando atenção ela contém muitos detalhes porque foi a junção de três baterias construidas e mixadas por lados diferentes em volumes e velocidades também diferentes. Parando pra analisar as influências que poderia tirar pra faixa, pode-se dizer que são o industrial do Throbbing Gristle e o drone de Tim Hecker, mas pensando agora também me traz de leve a lembrança alguns trabalhos como os do Richard D. James(Aphex Twin). As referencias de timbre pro riff sabbathico lentíssimo do final - gravado pelo Gameiro - foi o Sunn O))). Curioso que foi muito dificil mixar esse final da forma que eu gostaria, a guitarra com a referencia de timbre inicial engolia tudo, tivemos que nos desdobrar pra dar vazão a tudo, aos synths do ápice, as leves variações de clima nos pianos(são dois timbres fazendo uma dobra), a descontrução da bateria e a segunda guitarra que fazia o noise drone pontual, sendo que tudo acontecia ao mesmo tempo como uma mudança brusca. No fim acho que alcançamos a melhor forma possível até o momento, a música nos satisfaz muito, e é curioso como ela consegue soar agradável até mesmo a quem não tem nenhuma familiariadade com as influências da banda. Gosto muito também da linha de baixo que não muda em momento algum, pontuando as mesmas notas bem GRAVE haha.

Foz
Tinha ela toda pronta, os synths e a bateria, seria um groove intenso e tenso, pensei que ficaria lindo, um riff de baixo pontuando uma espécie de groove orquestrado pelos synths e bateria, então o Emygdio traduziu num riff que caiu como uma luva, trabalhamos bem no timbre deleo mais ENFERRUJADO possível - - no geral temos uma preocupação grandiosa com todos os timbres, sempre -, a idéia de investir na hipnose veio com as harmonias de voz improvisadas que gravamos, elas deveriam criar o clima em contraponto a guitarra que seria o fundo, guitarra essa improvisada pelo Emygdio sob condições de extrema exaustão pra ficar o mais claustrofóbica possível(as vezes achamos legais esses métodos que pra muita gente são bobos haha) com tudo isso desenvolvido uma segunda guitarra vai surgindo em loop alterada freneticamente no pedal de delay, tentamos gravar em vários takes essa guitarra, o Gameiro gravou várias vezes até acharmos que estava no ponto. Há também barulhos sutis feitos com coisas sutis como estalos de dedo e coisas do tipo espalhados que vão descontruindo a coisa toda. Na época achamos a sonoridade sensacional e esse amontoado de detalhes deixaria a música cada vez mais cheia, de uma forma não gritante, sem perder a idéia hipnótica e tornaria ainda mais impactante o encontro com o outro rio, um extremo totalmente oposto. Mudanças nas modulações dos synths e duas guitarras num dedilhado dissonante tranquilo, seguidas de perto por uma linha de baixo pulsante e um sax tenor quase smooth jazz e estranhamente tocado como se fosse uma flauta transversa pelo querido Alexandere Zhemchuznikov é a redenção completa. É uma música e tanto, foi a única disco que trabalhamos todos de fato juntos nas idéias, Emygdio e Ricardo contribuiram com ótimas melodias. E ela seria a síntese desse contraste entre o caos e calmaria. Referências de Kraut e do industrial continuam ali, mas há uma lembrança ao jazz... Pasamos muitas madrugadas gravando cada detalhe. Há quem diga que é uma música com cores. haha

Garça
O tema central dela existia antes mesmo de Barca, mas as nuances não. Nessa música o teor jazzístico é explícito. Ela funciona como o ápice do disco inteiro. O timbre do Rhodes é tenso. A batida é seca, minimal, envolvente, como tinha que ser, arrastada. Avaliando aqui agora vejo influências de drone, jazz e claro do early-Industrial. Percussão com latas e tudo em prol do clima, baixo e piano andam juntos firmemente costurados pela bateria enquanto todos os outros elementos improvisam livremente sobre o tema adotando uma postura de quase silencio, envolvendo. A primeira guitarra que entra faz um drone que remete a Morricone quase que sem querer. E daí pra frente o drone toma corpo e vai até não restar mais nada, tudo acaba, devagar, e que sobre é o caos. O cimax é a parte mais intensa do disco, não saberia traduzir ele em palavras, os riffs tanto do teclado quanto da guitarra são pesados e hostís, uma segunda guitarra chora acompanhando o sax tenor desgovernado tocado numa levada "Brotzmann". Se tivesse que achar alguma banda pra referendar diria que é uma cruza entre o Coil e o próprio Brotzmann. Um fato curioso é que o sax foi gravado acompanhando apenas os temas de piano rhodes e a bateria todo o arranjo posterior foi construído por címa.
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Obrigado Cadu!!

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http://sobreamaquina.bandcamp.com/

quarta-feira, 7 de dezembro de 2011

The Best Albuns of 2011


Chegou a hora, e os melhores dos melhores de um ano que para o shoegazer e o psychedelic sounds foi acima, muito acima, grandes albuns....e sem maiores explicações tá aí a lista deste que vos escreve:

LORELLE MEETS THE OBSOLETE – ON WELFARE
93MMFTS – NORTHERN SKY
RINGO DEATHSTARR – COLOUR TRIP
DEAD SKELETONS - DEAD MAGICK
THE OSCILLATION - VEILS
YOUNG PRISMS – FRIENDS FOR NOW
SCREEN VINYL IMAGE – STRANGE BEHAVIOR
THE HORRORS - SKYING
ALL IN THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON – MAGIC LIGHTHOUSE ON THE INFINITE SEA
WOODEN SHIJPS – WEST
CRYSTAL STILTS – IN LOVE WITH OBLIVION
MOON DUO – MAZES
BIG TROUBLES – ROMANTIC COMEDY
SISTERS OF YOUR SUNSHINE VAPOR – SPECTRA SPIRIT
THE NOVA SAINTS - NEWFOUNDLAND
YOUNGTEAM - DAYDREAMER
STELLARSCOPE - ST
SPC ECO – YOU TELL ME
SPOTLIGHT KID – DISASTER TOURIST
VINYL WILLIAMS – LEMNISCATE

MENÇÕES HONROSAS PARA:

PINK PLAYGROUND – DESTINATION ECSTASY – shoegazer classico, um daqueles albuns revivalistas que faria um sucesso enorme nos inferninhos dos 90´s….indispensavel para qualquer shoegazer xiita.

CHAPEL CLUB – PALACE – o melhor album do pop britanico em muitos e muitos anos…

EAT LIGHTS BECOME LIGHTS – AUTOPIA – Krautrock atualizado da melhor qualidade

DEEP CUT - DISORIENTATION - Matt Flint é Matt Flint e ponto final.

terça-feira, 6 de dezembro de 2011

Shoegazer Archives with Grabbel and The Final Cut - An Interview

Grabbel and The Final Cut soa familiar a você? Imaginei...para mim também não, mas depois de trocar emails com Stefan, guitarras e vocais, fui apresentado a uma genuina perola esquecida e perdida no submundo dos bons sons, 20 anos passaram-se e agora graças ao espertissimo selo Captured Tracks e seu projeto de resgatar preciosidade desconhecidas do shoegazer, finamente o Grabbel and The Final Cut tera seu nome devidamente reconhecido.

Diretamente da Alemanha, o Grabbel faz um noise pop pegajoso com trejeitos de shoegazer classico, os caras nunca lançaram um album propriamente dito, a discografia contém inumeros cassetes, singles e eps, onde o escolhido para ser relançado é o Get Your Feet Back On The Ground, 3 petardos magnificos Psycho Popsong, The Finest Thing e Out of Work and on the Dole mostram o porque o Grabbel esta sendo resgatado, e mais, isso motivou Stefan e a banda a voltarem a tocar, simplesmente sensacional, logicamente que o TBTCI aproveitando a oportunidade já engatou uma entrevista para celebrar o momento e pagar tributo ao ex desconhecido Grabbel and The Final Cut e com o maior prazer do mundo, Sras e Srs, Stefan e seu maravilhoso Grabbel and The Final Cut.

***** Interview with Grabbel and The final Cut *****


Q: When did Grabbel and The Final Cut start, tell us about the history...
A. The band was formed in 1989 in our hometown Lüneburg in Germany, which is a smaller city close to Hamburg. We weren't really musicians, just friends who loved the same kind of music. We figured out how to playour instruments by trying to play cover versions of our favorite bands. But that didn't work out too well and so we started writing our own tunes.

After a few months we had our first gig in a nearby club, the Wahnhof in Bardowick. The owner of the club, Ture Carstensen, wasn't really sure if he should let us play, but somehow we managed to persuade him. And when we played our very first concert, the venue was packed! Somehow everyone brought his friends, and friends of friends. There were more than 200 people, and Ture was so happy, selling lots of drinks and stuff, so that from then on we could play there whenever we wanted (and we did a couple of times in the following years). So the Wahnhof was something like a second home for us, we used to hang out there at nights and became good friends with Ture.

The sad end of the story is that the Wahnhof building got torn down in 1992. The autobahn from Lüneburg to Hamburg took its place...

Q: Who are your influences?
A. When we started the band our biggest influence of course were the current bands we listened to at that time, at the end of the 80s, like The Smiths, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The House Of Love and My Bloody Valentine (yeah, this was before Loveless came out...), plus some older stuff like Joy Division / New Order, and maybe most important: The Velvet Underground. When I heard the first Velvets album, this was like a revelation. I suddenly realised that you don't need great musical skills, as long as you have great songs.

Q: Make a list of the 5 best albums of all time...
A. Well, I can only speak for myself, as the other guys in the band would surely name some other albums, but mine are..., hmm..., all time? Tough decision..., maybe these (in no particular order):

"The Velvet Underground & Nico" by The Velvet Underground
"Tommy" by The Who
"All Mod Cons" by The Jam
"The Queen Is Dead" by The Smiths
"Psychocandy" by The Jesus And Mary Chain

Q: How do you feel playing live?
A. Playing live was always great, we enjoyed it very much. On a good day there's some kind of really positive interaction between the band and the audience, and the music is the link between the two. On a bad day however, it can be a real disaster..., but we only had that once, when we played in some small village in Bavaria, southern Germany. The people there were expecting some different kind of music, obviously..., they started yelling at us, and we were yelling back from the stage..., in the end we had to leave the location through the bathroom window, haha!

Q: How do you describe Grabbel and The Final Cut sounds?
A. Er..., once back in the day, when we sent out some information about the band to the local daily newspaper, we wrote that we're doing "noise-guitar-psych-pop". A few days later there was indeed an article about us, but the heading read: "Psycho Pop from Lüneburg"

So I'm not going to make up some new term for you now, else who knows what you'll come up with...? ;-)

By the way, after this "Psycho Pop" article I decided to rename a song I had just written. It was originally titled "Perfect Popsong" but became the "Psycho Popsong" then.


Q: Tell us about the process of recording the Get Your Feet Back On
The Ground EP...
A. Back then we recorded everything on cassette tapes. Ture, the owner of the Wahnhof club, had a 4-track cassette recorder we could kindly borrow from time to time. I can't remember the exact model, but I think it was an early TEAC cassette system. So this was cool, a real gift actually, because we didn't have to go to an expensive studio to record some rushed demos. Instead we could take our time with Ture's cassette thing at home, and it wouldn't matter if it took a few days longer than originally planned.
Anyway, we had one ok microphone (a Sennheiser-something) and one not-so-ok-but-fine-for-us mic (some SM58 copy), which we both used for vocals when playing in our rehearsal room. And when we had the 4-track cassette in our room we realised that we didn't have enough microphones to record the drums properly. We were really keen on starting the recording session, but alas, money was short. So we went downtown to the local Woolworth store to see what they got. They had cheap microphones and they had very cheap microphones. So we took two of each home, placed them where we thought they should be and made some tests with varying mic positions. And it sounded fine!

When I prepared the tracks for the forthcoming EP release now, I actually thought "wow! this sounds really good!". And it was recorded using these crappy yellow plastic microphones... True Lo-Fi, but the weird thing is that it doesn't sound like Lo-Fi at all.

Q: What represents the classic shoegazer era to the band?
A. That was a cool period. All of a sudden there were so many great noisy guitar-pop bands around. Before that, there were maybe a handful of bands that paved the way, like The Jesus And Mary Chain (of course!), The House Of Love and the pre-Loveless My Bloody Valentine.

But in late 1989 for me the "new bands" took off with the Pale Saints "Barging Into The Presence Of God" EP. I heard the song "She Rides The Waves" late at night on the radio and was blown away. Went to my favorite record shop the next day and bought the EP. Then came bands like Ride, Slowdive, Swervedriver and The Boo Radleys, and then Revolver, Moose and Catherine Wheel, and later on Adorable, who might be the last of the better known first-wave shoegazers. Or maybe shoegaze had ended by then already...? Hard to tell, but the scene faded in 1993 and somehow transformed into... Britpop!

Q: Which new bands do you recommended?
A. Well, these aren't exactly "new" bands, but of all bands I got to know in the past few years, I guess The Electric Soft Parade and Brakes made the biggest impact on me. They're both from Brighton, UK and they're sharing some band members, which is cool.

Best bands I saw live this year were Ra Ra Riot, The Joy Formidable and We Were Promised Jetpacks.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
A. That would definitely be the song "Flying Pizza" by Swearing At Motorists!

Q: What's the plans for future....
A. With the forthcoming Captured Tracks release of our Get Your Feet Back On The Ground EP in January, we're indeed thinking about getting back on stage again! So we've started rehearsing and we're currently planning some gigs in Hamburg and Lüneburg, and then I guess we'll see what happens...

Q: Any parting words?
A. Thanks to all the bloggers and everyone out there, who said such nice things about our music in the past few weeks. That was some really amazing feedback and it means a lot to us. And special thanks to Mike Sniper at Captured Tracks who made this all possible in the first place; without him our songs would still sit there on Bandcamp and Last.fm and rarely get heard...
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Thanks Stefan!!!

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https://www.facebook.com/GrabbelAndTheFinalCut

sexta-feira, 2 de dezembro de 2011

Xiita´s Weekend at SP

Em três diferentes versões a noite de São Paulo nesse final de semana tem ares xiitas em todos os locais...




quarta-feira, 30 de novembro de 2011

Perfect Prescription with Dead Star Sonics


Antes de mais nada dedico este post ao meu chapa Robson Gomes, guitarras e vocais do grande, digo muito grande The Concept, mas deixando o Concept para outra história (breve por sinal ok), e vou começar o post com uma frase do Robson: "A musica boa se renova a todo momento....".

Eu não só concordo como acredito piamente neste dogma, e para justificar esse sentimento, ou melhor este fato, apresento a vocês Dead Star Sonics, a banda de Nick Watts, um viciante e encharcado lo fi psychedelic sound, muito rock´n´roll classico, garageira 60´s mesclado com a familia Spacemen 3 e o Velvet Underground, impossivel não ficar pasmo com Original Sonic Blues, Spikey ou Velveteen, é grudento até dizer chega.

Ah sim, não há nada oficial do Dead Star Sonics e isso é o que instiga mais ainda, o tesão de fazer musica crua e nua, com amor e com conhecimento de causa, Nick Watts ganhou dois fãns imediatos, este que vos escreve e meu comparsa Robson, simplesmente porque Dead Star Sonics é foda!!!Ah sim, tomei conhecimento da banda através do proprio Nick via TBTCI, é um prazer sabe que o TBTCI tem leitores tão seletos.

E para deixar mais ilustrado e com maiores explicações, abaixo um track by track pelo proprio Nick Watts, enjoy it!!


Original Sonic Blues
I was going for a ‘Waiting For The Man’ vibe with this one. Trashy guitars, a pounding beat and two chords – it’s a good song to walk to. You should always judge a song by how it makes you walk along the street when you’re listening to it on headphones.

Seventeening
I love writing simple pop songs and then trying to mess them up and make them sound dirty. A great way of doing that is to make the guitars sound cheap and nasty. There’s a load of tremolo all over the middle section - I love tremolo. There should be more tremolo in the world.

Velveteen
When I was a kid, computer games came on cassettes that you had to load on to your computer. If you put the cassette in a normal tape player, it made these weird, random electronic sounds. I basically built this song around that sound.

Halfway to Nowhere
A simple, three-chord, trashy rock song. I normally use a drum machine because I record at home and real drums would scare my hamster, but this one has real drums played by a guy called Dan. All hail Dan.

Spiked
I try to have as few chords as possible in a song. This is all basically an A chord. There’s a droning sitar in there too. Most of the stuff I do has some kind of drone – a guitar or a synth playing the same note or chord all the way through. Gotta love the drone.

Lord, Don’t Take Me Now
Another song built around one chord. I love Spacemen 3 and the way they use drones and tremolo stutters, and I was trying to do something similar but also make it a full, well-rounded song. This is one of my favourites.
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Thanks Nick!!

http://www.deadstarsonics.com

sexta-feira, 18 de novembro de 2011

Dead Souds with Ars Phoenix - An Interview


Dark wave, post punk, electro noise, shoegazer esses são os territórios visitados por Jon e Page ou se preferir Ars Phoenix, combo perturbador que segue os caminhos do predileto SVI porém mais soturnos e eletronicos, o debut Hanging Fire fala por si só, desde a abertura com Hanging Fire a musica até os derradeiros momentos em Engines of Progress (Faith in Machinery Version) a dark wave comanda a grande parte das musicas e credencia o Ars Phoenix a ficar na linha de frente com bandas como Cold Cave e Soft Moon nas que remodelam os estilos escuros do 80´s e os trazem com roupagem atualizada para nossos tempos.

Tomei conhecimento do Ars Phoenix através de uma postagem no FB do SVI onde vi o video dos caras e me interessei de imediato comentando positivamente que havia gostado muito do que ouvi, de imediato recebi o contato imediato de Jon Glover responsavel por tudo na banda com exceção das guitarras e ai conversa vai conversa vem, e o TBTCI aproveitando a oportunidade descolamos mais uma entrevista para melhor apresentar a todos o poderio do Ars Phoenix.

***** Interview with Ars Phoenix *****


Q. When did Ars Phoenix, tell us about the history...
A. Ars Phoenix has a somewhat confusing history due to several relocations, recurrent lineup changes, and a series of unintentional, long-term hiatuses. The most recognizable form of Ars Phoenix, the Hanging Fire lineup of myself (vocals, synths, beats, guitar) and Paige Fowler (guitar), took shape in 2008. Paige and I had both just moved to Gainesville, Florida to begin working on PhDs in English Literature at the University of Florida. I had an album’s worth of material—2008’s Engines of Progress (FDO Recordings)—that I wanted to release and support with live shows, so I was in search of either a guitarist or a keyboardist who could help me perform the recordings live as a duo. We met when Paige overhead me chatting about music with another graduate student at an orientation meeting. Shortly thereafter, Paige and I began rehearsing and retooling the old material as well as writing, slowly but surely, what would eventually become 2011’s Hanging Fire (FDO).

Long before all that, though, I had started Ars Phoenix as a solo project in 2001/2002. At the time, I was in a very ambitious band called Kilborough, in which we attempted to blend post rock, shoegaze, ethereal, and experimental electronic music. It was a thrilling experience as well as a head ache, because the band had too many strong personalities, all competent songwriters with inventive ideas, that inevitably came into creative conflict. We peaked early with a sought after opening spot with The Faint, who were touring in support of Danse Macabre at the time, but the torturous process of completing our second album (recently released on cassette by our friend Patrick Norris) led me to quit.

I then started using Ars Phoenix as a vehicle for realizing my vision of Kilborough, although Ars Phoenix ended up only partially resembling my idealization of that band. The other members of Kilborough have since gone on to do some amazing things, including A Soft Perversion/Leo Ashline and The Nude Scene. Perhaps most notably, ex-Kilborough guitarist Todd Brooks has found substantial and well-deserved notoriety with his Pendu Recordings label and NYC dance parties, both of which became central fixtures of the Witch House genre/movement in 2010.

During the solo version of Ars Phoenix, I was living in Naples, Florida. I didn’t play out much, but when I did, I enjoyed the support of some great musicians: Sean Stevenson and Chris Farren from Fake Problems, Joe Merrill from Daleth, and Terence Hannum, now of Locrian. But Ars Phoenix kind of fell off the map shortly thereafter when I moved to Orlando to pursue a Master’s degree. I wrote and recorded a bit here and there, but Ars Phoenix was pretty much nonexistent until I moved to Gainesville and resurrected the project with Paige’s help. Just recently, the band has gone through another lineup change, the addition of my significant other, Caitlin, on synthesizer. With the new lineup and my PhD now complete, we’re more mobile than ever and hope to make 2012 a year full of live shows.

Q: Who are your influences?
A. I’m pretty obsessed with the early days of 4AD, especially vintage Clan of Xymox and, of course, the Cocteau Twins. Joy Division/New Order, The Cure, and The Smiths are also obvious influences, but I also have a deep fondness for Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine, and it would be a huge oversight for me not to recognize the role that Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Aphex Twin have played on my musical outlook, even though the pop sensibilities of Ars Phoenix might make those more soundtracky/experimental influences less recognizable to some listeners. Speaking of soundtracks, I also love horror and sci-fi film scores—John Carpenter, Goblin, Vangelis, Morricone, and Badalamenti come to mind. So I guess it is fitting that a recent review compares the atmosphere of Hanging Fire to the “psychotronic film genre.” I also love classic synthpop and the more electronics-driven side of British post-punk, including Depeche Mode, Cabaret Voltaire, and old Human League, as well as bands like Danse Society and Fad Gadget. More surprisingly perhaps, my formative years were dominated by Dischord Records, especially the almighty Fugazi, Nation of Ulysses, and Hoover, which explains the trace of post-hardcore some listeners and reviewers have perceived, particularly on Engines of Progress. Lately, though, Caitlin and I have been on a deep Dead Can Dance and Piano Magic kick, and I’m keen to see if those influences will impact the material we plan to begin writing next year.


Q. Made a list of 5 albuns of all time…
A. That is such a tough question, nearly unanswerable. I will do my best, but if you asked me again in a week, the list would most certainly shift a bit! In no particular order my top 5 are:
The Cure – Pornography,
Slowdive – Slouvaki,
Clan of Xymox – Medusa,
The Smiths – The Queen is Dead,
Joy Division – Closer,
John Foxx – Metamatic.

Q. How do you fell playing alive?
A. I’m addicted to playing live. On the drive home from a show, all I can think about is how much I wish we were on tour, because the wait between shows is going to kill me. While in the moment of the performance, I suppose I feel vital and expressive in an uninhibited way that is not quite acquirable in day to day life. During more hypnotic passages of the songs, there’s also a meditative quality to the feel of the performance. The vibrations brought on by extreme decibel levels and the wash of sound brought on by the use of delay pedals and layered guitars and synths almost has an immersive effect that, when at its best, can make you feel subsumed into the sound…like a release from the individuation of ego.

Q. How do you describe Ars Phoenix´s sounds?
A. To my mind, Ars Phoenix is an electronics-driven post punk band with shoegaze-influenced guitar tones, the moodiness of vintage darkwave, the hooks of classic synthpop, and the cinematic edge of post rock, lo-fi film scores, and experimental electronic music.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the eps?
A. I’ve recorded every Ars Phoenix album to date on a Boss BR8 digital 8 track. After the fact, I usually have someone do some software mastering, but I’ve never used any software during the actual recording of the tracks, only hardware. The recording and songwriting also blend together, with the songs mutating as the needs of recording can lead to happy accidents regarding song composition.

Q. What´s represents the shoegazer classic era to the band?
A. I tend to construe things broadly, so some of my answers might veer a little beyond a purist’s definition of shoegaze. That being said, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, and Chapterhouse immediately come to mind, but so do Cocteau Twins, Catherine Wheel, Lycia, and even The Chameleons, even though some of these bands might be seen more as atmospheric/ethereal pop-rock than proper shoegaze.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
A. Of course, Screen Vinyl Image, whom I absolutely love and had the privilege of playing with in an Arlington, Virginia basement in the summer of 2009. I’d also like to recommend a Gainesville band called Averkiou, who are not exactly a shoegaze band, but they do apply a touch of shoegaze influence to a raw and raucous indie pop sound. My two other recommendations are more on the post-punk/darkwave tip, but you must check out Entertainment and Feeding Fingers, with whom we’ve also had the honor of sharing the stage.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
A. The only covers we’ve ever learned were for a Joy Division/New Order tribute show. We played “The Eternal,” “Dead Souls,” “Transmission,” “She’s Lost Control,” and “True Faith.” We still get requests for our versions of “Transmission” and “She’s Lost Control,” though we’ve got too many originals to choose from now, so adding a cover into the set has become kind of tedious.

We also used to play a cover of "Cold" by The Cure. I was Robert Smith one Halloween, and we played the cover all weekend at a few different Halloween shows--great fun!

Q: What´s the plans for future....
A. Writing, recording, and more shows.

Q: Any parting words?
A. I like to think that if Lynch/Frost had been able to film season 3 of Twin Peaks, Bob would have been exorcised from Coop. Coop is too gentle of spirit and pure of heart to go down in possession from a dark spirit. Usually, I prefer ominous endings, but this is a notable exception, just because I love that charact.
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http://arsphoenix.bandcamp.com/

quarta-feira, 16 de novembro de 2011

BAD VIBRATIONS At The SWU - A Trip Inside This House


SWU, Paulinia, SP, 14.11.2011

Este foi o Festival, a cidade, o estado e a data do evento....onde o jargão era musica e sustentabilidade (sic) sustentabilidade do que?!?!? Estacionamento mediocre, organização regular, comida bem ruim, tudo caro para cacete ta a cerveja até que estava legal, sujeira para todo o lado, ok ok ok ok, não foi tão ruim assim, só um desabafo inicial para testar a paciência ...ahahahhahahhahahhahahahah....como comentou um brother meu - "tem cigarro?", resposta, "não aqui no SWU não vende tabaco.", replica - "é mesmo, mas vende cachorro quente e cerveja?" digna conversinha de pseudo riponga metido a biologo......bom deixa quieto esta parte....

Pegamos a estrada eu mais Plinio para nos encontrar-mos com os comparsas no sugestivo Blue Lake.....ou seria a Lagoa Azul?!??!Ok ok não encontramos a Brooke Shields, mas os brother Cicero, Andre passaram diretamente ao Hell Boy e no outro carro, Green, Robson, Vagner, Marcão e Eliane seguiram-nos após alguns entraves até Paulinia ROCK CITY?!?!!?hmmmm mais ou menos.....sou mais o ABC ou o ITAIM PAULISTA......ok ok ok vamos lá....

Chegando lá, o já citado pessimo estacionamento e dai em diante começou a trip dos Bad Vibrations no bom sentido é obvio....cerveja vai, blue vem, pink vai, green vem, yellow vai, blue vai, cerveja vem, não necessariamente nessa ordem mas mais ou menos por ai, seguimos no aguardo do inicio, meio sem saber onde irmos, e meio sem querer subimos para os dois palcos principais, e damos de cara com o Dinho Ouro Preto Blonde, ops quer dizer Duffy Blonde, ex Guns, que gritava mais SAOOO PAULOOOOS do que cantava ou tocava, um farsante, um fake que teve que tocar Misfits para agradar um pouquinho e se jogou na plateia, um fanfarrão....dai demorou mas acabou.

De frente a nos entram dois caras e uma garota, diga-se de passagem linda e com cara de pouquissimos amigos e começa 666, é isso ai BRMC, não tinhamos sacado ainda mas logo logo caimos na real e ai o festival começou para valer....Beat The Devils Tattoo veio e ai fodeu tudo, classicos e mais classicos, se bem que eu juro que aguardava mais do BRMC algo mais rocker, mais sujo, mais forte, que só foi concretiza na derradeira Whatever Happen to my rock´n´roll....e essa frase caiu como um manto na nossa cabeça, I GIVE MY SOUL TO A NEW RELIGION.....o ponto é que só alguns gatos pingados realmente venderam suas almas, ainda bem que eu e meus comparsas vendemos no atacado.


Pausa no festival, descemos procurando informações sobre onde seria o Black Angels, eu, Plinio e Cicero literalmente meio tensos, meio ansiosos, meio eletricos, meio cansados, mas no aguardo, dai finalmente a benção, uma alma abençoada mandou, vai ser daqui 20 minutos aqui na frente....opaaaaaaa agora sim....é só nos prepararmos, blue, green, cervejas em ação e a movimentação no palca, amplicadores valvulados, rickenbacker, fender jaguar, orgão a´la 13th Floor Elevators e o clima esquentando e ficando mais tenso....atraso para começar e dai toda a trupe aparece....e a chuva inicia lentamente no mesmo momento do primeiro acorde do Black Angels mas eu meu chapa, a trip começou, aquela musica, aqueles videos, as caras e bocas dos amigos tudo virou uma verdadeira ODE ORGIASTICA de musica, e foi uma a uma, Phosperene Dream, Sunday Afternoon, Telephone, e BAD VIBRATIONS, e ai meus caros, virei para meu brother Cicero e insanamente berrei BAAAAAAAAD VIBRATIONS e ele sorriu de forma gargalhante e dançamos até o fim dos mundos....lisergia, psicodelismo, insanidade, hipnose, tudo são meros adjetivos para descrever o tamanho do estrago que esse show fez em todos nós.


Fim de show, fim do transe, opa SY....muito trabalho para subir, barro para todo lado, e finalmente chegamos e Death Valley 69 tinha acabado de terminar....o cansaço estava nos dominando, mas ainda haviam forças, THIS SONG IS CALL SISTER, mentira era Schizophrenia....e ai a ode foi completa, ainda teve mais, Teenage Riot e o final apoteotico, levantadinha de saia da Kim, só para deixar claro que das 3 loiras das bandas é ELA QUEM MANDA!!!!!

E ai fim de historia, nos encontramos todos, nos separamos, mas todos nos jamais esqueceremos do show do Black Angels uma verdadeira obra messianica que só amigos como todos nos podemos entender....

Nunca esquecerei das palavras do meu grande, digo muito grande amigo Marcão ao me despedir, - "Mestre X, demorei anos para te conhecer mas voce é um grande grande amigo meu de todos os tempos." ....

Isso chama-se amizade ETERNA.....ou como diz a letra I GIVE MY SOUL TO A NEW RELIGION!!!!!!!!!!!

First and Last and Always with The KVB - An Interview

Klaus Von Barrel é a mente perturbada por detrás deste intenso e poderoso mix de darkwave, pos punk, electronoise, shoegazer e tudo que houver barulho e insanidade dentro da musica, o The KVB é assim, insanidade gratuita e durissima, algo desnorteando encharcado de beat tribais, vocais guturais, camadas e mais camadas de guitarras em forma de drones, ou riffs fantasmagóricos que servem perfeitamente para trilha sonora de filmes de Kenneth Anger, alias Anger é influência latente para Klaus. Com uma discografia extensa e complexa, dominada por cassetes, 7", 12" e um album extremamente perturbador intitulado The Black Sun, que para o TBTCI é um dos melhores do ano passado, o The KVB tem sua estréia aqui no TBTCI no melhor estilo, uma entrevista daquelas para não deixar duvida alguma sobre as intenções de Klaus e do que o KVB nos prepara daqui para frente além de influências e o mais importante poder mostrar o quão espetacular esta preciosidade densa e psicotica pode server de trilha sonora para o caos atual, amigos com vocês Klaus Von Barrel e seu assombroso The KVB.

***** Interview with The KVB *****


Q. When did KVB, tell us about the history...
A. I started the kvb in late 2009 by accident. I was already playing guitar in the band suicide party when i wrote and recorded a few ideas with a new synth i had just bought. I figured they didn't really fit in with what the band were doing, so i decided to start something new.
I had previously explored solo recording before then, with a project called ManOnTheMoon, which was more psychedelic & folky - so it was a kind of noisey/darker progression on from that.

Q: Who are your influences?
A. I have so many in all different forms of music, art, life etc. - but the obvious major influences on my music include the likes of; the jesus & mary chain, suicide, fad gadget, loop, bowie, joy division, scott walker, echo & the bunnymen, cabaret voltaire and Love. More recent musical influences have been bands like crystal stilts, aptbs, velvet condom.etc. Outside of music; friends, family and my girlfriend kat are big influences to me and what i do.

Q. Made a list of 5 albuns of all time…
A. Echo & the bunnymen - ocean rain, jesus & mary chain - psychocandy, Love - Forever Changes, velvet underground & nico, joy division - closer.

Q. How do you fell playing alive?
A. From most of my past experiences, Its great fun playing live (and being on tour too!). I am only just getting around to bringing the kvb to the stage as a band now, so it'll be great finally getting to play the kvb tracks to a live audience.


Q. How do you describe KVB sounds?
A. It often gets described as 'dark wave' (and 'shoegaze'), which i guess makes sense, but as its a solo project, i feel i have the freedom to explore a lot of different styles and ideas.
So some tracks may be loud and guitar based, others may be more minimal and synth based, some tracks use samples etc. It all depends on my mood, inspirations and the instruments i'm using at the time.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
A. I record and mix everything myself at home. Its normally a pretty quick process, it has to be, otherwise i'll end up analysing a track too much and trying something new. The songs are normally built around a drum machine beat and a bass or synth line. Then the rest gets added, whatever that may be.

Q. What´s represents the shoegazer classic era to the band?
A. Of course i love lots of the bands from the original classic shoegaze era, but i think the current wave of bands in this style are very exciting too, bands like screen vinyl image, stellarium, belong, ceremony and so many more are taking the original aesthetic to new places, via electronica, surf, punk and ambient styles.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
A. Pink Playground, Tropic of Cancer, Dirty Beaches, Woven Bones, Ela Orleans, The Vivids are all highly recommended!

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?.
A. It'd be good to have a go at covering another current bands song, something a bit different to what im doing...

I have previously covered 'these boots are made for walking', so i might do something like that again too.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
A. Well, i've just released a limited tape on clan destine records called 'subjection/subordination' (http://clandestinerecords.bigcartel.com/product/the-kvb-subjection-subordination) and I have some live tour dates around europe planned for january. Then, there is a full length album called 'pray to the light machine', hopefully coming out at the end of february, which will be followed up by more live dates. Hopefully that cycle can continue, as long as people are into it.

Q: Any parting words?
A. Yeah, if you're into what im doing, please check my other projects Die Jungen (http://diejungen.bandcamp.com) and Suicide Party (www.facebook.com/suicideparty). Thanks!
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http://thekvb.bandcamp.com/

quarta-feira, 9 de novembro de 2011

3 Years of The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Pois é, quem diria hein, 3 anos, 3 anos intensos que mais uma vez deram uma reviravolta na vida deste que vos escreve, o amor pela musica esta inserido nos posts destes 36 meses onde simplesmente o que aconteceu foi estreitar o relacionamento entre amantes da musica, sejam músicos, fãns ou qualquer um interessado em descobrir e vivenciar novas experiências....

Obrigado a todos que de uma forma ou de outra contribuem diretamente ou indiretamente ao sucesso do TBTCI!!!!

Abraço a todos....

terça-feira, 1 de novembro de 2011

Disco Inferno with The Oscillation - An Interview


Absolutamente intenso e complexo, uma das obras a serem apreciadas ciclicamente, sem desviar a atenção um segundo sequer, um mix insano de psicodelismo em estado bruto, kraut em doses brutais e cavalares, drones, wall of sound, post punk, assim é Veils segundo album dos ingleses do The Oscillation, impecável e inspirado do inicio ao fim, facilmente constara nas listas mais antenadas dos melhores do ano, canções como Future Echo, Sandstorm, Fall, Telephatic Birdman nos conduzem a um grandioso transe continuo unindo som e alma de forma a ser inevitável não ser abduzido pela lisergia intensa gerada por estes magos intitulados The Oscillation.

Não a toa a adoração deste que vos escreve acabou por querer dissecar mais a fundo o porque de tudo isso, e nada mais propício do que sabermos diretamente da banda suas origens, influencias e para onde caminham, com vocês The Oscillation.

***** Interview with The Oscillation *****


Q. When did Oscillation starts, tell us about the history...
A. The Oscillation started under that recording name in 2006 with a single called "New Way To Feel". After that I was recording as The Orichalc Phase which was a bit more krautrock/disco and also another project called Mesma, all got a bit confusing really. They were going to be seperate projects but I decided to combine all under the name of the Oscillation in 2007 for my debut album on DC Recordings.

Q: Who are your influences?
A. There's loads of stuff I'm always coming back too..
Can, The Cure, Popol Vuh, Jesus And Mary Chain, Spacemen 3, Loop, MC5, Blue Cheer, The Durutti Column, Roy Montgomery, Ash Ra Tempel, Tangerine Dream, Neu, Miles Davis, Suicide, PIL

Q. Made a list of 5 albums of all time…
A. Do you mean classic albums? If so at this moment in time I'll go for:

The Velvet Underground- The Velvet Underground & Nico
PIL- Metal Box
The Cure- Pornography
The Pretty Things- S.F Sorrow
The Jesus And Mary Chain- Psychocandy

Q. How do you feel playing live?
A. I feel kind of complete and lost sometimes. You have to surrender yourself to that point in time so you're always in "the now" moment. You can't run away or think ahead, or change what's just happened. You can't predict what the other musicians are always going to do and can never be perfect so it feels quite honest in some ways and really exciting when you feel like something great is happening.. Surfing a good wave (not that I can surf ha ha).

Q. How do you describe Oscillations sounds?
A. I'd like to achieve a feeling of lots of layers all happening at once. Many emotions and feelings contradicting each other, unhinged and but somehow controlled, like some wierd psychological sound experiment where you can forget about reality or at least the structured reality that we all have to deal with and accept. I like the the idea of parallel realities or states of being where you can take a negative and make a positive out of it. Or sometimes a sound/lyric that has no particular feeling of commiting to happy or sad. So you can interpret as it suits you

Q: Tell us about the process of recording Veils, and what´s the greatest difference between the Out of Phase and Veils?
A. Veils was a bit longer to record that Out Of Phase but a bit freer in a way for me personally. Out Of Phase was kind of an attempt to make a clubby(ish) album for DC, whereas on Veils it was more like I just wanted to include tracks that expressed a period of my life at the time. I got to get a lot of negativity out of my system which I didn't realize until it was all finished.
I don't know what to say about the actual proccess of recording specifically for the album as I'm always working on tracks. Also, I had a full-time job for a couple of years while I was recording it that was driving me totally round the bend. So while I was at work I'd just be fantazing about sounds to obliterate that experience. On the weekend and evenings I'd just immerse myself into the music void with as much energy and will power as possible before I had to go back the the bullshit! Veils feels a bit more coherent and balanced to me.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
A. Soft Moon I really like a lot. I just (finally) heard some music by The Haxan Cloak which sounds amazing so I got to get that album, it's kind of like Ligetti or Scelsi. Quite dark and mournful but beautiful too.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
A. I'd love to cover a Cure song like something off Pornography or Faith but I'm never sure which one to do. I'd have to find a way to it different which I haven't thought of yet so for now I just enjoy them as they are.. Also I'd really like to do a song by The Chocolate Watchband or Electric Prunes... you got me thinking again anyway!

Q: What´s the plans for future....
A. Just to be as prolific as possible, play in as many countries as possible..
There's a new Oscillation EP and video coming out in a month and I'm not far off the next Oscillation album. There's a project called Booze with a friend of mine who was in Chrome Hoof so there's an album of that this November too. Also Tom (from The Oscillation) and I have an ambient album we're working on. I feel a big sense of urgency to keep moving forward with lots of music and to make the most of the opportunity to be able to get it out there. I really just want to do as many albums and projects as possible.

Q: Any parting words?
A. First word: Yes.
Second word: Thanks
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http://theoscillation.bandcamp.com/

quinta-feira, 27 de outubro de 2011

Catch the Breeze with Whirr - An Interview



Diretamente do norte da California um petardo classicamente shoegazer, antes conhecido como Whirl mas que por motivos legais foi obrigado a alterar o nome para Whirr, o fato é que o 12" Distressor do ao passado, ainda sob a alcunha de Whirl foi um dos mais elogiados lançamentos shoegazers do ano, Slowdive, The Cure em doses cavalares para fazer a alegria dos saudosistas de plantão e xiitas aficionados por muralhas de guitarras mescladas com andamento pos punk e aquele ar etereo digno de virar obra prima para qualquer fã do genero. Agora o Whirr devidamente adotado pela Tee Pee joga no mercado um 7" absolutamente fantastico, June é o nome da maravilha Junebounvier e Sundae são verdadeiras perolas ainda mais grandiosas do que as canções de do Distressor, principalmente Junebounvier algo soberbo ecos de Ride, Slowdive, Moose estilhaçados por dentre a canção de pouco menos de 4 minutos, Sundae representa o lado etereo do Whirr, e novamente o TBTCI atraves de contatos imediatos, através de Nick, apresenta em primeira mão a história dessa pequena maravilhosa escondida no universo dos bons.

***** Interview with Whirr *****


Q. When did Whirr starts, tell us about the history...
A. Whirr began under the name Whirl and we had our first practice on Halloween of 2009. The band came together after I wrote demo versions of a few of the songs from the Distressor EP through a MIDI program called Tab It. I showed them to my friends (who all jammed and hung out regularly) and we decided to start a band. We recorded and put out a DIY demo cassette in January of 2010 with our friend Byanca Munoz on vocals.

After the positive response to the cassette, we took a more serious approach toward the band and began writing more songs together. In March 2010, we went into the studio with Jack Shirley at the Atomic Garden in Palo Alto, California and recorded seven songs, which would become the Distressor EP. Following the release of the Distressor EP, Byanca departed from the band, and in January of 2011 we found Alexandra Morte, who is our singer/keyboard player now. In February, we again went into the studio with Jack Shirley to record two songs which would be released as the June 7". Unfortunately, not long after we recieved an Email from an attorney representing another artist named "Whirl" who had trademarked the name, so we changed it to "Whirr". In the midst of the name change we received an offer from Tee Pee records and signed with them. They put out the June 7" in September and will be releasing our debut LP in early 2012.

Q. Make a list of your favorite 5 albums of all time…
A. In no particular order :

The Smiths - Self Titled
The Cure - Disintegration
Slowdive - Just for a day
Smashing Pumpklins - Siamese Dream
Dinosaur Jr - Green Mind

Q. How do you describe Whirr sounds?
A. I'm not sure how to describe our sound, early on we aimed for sort of Slowdive/MBV worship but with more of a pop song structure. However, now it's much more of all of our influences combined, while still adding our own touch to things.


Q. About Distressor ep, many many people consider one of the best records from last year, what´s your opinion?
A. We're all proud of the record and very thankful that people enjoy it.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the new 7"?
A. There really wasn't much to it, ha ha. We wrote/jammed the songs together for a few weeks, then headed into the studio and live recorded the songs in a day.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
A. Yuck, Tears Run Rings, Nostalgist, Anne, Young Prisms, Broken Water, Weekend.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
A. I would love to cover : The Cure - A forest, Husker Du - Don't want to know if you're lonely and Foo Fighters - Everlong.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
A. Put out our debut LP on Tee Pee records in early 2012, hopefully do a full US tour and continue playing shows and writing songs.

Q: Any parting words?
A. Thanks so much for for the interview opportunity Renato, thanks to anyone who listens to/supports our band.

Shout outs :
Nostalgist, Anne, Deafheaven, DNF, Lycus, FDBVK, American Gods, Moonbeams, Traif Lip, Broken Water, Wife
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www.facebook.com/whirrband
http://whirrband.tumblr.com/
http://whirrband.bandcamp.com/album/june

Psychotic Reaction with Teenage Mary - An Interview


Psicodelismo garageiro daqueles que só quem é iniciado sabe, essa é a maxima para a novidade encharcada de fuzz chamada Teenage Mary que ainda não lançou nada oficialmente mas já causa frisson por onde passou e obviamente o TBTCI sempre ligado nas grandes barulheiras nos quatro cantos do mundo, descolou através de contatos imediatos, este feito por Steven, guitarrista do combo. Srs, aprofundem-se no universo psicotico e freak do Teenage Mary.

***** Interview with Teenage Mary *****

Q. When did Teenage Mary start, tell us about the history...
A. We started out about 7 months ago, we always fancied starting a band up so we got together and started jamming. We are all into the same sort of music so it was easy to find our sound and we just started writing tunes and getting great feedback on them. We played our first gig in June and it went really well, we have recently played more gigs supporting the likes of the Lucid Dream and Dead Sons.

Q: Who are your influences?
A. Our main influences include bands like The Beatles, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Black Angles, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Verve, Jesus and Mary Chain, Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, The Velvet Underground and many more.

Q. Made a list of 5 albuns of all time.
A. This can change every week, but as a collective of the whole band:

The Beatles: Rubber Soul
Brian Jonestown Massacre: Strung Out In Heaven
Jesus and Mary Chain: Psychocandy
The Verve: A Northern Soul
Oasis: Definitely Maybe

Q. How do you feel playing live?
A. We love playing live, there isn't a better buzz for us than getting up on stage and playing our songs to an audience.


Q. How do you describe Teenage Mary sounds?
A: Our sound is dirty 'rock and roll' with a lot of fuzz and drones. There are a couple of new songs in the process of being completed at the moment that have dialed back the fuzz quite a lot.

Q: When is the first official release due?
A: We are looking at releasing our first EP in February/March time next year but we don't have an official date as of yet.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
A. The Lucid Dream, Wild Eyes, Toba Caldera and Minaret are all great bands and friends of ours.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
A: We currently do a cover of The La's: I Can't Sleep

Q: What´s the plans for future
A. Our plan is to release our EP and just keep playing as many gigs as we can and spread the word about us, hopefully get on some festivals next year also.

Q: Any parting words?
A: Thank you for taking the time to ask us these questions. You can find us and listen to our recordings on www.soundcloud.com and www.facebook.com/teenagemary
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Thanks Steve and Teenage Mary

quinta-feira, 13 de outubro de 2011

Krautpsychdrone with Eat Lights Become Lights - An Interview


Ouvir o debut Autopia do combo Eat Lights Become Lights é uma viagem sem precedentes ao mundo imaginario do kraut rock alemão clássico dos 70´s mais precisamente NEU!, Can e Faust passando pelas dissonantes trips de Spacemen 3 com pinceladas de shoegazer tudo isso atualizado e transportado para os dias de hoje. A trinca de abertura com Test Driver, Dark Matter e Machine Language deixa altamente ilustrado e clarissimo que estamos diante de uma pequena obra prima que poucos terão acesso, mas certamente quem estiver frente a frente com Autopia sera presenteado com uma audição riquissima, Dark Matter é a alma do album, um kraut noise em altissima rotação, torna-se predileta desde o inico, ainda tem Stargazer e White Horse para fazer de Autopia uns dos albuns do anos.

Como sou aficcionado pela sonoridade não houve como não fazer contato com Neil Rudd, guitarras, sintetizadores, loops, programming e outros barulhinhos mais e descolar essa entrevista exclusiva do já predileto Eat Lights Become Lights, entre e boa viagem.

***** Interview with Eat Lights Become Lights *****


Q. When did ELBL starts, tell us about the history...
A. ELBL started in around 2007/2008. I used to be in a band that did the standard post rock thing, quiet/loud, Explosions in the sky/Mogwai kinda thing. I've always been a massive fan of the German 70's bands that become know and grouped under the Krautrock banner. I'd always really loved the motorik beat and that fast forward kinda sound and interesting use of repetition.
So ELBL started out as side project but it quickly became evident that it was way more enjoyable doing the ELBL thing so I focused all my energies in this direction.

I'm a massive believer in getting the right people into a line up. Once you have them it makes the act of playing the music I write effortless as everyone is coming from the same influences and using the same musical language. You don't have to explain yourself with the right people, it becomes more an intuitive thing. I had a few line ups that really didn't work for one reason of another. But in the last few years I've been working with some people that really understand what is required and make the process fun.

Currently I'm putting together a new line up of ELB here in L.A and its really starting to come together. I've begun working with a really talented keys/synth player called Matt McMurray who has a fantastic analogue synth collection and is a great musician in his own right.


Q: Who are your influences?
A-I've a fairly broad range of influences, a lot of minimalist composers- Steve Reich, through to a lot of German 70's bands- Kraftwerk, Neu!, Can, Harmonia, Cluster, Popol Vuh as well as more contemporary bands such as Spacemen 3, Camera, Holy Fuck, Maserati, 12, K-X-P, Cave. I guess they all have a lot in common with each other as a lot of them explore the repetitive elements that I love.

Q. Make a list of your 5 albums of all time…
A-Impossible to limit it to 5 but I guess if I had to...
Brian Eno- Music for Airports
Steve Reich- Works !965-1995
Kraftwerk- Autobahn
Neu!- Neu!
Spacemen 3- Playing with Fire

Q. How do you feel playing live?
A. The live ELBL sound and the recorded sound are two very different things. When we play live we always try and make it that bit more immediate and heavier than the records. I've never been a fan of bands that just replicate what is on their records. I always like to see bands that are pushing their sounded further out there, improvising and experimenting on the fly. This for me is the most exciting time, when your not quite sure what is coming next- it si pure creativity.
I've played guitar quite a few times for Damo Suzuki, the sets are always 100% improvised and these for me are some of the most rewarding gigs I've ever done.

Q. How do you describe ELBL sounds?
A. Kraut-Psych-Drone


Q: Tell us about the process of recording the new album?
A. The new album sessions began earlier this year and its going pretty well right now. I've finished about 12 tracks and I've around another 10 to complete. Then I'll choose which will be going on the new record.

The process is always the same when I right. I generally start with a seed of an idea and build layers and layers of guitars and synths to the point where I've gone way to far. Then it become a reductive process of stripping back layers of sound till it reaches a point that I'm happy with.


Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
A. I'm a massive fan of a German band called Camera. I don't think there is any recorded output by them. They perform generally on the streets of Berlin. They are a 3 piece, guitar, keys, drums and its all, as far as I'm aware totally improvised. They have this incredible honesty in their music, it feels extremely pure. They really seem to get what it is to make this kind of music. There are loads of videos on Youtube of their street gigs. Its far to say I'm completely obsessed with them right now.

Q: Which bands you love to made a cover version?
A. Lou Reed- Metal Machine Music

Q: What´s the plans for future....
A. We are releasing a split 7" with a band called Cloudland Canyon on The Great Pop Supplement label early in 2012. They are an amazing band so I'm very excited to be a part of that. We did our last single with The Great Pop Supplement "Test Drive" which had a Silver Apples remix of the track on the flip side. It came out on square, green vinyl so I'm keen to see what we can do this time around. I've an idea about getting the needle to start at the centre and for the needle to travel out to the edge...We'll see.

After that the next album should be ready for release around March I think. This time around I've tried to strip back the ELBL sound. Less layers and a more direct approach to the sounds and rhythms. It currently feels like its a good follow up sonically to our last album AUTOPIA which came out earlier this year on Enraptured records.

Q: Any parting words?
A. Make music to make music, don't make music to become famous. Scenes come and go but the best music is timeless.
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Thanks Neil Lights....

http://eatlightsbecomelights.bandcamp.com/album/autopia