Paint the Picture with Small Victories- An Interview

Os londrinos Andy e Nick formam o duo Small Victories que acabou de soltar seu mais recente single "Paint the Picture".

Música enérgica, viciante, melódica, como os melhores indie rocks devem ser, ou deveriam. Uma pegada remetendo a fase inicial do Oasis, e obviamente fazendo conexões com os Beatles mas sem soar derivativo, pelo contrário, neste caso, o Small Victories consegue imprimir sua própria assinatura.

O Small Victories cairia perfeitamente para ser trilha sonora de algum filme do Guy Ritchie, fácil, fácil.

***** Interview with Small Victories *****

Q. When did Small Victories start? Tell us about the history...
Andy: It began with a common interest in excellent music, in a large field at a little UK festival called Glastonbury. Nick & I bonded over sets from the Cribs, Macabees, Slaves & Gaz Combes and that really started the ball rolling. The next obvious step was a rehearsal room!

Nick: At that point we were just going to go to the studio and see what happened. We had our first rehearsal towards the end of 2015 and ended up coming away with our first single ‘Future’ which we released in the Spring of 2016. Me and Andy continued writing together until we had a complete live set and have been playing shows ever since, along with Furs and Masks frontman Louis Mathews on bass.

Q: Who are your influences?
Andy: Collectively I think we both really enjoy our britpop of the 90s and indie rock of the 00s. We have quite a wider range of individual influences but specifically for Small Victories we've taken alot of inspiration from garage and pysch rock bands like BRMC, Kasabian and the White Stripes.

Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
Andy/Nick:
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's what I'm Not
Oasis – Definitely Maybe
Guns N Roses - Appetite for destruction
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Beatles - Revolver

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Nick: Playing live is the best part of being in a band. When you’re relatively new you never really know whether you’re going to be playing to 2 or 200 people, but that just adds to the excitement really. We’re pretty no nonsense on stage, just blast through the songs as best and as loud as we can generally. We all have a good time whilst playing and I think that resonates into the crowd!

Q. How do you describe Small Victories sounds?
Nick: We’ve been described as Garage/Psych Indie-Rock.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
Nick: It was just the two of us recording the first lot of tracks, so we would generally put down the drums and bass first and then layer the guitars and vocals over the top. We played everything as we would live to begin with then put in overdubs where needed. We’ve done two recording sessions now and used the same studio in North London for both, as we were really happy with the results of the first. Unfortunately the second didn’t go so well and although we came away with our new single ‘Paint the Picture’, another track that we had recorded as part of the same session had to be scrapped, as the producer disappeared and didn’t finish it. Needless to say we’ll be looking elsewhere for our next sessions!

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
Andy. We're off to see a band called Yak later this week, who are great.

Q: Which band would you love to make a cover version of?
Nick: I would love to have a crack at something by Faithless, although I’m not sure how that would sound as 3-piece guitar band. The energy they get on stage is incredible though, I’d love to get somewhere near that.

Q: What are your plans for the future?
Nick: We are focusing on our new single ‘Paint the Picture’ at the moment, which is due to be released on 4th November. We’ve got a show at The Water Rats in London on 5th November to coincide with the release, supporting Trampolene, who I’m a big fan of at the moment.

Q: Any parting words?

Andy: Thanks for the questions and keep spreading the Small Victories love across South America. Its been a pleasure. Até mais!
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www.facebook.com/smallvictoriesmusic
https://soundcloud.com/smallvictoriesband
https://www.instagram.com/smallvictoriesmusic

Funny World with Misty Coast - An Interview

Bem, se você acompanha o TBTCI deve saber que os noruegues do The Megaphonic Trift são prediletos da casa, certo?

Tendo isto posto, vamos ao duo, claro, norueguês, Misty Coast que na realidade são Linn e Richard, ambos do Megaphonic Trift.

Em uma homenagem ao T-Rex, (The Misty Coast of Albany é uma das músicas do álbum Unicorn de 1969), o duo debutou com o single "Funny World" em uma versão mais sonhadora do que a banda original deles, e com acentos mais psicodélicos, deixando o noise shoegaze do Megaphonic um pouco de lado.

"Funny World" é uma preciosidade grudenta que gruda na mente desde os primeiros momentos.

Que venham mais, muito mais do Misty Coast.

***** Interview with Misty Coast *****

Q. When did Misty Coast start? Tell us about the history...
We (Linn and Richard) play together in the noise rock band The Megaphonic Thrift, and as some of the music we wrote didn’t fit that project we decided to start Misty Coast.

Q: Who are your influences?
We are influenced by all the strange people around us, by the sea, the rain and the long, dark coasts of Norway. We are also big fans of the minimalistic musical landscape of Broadcast, we discover the meaning of life while listening to Flaming Lips , and we cry over old classics like T-Rex, The Zombies and Nick Drake.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
This is always the hardest question ever! We both find these albums absolutely amazing:

T-Rex - The Slider
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen we are floating in space
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
The Byrds - Younger than yesterday

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Like the world is spinning under our feet, and our minds are soaked up by the clouds. We LOVE it.

Q. How do you describe Misty Coast sounds?
Minimalistic and dreamy psych-pop with one foot on the pedal board, and the other one placed steady on the ground. We believe that less is more, and we try to make the grim become beautiful.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the song?
We started recording Funny World on our living room floor, building the song based on a guitar riff over a simple drum beat. We brought the session to producer Matias Tellez (Young Dreams), and we finished the song in his studio. He turned everything upside down, and created a magical universe.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
Soft Ride, Strange Hellos and 9 grader nord from our hometown Bergen, Nylenda from Stavanger and Oslo based Hilma Nikolaisen.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
Our band name is a tribute to T-Rex and their well hidden song The Misty Coast of Albany. So it would have to be that one.

Q: What are your plans for the future?
We are playing a few shows in Norway this fall while finishing up our debut album. We’re also releasing a new album with The Megaphonic Thrift and we’re going on a Japan tour. In the future we are planning to get away from this rainy city as much as possible. We just want to travel around doing shows and recording new music.

Q: Any parting words?
We’ve never been to Brazil, so spread our music around and we’ll might get a chance to come over for a visit!
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https://www.facebook.com/mistycoast
https://soundcloud.com/misty-coast/funny-world-1

Skinwalker with Pabst - An Interview

Garageira, fuzz totalmente grungeada diretamente de Berlin, cortesia do trio Pabst, que soltou ao mundo ontem, seu mais novo EP, "Skinwalker".

Um choque em alta velocidade entre Nirvana e The Pretty Things pra chacoalhar corpo, mente e alma.

Não é nada de novo, mas e daí, o negócio aqui é pura diversão, dê play, aumente no máximo e aproveite sem moderação.

***** Interview with Pabst *****

Q. When did PABST start? Tell us about the history...
A: The band started in early 2016, or maybe a bit earlier in winter 2015. Tore and I wanted to start a power trio kind of band with only drums, guitar and bass, after we had dabbled in electronic music for a while. We recorded the EP in Spring and after that Tilman joined.

Q: Who are your influences?
A: Garagepop from the 60s, Protometal from the 70s, Synthpop and Goth from the 80s, Indierock from the 90s, R’n’B from the early 2000s, Lo-fi and Postcore from more recent years, and last but not least the Muscle Shoals Rhythm section.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
A: Nirvana - In Utero
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Dirty Beaches - Badlands
Converge - You Fail Me

Q. How do you feel playing live?
A: Erik: Anxious but good.

Tilman: If you only play one instrument at a time, you can really lose yourself. If you've got to sing as well, you start thinking too much.

Tore: Yes, too much thinking is not good for me either.

Q. How do you describe PABST sounds?
A: Hook-driven, fuzzy, grungy Garagerock with a little R'n'B feel to it.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
A: We recorded the EP in a small studio in Berlin that is located on a rail station. We played drums and bass live and dubbed the guitar parts. Vocals and synth noises were recorded at home, cause in the studio those weren’t even finished.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
A: DYN from Berlin, Show Me The Body from Brooklyn, LISS from Aarhus, Aldous RH from Manchester

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
A: We already made a cover of Ghetto Supastar by Pras, ODB and Mya. I personally like covering songs from a very different musical style than your own and see what comes out of it.

Q: What are your plans for the future?
A: Releasing the Skinwalker EP and playing some more shows, record new songs, play even more shows.

Q: Any parting words?
A: Hau rein, halt die Ohr’n steif!
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https://pabstband.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/pabstband

Gently with Bare Wire Son - An Interview

O canadense Olin Skjolle ou se você preferir, Bare Wire Son, certamente criou uma obra impar e absolutamente peculiar para o que vem sendo concebido atualmente.

Denso, dramático, melancólico e extremamente angustiante, assim pode e deve ser definido o debute do cara intiulado "Gently". Ecos de Codeine, Low, Swans são sentidos no decorrer das oito dolorosas canções do álbum.

Se você esta com a auto estima baixa, cuidado, pois, certamente, "Gently" vai aflorar sentimentos mortais em você, tome cuidado.

Um disco acima da média.

***** Interview with Bare Wire Son *****

Q. When did Bare Wire Son start? Tell us about the history...
There isn't an exact inception date for Bare Wire Son, it's been ongoing for years but has only come to fruition in the last few. After attempting to be in several bands while I lived in England I realised that I'm just not a good person to work with musically and am incapable of being in a traditional band, so decided to figure out how to do everything myself and make exactly what I wanted to without having to share any responsibility or compromise with another musician. This basically means I rely heavily on looping, effects, drum machines and stereo set-ups. I essentially ostracised myself to Poland to finish writing Gently, then moved to Canada to record it. I find being in unfamiliar places is the most powerful catalyst for creative output, so try to perpetuate that whenever possible.

Q: Who are your influences?
This isn't such a straightforward question for me to answer, I believe that a musicians influences shouldn't simply be tied to other musicians; influence can come from anywhere, whether it's heroin, a philosopher, a relationship or nothing. Everything is a culmination of events, and those events shape your preferences and influences. To answer the actual question, here are a few people whom I feel have been impactful on me artistically: Michael Gira, Jandek, George Bacovia, Andrei Tarkovsky, Krzysztof Kieslowski and Kathe Kollwitz.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
This fluctuates for me as it does most people, but right now I would say, in no particular order:
Swans - Soundtracks For The Blind
Matt Elliott - Failing Songs
Silver Jews - The Natural Bridge
Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run The Game
:Of The Wand & The Moon: - The Lone Descent

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Intimidated. Anxious. Generally nervous and excited simultaneously. A live performance for me is an entirely different entity to an album, and they both have very disparate effects, so it's very important for me to make sure that the live performance deals with the spectrum of senses that a recording isn't able to; something much more physical and intrusive, more visceral and immediate than the intimacy, fragility and personalness of an album.

Q. How do you describe Bare Wire Son sounds?
When I'm in a situation where I have to attach adjectives to my music, I usually just leave it as "slowgaze". Languid, depressive and dense, but ultimately I don't really like having to describe something I've made when it's so readily available to actually experience instead. We live in a very immediately gratifying age where anyone interested can find out for themselves in a matter of seconds, and the artists chosen words mean very little outside of genre tagging.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
I do everything myself from start to finish. this way I'm not confined to time limits or outside pressure from studio fees etc, plus I know it will sound exactly as I want it to when I have total control over everything. Gently was written to be played live, alone, and therefore has heavy electronic/mechanical elements. The drums all come from a shitty, old drum machine, the synths are from a broken Hammond organ and a three octave Korg. I get these parts done first and then put the guitars on top, which are by far the most time consuming, frustrating, satisfying, fastidious and enjoyable part of the whole experience. I get all of my guitar sounds through an array of some very talented pedal builders, recording everything in mono. As I mentioned earlier, this is a one-man project, so I have limitations on instrumentation etc, so figuring out how to get a guitar or a keyboard to cover as much tonal ground as possible is something I try to accomplish as best I can. I get vocals done as quickly and quietly as humanly possible; I hate my voice immensely, and really try to get them out of the way as quickly as I can, to the detriment of the listener. Sorry.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
I'm remarkably out of the loop with new bands, semi-deliberately. There are two artists in particular who are doing really wonderful things though: Slows Down from England (or Berlin now I believe) who makes music that I have no idea how to categorise but is absolutely gorgeous, and Голландский Штурвал, a slowcore band from Saint-Petersburg that have yet to release anything I haven't adored.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
I've covered Smog once which was quite fun, but I'd love to cover Jackson C. Frank one day but I'm really terrified of fucking it up and not doing him justice.

Q: What are your plans for the future?
Russia. Almost all of the people that care about what I'm doing artistically are in Russia, so I plan to head over there to play some shows as soon as I'm ready. I've began writing the next album, which will be a much more in-depth affair: longer, slower, darker and have a book accompanying it to explain and carry the theme and proposition behind it. Before that should be a shorter release of some songs that don't fit on anything else.

Q: Any parting words?
Thank you. I really appreciate that I'm able to have a pedestal to stand on to talk about things in a place where people may see them. If a single person finds my music and is touched by it in any way, I'm glad, it's always truly touching to hear from people who have found solace through something I have done. A special thank you to Alexander Lapin, who has been absolutely invaluable to me musically, and I'm confident no one would know who I was without him.
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https://barewireson.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pg/barewireson
https://sination.bandcamp.com/album/gently

Glass with Suburban Pets - An Interview

Os chilenos Juan Ignacio Miranda e Sebastián Rojas formam o duo Suburban Pets, onde tudo é concebido pelos caras em seus respectivos apartamentos.

O ambiente lo fi é evidente e dá a devida liberdade para o Suburban Pets se aventurar por diferentes caminhos, seja mais sonhador, ou experimentais, ou simplesmente melodiosos, não há restrições sonoras para os caras.

Tudo pode ser conferido no debute deles, "Glass", lançado em junho, e o disquinho funciona perfeitamente num clima despretensioso e ensolarado.

Aprecie.

***** Interview with Suburban Pets *****

Q. When did Suburban Pets start? Tell us about the history...
Juan Ignacio: Suburban Pets is a duo project born due to a lot of demos and songs that I had composed alone in my room during 2013 and 2014. Subsequently, I’ve announced this to my partner Sebastián who in that time listened the same music like me and quickly we started to write together finishing some of my former demos and composing new songs for Glass EP.

Q: Who are your influences?
Juan Ignacio: My biggest musical influences come from Lo-fi and The Beatles without a doubt.

I have an appreciation about genuine voices, real voices … not like the plastic voices of “The Voice” or Luis Jara and stuff.

But it’s kind of audiophile you know, John Frusciante, Kria Brekkan, Elliott Smith, Alex G, Syd Barrett, Nico, Lou Reed, Pavement, Homeshake, Blur, Iggy Pop, Victor Jara, Spinetta, Silvio Rodriguez and so many others names, David Lynch, Antonioni, José Donoso, and the list could go so far away.

Sebastián: Well, I listen a ton of music... but if i had to choose the ones that in some way influenced me, they are the beatles, the stone roses, the smiths, blur, david bowie, death cab for cutie, interpol, Ariel pink.

Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
Juan Ignacio: (You even don’t realize how difficult was to answer this question hahaha)
Magical Mystery Tour and Abbey Road by The Beatles
Niandra Lades & Usually Use a T-shirt by John Frusciante
The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
The Velvet Undergound & Nico by The Velvet Underground
Al Final de Este Viaje by Silvio Rodriguez

(Sorry) honorable mention to:
Lust For Life by Iggy Pop
Artaud by Luis Alberto Spinetta
(What’s The Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis
Either/Or by Elliott Smith

Sebastián: hmmm what a question... only to say them in an orden, a think the stone roses (the stone roses), hatful of hollow (the smiths), heroes (david bowie), dark side of the moon (pink floyd), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (the beatles)

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Juan Ignacio: It’s so curious, because some time ago it was unthought that only two guys can make a sound of an entire band, god save the technology (?).

We also are looking for new members who help us to make more noise and bring some fucking good loud sound. By the way, play live it’s a damn good experience difficult to compare with something.

Sebastián: it's a weird sensation, i feel more comfortable playing music instead of talk with people sometimes. i think when you're playing your own songs to people, you show to them the real "you" without masks or fake suits.

Q. How do you describe Suburban Pets sounds?
Juan Ignacio: Really I don’t know man, it’s something ineffable you know. We try to transmit our most real vibrations, something that you can taste, something linked to synesthesia, at times, something more grounded, who knows, something that you can really feel so deep inside you. Don’t care if the song is simple or flippant, the matter is that you can sense it.

Sebastián: hahaha it's complicated, we never discuss to compose in some music style in particular. i mean, some songs started like an acoustic folk song and they ended in a psychedelic one, we never define an exclusive style. its like a rollercoster hahaha

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
Juan Ignacio: It’s not a huge process you know, it’s really fun and sometimes wearisome. We are a #DIY project and we spend our time recording on our bedrooms and sitting rooms, it’s funny you know, the lectern mostly is a chair and we not even have an interface hahaha so precarious but it is the best, record guitars and listen the sound of streets or a barking dog background.

Personally I love this, is magical and nowdays, I think that this is the real essence of music. Real people, humanity, not try to be a “rockstars”.

Sebastián: We record everything in our apartments, generally, we record the ideas in out cell phones and in the rehearsals record them in a "official way". the liberty that we had is extraordinary, nobody bother us with the time or the money (record in a studio is expensive as fuck here), so we can edit until get our sound.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
Juan Ignacio: I recommend Cosmos and me, Alex G, Homeshake, Forever Lesbians, Dying Adolescence, Hinds, Summer Camp, Sales, The Holydrug Couple, Soldier’s Heart, Chicos de Nazca, Eggglub and more.

Sebastián: a difficult one again... haha. i recommend alex g, german error message, gold celeste, moses gunn collective, acid ghost, forever lesbians, homeshake, balue...

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
Juan Ignacio: Curiously we discuss this point last week hahaha.

We love to made a cover version (also we’ve done it playing live) of Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Misfits, Ariel Pink and Sean Nicholas Savage.

It would be fun made a cover of a random song like More Than This (remembering Bill Murray’s scene at Lost In Translation) or who knows.

Sebastián: We talk about this the last week, i would love to made a cover of more than this of roxxy music (bill murray in lost in translation inspire me haha) we play covers of hybrid moments of misfits, stick figures in love of stephen malkmus and the jicks, ariel pink, sean nicholas savage.

Q: What are your plans for the future?
Juan Ignacio: Well, our plans are make sessions in diverse kind of landscapes and different spots like abandoned houses or whatever. Also we will going to play acoustic sessions and now we are working on new material, an EP or LP, who knows, and the next months, we will work at distance, Seba from New Zeland and me from Chili.

Q: Any parting words?
Juan Ignacio: Stay listening music for ever and there will always be time for a damn good coffee.
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https://www.facebook.com/suburbanpetsband
https://suburban-pets.bandcamp.com

Everywhere I go is Silence with Box and the Twins - An Interview

Aos que acompanham o TBTCI, os alemães do Box and the Twins tem espaço reservado, quando o assunto sonoro adentra a territórios gélidos, densos e sombrios por conta de seus dois EPs, ("Our Fears" e "Below Zero" ambos de 2014), sem contar a especialíssima participação no tributo aos Smiths, lançado pelo TBTCI.

Após esta longa espera, eis que o Box and the Twins nos apresenta "Everywhere I go is Silence", seu debute, que veio ao mundo ontem através da novata gravadora Synth Religion, encabeçada por ninguém menos que Hélène de Thoury (Minuit Machine e Hante), que produz o disco inclusive.

"Everywhere I go is Silence" é essencialmente um álbum que navega entre a cold wave clássica e um certo ar shoegaze dark, ou algo similar, o ponto crucial é que não existe nenhum vestígio de luz no disco, de "Pale Blue Dot" a "(Note To Spiders") o ouvinte é conduzido a experiências profundamente desesperançosas.

Se o momento atual do universo é preocupante o Box and the Twins criaram a trilha sonora perfeita para o auto isolamento.

Atreva-se se for capaz.

***** Interview with Box and the Twins *****

Q. Hello, first congratulations on the new album, it's really brilliant, what is your analysis after conclusion of album? Are you happy with the result?
Box:: Hey guys, thanks so much for the nice words. So glad you like the album.

Mike: We are more than happy with the result. For me it feels a bit surreal, to have the Album finally finished, as we worked so hard on it and with so much passion.

Q. How was the process of creating Everywhere I go is Silence? What are the main differences between "Everywhere I go is Silence" and" Below Zero"?
Box: Creating the album was a real flowing process, with “Below Zero” being a kind of stopover. But a main difference is that we teamed up with Helene de Thoury (Minuit machine/Hante) for the mixing and production.

Mike: Yes, and for the first time we actually let someone from outside the band change and rearrange stuff - so Helene did end up co-producing some of the songs. She did an amazing job with the sound of the album

Q. What were the influences for creating the album?
Mike: Each have us has individual and very different influences. The three of us really don´t have the same musical background. For me, I am still very much into the classic early Wave sound, like early 4ad and factory Bands. I also like shoegaze very much.

Box: Marc is a bit more into temporarely Popmusic. I think his favourite record at the moment is the latest Metronomoy. And everytime I am asked what I would like to listen to I say “something sad and slow” (laughs).

Q. What are your plans for 2016?
Box: For 2016 we are going to play our first show in Paris, very excited about that, and for 2017 we are going to tour a lot, hopefully seeing places that we have never played before.

And we are also thinking about the next album….

Mike : …and how that should sound like. But for the moment we are totally excited about the release and hoping for some thrilling times!

Box: Thanks for having us!
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https://www.facebook.com/boxandthetwins
http://www.boxandthetwins.com/
https://boxandthetwins.bandcamp.com/

Sugar with Ruby Haunt - An Interview

Dreampop com roupagem oitentista, dançante e melancólico, sem soar brega em nenhum momento, esse é o duo Ruby Haunt de Los Angeles que soltou mês passado seu mais recente trabalho, na realidade o primeiro disco cheio, intitulado "Sugar".

Seguinte a temática de seus trabalhos anteriores o Ruby Haunt usa e abusa de synths gélidos de frios, dando um certo ar minimal e mais denso em vários momentos do disco, com destaque imediato para a belíssima "Royal Moon".

"Sugar" deve ser apreciado sem pressa e por seguidas vezes, só assim todas as nuances poderão ser sentidas. Sofisticação acima da média.

***** Interview with Ruby Haunt *****

Q. When did Ruby Haunt start? Tell us about the history...
We created Ruby Haunt in 2015. We are inspired by minimal music and classic bands like suicide, new order, my bloody valentine, etc. We thought it would be fun to start a band and make emotional music.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love
New Order - Power, Corruption, & Lies
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Apex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85 - 92
The Cure - Disintegration

Q. How do you feel playing live?
We haven’t played live too much, so still working on it. Getting back on stage November 1st, keeping it minimal and experiential.

Q. How do you describe Ruby Haunt sounds?
Soft Punk.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
We mess around on piano until something clicks. Then build from there.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
Pure X, Black Marble, Connan Mockasin

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
Molly Nilsson

Q: What are your plans for the future?
We want to start touring and playing with bands that inspire us.

Q: Any parting words?
Our interviews may blow,
Our minds are slow,
But know that Ruby,
Loves you truly.
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https://www.facebook.com/rubyhaunt
https://rubyhaunt.bandcamp.com

Adult Colouring Book with Adult Colour - An Interview

A audição do duo Tim Novak e Jeff Medders ou se você preferir Adult Colour é uma verdadeira reverência desacelerada e lisérgica aos ensinamentos de mestres como Peter Kember e Anton Newcombe.

O Adult Colour debutou recentemente com seu primeiro EP, homônimo, com três exercícios de acidez flutuantes, um convite a viagens e delírios dissonantes, tudo em explosões lentas e hipnóticas.

Aperte os cintos, abre a mente e boa viagem.

***** Interview with Adult Colour *****

Q. When did The Adult Colour start? Tell us about the history...
1) We met at a shitty job in Boulder, Colorado (a chain that is synonymous to a red Bullseye), and after a year passed we realized we were into the same music--shoegaze, dreampop, noise rock, ambient, etc. Tim's folk-pop band just disbanded and he was looking to start a new band. Something simple. It started with 3 hour long jam sessions with beer, loop pedals, fuzz, synth pads, open chords and impromptu lyrics. It eventually all fell together to become Adult Colour.

Q: Who are your influences?
2) Our influences are far and wide. Adult Colour is certainly a mishmash gumbo of everything from folk to IDM. But when you put on your headphones and turn on an Adult Colour song you'll most likely get some glimpses of Suicide, Galaxie 500, Spacemen 3, Swirlies, Smog, Real Estate, Beach Fossils, Beach House, NEU!, Hot Chip, and Silver Apples.

Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
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Jeff:
Galaxie 500 - On Fire (1989)
Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands (1987)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Methodrone (1995)
Spacemen 3 - Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To (1990)
Monster Movie - Last Night Something Happened (2002)

Tim:
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much To Love (2005)
Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware (2009)
Teenage Fanclub - Four Thousand Seven Hundred And Sixty-Six Seconds - A Short Cut To Teenage Fanclub (2003)
Dawes - North Hills (2009)
Harold Budd/Brian Eno - The Pearl (1984)

Q. How do you feel playing live?
4) We've only played out once officially (at a cramped taco joint without a PA system or any kind of sound system whatsoever). There aren't really any venues (besides house shows and small DIY shows) that fit with our music in the city we live in. We live close to Denver and are hoping to book some DIY shows down there as soon as possible.

Q. How do you describe Adult Colour sounds?
5) Psychedelic and noisy at times, minimal with ambient elements. Some jangly guitars, some twang. There's a lot of head-space, but almost all of our tracks have some catchy pop elements involved. Not sugary, but definitely for those that have a sweet tooth.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
6) We recorded our EP in a friend's basement. It was certainly a quid pro quo sitaution: he wanted to get more experience recording/mixing/mastering and we desperately wanted to record. It took roughly four sessions to complete EP.ONE. We are venturing into the lofi recording territory as of late. Recently we acquired a cassette player and are hoping to get as lo-fi as we can.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
7) Alvvays and a local Boulder band called Grass would be the first we'd suggest. Real Estate, Beach House, and Beach Fossils aren't necessarily "new" bands, but they are newer, and do deserve a listen.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
8) Black Tambourine, Galaxie 500, Teenage Fanclub, Spacemen 3. We haven't really spent much time exploring covers or remakes...but we certainly aren't ruling it out.

Q: What are your plans for the future?
9) We've got a ton of songs we'd love to record properly if we can raise enough funds for an album. (Probably enough material to split into subsequent LP and EPs.) We are hoping to play a few shows in our area soon to gain some local recognition, make some friends with likeminded bands and distribute our EP (a cassette made with Custom Made Music) to some people. Besides that we're continuing to write, record lofi, and looking for new pedals.

Q: Any parting words?
10) Thanks for the opportunity to spread our music, and for maintaining this wonderful blog that celebrates this type of music. We've been listening to the Skywave, Galaxie 500 and Teenage Fanclub tributes on bandcamp and are throughly enjoying it.
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https://www.facebook.com/pg/adultcolour
https://adultcolour.bandcamp.com/releases

Reductio Ad Absurdum with The Deepsea Goes - An Interview

Muitas e muitas vezes tudo que é preciso é uma porção exagerada de barulho, caos, terror e demência para suportar o cotidiano apático do qual usualmente estamos acostumados a vivenciar, e para isso existem algumas trilhas sonoras feitas sob medida, leia-se Fugazi, The Fall, Unwond, Big Black, The Pop Group, Helmet, Shellac e afins e exatamente desse transtorno sonoro que o duo de Los Angeles, The Deepsea Goes se alimenta.

Experimente dar play no insano e demente "Reductio Ad Absurdum" e tente sair ileso eu o desafio. O álbum é uma pancadaria certeira bem no centro do crânio, interlando o pós punk caótico de gente como o The Pop Group e o pós hardcore de um Fugazi ou Unwond.

O The Deepsea Goes é feito sob medida para expurgar todo e qualquer demônio, e se, por acaso sobrar algum vestígio após a audição de "Rectio Ad Absurdum" adicione "Oraoneiroi" (álbum de 2009) e aniquile por completo seus problemas.

***** Interview with The Deepsea Goes *****

Q. When did The Deepsea Goes start? Tell us about the history...
The Deepsea Goes started out as a recording side project for Paul while he was playing guitar & bass in bands. Towards the end of 2006 Janine decided to start playing drums & within a year we released "Épater le bourgeois" & played a couple of disastrous shows. After releasing "FORCALI", "Extraordinary Renditions", & "Reductio Ad Absurdum" across a surprisingly prolific stretch of 2008, we started touring strange amounts of the US every couple of months.

"Oraoneiroi" was released in August of 2009 & was supported by a Fall tour that seemed to collapse on itself. After a brief tour to Cleveland in summer 2010 we took a break from recording & cut back on live performances. In 2012, "Worship The Future" was released & that summer we played 14 shows throughout California. Since 2013 we've been writing & perpetually recording a full-length that's scheduled to be released sooner than later. We will most likely begin playing shows again around the greater Los Angeles area this fall/winter.

Q: Who are your influences?
Drive Like Jehu, Unwound, Fugazi, Wipers, Pixies, Slowdive, The Fall, Failure, Ride, Jimmy Eat World, Black Sabbath, Wire.

Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
Paul:
Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Can - Ege Bamyasi
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
INXS - Kick

Janine:
Television - Marquee Moon
The Mummies - Never Been Caught
Chantal Goya - dans les 6 chansons du film de Jean-Luc Godard "Masculin-Feminin"
Boris - Pink
The Intruders - Greatest Hits

Q. How do you feel playing live?
A combination of surprise, terror, ecstasy, confusion, joy, panic, delirium, & exhaustion.

Q. How do you describe The Deepsea Goes sounds?
A pretty, loud band. Guitars and drums and stuff.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
The drums are usually recorded in less time than it takes to set up the mics. Guitar & bass parts are typically fully recorded before being thrown away & completely rewritten a couple of times. All of the vocals are recorded through tearful self-doubt which results in dozens of trashed takes. The Deepsea Goes recorded output is the sound of giving up & moving on.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
Slow Code, Darto, Leisure World, Darto, Sterile Jets, etc.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
At rehearsal we've toyed around with PJ Harvey, Jimmy Eat World, & Wipers songs. We'll try anything once, but we probably won't remember most of the lyrics or be able to coherently get past the first chorus. I'm pretty sure we did get through a version of "Roadrunner" by the Modern Lovers before though.
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http://www.thedeepseagoes.com/
https://www.facebook.com/deepseagoes
https://thedeepseagoes.bandcamp.com

Wearing the Strings with Curelight Wounds - An Interview

Devo confessar que há tempos aguardava a chegada deste momento aqui nas páginas do TBTCI, muito por conta de acompanhar a sequência avassaladora de lançamentos do Curelight Wounds.

Os caras são do Brooklyn, NY, e soltaram no primeiro dia de Novembro seu mais recente trabalho, o espantoso e doentio EP, "Wearing the Strings".

"Wearing the Strings" segue a linha dos trabalhos anteriores, um shoegaze esquizofrênico, ora galopante e mais pesado em outras estridente e empoeirado, imagine o Medicine ou o Ride, fase Nowhere fazendo uma jam com o Wire ou o Gang of Four, ou algo do genêro. 

Se você procura viagens eteréas e cristalinas, certamente o Curelight Wounds vai jogar faíscas nos seus olhos e tímpanos, o negócio dos caras é desorientação em formas barulhentas.

Caótico como os nossos dias sugerem, audição essencial.

***** Interview with Curelight Wounds *****

Q. When did Curelight Wounds start? Tell us about the history...
A few summers ago, it was something to work on in between bands. The goal was to just record some songs on my own at first, and then I decided to start releasing them.

Q: Who are your influences?
I feel like a lot of random bands have influenced this project over its course and for different reasons. The Lucy Show, Medicine, Ride, The Chameleons. I really like the approach to recording Guided By Voices took on their earlier stuff, or at least how I picture it in my mind.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
I could think about this for a month, but off the top of my head,
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine,
The Breeders - Last Splash,
 God Lives Underwater - Life in the So Called Space Age,
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless,
Gang of Four - Entertainment.

Q. How do you feel playing live?
This has been more of a recording project up to this point. Curelight Wounds did a show because Tape Deck Mountain offered and as a big fan I couldn't say no. There was going to be another show but it got cancelled because of an Ebola scare at the venue. There will be more shows though.

Q. How do you describe Curelight Wounds sounds?
I guess earlier punk influences the drums and bass most of all, but the guitars are going for more of a 90s noisey shoegaze kind of thing. I feel like there is a bit of a lofi element to it, since I am not a professional engineer, and the gear I am using to record is definitely minimal.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
Most of the songs are written in the studio. I usually start with bass, add drums, layer some guitars and then do vocals. I try not to re-record too much stuff to keep things moving and I also feel like it retains a better energy than a part that is stiff from doing it 25 times.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
Some newer bands I really dig are Sauna Youth, Bloody Knives, Tiers, Tape Deck Mountain, Pale Dian, Public Memory.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
Curelight Wounds covered Flying Saucer Attack "Standing Stone" once, and I have been messing on and off with a Magnetic Fields cover.

Q: What are your plans for the future?
To keep writing and recording songs, play a few shows, maybe find a label to put out a 7 inch one of these days.

Q: Any parting words?
Go see a gig tonight
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https://curelightwounds.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/CurelightWounds

Souvenirs with Swimming Tapes - An Interview

Guitar pop cintilante, como nos bons e áureos tempo0,s é o que o quinteto londrinho Swimming Tapes nos oferta.

Pegue a estréia dos caras, o single "Set The Fire/Souvenirs" e deixe se envolver através da melodias assoviáveis e cristalinas e faça o seu dia ficar mais suave e ensolarado.

O Swimming Tapes é feito especialmente para apreciar as belezas do dia a dia.

***** Interview with Swimming Tapes *****

Q. When did Swimming Tapes start? Tell us about the history..
: Well myself (Louis), Paddy and Robbie grew up together and have been friends with Jason for years. We all have played together in various bands together over the years but we started ST in early 2015 just messing about with a couple of ideas in my bedroom using a drum machine on my laptop. After a few months of that we put up an advert on gumtree looking for a drummer and after a couple of fails the lovely Andrew got in touch. We all hit it off and the rest is history.

Q: Who are your influences?
: We have lots of different influences throughout the band but the main ones we bonded over were the likes of Wild Nothing, Real Estate and Fleetwood mac. We also love Sea Pinks, Mac Demarco, Beach Fossils and you can throw some of The Smiths in there as well. Too many to list really.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time...
: Well that's a super hard question but right now I would say my favourite albums are :
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours,
The Smiths - The queen is dead,
Wild Nothing - Nocturne,
Elliot Smith - XO
and Beatles - Revolver

Q. How do you feel playing live?
: We really love playing live and feel it's a real strength of ours. Our songs develop a slightly different more energetic feel live. Ideally we would like to go and tour as many places and countries as possible but we're just taking it one step at a time.

Q. How do you describe Swimming Tapes sounds?
: Coastal, nostalgic, dreamy indie vibes.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
: We've recorded all of our songs so far with a friend of ours called Paddy Baird. Paddy Conn and I were in a band with him previously and he's a whizz kid with mixing and production. We used a little studio in east London and we tried to keep the recording process as simple and organic as possible. One of the golden rules when we started this band was to keep things simple and not overcomplicate everything, let the songwriting speak for itself. Hopefully we achieved that in some way.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
: There's so much out there but recently I've been listening to some Sea Pinks - soft days, its a wicked record and they're from Northern Ireland so bonus points there. Also the SnailMail - habit ep is really nice.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
: Would love to cover a Fleetwood mac song at some point, maybe 'Little Lies'.

Q: What are your plans for the future?
: We're working towards an ep release at some point in the new year but we just to carry on releasing nice music and hopefully get out on tour at some point soon as well.

Q: Any parting words?
: Well just thank you for bothering to read this interview about our little band.
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https://swimmingtapes.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/pg/swimmingtapes

Nowhere with Wild Meadows - An Interview

Muitas e muitas vezes, aliás já perdi a conta de ouvir aqueles comentários preguisoços de que, "bom eram os 60´s" ou, "bom era nos 70´s", ou ainda, " melhos eram os 80´s" e pra fechar, "nada foi melhor que os 90´s". Preguiça dessas pessoas e mentes que se encrustaram na passado e que pasmén, ainda são jovens o suficiente para vivenciar o que é feito atualmente, e é exatamente esse o real motivo da existência do TBTCI, celebrar o passado, sim, mas explicitar o presente, demonstrar que nos dias de hoje existe uma imensa produção a ser explorada, que se beneficia talvez muita mais do que as décadas anteriores por poder ser livre de rótulos, hoje pode-se mesclar, experimentar sem medo de ser feliz.

Um desses belos exemplos de que a música hoje respira efervecência são os australianos do Wild Meadows. Melódicos, sedutores, psicodélicos, dançantes, e sabem como hipnotizar o ouvinte, vide o último single deles, "Nowhere", ou "Rebel" o anterior, duas belas preciosidades a serem descobertas e degustadas sem moderação.

Junte todas as décadas de música e viva o presente ao som do Wild Meadows.

***** Interview with Wild Meadows *****

Q. When did wild Meadows Start?
JR: Wild Meadows started a couple of years ago with Donovan and I, we had both been playing in different bands before. We have gone through a few different lineups, but this definitely feels the best its ever been at the moment. Were all really looking forward to recording our debut album at the end of the year and getting out and playing live again.

Q. What are your influences?
JR: I grew up DJing electronic music in the 90s, mainly drum & bass, house and breakbeat, what I really loved was the crossover between indie and dance music, bands like primal scream or the happy mondays. Ive always loved bands like The Smiths and The Cure. anything that speaks to me on an emotional or musical level. I can still remember stealing/borrowing my brother/s My Bloody Valentine CD which opened me up to a new world of bands like Ride and yo la tengo and the stone roses. I actually started playing guitar late, at 26, and just played in punk bands for a while because I couldn’t play very well, after years and years of experimenting I started to develop my own sound.

SG: Jimmy Chamberlin, Stephen Morris and Brooks Wackerman

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time.
JR
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Ride - Nowhere
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
Primal Scream - Screamadelica

Q. How do you feel playing live?
JR: Playing live is always a bit of a buzz. I think its about letting go and just going with it. You can’t mimic what you can do on record, but there’s a different energy to what you do in the studio when you’re on stage.

SG: Ecstatic, it's a rush being on stage.

Q. How do you describe Wild Meadows’ sounds?
JR: Hopefully it’s the kind of thing you’d enjoy listening to late at night on drugs.

SG: Melodic, harmonious, dynamic, emotive psychedelic rock

Q. Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
JR: The songs are recorded as a live band to get a live band feel. And then sonically try to push some boundaries and getting things sounding a little bit different. One live track and then heaps of overdubs.

SG: We're doing a lot of pre-production: rehearsing songs and recording them, getting them as finished as possible before we go near a recording studio. The ideal is to play the songs well with very few takes in the studio once we get there.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
JR: Im really loving Contrast, Cheatahs, Bloodhounds on My Trail, Westkust, Summer flake, the new Minor Victories album is amazing too.

Q. Which band would you like to make a cover of?
JR: I would love to do a cover of The Cure,The Smiths or one of the Flying Nun bands like the Bats or the Clean.

SG: Stone Roses

Q. What are your plans for the future?
JR: Releasing an album at the end of the year and hopefully a European tour next year. At some point, hopefully coming over to South America too.

SG: Onwards and upwards

Q. Any parting words?
JR: Loving the blog, thanks for the support Renato.

SG: Yes
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https://wildmeadows.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.facebook.com/WildMeadowsofficial

Dusk with Ultimate Painting - An Interview

Jack Cooper do Mazes e James Hoare do Veronica Falls se juntaram após o Mazes abrir vários shows do Veronica Falls na Europa, e essa união já rendeu três belíssimos álbuns sob a alcunha de Ultimate Painting, com destaque especial ao último trabalho, "Dusk" lançado em Setembro.

Uma atmosfera retro permeia a sonoridade do Ultimate Painting, tudo soa analógico e a explicação é dada por James ao TBTCI, além de outras tantas peculiaridades do duo.

Sonoramente o Ultimate Painting me remete diretamente a saudosa Flying Nun, as conexões com The Chills me impressionam extremamente, uma doce candura orna com um certo ar nostálgico e melancólico tornando-se a cada audição mais e mais viciante.

Resumindo a música do Ultimate Painting em uma única palavra, eu diria, belo.

***** Interview with Ultimate Painting *****

Q. When did Ultimate Painting start? Tell us about the history...
Ultimate painting started after jack and I toured together, his band mazes opened for my band Veronica falls on a 2/3 week tour of Europe.

We knew each other vaguely, I once lent jack the money to get a bus home. But we hadn't ever really spoken much. Once we were on tour we got along really well and I was immediately impressed with his songs, knowledge of the music and personality. Towards the end of the tour we started talking about doing some recording together and a couple of months laster started working in my home studio and unknowingly the band was formed.

Q: Who are your influences?
The Beatles, the velvet underground, stereolab, yo la tengo, buddy holly, Ritchie Valens, gene Clark, Tom jobim the list could go on

Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
The white album
Revolver
Rubber soul
Sgt peppers
Abbey road

None Beatles top 5 (choosing albums by only one artists each)

The velvet underground self titled 3rd album
Highway 61 revisited (bob Dylan)
Younger than yesterday (the byrds)
Wild honey (the beach boys)
Chelsea girl (nico)

Q. How do you feel playing live?
I enjoy it a lot. I don't like practicing at all and I like to save up the enjoyment for playing live.

Q. How do you describe Ultimate Painting sounds?
Real, melodic

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
The three records have been recorded at my home studio in Stoke newington, London. All my equipment is analog, mostly from the 60's/70's, And is subsequently constantly being repaired/serviced by my friend Peter.

We record on 8 track tape machines and I mix live. Jack and I play all the instruments with our friend Mel playing drums on the last LP.  We start with a rhythm guitar normally and drums or a drum
Machine and build it up from there.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
Parquet courts

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
I'd quite like to cover sugar ray's every morning. We've covered a few songs for aquarium drunkard (a decent blog) , Jack is against it but we may well do it and I am confident it will sound good.

Q: What are your plans for the future?
We'll start work on a new LP early next year. Currently on tour in Europe and to the states in November

Q: Any parting words?
Be true to your school
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https://ultimatepainting.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Ultimate-painting-1600705563540281/

Dive with Giant Surprise - An Interview

Quem acompanha o TBTCI sabe e conhece muito bem o trio, Michael Schriner, Chris Gorrie e Manu Rueda ou se você preferir, Giant Surprise.

E os caras estão em vias de lançar em Dezembro o debute deles que certamente trucidará qualquer lista de melhores do ano, "Dive" é espetacularmente barulhento, melancólico e viciante, Os caras pegaram logicamente seu fascínio por Whirr, Nothing, Sunny Day Real State, Swervedriver e Failure e jogaram mais queresone ainda neste tempero.

Um disco necessário e fundamental para todo adorador de shoegaze.

***** Interview with Giant Surprise *****

Q. Hello, first congratulations on the new album, it's really brilliant, what is your analysis after conclusion of album? Are you happy with the result?
1. Can't thank you enough for giving the album a listen, and so glad you found it to be brilliant. This album is a collection of songs that we wrote in 2015, and played live over the course of that year. We liked these songs so much, that we felt the original recordings we released didn't do enough justice, so decided to re-record them in hopes of achieving better quality - which I think we did. It's almost a bittersweet feeling to have finished this album, I'm happy to have these songs presented at their fullest potential, but at the same time I miss the process of recording and hearing the songs come together. I'd have to say I'm beyond thrilled with the result of this album, I hope that it finds it's way well into this revival of shoegaze that's going on right now.

Q. How was the process of creating the album?
2. The entire album was written and performed by myself, and Chris Gorrie. I started by tracking all of the instruments aside from the bass here in Austin, TX and had Chris fly in from San Diego to lay down the basslines. I then did some final mixing on all of the tracks, and then mastered them. The end result will be available in December on Tape and CD! We will however be releasing one of our tracks, "Stare" as the next single very soon.

Q. What are the main differences between "Giant Surprise" and" Is Failure an Option"?
3. The main differences between the actual Album "Dive", and the EP "Is Failure an Option", is that Dive actually feels more like Giant Surprise to me, and what I imagined for this band. By that, I mean that it features Chris playing bass on all of the songs, as opposed to just me on the EP. Chris and I have been involved with this project since day one, and I felt that it was only necessary for him to be involved with the making of our first album as we played the songs on there live for over a year and they mean a great deal to us.

Q. What were the influences for creating the album?
4. The main influences for this album, being that most of it was written a year or so ago.. would be heavily Whirr influenced. Especially with their release of "Sway", I really enjoyed that album and was heavily inspired by it. The song "Tree of Stars" title wise was inspired by Failure's "Another Space Song", which is to this day my favorite song by any band I've listened to, and they just so happen to be my favorite band  A lot of this album delves into early emo, similar to bands like Sunny Day Real Estate or Duster, but still keeps the element of shoegaze alive in every song. I wanted to make a definitive shoegaze album, but at the same time include some of my favorite influences ranging from Alternative rock and emo.

Q. What are your plans for 2016?
5. Our plans for the rest of 2016 would be to play a release show on December 18th for this album in San Diego, and hope that we find an audience for our music. We can't think of anything we'd like to do more than to go out on tour and promote this album that we've invested a big part of our lives into.

Can't thank you again Renato for listening to our music and giving us an outlet on your blog to express our thoughts and love for shoegaze, obrigado!
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https://soundcloud.com/user-117031800/sets/dive
https://www.facebook.com/GiantSurprise

Build Another Boat with Public Speaking - An Interview

Photo by Dan Cohoon

Descendente direto de Steve Reich, Bowie e principalmente do chamado "som Kranky", os novos iorquinos do Public Speaking, caminham na contramão do que é feito usualmente na música.

Algo como se o R&;B fosse transformado em beats e loops experimentais sem perder a verve soul. Alimentando-se de elementos abstratos e sequenciais o Public Speaking transforma e da vida mesmo que seja sintética criando uma atmosfera instingante, densa e cerebral.

Sofisticação acima de qualquer suspeita.

***** Interview with Public Speaking *****

Q. When did Public Speaking start? Tell us about the history…
I began using the name Public Speaking in January '12 with the release of my first EP "Tape Strangle." The project grew out of experiments I was doing with voice and guitar pedals in late '11, usually freely improvised in a live setting. Before that I played in some bands and as a singer-songwriter under my own name. I got so sick of guitar, but I didn't want to have to form and maintain a band again. I wanted to be self-sufficient, while being able to work in all my various, sometimes disparate influences. So I dropped the guitar, and tried to create another way to construct music to sing to live. I embraced technology, albeit via cheap, rudimentary, but beautifully simple equipment. I rented a rehearsal studio with a P.A., and would practice improvising for hours a day with the few shitty pedals I owned and a small synth. Sometimes songs would emerge, and these would often become studio recordings with structure and lyrics. While improvising, I would usually sing non-words and stream of consciousness ideas, even in public performances. Over the years, songwriting has gradually moved its way to the forefront of what I do. The lyrics and their relationship to the music are integral to the project now, but I still use noise and electronic processes and sources in conjunction with organic instrumentation and objects.

Q: Who are your influences?
I grew up listening to a lot of soul, R&B, and "quiet storm" sounds with my mother. There's Sade, Bryan Ferry, Seal, Annie Lennox - stuff like that. So that's a deep part of my musical DNA: those soulful, yet sometimes coldly exacting productions of the '80's and early '90's. Later I got into noisier, more adventurous music like Aphex Twin, Nine Inch Nails, Bjork, and Radiohead, and more intimate, confessional music like Tori Amos and Neil Young. Then Talking Heads, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Rachel's, Can, Tortoise, Talk Talk, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Eventually Fela Kuti, Duke Ellington, Steve Reich, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Bach. And how could I forget Tangerine Dream, Steely Dan, Randy Newman - I have to stop. There are hundreds I'm leaving out, but these artists are the first to come to mind. I should also note that seeing one of Tune-Yards early solo shows, and saxophonist Johnny Butler (a friend and collaborator) both showed me that you can do a lot with one person and the right technology. It was very inspiring to hear and see what they were doing. Being from small town Florida, and moving to New York City has made a big impact on me too: the sounds of the city, all the languages, the controlled chaos, the noise, the subway, etc.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
I could answer this a thousand ways, but off the top of my head, here goes:
David Bowie - "Low"
Rachel's - "Systems/Layers"
Steve Reich - "Music for 18 Musicians"
Sade - "Stronger Then Pride"
Talking Heads - "Remain In Light"

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Playing live is a powerful experience for me. It also takes a lot out of me emotionally, which is tough when people want to come talk to you immediately after you perform. But connecting with listeners in this way is a very special, precious thing. Overall, it's uniquely gratifying; I can express myself in a way that is so liberating, immediate, and authentic. I feel privileged to even have the opportunity. The audience is like a free form of therapy for me. Coltrane said something about wanting every performance to convey the whole of his being. I strongly relate to this. When I see someone play live, I want them to give everything they have to their performance, no matter the size of the audience or where it's at. Anything less is unacceptable; you're cheating yourself, and the listeners.

Q. How do you describe Public Speaking sounds?
It depends who I'm talking to. I try to gauge and understand their own particular context for music. Sometimes it's "soulful noise" or "experimental electronic music with vocals" or "avant-garde rock." Nothing ever suffices, but I've grown more comfortable with labels, because I know they never convey the full breadth of the music, and no one really expects them to either. They just need some way in. Essentially, my music is a mix of electronics and soul.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
As much as I enjoy performing, writing and recording is my real passion. I am somewhat of a control-freak, and producing my own albums is a kind of Eden for my type of personality. My songs are often written around rhythmic ideas, but sometimes it's a lyric or melody I have in my head that won't go away. I work in a few different ways. The song might be sketched out on a piano, guitar, or with my live setup of microphone, pedals, objects, and synthesizer. In the course of structuring it and writing the lyrics, I usually end up working it out on all those different instruments. It helps me to get inside it and find the core of what I'm trying to say. Stripping it down is a very fruitful exercise for me. Then I begin to record it track by track into my DAW (digital work station) on my laptop. From there I process, rework, and endlessly sculpt the sounds. I tend to obsess over them for longer than is probably healthy. It's a lot of work, but it's also full of play. Once the lyrics are finished and the vocals recorded, I take them to my collaborators. I regularly work with saxophonist Johnny Butler, and guitarist Zach Ryalls (Eternal Garb, Mink Shoals). There are lots of other brilliant musicians I play with, but these two are the core contributors to Public Speaking records. With most musicians, I'll take my mobile recording setup to their home and record them and talk about the pieces and what I'm looking for. Sometimes I'll show them images of paintings or sculptures I have in mind (sound is very visual for me), or I may have a melodic line they can build on. Others, like Ryalls, send me their own recording additions. Everything they do I work over tirelessly, shaping it into the best form to serve the song.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
A Bunch Of Dead People, my Floordoor label-mate Ruben Sindo Acosta's funky, powerful, progressive band. Ryalls and Butler also play with them. My favorite band to see live.

Q: Which band would you love to make a cover version of?
I've considered this so many times, but have yet to do it with this Public Speaking project. It would probably be one of my incredibly gifted songwriter friends' music, like singer/pianist Jonathan Wood Vincent. He's the only genius I know, and I've been lucky enough to have him play on the first two Public Speaking albums.

Q: What are your plans for the future?
I have a few tours coming up on the east coast U.S. There's also a remix album of "Caress, Redact" coming in December featuring some amazing reworked versions from Jeremy Bible, More Eaze, Heejin Jang, ARIADNE, and more. It's going to be put out jointly between Floordoor Records and Already Dead Records on a cassette tape (and digital download). All proceeds will benefit New Alternatives, a charity for LGBT homeless youth in New York City. After that, I look forward to writing and recording the next release. I've put out several instrumental albums, and I have the seeds of a new one in my head right now.

Q: Any parting words?
Thank you.
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Bandcamp: https://publicspeaking.bandcamp.com
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