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Interview #16
1. What pedal or instrument do you take for a mission to Mars?
Just thinking, maybe we should restrain ourselves from ruining another planet... Anyway, I’d take my guitar of course, a Reverend double agent. It fits my needs and does the trick. Plus, I love to watch it, electric guitars are definitely the most beautiful instruments around, lol. Let me pack the Earthquaker Devices Avalanche Run Reverb&Delay as well. It’s been with me all along. It’s both an experimental device and does classic stuff too.
2. What album do you take for a neverending moon travel?
I love to listen through albums. It's a mindfull thing to do, taking the time to listen, to enjoy the artwork, the liner notes. I’d love to release a physical album in the future.
‘Lost in the dream’ from The War on Drugs is very dear to me. I’ve literally listened hundreds and hundreds of hours to this particular record. It’s a feel-good album to me.
But, I would take an album of 2021 instead. Nala Sinephro’s debut album ‘Space 1.8’ is everything I like about music right now. I can’t get enough of it. It’s gorgeous and it’s raw. It’s delicate yet edgy. It’s balanced and intense. It’s such a joy listening to it over and over again.
3. What are your conditions, your habits or your inspiration when composing a new track?
I like to work alone at night. Time feels different at night. Composing is an intuitive matter, often I play and listen to sounds taking shape, and let the flow take me somewhere. When I have the feeling that there could be a broader emotional connection, I will work out the idea and record it immediately on loopers on my pedal board. I like to keep and use these raw takes, because they have the intensity of the first moment.
The album Narrow End was inspired by nightfall. I spent a lot of time on my own out in nature those days. When light fades, your senses sharpen and you reconnect with yourself, it is strikingly intense. The latest album Plays a Dream Sequence on the other hand is inspired by the deception of mind. Waking up from a dream or a wrong perception can be brutal.
4. Do you have any information to give us concerning a new album or a new track?
There will be some new tracks available soon. A new track with drummer Adam Matacale, who I am very thankful for his interest and support, and we just seem to connect really well – thanks Adam! The working title of the track is ‘Keep walking’.
I’ve been exchanging a fair amount of ideas lately, with different artists about different kinds of collabs; musicians, poets, visual artists, … I would be very pleased if some of these ideas would evolve into proper tracks.
5. Which artist would you like to work with? (musician, illustrator, movie director or composer?
There’s a bunch of cool artists that are getting in touch with me these days. I very much appreciate every request. It’s all I can ask for.
I will consider it all, because there’s always a fair chance there is a beautiful way of combining two or more artistic visions. I love to work with any artist where mutual inspiration is involved, so bring it on!
6. For which film would you have liked to make a sound track?
I would love to do film scoring. The dark tones, the limited lighting, the color schemes, the vastness and solitude that you find in some Scandinavian movies and crime series appeal to me. I’d love to score something with that atmosphere.
Having to pick one specific movie, I’d go with Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Virgin Suicides’. Air’s soundtrack couldn’t be improved, and that should never be the goal, …, it’s just the overall feel of this film, the ambiguity, the strange tension, the pace, the colors, the intimacy, … in this picture is overwhelming and very inspiring.
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