Brown Spotting And Back Pain

Portugal The Man ...... and the thing with the RZA!

Vienna again, nice to have you here one more time. Put off your shoes and feel like home, especially when you don´t have one. Zachary Scott Carothers , basser in Portugal.The Man , talking about touring, money, silhouette art, loops, Hip Hop and why it would be absolutely awesome to work with the RZA .

How did you know each other? I red that some of you played in a group called Anatomy of the Ghost as well?

ZACH: We know each other were we started from Alaska. Yeah,John and I were in a band called Anatomy of a Ghost . We know each other from the highschool, while he played a while my in my shity highshool band too. I had no idea that he can sing so we brought him down from organ to sing for that band and we toured for probably a year and a half or so.
When that band broke up, pretty much right after it was done, he had been talking about doing kind of a solo side project thing called Portugal.The Man and I liked to do that thing with him. So we got a couple of guys in Alaska, we moved back and started it. Over the years we lost a few people so we got Jason on drums and Ryan for organ. Actually one of the guys who starte P.TM with us is playing in The Builders & The Butchers tonight. It´s kind of a cool tour right know because they are really good friends of us.

P.TM means also live improvisation. For me a very important point to see the truth qualitys of a band. Do you know some bands which are doing that kind of show live aswell? I was thinking about another band but, equal that I go to a lot of concerts, I don´t remember not even one group.

ZACH: Yeah, we do a lot of that.
Puh, a band?.....no, not totally. We got a few friends that do like little jams but we´ve got kind of a weird thing. Half of it is improved and there´s a lot of jams but some of them are structured. Well, we have like signals and stuff like that when to go into another part or when to get heavier, slower, things like that. There are some structured jams but a lot of them is just improved and it´s fun, you know. It keeps us on the dose of musicans and it´s more interesting. When u play every day a show with nearly the same set, it´s boring for us and boring for the people. So we keep the fun alive with jaming around.

Your new album is called The Satanic Satanist .
You said once, that the title of an album is always the first thing you have. Church Mouth for example seemed to be a album with religious topics, but it wasn´t. How is it with The Satanic Satanist , what´s the signification of it. I know that blues is the work of the devil…

ZACH: I mean, Church Mouth had some undertones. But Johns lyrics are also pretty vague, but actually not if you really know the guy. They are really matter effect but he thinks of everything in a very weird way. It´s the same thing with The Satanic Satanist . We knew that we wanna to do more of a pop orientated record, more straight forward songs and we wanted to be generaly happy and colourful. We thought of a lot, you know , black metal fans who actually not by our album and pretty got bombed out but we haven´t heard pretty much about that so far.

I was listening to the new album a lot of times, got myself also deeper into the lyrics. My result: It´s a record about mother earth. About the truth things that always were and will be and how we fail to respect them. Am I right?

ZACH: Yeah. Pretty much. It´s got a lot of that. A lot of things that John learned growing up between a certain period of time when he was moving around Alaska and this things he learned from his family and such and then kind of puting that into like what´s going on today and stuff, for sure.

What do you think about the popularity of P.TM in europe, especially in Austria and Germany. Why happened the breakthrough here and not in the USA. Is the peoples view of music so different there?

ZACH: This year it´s kind of the same size in both places now, but at first there was Germany with the Visions magazine where they gave us album of the month right away and also Defiance Records , a small recordlabel who liked to release our albums in europe. So they want us to come over and play a tour and we were like „Holy shit, we just put one record out and get to go to europe, that´s so crazy“.
So we came over here to europe and I feel like, especially in Germany and Austria, yeah and Switzerland too, they were very open against our music.

What about the crowd?

ZACH: There aren´t a lot of clicks, there´s not a lot of separation, it´s just, you know, people like what they like. In the states a lot of times when you get to our shows people dresses certain way and there´s certain age group. You know there´s 18 to 28 in almost every show. And it´s different here. We have really young people and we have like 65 or 70 year old couples in our shows.

For sure because your music is not for a special group of ages. It´s for everyone and fullpacked with various styles.

ZACH: Yeah, we all like a lot of different kinds of music, and we never wanna stick to one thing, so growing all the time is a great topic.



You recorded the last album with very vintage equipment. Was this warmer sound intentet or were there suddenly tons of vintage stuff in the studio?

ZACH: No, we knew that. It was awesome. That was on of the reasons that we went there. We never done that before. On all the other records it was all....you know, the equipment that we brought in was a lot of vintage gear, because we use it, and that´s why it was there. But everything they had was Marshall , Mesa Boogie , like brand new stuff, all on Pro Tools and everything and we were like „Ähhhhh, I don´t totally dig that“ and so, we finally forked up enough money to go into a real studio. They just had rooms full of amps. We just got to go in and choose which one we wanted. And I think John played probably fifteen ot twenty amps on the record. And the guys they were working there, they worked in the same spot for like seventeen years. So they know every amp how it´s gonna sound in this room or in this room.

Where was the studio?

ZACH: They are called Camp Street Studios , in Boston. And Paul Q. Kolderie the guy we worked with, also worked on the first Radiohead Record, with the Pixies , he did a lot of stuff in the 90´s. He is so knowledgeable about music and it was a really fun experience. I think we will continue to do that for sure, to go into studios like that.
We just couldn´t ever afforded before, but now since we´re doing a little better we just say that. None of us make any money. We just take all the money we do from touring and we spend it on recording the next album, so that´s just a cycle. So every time we are touring we like to put out a better record, so it´s just fun. Slowly but surely.

I red that u would like to produce an album with the RZA . You said, „That would be the shit“. Why? Is this style of music important for P.TM ? What would be your expectations when working with him? I never recognized that Hip Hop or Rap influenced your musik.

ZACH: Oh yeah, that would be awesome. Well, we like Hip Hop a lot but it´s more the production side of Hip Hop, we like doing a lot of beats. We have a new record that is done, that wont be coming out some next year and we´re going in january to do another one. So before the next one even comes out we´ll already have two for the next year, that´s pretty ridiculous. Yeah, and that one is a litte more Hip Hop, it´s far as like the beats go, we used a lot of loops and a lot of samples and stuff like that. But the reason why we like the RZA is meanly when he uses his old 60ties and 70ties soul loops instead of a lot of Hip Hop that uses, you know, really new loops. We´ll like useing the old stuff. You know when he did this work on soundtracks for Tarantino movies, like Kill Bill . Yeah, that´s more the reason why we want work with him. For that just old soul kind of aspect, we think thats really cool. Yeah, we´re big in the soul.

But don´t you think that, when producing the album with RZA , it could sound more like these typically american mainstream thing?

ZACH: Yeah, I dont know if he would. I mean we dont really know. We like to see what he do with it. You know half of it it´s kind of joke, because we don´t know if RZA would ever actually would work with us. You know, he´s not my favourite out of the Wu Tang Clan or anything like that, but I think we could do some cool stuff together. But it might be fun if we could start with an EP or having him do a remix of a couple of songs or something like that. That would be absolutely awesome.

The new artwork is awesome. A silhouette Art. When I look at it, I know, that it wasn´t that easy to realise for sure, because everybody is talking about crises and so on. How had you managed this guys?

ZACH: Oh, it was very expensive. But the thing is that we pay for our own records. We pay for the recording and for the cd packaging. So we have a licencing deal with our label and they chip in a little bit of money but whatever they say, our budget is not that we can do this, but well, we will pay for the rest we can. And we also saved money on a lot of spots, because it is just one piece of cardboard with technically one die - cut. So, if you have an album with on a lot of different things and a lots of cuts on a lot of different pieces of cardboards it´s more expensive. So, they really only charge us for only one die - cut. And there´s no plastic used on at all so we saved money there.

You know, for me this is a very important fact of buying a record. I dont buy that much cd´s, normaly only vinyl, but you´ve done it there as well. How do you prefer listening to music?

ZACH: Yeah, for sure, me too. What sucks is, that I buy them and we´re always on tour, I don´t have a home or anything like that. My record player is in storage since three years and I haven´t touched it. Yeah, and that sucks, because when I am travelling all I got is my mp3 player, but I am excited that I actually get a place. We´re thinking about that we actually getting an apartment this winter. I am pretty excited.

So, you don´t have an apartment or anything in Portland right now?

ZACH: No, I don´t own a bed, I don´t own a tv. We live on tour, yeah pretty much.

So that´s the reason for going on tour aswell?

ZACH: Well, we love it. But it´s always busy, you know and if we´re not on tour, we are recording. And when we do have time off, I stay with friends. It does never really made sense having a home, you know. I could maybe afford it, maybe (laughing), but you know when I am gone ten month of the year and I am paying for a whole year, it´s kind of weird.
It kind of sucks, when we pull back into town and like, ähhmm, we´re coming back home on 9th of december and it´s kind of weird because it´s like „Wow, home, finally I haven´t been here for month, I am gonna go to get a hotel room actually“ That sucks!
And an austrian hotel for a couple of days we´ll not need to find. We´ll organize a couch to sleep on or something like that.



What about experiences with drugs. How are they!? I ask this, because when I look to your artwork, the music, the relases every year, the colours, this question cames automatically to me. Austria and Germany are defenitelly to much conservative in these things. Had you ever problems with drugs over here?

ZACH: Last time we played here, we pulled over outside of Munich, and they found like the tiniest little bit of weed in the bag from our drummer and he went to jail. We like almost missed a show, he had to take a train over here, it was pretty terrible. We don´t do that many drugs. I mean I have when I was a kid, but basicly I don´t function on it very well and we don´t want to carry, espescially after the last time, so – no pot in the band. I dont accomplish anything really, I used to. When I was younger I could do whatever drug and I could like go to work, could do things. If I get stoned now, I don´t wanna do anything, and I always got so much shit to do, you know. We are always recording, always touring, I always have to talk to people or play a show. And I can´t do any of that stuff when I am high. I´d like to a little bit in the future, but also it kind of feels weird, I feel I can getting at this point, I don´t know, where I am to old for it. But it´s kind of weird because I am from Alaska and live in Portland and a lot of people do drugs in both those places, but never any bad drugs. Usually it´s just like weed or very lite illusitions that we did in the past.

So, drugs are not the reason for your colour explosions on the albums?

ZACH: Drugs had nothing to do with that. Honestly, I think what probably is, we´re influenced by art that was influenced by drugs. Or sometimes you never been know. I just red an interview about Pink Floyd . And apparently Pink Floyd didn´t do any drugs. I was like „ What the fuck!“ – That´s what got me into drugs when I was a kid was Pink Floyd . I was kind of disappointed. I got plenty of bad advices, but not drugs.

Last Question: Where will you stay during Christmas

ZACH: Well, we´re going back to Alaska. I will stay in my mum´s house for a while, over the holidays. I always go back and stay with mum, that's cool. We're big on family.

Thanks so much for the interview. Here are some sweets called "cake tips". You have to try it. Have fun!

ZACH: Wow, you're crazy. We love sweets. Thanks. See you after the show.

Exercising During A Herpes Outbreak

Ashes of Pompeii - Arena 3-space - 8.11.2009


Ashes of Pompeii, a band like a volcano eruption, only better. Somehow, still had all already fled, but the question mark remains.

New love: among others, Marburg

" The more you know, the less you can remember "
What a sentence. Especially But what a band behind it.
Ashes of Pompeii an existing since 2004 quartet of Marburg, Germany, and in this country so far fallen through the cracks like the ashes in the furnace. Inexplicably, for one has, for example, once "recording the Fall" is one they have you already branded, will you always remember it. Actually,
AOP me for much more than just a band - always on, and since the new album even more. You are responsible for years for the music that always works, the proof that it pays to be eaten since time immemorial for hours through recessions and music magazines, to rise in most diverse record stores from one foot to the next because you can no longer stand, but since it still gives a plate to listen to you needs. Since yesterday, they are not only the unknown that had hitherto received only by their musical output, a thick friendship with me.

Killing time with you is all that I want to do
while all the others are making plans

you were at it when I wandered in the middle of the night by taxi from Rio, with me staring motionless into the night sky the roofs of Salvador de Bahia, accompanied me on flights before where I enter the so-called airplane with my life completed, had reassured me, as I severely affected by purest Colombian medicinal herbs, lying in any log cabin on the Pacific coast, not knowing is where heaven and earth, or if it's all about still exists or just complaining only hell. About the moments when they let me do not hang over the past nine months, then I'll write about a book soon. They were just always there, like a good friend as someone appreciates the one that he shares such fraction of a life with you. For all that, I can simply say thanks.

You are lost in this city
You missed the last exit long before

Then suddenly this 8th November 2009, AOP first time in Vienna - and all five people have also managed real concert again. And I landed on the ground of reality, understand the whole thing after a bad night's sleep about it not a bit better.
Music is a very broad medium, satisfying range of scenes, styles, and considers ways in seemingly infinite number of parts frayed. This cover AOP from has always been a much larger section of that work there, where styles and scenes overlap. With their new album Accidental Goals more than ever before. AOP had no expectations on her first guest appearance in Austria, but today I'm still hurt the heart. Why? Very simple. Because for me it is currently almost no volume provides, not from Austria or from Germany, the music brings so to the point how these four guys that I can seem to leave a visit as a huge explosion. Her set is charged. From right under the skin Emocore the earlier years on the instrumental parts as they had presented a certain band from San Francisco a few days ago almost to pass in place of a virtuoso drummer trades that kicks like hell and a voice that predestined could not be . From guitars to blow away everything in them their path, but get progressively worse in the airy heights. From one of the bass in the gaps in between sets and remains. One set, but which also shines with moments where you can let yourself just where a sampler and instrumental parts pack from both sides and to the seemingly harmless, under the roof hanging fan raise before you torn this in a thousand pieces again sends rain on the ground - because he has suddenly, just as the number once again been gaining momentum.

Without photographs and souvenirs
it would feel as if nothing has ever happend

After three years of creative phase in which the self-imposed homework were made carefully, in which it is grown in many ways, was used in which its objective, with a lot of passion and ideas, then they just failed in Accidental Goals a wonderful album to the record shelf. An album that much more mature, sophisticated sounds really good as the predecessor. Lyrically influenced by the idea of zero in an inevitably when one deals with the heal us again in August pushed the world, if ultimately only say the emotions where the journey must go on. About the random things in life, things that happen when you stop listening to his ideals, if they continued, the addiction to the moment when one is surprised by something which you just do not know till you have not tried it.

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Seismograph:

Before the concert I met the band to spinach strudel and beer - and had a few questions allowed.

you play countless shows, tours through Germany and England have already scoured. Austria has so far remained on the track, why's it take so long - one thing with your old home, Lockjaw Records , related?

Tobi: We had the first record in Germany no sales - have sold the plate to concerts. This is Lockjaw Records somehow happened through friends who were also on that label. The contact to Austria has not just happened. There are not that play bands from Austria that we concerts or tours, it simply lacks a bit of the Connection.

you know bands from Austria?

AOP: Red Lights Flash (New album:!! For your safety and on December 11, live in Vienna Flex ) that we have time together with Alexisonfire seen.

Three years ago, that your last album was released. Have you consistently gewerkt on new material and touring, the band more or run by the way, did you concentrate on other things?

Tobi: Nope, we have consistently played concerts since the last record. There were so on the 150 gig I guess. Before the first record there were so happens around the 50, it certainly has a lot in the two years. We have taken in May, and started writing songs a year before. We are not the fastest of all.
2007, we played a lot, like this around 50 shows, which is relatively much for us. Also, because Luke lives in Cologne and we respect us Samples must deny and things like that pretty well. Then also this thing came with the England tour to 2007 was in the fall of this
Well, 2008 we actually operated Songwritting, have also recorded twice as ne in preproduction studio. We wanted to take a long time for the second disk.
Lukas: I study sound engineering, but never imagined the plate at the time of recording not yet have believed. So we were in a studio in Koblenz. So actually the studio by Kurt Ebelhäuser or Blackmail . We have not recorded with him, but with two guys we know, but keep in his studio. In future, it would
of course an advantage if I the whole thing could make itself. I do have the Preproduction made, but as I said, I am still not quite as ready felt the next album but it should work out.

How long have you been working on the new album?

Michi: total, there were so two years. So we were in May in the studio but have also been recorded last year. It must be said that we get now with the new label ( papership Records ) great support in this direction. We are now in a position that we have a distributor in Germany, so you can now also our CD on Amazon . Bestellen

You were on an English label. Now you're back in Germany under the Treaty. Bands usually seek even then, to go to a foreign, English label. With you it's vice versa. Were you disappointed, the label could not realize what you expected you had.

Lukas: Actually it was just too early. We were not on the status that it has paid off for us. We stop thinking, "a label from England, full of cool, of course we do." And the tour and so it was all very fine, but it has really brought us much. Actually, only for us personally, and a lot of fun we also had. The tour and so that has really brought us together again containing greater detail, also because it was towards the end of the year as we had been playing, we then know any better in which direction it should go to the next CD.
We hold a German band and we always come to England to be .... Well.
We want to keep playing a lot because the possibilities are certainly limited in England. Since we know a lot containing less people than in Germany, therefore we have with the current board just did not think of this permission or tried. It was not that we have talked about it, just realize that we are stuck in there no ambitions in that direction. Was a nice
Experience in England to be, but need not be.

Many bands are becoming increasingly professional, experiment with computer programs, recorder, build your own studio. You started on the new record a bit with the electronic element to play. As this has developed since the last album?

Lukas: The live started, I really do not know why. I think Tobi has begun, because he once saw on a tour so Sometree Kaos Pad that the guy had served there. Tobi but has noticed quite quickly that the opportunities are a bit limited.
Through my studies I started with computer programs containing playing around, trying to make samples and then somehow reinzuwursten - and it has just always been fun. It's just interesting, this new component. It does not now have the upper hand, but what new is always fun, you have to stop always develop a bit.
Tobi: We had played around even at the last disk after the recording a bit. The desire to beat even before we had I'd say that did not arise from it as we have said that we need to do something completely new. It was just before that because we had not only the possibilities and it could not just up to realize.

Accidental Goals , a first glance, perhaps disturbing album title. I interpret it for me so far, as I also tended to Accidental Goal happened, I suddenly found myself looking for things that I had some time before being considered not just now but in making these steps towards trying to develop myself. That is why I am sitting here today. Can we pass on to the title?

Lukas: It fits very well to the whole band. We knew each other before that do not fit, and the last 5 years we spend much time together containing:
Michi: I would say, have you seen through all right.
Nolte: Yes a cool approach. On this funnel I had come not so, but casually. Is a good view way, definitely.
on what we had purchased it but I rather think again Songwritting that one without a plan, with an empty head in the rehearsal room meets and see what it comes out. Go there, write and play around, this would be what, no matter whether you wanted it or not.

the artwork I've now watched a bit longer and well, at first I thought it is a house that is reflected in a puddle of water. Now I'm not so sure. But it was definitely something down about it, right?

Tobi: No, actually it is Photoshop free. We have long wondered what to do. So now not only from the subject, but how we implement the artwork in general. We know then someone from Marburg learned as a graphic artist. We hold a long conversation with the, have made us so our thoughts and he has brought a lot of ideas. One day, he then told us about his project and we are shown. He experimented with Polaroid. So during the development process open, and liquids such as detergent poured inside, they put on the heating and so on. Polaroid transformation. As a motif he had collected high-rise buildings and shopping centers.

I know not yet the new record throughout, the song "forget.forget" there are these wonderful set - The more you know, the less u can remember !
This sentence is very open to interpretation - I to define myself by now very much - because sticking in a phase where I acquire lots of new things and information will, because I am overwhelmed by new, because I first permit - to me it but also occurs just as I would know less than before. On what the sentence is based.

Michi: Actually it is just that
Tobi: I sometime forget that , forget had in mind - I know why not, I'm not so interested in it, but I'm studying philosophy dependent, so actually I'm no longer upon it so as Bock. But we were holding times as perception and memory, and I found it really interesting because we hold will stop completely flooded. Every day hundreds of new disk, for example, you can also listen for free on the Internet or download. But most of it ends up anyway at first only on the hard disk and you do not hear from you. I was actually very cool that you even though you have so many options, you really are dealing only with the things that are important to you. Then we have, as always in fact composed of ideas, and develop. Songwritting usually happens to fourth, text sometimes alone, but even together.

Have you tried to realize a little distance from the word Emocore that one has picked up so you like?

Lukas: Can you say. We wanted to try as little as possible to pack plates on the plate. We are now not with an anti-consumer or so went to the plate. The choice of the studio as was already very deliberately chosen, simply because we had certain ideas about the sound. We were not at all dissatisfied with the old album, but viewed in retrospect, we just did have the sound forth something different, we wanted to have more warmth in it. We are quite satisfied with the new release, so by the sound of her in any case, and also from Songwritting. We are there now no limits to where we said "we do not" or something. We certainly had the last album borrows from various other bands, where we thought, wow, that sounds good. I think it's just a maturation process as an artist - from album to album. We collect, for example, already some way towards thought - what happens next. Man tries to stop constantly to wonder.
Nolte: is an important point, what music you hear yourself. And I think that has changed with us dependent in the past a little. We hear already still so Emocore and all, but it still does a lot of other stuff about what is a serious point eder.

Why the name? Are you interested in the city and its really terrible reason for the anchor in the story?

Tobi: content that has nothing to do with it. We had a few names and have simply dissolved, and then there was the stop.
Lukas: He is stolen by The Mars Volta who have it in a text line to "Deloused ..."
Now we are not huge fans of The Mars Volta , but it sounded good, it was the main reason. Is Although still a fairly lax argument, but I find it kind of cool, still.
We share nothing with Pompeii or something.

One thing is thus: Ashes of Pompeii are increasingly on the stage in this country. When you consider how many really bad bands to go out to various evenings or as a support to can be, one may acknowledge the recent Nichtaufscheinen of Marburg in concert calendars throughout Austria with bewildered head-shaking.

screaming, what you are thinking

The main band actually Todd Anderson also left a strong impression. Hardcore in German - in Future-proof back for more.
the dedicated people around papership Records I wish on their long journey, hopefully many successful moments. Just because pirates are everywhere, that's no reason not to throw into the musical wave.
you soon at sea.

photos reflects HERE

Do Horoscopes Vary In The Southern Hemisphere

DREDG and a microphone - ARENA / Vienna - 26th of October


Stormy weather outside, freezy and normaly the time for a tasty tea. You can give a shit about that when the San Francisco based band town Dredg is in. Here we are .....


You are in Austria since two days, played two shows, in Graz and Salzburg. How was it?

GAVIN: Yeah, they were good, kind of mellow shows but good shows. We´ve never been in Graz, so that was cool. We knew Salzburg, we had been there in 2002.

You are on tour with your new album „The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion“ which is influenced by the words of Salman Rushdies Essay. I read it aswell and found myself agreeing to his thoughts. Can you remember the moment when you decided to do what is most important for you – the music – no matter what all the people around you said.

GAVIN: Yeah, I mean. I start playing guitar at six grade or so and that was pretty when i got into it, and lasted up through highschool but practicing a lot. But as a band I guess probably late ninetees or something around that time.

DINO: I start playing piano when i was really young, so as kind I was always playing music and my mother played music too since i was baby, so…..

So, you started with piano?

DINO: Yeah, at about five for like ten years. And then i start playing drums. I never realised that it´s what i do, because it was all the time the thing I did.

On the 1st of october there was a happening in NYC´s Housing Works where Dredg together with Salman Rushdie had organized an event. Would you say that this special concert was one of the most important and interesting moments in your (musical career or in your) career as an artist?

GAVIN: Definitely, it was very different and the show turned out really well. From a fun racing scanpointer it is sucessfull and they were very please. A well rounded evening i think. It was more a mellow show, without drums, only Roland Syntie , Keys, Guitars and Dino played Piano. It was in a bookstore, so we tried to make it bookstore´esk

In what way had the Split from your old label, the major Interscope , to your new one, the indie Ohlone Recordings , affected the work of the album. Was it hard to follow the concept, and was it also a reason for the various release dates of the album? Did you have more freedom in making the record with all the things you loved (to do afterwards?)

DINO: It was definitely part of the delay, you know. That took so long to make a album, because we were dealing so long, it was a long process that we actually left there and were kind of part away. During that whole like decision time and it was a lot of like delay. Just month, you know. We wrote a few songs, we were all kind of new, tried some more things, wanted to see some more. It was kind of a stretched up ending of the relationship. That was a big part and definitely a year of that kind of stuff going on and as far as the beginning of making the new record. And yeah, everyone would say that since we´ve been kind of our own it´s great. Making the album just for ourselfs and not feeling this pressure, i mean we never felt this pressure but it´s defenitelly better…

You recorded the album in your studio?

GAVIN: No, that wasn´t our studio. We decided a rehersal space. There are some studios around the bay area, and we recorded a few tracks in L.A. as well. Also in a studio in the north of San Francisco and in two studios in San Francisco as well. Yeah, and at a studio called Barefoot in L.A.

Oh, alright. I Ask this, because at The Leaflets i´ve seen this awesome studio with all this instruments and i also loved the bicycle ride to the studio.

GAVIN: (laughing) Oh yeah, it´s a beautiful location. That studio does not exist anymore, we were one of the last bands which recorded there. It´s kind of sad anyway.

You said one day that Dredg stands for „Discovering the World“, for transformation – because only when you go on journeys into unexplored areas you learn how to see things differently. You changed the producer – did you feel that Terry Pate would not be able to make this record?

GAVIN: We need a ingenieur and producer after sound a little different. So, you know, every record has kind of place for it´s persons. Mat Radosevich, we worked with on the new record. is a lot more musical than other people we worked with, so, he brought another element at the mix aswell. You know, every experience is a lot different.

In the song „Ireland“ you´re talking about the topic when we don´t move ourselves, when we stay at the same place, always with the same things around - which are in fact comfortable, but at the same time we´re losing our sight for the adventure, for discovering new things, new cultures…
No one of you really has this problem because of your touring-schedule.
Although: Was there a day, when someone had the impression to leave San Francisco, or did anybody of you live„far away“?

GAVIN: Yeah, i mean i think as a band we´re very privileged in reality, so it´s not useable for every persons to be to…you know…this kind of all great distances but it does not have to be a huge move or a huge vacation that experienced something new. I mean within our state there are a lot of different ideals, you know, geographic differencies or something like that, that could be inspire me in my life

DINO: We travel so much thats it´s kind of nice to be…ähmm..you know, someone have family too, and you´re always far away from them most of the time, so it´s kind of nice to be at home. To have it´s comfort.

GAVIN: But you guys are lucky, that you have so many different countries within short distances. We have Mexico, but it´s …hmm… you know……..

We are talking about places. Is there a place that means a lot to you - that always will be associated with a special song or music – because something special happend there?

GAVIN: Well, i think probably Germany, just because that was one the first countries outside of our own that embraced the music, and we´ve met a lot of people there over the years and have friends there now. There are certain areas.

DINO: Oh, I remember that when we were doing „Information“. It´s a little bit inspired by like the german festivals which we were playing, you know, this feeling when you are playing outside, lots of people. It kind of inspired me a little bit with the drumming. You know what i mean?

Is there something that creeped into your life, but right now you don´t like it anymore? An addiction, a habit or something like that?

DINO: (Laughing) Well, something is always creeping in somehow.

GAVIN: I think we´re pretty good right now, i think, yeah. We´re pretty down, more than ever probably. Yeah, we´ve calm down a little bit.

DINO: Yeah, but this is about six weeks ago (laughing)

DINO: This is the fourth and least month on tour, two europe once one months, and two us ones once with like seven weeks long. So that was like since late february, so it´s been like a whole year. We haven´t been on tour for long time, so, we got kind of crazy for a while, you know, but now it´s kind of like pacing ourselves a little bit,……getting older

DINO: Well, we had more fun to be fucking drunk all the time, party hard..you know, it´s more fun, but it also brings you down more aswell.
When the shows starts suffering because of you partying to hard, then you´re kind of guilt, you know, kind of fuck…

GAVIN: It´s just a bad cycle in which you´re caught in.

But for sure there are thes days which are more normal and these days which are sort of exzessiv. It always depends on the city aswell, right?

GAVIN: Especially being in a different place every night, seeing people like: „hey can i give u a drink“ and you are in..ähhm.. vienna and u feel like an idiot for not maybe, because we´re all over here and might be my last time that i am able to do this, so i wanna go out. That´s the tough thing but I will not sitting in the bus and read when i am in vienna, you know what I mean.

For example: Your best friend is asking you for advice about new music stuff. Which record would you recommend him (beside yours).

GAVIN: Well, the new Elbow record is not bad, that´s a great album.

DINO: To be honest it´s not that much that´s like flaring me right now. It might just be me, my grand, my life or something but I just dont have anything that´s like or that feel like that i have to listen too.

GAVIN: I listen to a lot of mellow music, usually i listen to most of my music in the morning. Especially on tour.

I ask this, because there´s a nineteen year old girl right now, she´s from austria and her artist name is „Soap and Skin“ ? You know her?

GAVIN: No. How was it, „Soap and Skin“ ?

Yes. She plays piano and mixes it up with sounds from her notebook.

DINO: Does she sing in english?

Yeah. I have the cd for you.

GAVIN & DINO: Thanks, great man.

What was your last dream about?

DINO: Wow, fuck, it was really weird. I had to protect an ex-girlfriend against getting shot down by some like folks, on a top of this hill, at night…
Yeah, nothing makes sence when i am woke up, but it totally makes sence when i was dreaming it…kind of weird when u know everything that was happening…..
Yeah, we watched this really fucking creepy movie Paranormal Activity , so we watched that regulary before going to bed, so….you know…one reason for this fucked up dreams!

GAVIN: I remember that when I explain dreams they sound just terrible, so…I don´t know, I was running from cops and there was some weird drug thing. You know, it was kind of this dream when u watching a movie and there is some new drug there that would transform you, like shapeshift you on a different things….. i was running from the police and turned into water…..i dont know, but it was really great during the dream, but yeah, it sounds pretty boring right now.
Explaining dreams is like impossible.
I got mobed the other night in my dream, by a girl and i´d followed her and was camping outside of her house, waiting for her to come out to get my phone and wallet back (all laughing)
Yeah, pretty boring.

You said that this album is dedicated to Chi Cheng, the basser of Deftones .
did his accident and his incidental condition changed the view of something in your lives (which was quite normal until then)?

GAVIN: I mean always things like that were unsuspected, kind of shocking. I don´t know, i mean, it makes u to think about this person after, and you reclaim what happend to him as best as u can in your mind. It´s sad and whatever. It´s a shocking like that, a sudden death or anything like sudden accidents are always kind of choking.

Does anyone of you write - in the century of mails and internet – Do you like handwritten stuff?

GAVIN: Not that much. More email.

Wordrap:

Mozart:

GAVIN: Austria
DINO: Salzburg

Falco:

DINO: What?

It was an important musican from vienna. Maybe you know his song „Rock me Amadeus“?

GAVIN: Oh, yeah. Ok, i know that my answer have nothing to do with it, but my fist thought was „The Endless Story“,because of Falkor
DINO: laughing

Drugs:

GAVIN: Fun
DINO: I love them
(all laughing)

Opera or Classical Music:

GAVIN: Classical
DINO: Classical

Nature:

GAVIN: Economy
DINO: Hock

Preferd fruit:

GAVIN: Banana
DINO: Apple

Night:

GAVIN: Inspire
DINO: Drugs

Sade (the singer):

GAVIN: Horny
DINO: Sexy

Vinyl:

GAVIN: Dredg
DINO: 1970´s

Thank you guys, what a pleasure.

So thanks to FM5 (where you can read the German version) and rooo! - You rock, take care - we need you man !!!!!

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Andres Godoy - Cafe / Culture Club Neruda Vienna


The Ambassador of the inner beauty. Because everything starts in the head.

Truly honest

"says the index finger one day all of a sudden the middle finger: Why not make common cause with the ring and little fingers? You could help us would be neat to create new sounds, allowing the implementation of resulting ideas. We need no longer useless and hang around mope. It is what it is, we make the best of it. "
sooner said than done, and the thumb was also hired the same.

may sound like the beginning of all one of the worst jokes ever. In truth it is, the heart accompanied by a smile sprung, story about a new beginning. Years of hard training can imagine, a situation which is only one of us quite hard, a game developed technique called TapTap * and a huge portion of love later, this left us enchanted hand, it puts us in a state of wonder. From Chile to Los Angeles and New York to Vienna in the Margaret Street.
We are talking about Chilean exceptional guitarist Andres Godoy and with the opening words he tried to describe to us the situation in which he found himself after an accident in which he had lost his entire right hand. He was just fourteen years old and, according to his own testimony, much better guitar player than now. Hard to imagine being able to use the handicap despite only one limb. But one has Andres Godoy once met, one suddenly understands stuff in case one part leaden scales, which of our eyes, and thus our view of the profound things block too often, like leaves in the autumn trees, city park from. Andres ruled that a hand can still be a huge gift, and carried this wisdom not only with his guitar playing, but also 100% man.
It may sound bizarre, this man is truly an ambassador of light.

Proxima Parada: Alemania / Achen

In Chile has long been a "Star", an institution in the music scene, both as a producer, as vice president, director of Rock School, as a participant in various cultural activities or just musician with various bands, he moved to Germany in April 2009. A visa allowed him a six-month Residence, which he used to continuously adjust to tour. Solo, with his guitar.
And even if it increasingly appears that it may have to give everything in the ever-expanding Europe, then, according to the sector of South American musicians have plenty of room above. I had never ever thought with an interested eye on this scene to squint when the language but then missed the one accompanied months, then you are looking for new home in the old places where you need not necessarily German. And gives thanks Brought Connection and a little luck, it suddenly in Vienna first places where you are in a English-speaking community can move. The
then also a year in Chile as an organizer of various musical activities have been active among the many new people that hits, of course, very well. Just this
also acted as the organizer of this event.

Neruda

A stone's throw along with the good old Schikaneder opportunity and already tens of times I touched, is the Neruda , a bar or a cultural association that week with a small program rapture to know. The
Andres Godoy would occur once there, he's even with a schienbar not want to admit facial expression presented. He even said that his friends in Chile could not imagine that he betoure with the guitar all over Europe - in public. But that is precisely one of the phenomena. I'm not just one who has for years been looking for English-speaking exchange, let alone endure for hours English lyrics. According to my perception in this regard is expected in Vienna but register just a so-called "push" to open in this direction. Perhaps it is simply not noticed me before, so how much.
Right there also links the idea of a newfound contact, namely the existing well and interesting music scene in South America, be it more traditional music in the style of (South) Americana movement or rather rock / pop-heavy material.

sin espacio pero escénico convincente

course, there was no stage, a small amplifier and a bag full of stories were sufficient. The public, far from speaking only English, which also pointed to the apparently existing interest of related art. The concert, eyes and ears. The protagonist, an as of Ojos del Salado reduce radiant sun god.
would be really impressive and I was skeptical, but when I see play suddenly someone with only one hand guitar lines as if he would have four, from rock to salsa and tango everything is made, then I miss it a bit, the words, even if the other does not my music . Sung was still bilingual.



A summary of majority in respect impression leave Santander Truly this night was just honest. Nice that you are more than may first rely on their feelings.
For Andres Godoy it was a great introduction to a city that is now for me is once again to rediscover. But just as it works now, and if this is not so, then you need to make Andres same, namely to pack his things and throw himself into an adventure. Good to know that even that will work again.

* TapTap - is a way of playing the guitar composed hammering from the already existing styles , tapping and the manner of performance legato .