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.
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