martes, 7 de junio de 2016
Interview(Re edition) Javier Belziti
1-Quien
era Javier Belziti antes de Juana la Loca? En que bandas tocaba?
1. Todo comenzó
percutiendo peines en el botiquín del baño, después toqué la batería en
"El coronel macabroso", luego vino "Macabroso", un dúo de sampler
y guitarras.
2-Como
llegaste a Juana?
2. Soy originario de
Temperley, y conocía a Rodrigo y a Aitor del barrio, vivíamos a 4 cuadras, y
por aquellos años (´90, ´91,´92) iba a los recitales de Juana, Los Brujos, Amor
Indio, Mal Recetado, etc . y estábamos todos x ahí, tirando flyers, caminando
la noche, aglomerando y condensando energía. Cuando me compré el sampler los
chicos me raptaron.
3-Tocaste
con Los Brujos, Gorriones, Juana, podemos decir que: A-Tenes el Honor de tocar
con los capos de los 90 o B-Sos verdaderamente un TIPO SONICO!! Que podes decir
de eso?
3.
Con los Gorriones no toqué nunca!, si grabé e hice algunos temas con San Martin
Vampire (1998, 1999). Creo que tuve un poco de suerte, soy primo de Fabio Rey y
Gabriel Guerrisi; iba a ver a Los Brujos seguido, y caí con el sampler en el
momento justo. Fue una experiencia intensa, tenía 20 años y la mente
incendiada.
4-Trabajas
actualmente en producción, lo cual me tienta a saber si preferís el estudio o
los escenarios?
4.
Me encanta producir, me enriquece un montón, y sólo lo hago si la música me es
atractiva; pero me gusta muchísimo más tocar, poner el volumen en 10 y sentir
que el sonido me eleva.
5-Como
es hoy tu relación con tus ex-compañeros de JLL? Te ves con alguno de ellos?
5.
Todo más que bien, a principios del siglo R. me quería hacer volver...ahora
hace mucho que no los veo, salvo algún encuentro casual... cada cual sigue su
camino.
6-Hablemos
ahora de lo que haces actualmente: Estas con una nueva formación llamada
PosaVasos, como esta formada? Y como nace este proyecto?
6.
Posavasos era el proyecto de mi amigo Eduardo Ferrer, al cual me sumé en el
2009, mientras estaba con Electrón todavía. Desde entonces la banda atravesó
algunas modificaciones para llegar a la actual formación: Iñaki Zubieta (aka
Guazuncho) en batería, Santiago Vallesi (aka Mic y Mouse) en bajo y coros,
Eduardo Ferrer (El asesino del romance) en guitarra y voces; y Ceci Kang y yo
en sintetizadores y voces.
7-Como
describirías a Posavasos?
7.
Creo que desde Demolición inmediata (2011) hasta ahora, que estamos grabando un
nuevo disco, Posavasos atravesó una transformación multidimensional, una
evolución polimórfica, motivada por la amplia diversidad espiritual reinante en
la banda. Creo que tenemos la libertad necesaria para no sentirnos atados o
inhibidos de hacer la música que queremos. El disco que estamos grabando marca
un gran paso con respecto a las anteriores grabaciones. Nada es como fue, ni
como será.
8-Hablame
un poco sobre Yuyo, con que tipo de disco nos encontramos?
8.
Nos fuimos todos juntos, con nuestras parejas y algunos amigos de vacaciones a
El Charquiadero, un lugar en las montañas de Catamarca. Desde mi punto de vista
era una situación muy italiana. Llevamos unos mics, una consola, una compu y
algunos instrumentos para grabar "algo". De esa vibración sale Yuyo,
que es estar tocando debajo de un sauce, o en la sombra de Tierra: la noche
silvestre con un millón de estrellas sorprendiendo las pupilas dilatadas
gozosas de tamaño espectáculo.
9-Para
grabarlo movieron a toda la banda a Catamarca? Por que Catamarca?
9.
Fuimos a una casa del papá del novio de Ceci Kang, el DR. Aguyo, más conocido
como "el loco de las piedras" por los lugareños. Su hobby es juntar
piedras y pararlas o hacer montículos o figuras. Como no le alcanza con lo que
tiene alrededor, se va con la camioneta a buscar buenas piedras quién sabe
donde. Ya tiene apoyo municipal, a veces le mandan un par de personas para
ayudarlo. Obviamente en la casa era casi todo de piedra: las mesitas de luz, la
jabonera del baño, la decoración interior, la mesa, etc. Imponente.
10-Como
fue el proceso de grabación?
10.
Muuuy jamaica. Un momento representativo fue cuando con unos mics de contacto
nos grabamos percutiendo ramas de varios arboles. Sinceramente no merecíamos
tener luz, pero la tuvimos y pudimos grabar.
11-Voy
a Elegir una canción y vos hablame de ella, Iba a Llegar (Canción de: Prohibida
su venta primer EP)
11.
las luces cegaron los espejos.
me
trepaba en las olas a ver si regresas.
12-Volviendo
a Javier, como viste el regreso de Peligrosos Gorriones? Que sentimientos te
produjo?
12.no
sabe no contesta
13-Como
ves el rock en Argentina? Pensas que estamos pasando un buen o mal momento?
13.
Siempre pasan cosas buenas, o interesantes.
14-Extrañas
los noventa?
14
.No vivo preso del pasado, me gusta vivir el presente, pero reconozco que en
los ´90 había una caldo de cultivo muy voluminoso; y estaba lleno de
bacterias!... hoy es diferente, quizás más tranqui y menos trascendente.
15-Que
bandas nuevas te sorprendieron recientemente?
15.
Últimamente me caen bien Sean Nicholas Savage, Jakkko Eino Kalevi, Todd Terje,
Lake, y de acá Guazuncho, Trasvorder, La ola que quería ser chau.
16-Para
terminar, muchas gracias por atenderme. Que vas a pedirle a Papa Noel?
16.
Gracias a vos. No creo en dios, prefiero una tabla periódica antes que una
biblia. O un telescopio. slds!
Nota: Ariel Fernandez
Foto: Banda
Nota: Ariel Fernandez
Foto: Banda
Interview: re edition: STEREOSPREAD
1-Where are you from?
Sara Snyder is originally from North
Carolina, but she has traveled around the US and Europe and lived in New York
City for several years for Graduate school at Columbia University (Manhattan).
James Hopkins was born in Connecticut and has lived and travelled all over the
world to South America, Central America, the USA and elsewhere. His mother and
her family are from Peru. For much of his life, he hailed from Florida.
2-Could you describe the musical project ?
Stereospread is the collaboration of Sara and
James. We sometimes collaborate with other artists throughout the world, most
notably guitarist Paul Seegers of Assemblage 23. We channel our feelings,
thoughts, life histories, and inspirations into this music. With the exception
of our concept EP The Ghost and The Grave, we try to write beautiful,
“shimmering” music. Sara likes to think of it as creating songs that haunt you.
3-How many albums do you have and what are
your influences? Where did you record your Music?
We have 2 EPs released and about two albums
worth of material we haven’t officially released yet or have released for free
via various avenues (Noisetrade, streaming sites, etc.) Some of our most-played
tracks haven’t been released via iTunes yet. They should be within a couple of
months though. The first EP is The Ghost and the Grave and the second is The
Heart and The Thief. We also have the single, Frozen, which was released via
DAGA records in Australia. Our influences are very diverse. A lot of James’s
previous work was in the trip-hop, ambient, and shoe-gazer genres. He listened
to a lot of Slow Dive, Bel Canto, Archive, and m83. Really though, he listens
to every kind of music and studies music production, always looking for things
to add to our sound. Sara grew listening to Classic Rock ’n’ Roll and singer-songwriter
albums. She studied classical music and jazz extensively in college, where she
sang and played trumpet. We record in our project studio at our home in
Waynesville, NC, which is near Asheville.
4-Do interact with other musicians on
stage?
We occasionally perform with other musicians,
including a cellist, drummers, and guitarists. But typically, we prefer to
perform with just the two of us, pairing electronic sequencing with vocals
similar to Sbtrkt, Purity Ring, or Royksopp.
5-How this project was born ?
This project was born because Sara and James
started dating! We met each other because we were talking about music to a
mutual friend online. We’ve made music together since we first starting hanging
out.
6- Do you work in the independently way ?
James produces and remixes for other artists
around the world. Sara is a teacher for the Cherokee Indians and is working on
her doctorate in Ethnomusicology.
7-What are your goals in a short and long
term?
We want to finish our new album then go on
tour. We also hope to get married in the next year or two — mostly because we
want to have a family in a few years.
8-What is your opinion regarding the global
economic situation?
It’s hard for us to speak to this question
globally. In the United States, we see a huge income disparity between the very
rich and the rest of the people. Sara feels it’s because most of the U.S.
manufacturing jobs are no longer in the United States. There’s this myth that
North Americans believe — that their way of life is better than anywhere else —
but that is simply not true. Our citizens too often don’t know the histories
that have created the world in which they live, and as a nation we are not very
well traveled and exposed to other ways of life. We have loved seeing firsthand
how much more efficiently and conscientiously many South Americans and
Europeans live. It’s one thing to see it on TV, but another to live elsewhere
for a while and experience it firsthand.
Both of us would like to see communities work
to strengthen their local economies (as opposed to massive international
corporations such as a Walmart). We believe this would greatly increase health
and happiness and allow for a more equal distribution of wealth. But it’s hard
to navigate and change the worldwide economic system — these structures came
out of colonialism and have long histories of inequality and oppression. It
often seems impossible to make a difference from the bottom up, but raising
awareness is the first step. There are many things that go around social media
about inequality and the world’s problems, and I do think that saturating
people with information will encourage change.
9-Is this economic bad moment affecting your
Project?
We don’t think that the economy is impacting
ours or other musical projects. The problem started before the economic
downturn. The biggest hurdle for musicians nowadays is that very, very few
people actually purchase music any more. It’s simply too easy to stream music
for free on Youtube, Soundcloud, and elsewhere. And as an independent artist,
you must have your music out there in order to be heard, so you have to accept
that hardly anyone is buying it. We remember growing up going to the record
store and buying a tape or CD based on the artwork and genre and just hoping we
liked it. The discovery was part of it. Now the market is saturated and the
value of music is at an all-time low because digital music can be endlessly
duplicated - there is no physical value to the music itself. You might purchase
an album or song if you really, really love it or want to support the artist,
but on the whole, musicians can’t make money from album sales anymore. So, what
can we do? We work other jobs and make music when we can. We attempt to get
music placed in films, commercials, and TV shows. We try to book great shows
and sell merchandise. We team up with visual artists and do multi-media events.
We try to think of interesting, bizarre, and absurd ways to get people to
listen to our music. It’s a difficult time to be a musician. Just like everyone
with a digital camera thinks they are a photographer, everyone with a laptop
and some software think they are the next best thing in EDM. But we’ve spent
decades training, practicing, and working in music to create the music we make.
We hope it shows!
10-This interview, will be read it by people
from many countries. What can you say about your self?
Live and let live! We don’t judge anyone else
for how they choose to live their life. We are all here on this beautiful
earth. We live; we love; we suffer; and we die. We hope our music will invoke a
feeling — joy, happiness, sadness, melancholy, nostalgia, etc. — that will
connect the listener to a memory, a moment in time. If the sounds we make are
one drop in the ocean of human experience, we have joined in the chorus of
life.
Interview by: Ariel Fernandez
Foto: Band
Interview: Re-edition LOOMER
Thank very much for
accepting to speak with Wave Noise Magazine-Argentina
You're welcome. I also
would like to thank for the opportunity.
1-how long have you been
working together and who are the members of the band?
We're working since
begining of 2008. On this last year (2013) our original bassist (Liege) left
the band and now we're playing with Fernanda. Now our formation is Stefano Fell
(guitar/vocal), Richard La Rosa (guitar), Guilherme Figueiredo (drums) and
Fernanda Schabarum (bass/vocal).
2-Are you from the same
area or city ?
Yes, we all live in Porto
Alegre city nowadays, despite being born in different places.
3-How is the Shoegaze
scene in Brazil?
Well, as an obscure genre
in anywhere, you really go against the flow doing that here. Not a big problem
as we do it because we like it. And surprisingly a lot of people like it too,
more than we expected. With time, you can see that more shoegaze bands are
appearing here and there, and new opportunities are being created in
alternative media.
4-what are your music
influences?
We all like different
stuff in a certain way. We hear bands like The Pastels, Sonic Youth, Gang Of
Four, Television Personalities, MBV, Dinosaur Jr, Polvo, Glen Branca,
Swervedriver, Devo, Joy Division, Slint, Brian Eno, Pixies, Black Tambourine,
Team Dresch, Fellini, J&MC, Wire, Dead Kennedys, Cocteau Twins, Spacemen 3,
etc. But when the four of us get together, we play this way that you know.
5-in general terms, what
are the topics of the lyrics?
This is hard to say in
general terms since each song has it's own focus, but I could say that we are
very quiet people that has its difficulties to deal with the world and it ends
up transpiring in the lyrics of the songs somehow. I think this is a good
starting point.
6-Do you believe in
maintain a style of composition over the time or you are open to new changes?
I think we have to find
our way of composition that sounds good and have it's own identity. I don't
know if it's a good idea to avoid new changes if they come.
7-how do you feel to know
that your album comes to Spanish language countries?
I feel very happy to know
about it. I really do. I hope we can have a gig in some of these countries one
day.
8- How are the members of
the band? Are they the same from the beginning?
Our first bassist Liege
left the band this last year before we release the album. We tried some new
bassists and now we are working with Fernanda. The other members of the band
are the same since the begining. We are very happy with the good reception of
the album and we're making plans for the future.
9-How do you describe the
album You Wouldn’t Anyway?
I'm not the best person
to talk about music, my business is to make music. But if I try to describe it,
I'd say this album is a collection of pop songs surrounded by layers of
distortion and energy. Nothing very original, don't you think?
10-Do you feel
uncomfortable when media describes you as the new version of my bloody
valentine ?
I don't think we are so
similar, i think it's probably because of our name. MBV is one of our
influences, and we love them, but we have another influences too and differences
as well. We don't even try to be equal. We admire them because they have their
sound, and we need to have our sound too. Anyway, I don't feel uncomfortable, i
feel flattered.
11-Could you please
describe the songs All Gone and Search on your Own?
Well, let's go. These two
songs have their common points. Short and simple vocal, a dark aura around, a
nice guitar riff, drums full of energy, and instrumental ending. A voice
quietly whispering the turmoil of feelings that are symbolized by the dirty and
distorted instrumental work. All Gone speaks of hopelessness, helplessness,
cowardice, and nonconformity. Search On Your Own tries to draw attention to a
change of perspective, is a whispered cry for what someone don't want this to
be seen.
12-Do you have any other
music parallel Projects?
I'm doing some noisy
improvisations with a band called "Scafandro" nowadays. Fernanda is
playing in a band called "A Red So Deep". I play together with
Fernanda in an instrumental band called "Parkplatz" too. Guilherme
and Richard aren't playing in any other band at the moment as I know.
13-What are the goals for
2014? Any new album?
We want to record new
songs, probably an EP, and we also want to play in some different places. You
know, have fun.
14-Do you think, people
who listen shoegaze are different? maybe we have a more refined ear?
sophisticated ear?
It's hard to put things
this way. But i like people who listen that. I guess I could say that is really
nice to know about someone who don't turn up his nose to the noise played
extremely loud, and at the same time he have an open mind to be touched by
beautiful melodies. There is one bad thing about them, at least here in Brazil,
you just know if a person listens shoegaze music if he tells you that, because
you can't guess it by yourself.
15-What do you find or
look in the guitar distortion? guitar coupling? can you find inspiration at the
moment?
I like a lot of fuzz and
distortion. I tend to not use overdrive because I need to choose something and
space is a valuable thing in the pedal case. I prefer older pedals, they
usually have rawer sound, despite a less practical size. The good
fuzz/distortion is kind of like you play something and let the guitar do the
rest by itself. It's powerfull and very inspiring.
16-in a couple months we
want to talk with you again, what kind of band we can find? a busy band?,
tired?, experienced?, billionaire?, restless?
I hope that in a couple
of months you find a happy band doing things they love. In a very loud way.
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