Saturday, February 13, 2021

⭐ ๐ˆ๐๐’๐“๐‘๐”๐Œ๐„๐๐“๐€๐‹ ๐๐‹๐€๐‚๐„๐๐Ž ๐’๐Ž๐๐†๐’ ⭐

Dear soulmates, today let's take a closer look at the instrumental ๐‘ท๐’๐’‚๐’„๐’†๐’ƒ๐’ songs, which is well worth stopping to appreciate because it's there where we find the most experimental side of the band, where they unleash their talent as musicians and in where we can find quite interesting and remarkable tracks from their discography.

One of the most distinctive labels of the band is undoubtedly the voice of ๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’ ๐‘ด๐’๐’๐’Œ๐’, nevertheless even without his voice it's not difficult to recognize a ๐‘ท๐’๐’‚๐’„๐’†๐’ƒ๐’ song 'cause that characteristic sound and style that each member of the band has to play his instrument is present in the instrumental pieces, without losing an apex of intensity and emotion.

It's something that I find fascinating about them and that since I first heard ๐‘ฉ๐’–๐’๐’๐’†๐’•๐’‘๐’“๐’๐’๐’‡ ๐‘ช๐’–๐’‘๐’Š๐’…, I'm still amazed and blown away by their creativity every time I listen to each one of their instrumental songs.

Photo Credit;  Scarlet Page, Screenshot,  Unknown (5) / Edit by Rita

๐Ÿ”นIn the next excerpt from an interview, ๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’ explains more details of this creative and experimental process:

๐ŸŽ™️๐ƒ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐š๐ฆ๐ฌ?
Yeah, and it is on these bases that we created "Battle For the Sun" or "Speak in Tongues". Improvisation is still a big part of our creative process, even if Stefan and I also like to write our little songs in our corner. I think the most exciting things come about in our rehearsal room, when we're doing anything. In English, we have this slightly dirty expression: "Throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks". That's exactly what we do by experimenting with music: we throw sounds on the tape.

๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ'๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž?
This is where I really feel like a musician, in this laboratory, mixing sounds with my test tubes, until I get an explosive mixture. In this context, there are melodies that seem to come out of nowhere. It requires good collaboration, a desire to create something together, in mutual respect.

๐–๐ก๐ฒ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ง๐ฌ?
That is something we would love to do, for example, if we were asked to write the soundtrack for a film. Five or six years ago, we already had fun using experimental tracks on the B-sides of singles. But, from there, to release an entire album with instrumentals, frankly, I don't know.

๐ˆ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐š ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฌ?
I find it more and more difficult,
because the further I go, the more I have to renew myself. As a songwriter, my challenge is to always be able to surprise myself, and I admit that after six albums, I sometimes row. But, that's also what's interesting, and I don't plan to quit anytime soon.
▪️๐™ฑ๐š›๐š’๐šŠ๐š— ๐™ผ๐š˜๐š•๐š”๐š˜, ๐™ถ๐šž๐š’๐š๐šŠ๐š› ๐š‡๐š๐š›๐šŽ๐š–๐šŽ, 2009.

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

✨ Now let's enjoy this musical journey! ๐ŸŽธ๐ŸŽถ


๐Ÿ”Š ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ–๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ’ (๐ƒ๐ž๐ฆ๐จ)
https://youtu.be/b_mutHGNnQk

๐Ÿ”Š ๐‡.๐Š. ๐…๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ
https://youtu.be/V5pxOdagOnM

๐Ÿ”Š ๐Ž๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ ๐ž๐ง ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ž๐Ÿ
https://youtu.be/L5sZlD0hj6I

๐Ÿ”Š ๐‡๐ฎ๐  ๐๐ฎ๐›๐›๐ฅ๐ž
https://youtu.be/p1QvXr39jwE

๐Ÿ”Š ๐„๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฅ๐๐จ
https://youtu.be/0PLjTh7_F3U

๐Ÿ”Š ๐๐ž๐ž๐๐ฅ๐ž๐๐ข๐œ๐ค
https://youtu.be/r1S_T769I5U

๐Ÿ”Š ๐ˆ๐จ๐ง
https://youtu.be/HP-E3pRgpzE

๐Ÿ”Š ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ˆ๐ง๐ง๐จ๐œ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐Ž๐Ÿ ๐’๐ฅ๐ž๐ž๐ฉ
https://youtu.be/TpLijnTUFs8

๐Ÿ”Š ๐‹๐ž๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐จ
https://youtu.be/APudBRZZKjU

๐Ÿ”Š ๐€๐š๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐š๐ซ๐ค
https://youtu.be/cQ31EQVfv74

๐Ÿ”Š ๐ƒ๐ฎ๐› ๐๐ฌ๐ฒ๐œ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ
https://youtu.be/wxVAlbJBHXI

๐Ÿ”Š ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ฆ๐ž ๐…๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐…๐ฎ๐ง๐ค๐ฒ ๐‘๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐
https://youtu.be/E3cv1aoIaxM

๐Ÿ”Š ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ข๐
https://youtu.be/js_z-qYCtDA

๐Ÿ”Š ๐„๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐š
https://youtu.be/HYaYkl3pJx4

๐Ÿ”Š ๐ƒ๐ž๐ญ๐จ๐ฑ ๐…๐ข๐ฏ๐ž
https://youtu.be/1njrHil4wRw

๐Ÿ”Š ๐Ž๐ฎ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ
https://youtu.be/2ftK8NooN9E

๐ŸŽธ✨๐ŸŽถ ๐Ÿฅ๐ŸŽถ✨๐ŸŽน

Photo credit; Orestis Panagiotou

๐ŸŽค๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฌ? ๐„๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ.
๐’๐ญ๐ž๐Ÿ๐š๐ง: Brian usually has a whole list in his head of phrases and titles that we use to title songs. But there is no real science to it. For example Evalia is the product name of the answering machine that I used to record the talking in the song.
▪️๐š‚๐š๐šŽ๐š๐šŠ๐š— ๐™พ๐š•๐šœ๐š๐šŠ๐š•, ๐š‹๐š’๐š˜๐š—๐š’๐šŒ-๐šŒ๐š•๐šž๐š‹, 2007

๐ŸŽค๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ ๐-๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ ๐ข๐ ๐ฌ. ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ๐›๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ….๐–๐ก๐ฒ’๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ?
With b-sides we do alot of experimental music, a lot of covers, instrumental and stuff like that and it is fun for us, but the stuff that we play live it's kinda our favorites. There is a certain instruction of what works better live and especially in a festival situation and usually it is a powerful rock song with lyrics. You are not gonna play like a ten minute instrumental.
▪️๐™ฑ๐š›๐š’๐šŠ๐š— ๐™ผ๐š˜๐š•๐š”๐š˜, ๐š๐š˜๐šŒ๐š”๐š ๐šŠ๐šŸ๐šŽ ๐™ต๐šŽ๐šœ๐š๐š’๐šŸ๐šŠ๐š•, 2004.

⭐๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜—๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ด?
๐˜ž๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜บ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜บ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ?
๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฌ?

๐Ÿ“I don't want to leave without telling you that while I was preparing this post, I came across an instrumental version of "๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐’€๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ" that I fell in love with ❤️ and you can listen to it here:
https://youtu.be/WVM29d1oqIE

Also, I found a channel where a guy has uploaded several instrumental versions of other ๐‘ท๐’๐’‚๐’„๐’†๐’ƒ๐’ songs, a real delight that I definitely recommend to you give a listening ▶️ https://bit.ly/3a9jBsN

๐Ÿ“Interview Excerpt Translation: Rita Molko de L.

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