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Today I bring you the translation of the interview with ๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ + ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐
๐๐ that the Spanish independent music magazine ๐ด๐๐๐
๐๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ published a few days ago, where they talked about their new album "๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐" as well as many details of their joint projects and if they will collaborate with ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐ on a song one day. ๐ Enjoy reading. ๐
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๐ซ⭐ "๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ค๐ง๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐๐๐ก๐จ ๐ก๐๐ ๐ ๐ค๐ช๐ง๐จ" ⭐๐ซ
๐๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ข๐บ ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐๐ช๐จ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ญ 21 & ๐๐ต๐ฆ๐ง๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ญ๐ด๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ '๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐น' (๐๐๐๐, 21), ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต. ๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ท๐ช๐ข ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฎ, ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ต ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ข ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ-๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ฏ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฐ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ณ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ.
๐️๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฐ ๐๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐ค ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ. ๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐๐๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ?
๐ธ๐๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ฅ ๐๐: Phew! What it is to know each other, we easily met fourteen years ago. Through mutual friends in Madrid at an exhibition, but I don't know the exact year. Well, not fourteen... more! It would be 2002 or 2003. And the group started in 2012. It came naturally: we talked a lot, we did a lot of things, we remixed each other... And in the end we had this idea, it was nice to do it and we did it.
๐️๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐ฌ?
๐น๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: We are in two different places in the world, so the band works a bit like that. Miguel is in Madrid and I'm in London. And with technology now you can get a lot of work done. We almost only get together for the gigs.
๐ธ๐๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ฅ ๐๐: We also work a lot with chats like this one. We do Skype, we are a little further back, we are older (laughs). Fortunately we both have our studios. In fact, now I'm talking from mine and he's talking from his. That makes everything much easier. But it must be said that in both albums we have had stages of working together, both in my studio and in his. Whenever strings have been recorded, for example, I've gone to London and we've gone to RAK studios to record them. We have been in his studio recording a lot of things. Then when we do concerts he comes to my studio and we do rehearsals with the string players and so on. Because age also asks us for a more old-fashioned kind of work.
๐น๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: Especially for recording the strings, as Miguel says, which is quite an important aspect on both albums.
๐️๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ '๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฑ' (๐๐๐๐, ๐๐) ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ ๐ฃ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ง '๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐' (๐๐จ๐๐๐ฅ๐ญ, ๐๐) ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐? ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ง ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐๐๐ง '๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฑ' ๐๐ง๐ '๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐'?
๐ธ๐๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ฅ ๐๐: Well, more solid I think so: individually the songs have more things in common, but in the overall computation of the album 'Complex' is more powerful, more solid, more forceful. Above all, adding up all the assets. But looking at it more individually I see many links between the songs. Perhaps it's more solid because it's made after many concerts, and it already has that live energy in all the songs.
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| Photo credit: Javier Alonso & Marina Sanz |
๐️๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฑ' ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ก๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ. ๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฆ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐ฏ๐๐ฌ?
๐ธ๐๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ฅ ๐๐: It happens in many different ways, depending on the song. There are songs where we started with the string arrangement and ended up in the music; And others where it's just the opposite. There are also arrangements that had to be recorded at RAK, with a lot of strings, and others that could be done at Stefan's studio, where he has his contacts. Sometimes we have recorded strings in the same studio where Stefan is right now.
๐️๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐๐?
๐น๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: No, I don't think so. The process leads to inspiration. Music is like our gasoline. The process gives you opportunities and it's the one that leads you along the way. Sometimes the path starts as an instrumental track, but ends up as a vocal or string track. You have to leave everything open in order to have more possibilities. That's what being a musician is all about (laughs).
๐️๐๐ง ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐จ๐ง, ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ข๐ง ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐๐ญ - ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐๐๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐, ๐ฌ๐๐ข๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ๐ข๐ - ๐๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐๐ข๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ง ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ง ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ? ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ?
๐ธ๐๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ฅ ๐๐: That's a difficult question, because every song has a different motivation. For example, on "The Fire" Stefan and I were in his studio doing a lot of work on all the arrangements before recording the strings with the musicians at RAK. That song absorbed a lot of energy from both of us, when we were working on it, composing and producing that song. It seemed to both of us that it was too dark.
But then Katrina Mogensen appeared and we were surprised ourselves because, after she sang it, the vision of the song was very different. So each song has a little bit of its own story. I don't know if it's as much science fiction as present continuous, which I say.
๐ง ๐ป๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐ - ๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ + ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐
๐๐ ๐๐๐๐. ๐ฒ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ
https://youtu.be/TtjxhNBy7m0 ๐️๐๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ '๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฑ' ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ, ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐, ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ญ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐ก๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ข๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ. ๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ซ๐ก๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐๐๐ก ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ ? ๐๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ง ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฌ, ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ง๐๐ฌ.
๐น๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: It's difficult to analyze the process, really (laughs). Miguel has been making music for a long time, more than twenty-five years, and traveling through different paths and different kinds of music. And we both love music and different kinds of music. So when we get together there are many things we like, many possibilities, many emotions, tempos and atmospheres that come up. Maybe the first album is more varied, and this album is a bit more club, but it still has some more sensitive tracks, as you said. But I don't know if I can answer your question, really, because sometimes we don't even know. Emotions drive us, and if it fits with our feelings and makes us both feel something, then it's already a track, something that works for the band. It's important not to limit yourself and, as Miguel said, sometimes a song starts out very dark but then, by adding another element like a singer or a (string) quartet, it goes another way. You have to let the music be free and not lock it in.
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| Photo credit: Javier Alonso & Marina Sanz |
๐️๐๐ซ๐๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ "๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฑ" ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐๐๐ฌ. ๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ ๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฌ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐๐ก ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ ? ๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฌ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ?
๐ธ๐๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ฅ ๐๐: It really happens naturally. It's true that when we started, at the beginning of the band, for 'Inside' there was a long time in which we were listening to voices that we liked. It was clear to us that they had to be female, because for male voices we both were already singing. That's when we spent time, while we were recording 'Inside', listening to singers. We passed each other names to see what the other thought about them. But once 'Inside' was finished, we had a number of singers who had said yes but didn't get into that album, so that work was already done for 'Complex'. In fact, there are more songs that in the end have not gone into 'Complex'. There are collaborations of 'Complex' that come from 'Inside' because they were already talked about. That's what happened, for example, with Katrina: we both wanted to work together. So, in the case of 'Complex', we can say that everything came together.
๐️๐ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐'๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐๐๐ฌ, ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐๐ง'๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ค๐จ (๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ) ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐จ ๐ฏ๐จ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ ?
๐ธ๐๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ฅ ๐๐: That's for Stefan (laughs).
๐น๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: (Smiles). Yes, you never know. Not so far, but you never know.
๐️๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐๐๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฌ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐๐ก ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐ซ๐๐๐๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ก๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ ๐จ. ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐?
๐ธ๐๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ฅ ๐๐: There has been a little bit of everything: pandemic, health problems... a little bit of everything. Life. But the biggest delay was due to the pandemic. We wanted to accompany the release of the album with concerts. By delaying it, this has given this album a different life.
I think it's not better or worse, because for the people who follow us it's been like some songs came out twice, right? Maybe "High In The Sky" or "Together" are songs that have had a double life. The more intimate ones are coming out now and they are a bit of a novelty. But well, life takes you along and when you reach certain ages like ours (we are approaching fifty) then sometimes you have to stop, gather strength and then continue.
๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ ๐ป๐๐ ๐บ๐๐ - ๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ + ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐
๐๐ - ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐
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https://youtu.be/2eRu0QPEE1k ๐️๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐๐๐จ๐ ๐ง๐ข๐ณ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ฌ, ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ฅ๐. ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐๐ค๐? ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐?
๐น๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: It's hard to answer. In the beginning of the band we wanted to see what we were able to do mixing electronics with the (string) quartet. That was very basic. But within that there are many worlds to discover: different kinds of songs, with singers, instrumental songs... It's like creating a world that we feel is our world. It's like creating a world that we feel is our world. In which all sounds that we like fit... excuse me, sometimes my Spanish…
๐️๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐๐ง ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ฐ๐๐ซ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง, ๐ง๐จ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฆ….
๐น๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: (๐๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ) I think we're just trying to create a world of our own where all sounds and kinds of emotions respond to the music. Even the worlds of strings and electronics, where there are guitars, electronic basses, etc. It's hard to focus on just one thing.
๐ธ๐๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ฅ ๐๐: When you say that you see a sound in the two albums and that it has a connection... I think that more than looking for it (even though as Stefan said we wanted to mix the world of strings with the world of electronics), it happens that they interconnect in some way. Maybe in 'Inside' we didn't have it so clear yet, because we hadn't given many concerts yet, but in 'Complex' everything happens naturally. We make the songs and when the strings come in, they just blend together and that's our sound. And even beyond the album, it also happens live.
It is difficult to find a live project in which you get your own sound, based on having an instrumentation that is more difficult to take live, as happens with a string quartet, or as when we go with another set and there is viola or cello or Stefan who also plays strings or keyboard creating another kind of atmosphere. But in the end everything unifies, both live and on the albums. We are not too obsessed with it because we are lucky that it is unified with the instruments.
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๐️๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฌ๐ ๐ ๐ง๐๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐๐๐ญ, ๐๐๐๐ ๐
๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฌ, ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ง ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ-๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ฅ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ + ๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฅ? ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ ๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ง ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐๐๐ญ?
๐น๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: It came about because we were locked up and couldn't see each other. We had a lot of plans to release the album 'Complex' and do a couple of gigs. But everything was lost with the pandemic, so we did this project to have something together and to be able to travel with the music. Made For Humans emerged a bit like this, and also to differentiate it a bit from the other band, Digital 21 + Stefan Olsdal, it was something without a lot of hype. It's the moods that the music suggested to us at the time, during all the chaos that was outside the house.
๐ธ๐๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ฅ ๐๐: It's something that felt really good at the time and that we've continued to do. We are composing and recording songs for a second Made For Humans album. Hopefully without another pandemic and, in fact, hopefully with the pandemic over.
๐️๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ๐ข๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ?
๐ธ๐๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ฅ ๐๐: Touring is very difficult, because now practically when we release the album will also be released Stefan's album with Placebo and they have planned a very big tour. What we will do is play at some festivals, and we are very happy and looking forward to it. It will be at Sonorama here in Spain, at a festival in Russia in Moscow, another one in Ukraine... Well, the formula is very different in each concert. In each place we have been adapting different formations, different ways of doing the live shows, different ways of approaching the songs.
Fortunately, we have invested a lot of preparation time to make both the first album and the second one. Live there are electronic bands that are often very restricted, with songs with a beginning and an end, but this is something that doesn't happen in our case. There are some concerts in which you don't have a time clock and there is a lot of improvisation, while in other concerts you have to have everything timed. Like recently, we played in Los Conciertos de Radio 3 on La 2 and it's a problem because when that moment of improvisation comes you are looking at the clock at the same time you are playing. But we have reached a point where, fortunately, we can do concerts with a very different line-up and a very different approach. We have even played totally acoustic concerts: string and acoustic guitar and Stefan playing piano and vocals in addition to the quartet. Also with the formation of eight, with guitar, bass, synths, drums, three voices; Or formation of four. We really do at each festival or concert what we want or what suits us best. That's one of the things we like most about our band, that versatility and being able to approach the concert almost as if it were a Lego. For example, at La Riviera with Jon Hopkins we did a line-up that we have never done again: bass, viola, drums and the two of us. Or a concert without any electronics that we did at a film festival in Germany, in a gothic church. It depends a lot on each concert, that's good for us, I don't know if so much for the audience: there are people who want to see what they expect, but we as musicians are at that point of doing at every moment what we want.
๐️๐๐จ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ก, ๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง, ๐ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ฌ๐ค ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ง๐๐ฐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ ๐ฐ๐'๐ฏ๐ ๐๐๐๐ง ๐ฐ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐๐ฐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ. ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฐ๐ฌ, "๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ฌ" ๐๐ง๐ "๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐๐ฌ", ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ ๐ง๐ข๐๐ข๐๐๐ง๐ญ. ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ "๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐ ๐๐จ"?
๐น๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง: Thank you very much. Yes, the two singles we have released are kind of the yin and yang of the album. It comes out in March, and we've been working on it for a long time, but it's done and I'm very happy. I'm really looking forward to it. I think the pandemic has given us a lot of time to focus on the music, and now it's time to get back to giving audiences and fans new music and also to do concerts again. It's time.✪
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