Your name:
Akira & Jo Annah.
Where are you from?
Finland.
Name of band:
Flying Cape
Experience.
Who else is in your band?
Just
the two of us. And a few spirits who talk through us.
How would you describe
yourselves?
Jo: Our music? We've described
our music a psychedelic therapy. For me personally creating songs is therapy.
It is also very spiritual, magical. I feel I'm deeply attached to everything
inside and outside during all creative processes. Therefore our music is
emotional.
Akira: At times our music
making is self-therapeutic. Sometimes it's very bad therapy, hah! Music just
comes from some place, it's like it always already had been there in every
possible form and we would just let it to be heard. That's what it is at best,
like channelling.
Jo: Yes, just like he said.
Who are your main influences
musically?
Jo: I love silence and the
sounds of nature. Life is so hectic. I listen to music very little. We both
like rock bands like Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, Soundgarden etc. We like The
Verve and some of the brit pop bands. We like NIN, TOOL, Deftones, Elliott
Smith, Mew, Beck, Massive Attack, Radiohead…We like a lot of music from
different genres. We have listened to lot of 60's and 70's music in our
childhood, maybe some influences has come from there subconsciously. I really
can't say that I hear any of the bands I mentioned in our music though.
Akira: What she said. I guess
everything we've ever heard has had an influence on us. The variation between
different genres has been so diverse, so it's hard to pick any. Well, one of my
early childhood memories include listening to Abbey Road on my own cassette
player, and it sounded miraculous! I had no idea of any instruments, this magic
just flooded from the speaker!
What do you hope to achieve in
music?
Akira: To be able to continue
creating it.
Jo: To be able to continue to
love creating it.
What has been the highlight of
your career so far, and why?
Akira: Some of the album
reviews have been so very beautiful and touching, it's been the biggest
highlight, to touch people.
Jo: Yes, it has been
amazing…that so many people have understood us "right". And for me
the highlights are when a new song is born, when the melodies and the chords
find each other, those are the most touching moments. And when someone says
he's/she's been touched about our music and has had a relief in his/her life
through our songs. Those are the super-highlights.
And, not to forget all the
amazing warm-hearted and talented people we have met after we released our
first album. Love to The Shoegaze Collective! The support from there has been
invaluable, not to mention all the new friends we've had a chance to get to
know around the world from the collective. We also found ourselves soul mates
from there, and it led us to collaborate with them. Our newest release, a split
ep "8" with Joaquim Barato was born that way.
And what’s the moment you want
to forget?
We value all moments.
If you had to pick just one of
your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?
Akira: I'd pick I Love You, as
it is the first song we ever made together. Jo sang most of the vocals first
and the rest just happened, that represents us well because we just let it out.
None of our songs represents our music as a whole, as at least we think that
all of our songs have so far been pretty different from each other, and by some
coincidence it just happens to be that way.
Jo: I'd pick that too or Unfold.
It describes our music a lot. It is calm and it is like a journey. The song
actually is about journeys.
Where can we listen to
it?
Our debut album "Let's
sing more about the eyes" and our newest release, a split EP "8"
are here:
Where can we find out more
about your music?
We are active on Facebook. We have a Twitter account,
but we are too busy and too dinosaurs for that ;)
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