Your name:
Phil Brooker.
Where are you from?
Manchester, UK.
Name of band:
Hazia.
Who else is in your band?
Just me...I rope in vocal samples to help me out.
How would you describe your music?
Blissy electronic dreampop/shoegaze with loops and
spoken-word samples.
Who are your main influences musically?
default genders, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Pure
Bathing Culture, A Sunny Day in Glasgow...
What do you hope to achieve in music?
I just want to make some interesting stuff and share it
around best I can. Keeping the aims small, baby steps :-)
What has been the highlight of your career so far, and
why? And what’s the moment you want to forget?
They're both kind of the same moment...I originally
wanted a singer for scorched-out lead vocals and lush harmonies, but it got really frustrating
trying to get in touch with people, meet people, try and work with people, all
that...social media is SHIT for this sort of thing, but who knows how else we're supposed to do it
now? So I was getting really restless with that, not really getting anywhere where all I want
to do was be productive and get recording, I just seemed to be wasting a lot of time
treading water, so that's the bit I'd rather forget. But
I kind of made a decision over Christmas 2014, it just wasn't going to happen with a singer (and I can't sing myself), so I
needed to come up with a way of dealing with that...so I started playing around with spoken word
samples I ripped from films, interviews, wherever...when you hear these things through
the right filter, you can start to hear the basic rhythms of speech, things that don't
really translate into 'lyrics' or 'melodies' but which are pretty fucking beautiful as they are...so
instantly I started to feel tonnes better about what I was doing with Hazia: I can do this
on my own! So I guess realising that and getting to work in this new direction has been the
highlight so far...small things!
If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent
your music, what would it be and why?
The new debut 'double A-side' (yeah yeah) about sums it
up... Bull of God / Lamb of God, two sides of the same coin...
Where can we listen to it?
Where can we find out more about your music?
Tumblr: haziamusic.tumblr.com
Twitter: @HaziaMusic
Anything else you’d like to say about your music that I
forgot to ask?
Come see me play! Taking this on the road soon as I can -
it's going to be pretty intense trying to control all this stuff at once, electronic
production alongside 'real' instruments (guitar and bass), should be pretty interesting! Thanks.
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