Showing posts with label trip hop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trip hop. Show all posts

Tuesday, 19 May 2015

The Salvador Darlings Q&A

Your name: 
Carine Fierobe (singer).

Where are you from? 
Paris originally, living in London, UK.

Name of band: 
The Salvador Darlings.

Who else is in your band? 
Bryan Borcherds.

How would you describe yourselves and your music? 
We are passionate about music so our music is the expression of our passion, like our image, simple but true. Bryan is the composer of The Salvador Darlings and he's obsessed by musical equipment and all the technical parts. Personally I'm so bad at it! It's better if I don't touch this part, but I do play guitar and write songs. My role in The Salvador Darlings is to create vocal melodies and build lyrics when I'm inspired.

Who are your main influences musically? 
Anything that moves us, it could be old school hip hop or jazz or classical, if it has the right feeling then that’s what we like. When writing our own music it usually starts with a drum beat or synth line, or a vocal melody, and if we find ourselves nodding our heads to the beat then we keep on going with the song. So to answer your question it’s not a style or band that influences us, it’s the groove and feeling.
We are also very influenced by the city we live in, London. There’s so much magic and mystery, the history, people, and weather influences us. The recording isn’t just done in a studio, it’s recorded out and about in London. For each song we do outdoor recording to capture the magic of London, for example with our single Show World we did additional vocal recording in Trafalgar Square on the coldest night of the year. In the background you can hear the fountains, buses rumbling by, and a security guard shouting at us asking us to leave. It’s quite original to do this kind of exciting things!

What do you hope to achieve in music? 
I just hope to continue to enjoying music with my buddy and playing a lot of gigs everywhere in London first and if it's possible going on the road to spread our music to everyone who wants to listen. Of course I hope that people will enjoy our songs and us as people. Like I said earlier, we are simple and we will stay like that, we want to be the close to our fans and share our story and music with them. Our music is just a reflection of who we are so hopefully people can relate to this.

What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why? 
Every time we get to the studio. It’s so much fun, to either come in with a song idea or create a new song idea. 

And what’s the moment you want to forget? 
Honestly for the moment I have nothing to forget with The Salvador Darlings but I remember when I was a little child, I had participate in a little song contest in my home town in France. It was the first time I was singing in front of a lot of people on a stage, I was so stressed and my mouth was very, very dry. During the song I couldn't control my mouth and I coughed to clear my voice. It was terrible because I just wanted to be perfect and I wasn't.

If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why? 
Show World because it's our first song and "the meet up song" with Bryan, a very good one to introduce The Salvador Darlings. It denounces the importance of the image today and this reality based in fiction representations and relationships.

Where can we listen to it? 



Where can we find out more about your music?

Anything else you’d like to say about your music that I forgot to ask? 
Thanks very for the interview guys, we hope that you and your readers will check out our music.

Friday, 6 February 2015

Neutronic Q&A

Your names:
Paul and Iuliana.

Where are you from? 

Chester, UK

Name of band:
Neutronic.

How would you describe yourselves and your music?
We describe ourselves as down-tempo indie pop, but there are also some elements of trip hop and dreampop in our sound. We share vocal duties and use our contrasting styles and accents (UK/Romania) to try and create something a bit different.

Who are your main influences musically?
Probably The XX as they have that laid back female/male vocal sound. We like the minimal delicacy in acts like Lapsley and London Grammar but really we both listen to a wide range of genres to help shape our songs.

What do you hope to achieve in music?
Currently we are just writing and recording and sharing our music and seeing where it takes us. We are still a new act so we are looking to build our reputation and release a strong set of songs that we are proud of.

What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why?
Knowing that our first song was selected to play on BBC Radio 6 twice in a week (via Tom Robinson) was a big deal! Having it played on BBC regional radio was amazing but this took it to another level.

And what’s the moment you want to forget?
Being so new we haven’t had much in the way of bad experiences. A recent photo shoot outdoors had to be taken indoors due to a sudden hailstorm but that may actually turn out to be a positive.

If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?
From the first batch of songs written we chose ‘Closer’ to release because it contains all the aspects we want to be associated with. It has a gentle soundtrack with the focus on our differing vocal style.

Where can we listen to it? 
https://soundcloud.com/neutronicuk/closer



Where can we find out more about your music? 
http://neutronicuk.com
https://twitter.com/neutronicuk
https://www.facebook.com/neutronicuk
https://soundcloud.com/neutronicuk
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/closer-single/id946144966?uo=4

Anything else you’d like to say about your music that I forgot to ask?
Our next single ’13 hours’ will be coming soon...

Thursday, 5 June 2014

The Actions Q&A

Your name:
Mo.

Where are you from?
I'm a London based guitarist.

Name of band:
The Actions.

Who else is in your band?
Silty (voice and bass) and Tore Rain One (drums).

How would you describe yourselves?
The Actions are an alternative rock female-fronted band influenced by trip hop, dark wave and psychedelia.

Who are your main influences musically?
Hendrix, Portishead, Doors, Morricone, Joy Division, Pink Floyd, Tricky, Massive Attack, Beatles, Sara Vaughan, Janis Joplin, Zeppelin...

What do you hope to achieve in music?
We'd like to keep on making music that makes us feel satisfied, to keep on researching artistically and playing live…a lot. Silty says: "One day I'd like to buy a house with my music income".

What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why?
Well, there have been a few. Opening for big names like R.E.M., GREEN DAY, GARBAGE and playing in stadiums in front of wide audiences are certainly things to remember. Another good highlight in The Actions' career is when our first single "The Real Thing" was included in the original soundtrack of the MTV US' movie "My Super Psycho Sweet 16" together with acts like Limp Bizkit and Chumbawamba.
We're also really proud of present achievements. We've been introduced by Tom Robinson on BBC Radio 6 Music last 28th of April during his "Introducing Mixtape" show after being one of his Fresh Faves (Batch 103) with our new single "The Echo", first track of our brand new "Indefensible EP".

And what’s the moment you want to forget? 
We were the opening act for Vasco Rossi, the biggest Italian rock act, during his summer tour. Date one, Arechi stadium, Salerno, South Italy. We kicked off right after being presented and just after a couple of minutes the guitar sound went totally off leaving bass and drums in a pretty essential groove with no harmony at all! After a few minutes of bass/drums/vocals semi-improvising I decided to bypass my pedalboard forgetting about my well-crafted effects and plugged my guitar straight into the JCM 900 head giving the all set a more "calssic rock" twist…the day after my pedalboard worked perfectly…mistery of modern technology!!!  

If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?
I think "The Echo" because it's the single that best describes our "cross-breeding" sound.

Where can we listen to it?
Well, "The Echo" will be officially released by September, but you can listen to it now on our soundcloud:https://soundcloud.com/theactions/the-actions-the-echo
or listen to the full "Indefensible EP" here: https://theactions.bandcamp.com/album/indefensible-ep



Where can we find out more about your music? 

Anything else you’d like to say that I forgot to ask?
No, I think that music speaks better than words…The Actions would really like to thank you Greg for giving us the chance to talk about us on your blog. We really appreciate the way you give exposure to new music.

Monday, 19 May 2014

New single from Sunset Graves

SUNSET Graves release new single Your Ghost Is Formed today from their forthcoming album Form Your Ghost, out on June 9th.

The single - available digitally and on limited edition 7inch clear vinyl - includes exclusive non-album b-side Turquoise.

It allows debut album Variant, which saw Sunset Graves - aka Andy Fosberry - combine ambient electronic sounds with post-rock and trip hop along with Andy's love of samples.

You can listen to the single below and for more visit sunsetgraves.com, twitter.com/sunsetgraves or facebook.com/sunsetgraves


Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Your Ghost Is Formed rises from Sunset Graves

UK electro-rock outfit Sunset Graves will release new track Your Ghost Is Formed on May 19th.

The single will also include an exclusive non-album track Turquoise.

Your Ghost Is Formed is a follow-up to Sunset Graves' debut album Variant, which spans a variety of genres from track to track with the likes of post-rock, ambient electronic and trip-hop all on offer. 

But Andy Fosberry - the man behind Sunset Graves - heads to a more electronic place with his new work.

You can have a listen below and to find out more visit sunsetgraves.com, twitter.com/sunsetgraves or facebook.com/sunsetgraves