After the review of Solve Et Coagula we heard Mike and here is a quick interview to find out more about news and developments The Secret in the house ...
Solve Et Coagula
features tracks much more linear, directed at the same time you can clearly see your maturation phase composition, greater attention to detail and in particular the objective to focus on bring out every nuance. As external inputs, which are simply new plays or musical stimuli related to everyday life, have affected the evolution of your sound?
Some time after the recording of "Disintoxication" we realized that many things in the record that we recorded in our view did not work and we began working on new material. Listening to the record we had the impression that the songs would have made much better by using fewer elements for each piece. This was the reflection of departure that led us to evolve our sound in this direction as "dry", but also playing live regularly made us realize that simplicity would have led to greatly improve both on stage and in drawing up the pieces. The plays are not really changed that much, maybe you are in a certain way "restricted". The gestation of the disc was definitely one of the quietest ever, and there have been many tensions within the group, both personal and artistic. Perhaps this has led us to express ourselves in a more direct and primitive and often try to spend less time in the rehearsal room than in the past and be more instinctive.
Disintoxication two years ago represented a real new beginning for the band, both in terms of style that's lineup; Solve Et Coagula can be seen as the natural next step in what they aspire to be like or band should be seen simply as your new album, a testimony of what who are at present?
I think "Solve et Coagula" is a sort of "purification" of those who have the same elements that are the basis of "Disintoxication. As I mentioned before, we have essentially taken away what we did not like. The big difference I feel now, at least on a personal level, is that this time I have no regrets and would not change anything about the album that we recorded. I have no idea that that will be our next album in music but I think we have found a balance at this time.
Much of the album is a real slap in the face, with a succession of outbursts in short-hued crust / grind and black metal influences, even more than in the recent past are then to balance things and make it more interesting 'episodes play more experimental and atmospheric, all the instrumental Bell of Urgency. Just this union of styles and influences perfectly integrated in the basic framework is what makes it distinctive sound your current goal increasingly difficult to achieve in today's music scene ..... do you agree?
but I hope not to be misunderstood to be "original" mixing different influences is absolutely not our priority, not our starting point. Obviously we do not want to sound like other bands but this time we thought the final result less than in the past, no planning or purpose default. We just tried to be honest and do the things we liked best without thinking too much about. I'm glad if you think our new work has its own identity but the only thing we are interested in creating the album was to write good pieces. At least as far as I often prefer to listen to a good classic rock song rather than the last hard test Mike Patton. I do not want to argue about whether something is "better" but simply is what interests me most at this time.
As for us, especially for the most direct pieces, sometimes you just have a riff that we liked and the song came out "alone." If it sounds good we were working on a few days and then recorded without fuss. Other times it was necessary to work on it for more time, we felt that we needed to go slightly more in depth below the surface to make sense of what we were playing but the priority has always been the song.
Looking prefer the character of originality.
From Lyrically it is easy to see that once again your songs are far from being imbued with optimism ...
The lyrics in the album Mark has written them all but I can tell you that everything that can be found in the texts always turn around the loss of faith / trust. In politics, media, religion, social relations. The situation in the country in which we live is totally degenerate and is getting worse every day if possible. I hope the bottom has been touched but I fear that things may get worse still. Too many people do not understand that is believing in the people who are the main cause of the problems we are facing now. He believes politicians blatantly lying, seeks comfort in a false religion and hypocrisy, look at a TV that continues to crown a model to follow people that make me just sucks, controlled by other people who are even more disgusting.
We are sinking into the abyss and the thing that saddens me most is to see that is what people want.
Italians good people.
How lineup was recorded on disc? Do you think the current rhythm section to become stable (do not say definitively given the sudden defection came in recent times, for good luck), or be seen as a temporary aid to promote the live album?
The album was recorded with Chris on drums, Henry on bass, Mark on vocals and me on guitar. Christian has left the band a few weeks after the recordings and now Thomas Court is our new drummer. The situation is final, we are very soddsfatti.
How did you work with an icon of the scene and a great professional like Kurt Ballou? How important were his way of seeing things and his experiences in the light of the excellent end result?
Working with Kurt was a very pleasant and relaxing even though he is without doubt one of the great protagonists of heavy music in recent years. Before entering the study, we produced all the tracks of the pre hard in the rehearsal room, trying to get to Godcity with clearer ideas as possible. Kurt's work was essentially to think about how to get the sounds we had in mind, without putting too much the voice on the structure and arrangement of the pieces themselves. I think Kurt is very good at being able to find the right "sound for every band that records without following standardized formulas or modus operandi. We spent time in trying to balance the sounds and bass guitars, still trying to keep the rough and dirty nature of the pieces that we had heard before leaving. It is a person of great patience and experience and hope to get back the good fortune to work with him in the future.
Disintoxication than there have been major changes regarding the equipment used it?
Recording in Salem we had to use the instruments of the study of Kurt. The whole approach to the sounds of this album is very different from its predecessor, especially with regard to the guitars. This time I used an Ampeg V4, an Orange OR and combo boxes on a Marshall 6x12 Emperor. For the low Henry used a 8x10 Ampeg Orange on cash. Gibson Les Paul Custom and Gibson Grabber.
During our last interview you said you were optimistic about the state of the Italian underground music scene, with the feeling that something was finally moving .... you're still the same idea? E 'increased the response from the public to your concerts?
Starting from the last part of the question, we feel that now there are certainly more people who follow us, the feedback of the disc at the moment is really good, even for the good work he is doing to promote the Southern Lord. As far as being optimistic or not on the Italian scene, I no longer interested in this question. I think that in Italy there is a very strange situation, people with less taste and musical knowledge are often those most active and proactive. We happened to play really absurd contexts in recent years. Often concerts where things were organized in the most professional manner and had created more expectations we have proved terrible at other times have gone out of the great concerts where we least expect it. It is always a slightly lottery. Now we are particularly interested in playing in areas where we feel more at ease, more control, although sometimes it can also mean giving up a slice of the public. We came to the conclusion that it is often better to play in front of 100 people who are interested in them because our music in front of 300 that are there to go to evening.
After the closure of Goodfellow you have found without a contract, you have been running a pre-album and Greg Anderson was impressed ... this sums up the path that led you to join the roster of Southern Lord.Pensate have finally made the breakthrough band to be the definitive view of the world or there is still recognized standing much work to be done, especially from the point of live intensely and then increase the activity?
not really know how to answer that question because I do not think we're arriving at such conclusions. Certainly we still have much work to do and I think we still significant room for improvement as a band. Working with Southern Lord po'cambiato has a lot of things and I do not deny that now happens to people who previously were not We devoted a second but now even sends us to do interviews. E'assurdo as people often need someone else first "approve" what then are going to listen.
However, the disc has just been released so it's really early to reach conclusions. Let's hope so.
You already have a well defined program of what will be your tour in Europe and then overseas by the end of this year and 2011?
we're talking about in those days. Right now I should be touring the U.S. with the Early Graves but as most of you know our friends have had a terrible accident, and their singer Makha Daniels is dead. After this po'tutti plans a tragedy of 2010 is gone and nothing to play here until the end of the year in Italy. We are planning for 2011, but luck did not want to anticipate anything. There are some very interesting things going on here. Hopefully well here.
Ok we are finally, thanks for the time that you gave us ... good luck to all and see you soon!
Thank you.
-Edvard-
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