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MORPHEUS
MUSIC MICRO-INTERVIEWS
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Music Micro-Interviews consist of three brief, no-nonesense
questions that can be absorbed quickly and digested easily.
We ask the same questions to all artists so that we get
to see different views on the same matters. We really appreciate
these great musicians giving us their time and we certainly
enjoy the opportunity to have a little more insight into
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-----Sleepthief |
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-----Harland |
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What drives you to make music? |
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I think there
is an internal impulse to create music that is actually spiritual
in nature. From my earliest age, I have been obssessed with
music. In fact, the first Christmas present I ever remember
receiving was a little FisherPrice record player when I was
4 years old. I was a DJ for a period during my young adult
years. Often, I would have dreams and hear fully developed
musical pieces! So...I taught myself piano and began to write
melodies. Music allows me to say so many things that I could
never verbalize. It is a way of communicating for me. And
it is wonderful to see how other people "understand"
your own private (musical) language and how people relate
emotionally. Music is one of the few things that I could
not live without.
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What drives you to make music? |
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Music has literally becoming
a way for me to breathe. I actually dont know how I'd function
anymore if I couldn't create, it means everything to me. I
think its an outlet for many different emotions from me -
allowing me to figure things out along the way - I almost
feel like its an invisible friend - someone you can talk to
about everything really honestly.....hope that doesn't sound
too mad - wait....thats someone knocking on the door to take
me off to the lunatic asylum!! |
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Why did you choose the name Sleepthief? |
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Well--I was
up very late one night working on a piece of music. I am a
full-time attorney, so I have a pretty busy work schedule
during the day. I
had been working for what seemed to be a short time...then
I looked at the
clock and realized it was 3:00 a.m. in the morning! I thought
"this music
thing is really stealing alot of my sleep time. It is such
a 'sleepthief.'"
Suddenly the name just struck me as perfect. The name also
describes the
"sound" of my music very accurately.
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Q :Why
did you choose to work under the name Harland? |
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I chose to work under the
name Harland because I wanted to continue my fathers name
in the way of music - so a piece of him would live on forever.
My father passed away four years ago, feels like yesterday...
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What’s the piece of music that you are most happy with
from your own output and why? |
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Oh, that
is tough. I would say it is a toss-up between "Eurydice"
and a
song called "Sublunar" which will also be on the
album. I tend to use a lot
of minor chords in my music because I love the slightly
melancholy feel such
chords provide. Both of those songs are melancholic in nature,
but they
also have a wide, epic, and majestic sound as well. Both
songs really touch
that spot in the heart that makes you want to cry and be
joyful at the same
time. I love music that creates that inexpressible feeling
of intense
longing--and "Eurydice" and "Sublunar"
both do that for me.
19.01.05 |
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What’s the piece of music that you are most happy with
from your own output and why? |
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My favorites from Salt
Box Lane are " In The Dark" because of how simple
and honest it is and also the track Salt Box Lane itself.....it
was incredibly emotional for me....and I feel it every-time.
23.01.05 |
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-----Viia |
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-----Hungry
Lucy |
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What drives you to make music? |
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Jody
- For me, there is nothing else. A couple of times I've
considered another path in life and the only other thing
I could see or sense was non-existence. There is nothing
else.
Vik - Creative expression. The love of creative
expression. The high
from music is undeniable, and knowing I've made it myself.
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What drives you to make music? |
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The voices
in my head! Ha ha. Seriously though, I think War-N really
opened something up in me when he asked me to sing 7 years
ago! I just get so passionate about letting people know that
they aren't alone in the bad things that have happened to
them. I want my demons to go away, which some have, and I
find making music a very therapeutic way to give myself therapy.
If I can make someone else feel better in the process, my
job has been done. |
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Why did you choose the name Viia? |
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Jody
- I spent a summer hanging out with a Viia and an Olivia,
and
they both left quite an impression on me. I love the vee
sound as well,and I think it honors Vik in it's sound as
well.
Vik - Jody told me that was what we were
called.
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Why did you choose the name Hungry Lucy? |
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Oh boy. In
a Hazelnut shell, it's the name of a ghost who had such strong
love with her boyfriend that it continued after death. I was
so inspired by the devotion and strength of their love that
I adopted Lucy, and Alfred (her boyfriend), in my heart as
well as our music. I think they teach us all a lesson that
you never really lose what your heart holds dear. |
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What’s the piece of music that you are most happy with
from your own output and why? |
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Jody
- I love 'Invitation'. It came really easily and the lyrics
are personal and relevant to my life at the time.
Vik- 'This girl' because the marriage between
the vocals and the music
is a really unique experience.
30.01.05
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What’s the piece of music that you are most happy with
from your own output and why? |
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Tough question
indeed! I love them all for so many reasons. Let's see...I
think my answer for favourite song is "Telltale Shot"
from the album "Glo". I found so much of myself
when I wrote those lyrics, and again when I sang them! That
was the beginning of REALLY opening myself up to the world.
Of course, "To Kill a King" is another strong
favourite song. It's just saying "Enough is ENOUGH!",
so on to new, and better, things in life.
9.02.05 |
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-----Androcell |
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-----Solar
Fields |
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What drives you to make music? |
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I
think the virtually unlimited creative potential that modern
technology gives us to express our imagination and emotions
are what drives me to make
music. The ability to create new aural environments and imaginative
worlds
for conscious beings to either get lost in, or find themselves.
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What drives you to make music? |
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The thing of creating something
from nothing. You start with silence and from there everything
can happen. |
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Why did you choose the name Androcell? |
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I
was profoundly inspired by a visionary German-American aerospace
engineer named Dr. Krafft A. Ehricke after reading about his
essay "The Exterrestrail Imperative" in The Exterrestrial
Encyclopedia: Our Search For Life In Outer Space.
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1978/jan-feb/ehricke.html
Read the last five paragraphs of this link and I hope it will
be clear
why I chose the name. One race for space. :)
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Why did you choose the name Solar Fields? |
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It chose me. |
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What’s the piece of music that you are most happy with
from your own output and why? |
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Molecular
Sunrise (from Emotivision album) - It's my first musical
tribute to the advent of human consciousness from prakriti.
12.02.05 |
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What’s the piece of music that you are most happy with
from your own output and why? |
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Right now its a track
I'm working on for a future album, no name on it yet.
Its a quite different kind of sounds and stucktures and
beats that I
normally had worked on.
12.02.05 |
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