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MORPHEUS
MUSIC MICRO-INTERVIEWS
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| Morpheus
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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----- Phutureprimitive |
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What drives you to make music? |
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To transpose
emotions and aspirations into a personal sound mantra that
transforms the conscious state and gives occasion to meditate
and to visualize.
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What drives you to make music? |
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Sometimes I
simply feel it's a function of my existence. Sometimes because
creating and playing with sound feels good. Or because I'm
compelled to. Or because it's a way to express my self in
a way that words cannot. Or because I want to be able to give
on a level that I receive. |
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Why did you choose the name Alio Die? |
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I enjoyed
the sound of the name as well as with the meaning from the
old Latin
language, it means 'to another day' and it's a greeting to
a better time.
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Why did you choose the name Phutureprimitive? |
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I like the
duality of it. Amidst all of the technology we're surrounded
with on a day to day basis, we still often function on many
primitive levels. While the implications of that are both
positive and negative, I find it a fascinating balance none
the less. I like the combination of the primal and visceral
with the synthetics of technology and the modern world that
tomorrow promises. ........It's like chocolate and peanut
butter. The combo just works. ;) |
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| Q :
What’s the piece of music that you are most happy with
from your own output and why? |
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Impossible
to choose one track. By way some of the tracks I'm more
satisfied with is for example second track of the CD with
Amelia Cuni - Island of the Rose Apple Tree, for the perfect
meeting of the atmosphere of voice and sounds.
Or Sunja for the controlled development in the long suite
of all layers in the time...
15.03.05
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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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Hmmmmm....
Can't say I have a favorite. What I might choose to listen
to depends on my mood. Listening to my own work is a strange
experience sometimes. My mind never stops composing, so
I'm always hearing all of the parts I never added or various
remix possibilities. I guess all of the
songs in my head, that I have not yet expressed are my favorite.
It's like a little secret, that I know I'll be sharing sooner
or later.
21.03.05 |
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-----Banco
De Gaia |
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-----Conjure
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| Q:
What drives you to make music? |
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Ever since
I was a kid I’ve loved listening to music and used to
make up tunes in my head on boring car journeys. Once I had
the chance to try to actually play something I fell in love
with the magic of it, you wiggle your fingers and the air
is filled with (hopefully) beautiful sound. If that isn’t
magic I don’t know what is! I do sometimes go for long
periods without wanting to face the technology involved in
recording these days but the simple act of creating music,
either playing an instrument or composing, is always deeply
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What drives you to make music? |
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Its what I've
committed my life to. I've been around music my entire life.
I grew up around musicians and studios. Its really the only
lifestyle I know and couldn't really imagine it any other
way. Its art as well as my living. I also enjoy the work aspect
of it, pushing yourself to be your best at your chosen path,
always trying to improve, learn and get better at what you
do. I also don't like taking too much time off from it. I
feel you need to keep working to stay sharp. |
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| Q :
Why did you choose the name Banco De Gaia? |
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It was whilst
I was climbing the north face of K2 in Nepal that I first
heard the name. It seems there was an old hermit, some said
he was 500 years old, living in a cave up there and he was
the source of much wisdom and enlightenment. I never got to
see the old fella but I never doubted his existance and as
a sign of respect I decided to name the project after him.
Incidentally, his name has never actually been written down
so ‘Banco de Gaia’ is only a very loose transliteration. |
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Why did you choose the name Conjure One? |
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I had started
composing the tracks for the first album, and had come up
with the basis for the first song. I went to save the session
on the computer, and I needed to call it something other than
"untitled", and Conjure One just popped into my
head and I typed it in. I labored over project names later,
and a friend suggested using the song title. I liked it, and
changed the song title to "Redemption". |
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| Q :
What’s the piece of music that you are most happy with
from your own output and why? |
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Every now
and then I think about this and find it really hard to come
up with an answer. One thing I am very pleased about is
that there is nothing I have released which I am not still
happy with, there are some pretty embarassing skeletons
in the cupboard but thankfully they never got out into general
circulation! At the moment I would probably say the You
Are Here is the most meaningful album for me, certainly
the most technically competent, followed by Big Men Cry,
and Still Life is the track that I think gets closest to
what I was trying to convey, but there are so many diverse
musical approaches in what I have done I can’t really
put one track or album above all the others.
29.03.05 |
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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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A song
off the new record called "One Word". It a song
written with Poe. I'm really happy with the way the chord
progressions move and Poe comes up with such great lyrics
and melodies. I wrote the track with her in mind specifically,
so I worked quite hard on the basic chord structures and
riffs, so they would be interesting to me on their own.
1.04.05 |
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-----Kukan-Dub-Lagan |
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-----Asura |
| Q:
What drives you to make music? |
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The urge that
drives me to make music is to create a good vibe out there
and to make people smile. I know that music can even touch
the secret place in our souls and I think that when hearing
the right tunes and at the right moments music can really
make people feel good and make a difference. |
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What drives you to make music? |
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Two words come
to my mind: vocation and therapy.
Making music for a musician is an authoritarian need. The
more you make music, the more you want to go on. I think music
is a gate to consciousness, which is most of the time wild
opened, but just the necessary to see and understand the essential.
Those moments are unfortunatly very, very few, but they still
exist, and when one haves the impression to touch it, it's
like a second rebirth. It's also very usefull and can be vital
for the hard and sad moments in life, so that this passion
gives one the strength to go on, even when all is doing bad.
And of course, some great musicians inspired us and still
inspire our music: Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, Vangelis, Klaus
Schulze, , Kruder and Dorfmeister, Muse.... |
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Why did you choose the name Kukan Dub Lagan? |
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The name KUKAN-DUB-LAGAN
was chosen at a time when I started making some tunes with
a friend. We thought that the style of the music could be
described in a way as chaos of styles. In Hebrew chaos means
balagan. This together with dub being the main style of the
music, and finally, I chose the word kukan - space in Japanese
- ...from this combination comes... KUKAN-DUB-LAGAN. |
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Why did you choose the name Asura? |
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The Asuras
are fallen angels, and their essence shows what every human
being has inside: the good, the bad, the worst, the best.
Some mythology says they are the angels of light, send on
the world by the supreme God, Mahadeva. Other tells they are
demons, by opposition to the Devas, acking to be free but
pursued by a fate that will lead them to sadness and despair.
For this reason, Their inner contradiction, their sadness,
the light and the shadow they bring, they are probably the
deity the most human, and maybe the most romantic and restless,
as we are (not deity of course, but split personalities ;)
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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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The piece
of music that I am most happy with is, of course, my first
album Life is Nice. It received great reviews from all over
the world, and people (including my parents and even older
people not accustomed to electronic music) really like it.
As time goes by, I see that even in Israel, the land of
full-on, people have started to enjoy more psy chill dub.
It is a great honour to be a part of a new scene in this
electronic land. The whole vibe of the album was so good
(the music-the label-family-friends and more) that it was
a real pleasure to release it.
06.04.05 |
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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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It's very
hard to answer to this question, cause every track we did
is like our child, so saying the ones we prefer... Maybe
Code Eternity for the first album cause it gave us the idea
to make our full first album, and Lost Eden, cause it's
maybe the track which fit the best with our conception of
music: it's a cross-gender of all our influences (electronica,
trance, triphop, world music) and I think it's not an elitist
title. We try to democratize the electronica underground
gender, and I hope this track contributed to do so. Moreover,
the title "Lost Eden" figures perfectly the fate
the Asuras have to carry on.
01.05.05 |
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