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Well..i guess i misunderstood you then
Anyway, this was supposed to be a topic regarding the new album, so let’s just leave it at that shall we. I just wanted to share my fondness for Kenneths drumming as a sidenote to new new album frenzy, the bright future ahead and all.
@ Supernaut? Why? I can’t help feeling that way! I like Kenneth better! It’s just a difference of opinion i guess, just as there are people in here who liked Geb better then kenneth. It’s not pissing on Gebs work at all! Don’t get me wrong..He was a major part of MP for a long time, a real good guy, and a good drummer. It’s just how i feel. Perhaps i could have worded it differently, but the point would still be the same. And i don’t see why we should “drop this” as you say. If people wanna discuss it, then why shouldn’t they be able to do so? After all…Geb’s gone 4 years ago now. Time has passed, and both MP and Geb has moved on…
It’s gonna be the longest 3 weeks ever
PS: i don’t think the promo copy reveals anything, judging by the posts earlier..
@ Mark: You didn’t like LLM? I for one respect Geb and all the hard work/good drumming he has put into MP the years he was a member. But hey….Kenneth Kicks his ass in skill imo! No doubt! Much more energetic and experimental! I love it!
Quote:It’s a good sign when I keep returning to 20 sec. soundclips. This sounds veeeeeery promising.Hehe i couldn’t agree more! I’ve probably listened to them 100 times now
I was quite thrilled earlier, but now i can’t F****** Wait!!By the way; Saw the Malmö DVD again last night. And i just gotta say….with Kenneth on board (Thanks for joining man, you’re the best thing that could ever happen to this band!!!!) we’re now looking at the best band in the world! A few more vocal practices and we’ll have the best band in the universe
Do you really think i missed that?
Anyway…TRY man! When you’re rested. It’s still a month untill it’s unleashed upon us regular mortals…!
You bastard
But can’t you give us something….a song by song description, an overall review? a dice throw? Whatever….it’s all good
@ TraktorBass; Camel has a song named Metrognom
I play organ/mellotron and Theremin + guitar from time to time
I hope you’re right, and judging by the info from the lucky ones that already have heard the album, it really looks promising!
By the way; You’re not the only prog man in here
I love the genre, so much that i started playing in a prog-rock band 5 years ago, and i’m still in it. So if you wanna check us out, then do so here ->http://www.last.fm/user/starhammer
Note: I started using this today, so there’s not much to gather yet
Here’s a crack at it ->
20 YEARS OF MOTORPSYCHO – UNPLEASANT HEAVY ROCK?
The kings of the “ungekrönten Indierocks” (whatever that means) were in Cologne – autona was! A breathtaking concert and Interview later is still sticking to it: you have never been as good as now…. Some hours before the concert we had the opportunity a detailed discussion with Bent Sæther, Bassist/singer and band founders of the two. Bents longtime companion Snah (g, voc) and two years Drummer Kenneth Kapstad are Motorpsycho – one Band over 20 years reliable ignored every expectation, their Fans and himself again and again’s new demands and surprised and with each Album a new musical Facette occur. There is little Bands under the sun, so and their music life as Motorpsycho. A Band that it can, over two decades will never be bored and every evening on the stage a different Set to play, must be something special. The great Cornucopia called Motorpsycho – it feels will never be empty, and the protagonists of the rather unique Indie-career are still a long, with the Band the temporal bless. Their sometimes hyperproduktiven activities do not rest – The next, according to first Prelistening-impressions again great, ausschweifende Album “Heavy Metal Fruit” (sic!) appears, only a half a year after “Child Of The Future,” already in January! The Interview received us Bent a few hours before the Gig backstage in building 9 in Cologne. The fact that the Band instead in the past regularly in the Live Music Hall now in much smaller building 9 plays, which naturally ratzfatz sold out was, it seems Bent not to disturb – finally play you always there, where they hingebucht, and so far, it’s always ok. That this Tour as “20 year Jubiläumstour” announced it is also relatively no matter – it would take remains the soul of the body, regardless of what play the posters announce. So it’s also no special guests or Geburtstagsüberraschungen, would not fit to Motorpsycho…. Only one thing is clear: “We can every evening from 60 song/70. And every evening will be different. We try as much of our history as we can.”
So this whole Jubiläumsgeschichte 20 years Motorpsycho – no special meaning for you?
Bent: Nee – it’s always the next Tour or the next plate. We use our history only as a springboard for new appearances and improvisations. How can we still old Songs add something important?
Ye are pretty busy at the moment. Next may will be the next Tour advertising (in Cologne on 05.28.10 in Gloria). You will be traveling zwischendurch in Norway with Supersilent…
Bent: Yes, it is a music-event a state organization there. It is up to us rangetreten, and we have not said no. We will be even for’s samples paid, but clearly, this is because pledged. But we may also Supersilent very much. The speeches never about music, and they rehearse never! They come instead about free Improvisation, while we always of a certain key her improvisation is somewhat more structured. But otherwise gifts we in fact very many similarities with Supersilent.
It brings relatively quickly after “Child Of The Future” the new Album out. How did’s actually do?
Bent: Well, the last Album was already been 2008 recorded with Albini. We actually intended in January this year the pictures in Norway quit, but then the producer ill, we should wait until May. So we just the Album until April even completed, and then there’s still some delays and it was only in August side. Well, rather than a large plate in January, we have come to a halt two from it.
“Heavy Metal Fruit” sounds but after the first impression quite differently than “Child Of The Future” to!
Bent: Yes of course, you can have no Albini epic 20-minutes-song. This is not possible. The new Songs needed another Heransgehensweise than the Albini Sessions. The fact is that the Songs at the end of which always influenced by, during the recording the present.
[ The new Longplayer “Heavy Metal Fruit” was not long collaborator Helge Sten produces. Bent tells of new producer, which has already KÃ¥re Vestrheim wit Hanne Hukkelberg or the Jazz-Metal-Fusionisten Shining worked, but many Mainstreamsachen. The cooperation proved for the Band very fruitful. Many music he could come up with ideas, i.e. melodies or particular chord progressions. Because he himself Piano playing, he brought a great sensitivity for their music. Overall, Bent, he had a big influence on the Sound. ]
You can even Kenneth’ impact on your music?
Bent: I have in the two years, he is with us learned more than in 14 years with Gebhardt (Anm. : former Drummer). I had my Instrument to a new type learning. He is musically much more interested than Gebhardt, thus, the focus of the Songwritings amended. He is on the one hand a Metal-type, so we are a little hard-rockiger. It is also a Jazzer so that we can play something dissolved. With Deathprod or Helge Sten then we have to those people suitable Songs, and it is again be different. We have tried something like “intelligent dumb ass metal” to write. (General laughter). So, how can you an Iron Maiden reef play without embarrassment or as stupid-Rip-off rüberzukommen. Maiden Riffs are obviously brilliant in its crude nature. So we tried here and there drop or add a measure, and out came “unpleasant heavy rock” (Bent counts us measures before the staggered…)
It’s a pretty hard to HEADBANGING…
Bent (laughs) Yeah, by this Offbeat – it’s just unpleasant metal! Moreover, there’s on the new Disk 1. Song “Starhammer”. 13 minutes long, the half is Improvisation. So we have a mixture of this Unpleasant Dumb Ass Metal and many improvisations.
There are some Fans, who just keep your Songs, which plays when. On your current Tour, you have discovered that her of each plate a two Songs played the game. This was a Plan by you or just a coincidence?
Bent: We ask ourselves before every Tour, which Songs we from the Backkatalog play. We have always some Songs from each Album, which we as a springboard to you again to explore. Meanwhile, we have a “Motherlist” of Songs, some 65, from which we every evening a location.
The whole lead is still an issue of “Roadwork”?
Bent: Roadwork has always been a fairly loose Form of Live recordings. There has been 2 albums and a DVD. It should not be a “Roadwork every Tour” appear. Rather like the Dick’s Picks of the Grateful Dead, almost as documentation. so even now have something hovers for this Tour. We therefore take on this Tour get all the Shows on 24 track, if the conditions allow. Well, then we know is still not exactly as we approach to the later. Nobody wants to do it again, all the Shows when he durchzuhören completely at home again… is perhaps there is the Option, all Shows of the Tour on a Server to offer. Or we hear anything by, and are looking for us the best songs of all out. I don’t know if I decide, for our versions are always so different in any case – difficult to hear everything and decide. Let’s see how we’s.
On a youtube courses from 1998 Video here in Cologne from Viva was then a Motorpsycho Special did. And to do you speak pretty good English. Norwegian and English are also relatively equal…
Bent: yes, yes, we had at that time German at school learning. Today it is also still so. As 2. Foreign language after English – in most schools, you can choose between German and French. Most select English. I had always been a very good ear for languages and, if you go in Germany is much like we get quite a lot. So I can talk about, if I have… But when i really good response is just too limited.
Bent, your beard is slowly and you’re gray, now also become 40 – have you ever impulses a Midlife Crisis, do you think sometimes how may even live in your looks 10 years?
Bent: Oh, I went there’s never been as good as today! This is the best Band, which I’ve ever played, the versatility, energy, the targeting and Inspiration. And off the Band I still my son 3jährigen…
Then you’re but always very long way from him, if you’re tourst?
Bent: we always try short tours, no more than three weeks Tour, then again at least two weeks at home. I can a good father, as one might expect. So everything seems really good to run, and it was me has never been better. A few years ago gave a rather dark stage, when no longer as Gebhardt was interested in something else and it wanted. Waiting that left the Band he finally, it was definitely hard. A slow death… then we weren’t real volume more and pretty lifeless. After “Let Them Eat Cake” was but he does. And when he way, it was for us as a new beginning. Now with Kenneth is the Band totally exciting and relaxatuion.
It of you and Motorpsycho many albums and tours in the coming years?
Bent: Oh, yes, I cannot imagine what would otherwise i. This is the best Job I ever had. As long as it financially runs, we will continue. Do you know, we must 6 Crew-members pay, and although it so that they are good that can live with. But as long as many people come to us, to see, we will certainly continue.
You are in its best sense “independent”. Most of the Bands must satisfy expectations you have a Label, or their Fans expect something….
Bent: for us it’s really about what Snah and I like to do. As long as we focus on these Hardcore-music, it will just be a question. And what we each evening on the stage it is true and genuine. I really don’t know what I in the next moment will play. Ah, Snah fuck you play, then I play the… It happens every evening… actually it is like a Jazz Concert. That was precisely but in a Rock context, this is our little niche that we have achieved.
I can do not believe that it is now almost 20 years are….
Bent: I don’t (laughs).
Did you do appeared so far of any Motorpsycho recording a copy in the house?
Bent: Yes, I believe it. So the reason why we achieved all this is that we can really focus on music.
Ok, Bent, thanks for the conversation, and have fun after the Gig!
Ivan: Sounds like the good old codec issue. Try updating your codecs, and i suspect that it’ll work fine.
