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Interview with HMM MAG (Romania) 1.
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KH: 1998 - Kevin calls Clayton...says
he has some riffs he wants to show him. A few riffs turn into 5 or 6 songs.
We begin auditioning drummers to no success. 2. What represents for you the concept of music? KH: Forgive me if I'm not understanding your question correctly but music to me is everything from Bach to the jackhammer digging in the concrete across the street. 3. How do you compose
this kind of music, I mean how do you work in the KH: If differs depending on the song. Some songs have been written almost spontaneously from an improvisation and others have been fully written by either myself or Clayton and then presented to the rest of the band and we all work on our own parts and the arrangements. 4. You have by now a brand new album. What do you think that is more important to be said about it? KH: I'm proud of the record. I think it does a good job of giving people an idea of what we sound like as a band and the songs themselves are stronger, overall, in terms of composition and flow. There are more dynamics to this recording than any of our previous albums. The instruments and the music breathe more. We're learning. I want to do better. 5. Who was in charge of production and how was it developed in the time of the recordings? KH: We went to Electrical Audio, Studio B, in Chicago, IL and worked with Steve Albini. Steve is somewhat of a legend in the underground. We are all fans of his own music with his bands Shellac, Big Black, and Rapeman, and the albums he's recorded for people like Neurosis, PJ Harvey, Jesus Lizard, etc. We did the whole record in 6 days. Three days tracking, three days mixing. The songs were played live as a band. There's only 2 guitar overdubs and they're very brief. Steve is best known for capturing the natural sound of a band. He's from the old-school way of engineering, where it's all about the mic placement and recording directly to analog tape without tampering with the sound much...keeping it organic and "live-sounding". 6. With what kind of influences
are you dealing with? What styles catch KH: All three of us come from different musical backgrounds which is why we sound the way we do. Jeff has a lot of jazz influences, Clayton likes old punk bands, I grew up listening to metal. We all like many different styles though of course and influence each other. 7. Are you into the experimental
music more that into metal or is there KH: I listen to both. I suppose you could say I listen to a lot more experimental-type music nowadays. There is not much in the way of metal that is coming out these days that interests me at all. I still got my old faves that I break out occasionally. 8. What are your expectations
for Dysrhythmia, what do you want to reach KH: I just want to keep growing musically as a band. Explore some new territory and keep it fresh and exciting for us and the listeners. 9. What concerts did you see lately and which one did you like mostly? KH: I just saw three concerts in row these past three days. Friday I saw Stinking Lizaveta, a great instrumental trio from Philadelphia that has been around forever. They were playing with our friends Technician, who we did a split 7" with. Technician rules. Saturday night I saw Minus the Bear 'cause I'm a big fan of David K., their guitarist, who used to be in the band Botch. He's just someone I enjoy watching play guitar. Sunday night I saw Ultra Bide, a band from Japan on Alternative Tentacles Records. We played with them like 4 years ago. Unfortunately they weren't as good this time. 10. And what albums did reach your attention? KH: Right now I'm listening to this album titled 'After the Flood 2'. It's a collection of material that range from ambient, abstract instrumentals to bizarre, noisy, experimental pop songs. Various different musicians from bands like His Name is Alive, Labradford, Windy and Carl, Cindytalk, Bowery Electric, etc. contribute. Good stuff for when I want to space out. 11. Some thoughts for the future? KH: "We all live in Future World". Thanx a lot for your time and good luck in the future! See ya! KH: Thank you! |