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| (...continued) But on the other hand we had every time lots of people in the clubs, because we were playing only once or twice a year, so they looked forward to see us, we were rare for them (of course, I was always very sad when the result turned into the same, becuase of the sound or because of the laziness of the band)... my best memories are from the gig, which hyappened in the release day of "MUTANT STAR" (22.11.2000) in one of the best clubs in Prague, where more than 300 people went, enjoyed it & created a great atmosphere. We had a positive feedback from them. Also I think we had fortunately a good & clear sound (thanx to my friend who knows every one of our tones & who did care about it exclusively this evening)... Another good gig was in the summer festival Nuclear Storm 1999, where more than 1000 people listened to our music... For the moment, we are not an existing band since the spring 2001, so we can't play any gig or tour. If some comeback of us will appear, we will be very careful about playing live. One possibility is to become only the studio project, second possibility is to plat strictly with headphones, with the artificial beat running all the time under the live instruments...we will see. ANYTHING WEIRD OR BIZARRE EVER HAPPEN AT ONE OF YOUR SHOWS? Every one of our shows was weird or bizarre, haha. The strangest story happened when we arrived to the town with a club with an extremely small stage. The boys from our band entered the club, looked at the stage, told, "we will not play here" & left the town. Me with the drummer Bizzaro, we stayed there & tried to explain to the organisers the whole thing. We wanted to play, but the rest of the band was against & it resulted in some very angry situations inside the band, it was really disagreeable & we two felt like dumbs when trying to express to the people in the club that we are sorry for this... Another story: guys smoked marihuana before leaving the rehearsal room for another show. They had a THC in their heads, so they easily forgot to put inside the car the suitcase with all the cables, effects, keyboard sound modul... It resulted in another disputation when arriving to the club. They need to ask another musicians for their equipement. I played to some "children keyboards" offered to us from some fan, which lived near the club. Haha. Now it sounds funny, but when it happened, it was every time a shame. As you see, DEMIMONDE was a bedlam combined with purgatory! I will tell some few words about this atmosphere & climate inside the band in the next answer. But i must tell you, that without this people & atmosphere, DEMIMONDE never would be DEMIMONDE & our music wouldn't be so weird! WITH SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE BAND, DO YOU GUYS EVER BUTT HEADS ON ANYTHING? Once again, we are six, but believe me, it is terrible even in this number of members. Haha. Regarding the cooperation in the band during the process of creation: This was a complete psycho. We are totally psycho & we make the psycho music. That's all. Each of the individuals in DEMIMONDE stands out of normality & all six people together make the twisted mix six times amplified. Of course it is even impossible to know us one anothet too much, we are too complicated & able to surprise everytime. Also we don't communicate together much, mainly during the last few years after the split of DEMIMONDE. But also during the "normal" existence of the band, we didn't talk too much together. We are very different people, with different interests, focuses, hobbies, occupying... Simply said, we had almost nothing common, only our band & the world of DEMIMONDE (our own personal half world) connected to it... So how it all looked like? When being together in the rehearsal & composing the new music (but also when only speaking together, sitting in the pub or so on...) DEMIMONDE reminds a war, brothel, bedlam, pigsty or time bomb...permanent attacks, ultimatums & splits of the band were our normal every day life, without this, we couldn't be as creative. The whole DEMIMONDE is one serious misunderstanding...hahaha. If someone sees us working (for example the sound engineers during the recording process), they think usually, that we run out from the madhouse & after the recording, some gentlemen in the white clothes will arrive, catch us, put us in a car with the bars & return us to the psycho hospital... Generally it is an amazing fact that the album was successfully finished, especially if you know that it was recorded by the people, who had permanent disputes, argues, controversaries, absolutely different opinions about all... (often I had a fear, that we will never record it...haha). And also recorded by people, who doesn't listen to the Meatl music now & where the majority of members are Techno freaks, etc... WHO WRITES MOST OF THE MUSIC IN THE BAND OR IS IT A WHOLE BAND THING? Exactly-a whole band thing! Everyone contributes to the creative process, there is no one called the "main composer". Maybe the most ideas come from the solo guitarist Ankhabuth, then the bassist Afagddu & me. In the second half of the next question, I describe little bit the background of our creative process... The way of connecting the most possible amount of the moods & feelings of the electronic music with the all possible moods taken from the different Metal genres (plus maybe some touch of classical music & of course ethno-orient) was one of the basic focuses for us! Our goal was to record an album with the Metal weight & heaviness (heavy guitars, raw riffs, blasting drums...) together with synthetic bizarreness & space mood, this all with the most complex aspect possible. Trance, drum "n" bass, Trip-Hop or ambient are our favorite genres & some of the members are really into nowadays they are much more into this kind of music than into the Metal music, so that's the reason, why the combination of all these genres with Metal sounds very organic in our arrangements... As for the oriental feeling, this is caused mainly by the lead guitarist whose roots are in Syria. Again about the creative process - if concerns the vocals, it runs in the independent line when composing. The vocals are completely arranged only by Tanyya & Jaacob & they didn't do it during the rehearsals, they brought their ideas just tot he studio & when their time slot during the recording session started, they came to their microphones & the rest of the band had the first possibility to hear the Demimondial vocals. They did it in an absolutely fantastic way, we didn't expect it! it enriched a lot our music & moved it in some higher level. Such variety of ideas & expression, everything perfectly fitting in the instrumental side of DEMIMONDE. To sum it up: The abstract shape of the DEMIMONDE music is of course the consequence of the absolutely different taste of each member. One likes Metal, the second one hates it, one likes Jazz, Blues, Techno, Classical music or Pop, but always there is someone, who doesn't like a concrete segment of music. The result of this tension is, that everyone tries to put a piece of himself into the final shape, the process is quite chaotic & anarchistic. Just also during the recording sessions in the studio, everyone arranges his instrument (or voice) himself, everyone uses the momentary ideas & the others are then surprised what's present there. We never knew, what we play, the first time when we heard the DEMIMONDE music was after the arrival from studio. We put the CD into the CD recorder & with a lot of surprise we listened to it & told us: "Hey what's this, what's up, what does it mean, this music?" WHAT DO THE MEMBERS OF THE BAND DO WHEN NOT DOING ANY WORK FOR THE BAND? DEMIMONDE was something like a typical student's band in the past times, but as we are not really in contact nowadays (since the split), I am not sure what's up with the rest of our members. Some of us probably still study. Me, (except for the work with the Metal Magazine) I completed the journalism degree in the Charles University (Prague) & now continue with the Czech language studies, which are also my deep interest! The best way how to spend my time is to be with my girlfriend & to make love, of course! Haha. If i am alone, I prefer to read something good & listen to something good... Afagddu, the bass player, studies the theory of informations in the same university, etc. As for the otheres hobbies, Ankhabuth & Afagddu are fully involved into the Dance music, they play live sets in some Techno parties... (continued...) |
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