From: owner-goths-digest@smoe.org (goths-digest) To: goths-digest@smoe.org Subject: goths-digest V2 #179 Reply-To: goths@smoe.org Sender: owner-goths-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-goths-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk goths-digest Monday, November 30 1998 Volume 02 : Number 179 Today's Subjects: ----------------- thornia meets melora, round 1 ["vampyria the beautiful" Subject: thornia meets melora, round 1 - ---------------------------------------------- my little side comments that arent going to be in the interview are in the [ ] brackets. Thornia: wow, that was quite a show. I was very taken by the performance, was tonight a good show for you? Melora: with the exception of the dead to the world tour, all the shows are good. Its nice to be headlining again so we dont have to get lit cigarettes, oh wait, cloves, thrown at us. The people here tonight were actually here for the show. T: I noticed that too. What would you like to talk about? M: wow, an interviewer *letting* me talk about whatever I want to?! Usually they cut me off in mid-sentance because they claim to have no idea of what I'm saying. But I can't just talk, lets play Patient vs. Psychologist. You say a word and I'll tell you the first thing that comes to mind. T: heh, well, alright. This could be interesting... Your first word is-- M: .. wait, i dont mean to interrupt, but this doesn't feel real enough without the straightjacket on! T: We can pretend. Just tie your corset tighter. M: It doesnt get any tighter than this, unfortunatly. This corset I'm wearing now shrinks my waist about 6 inches! T: Wow... ok, well for your first word: faries. M: Well, I'm a microist. T: which is.... M: ... maybe thats not the word. Its someone who will not make love to humans. T: Then what do they do? M: FARIES!! I'M THE QUEEN OF THE FARIES!!! T: Can you explain the title "How We Quit the Forest"? M: There's a certain feeling, and it seems like a very modern feeling among people I know, to just be in a constant state of quitting, It would be the present tense, rather than you have quit and something's over, but to maintain a state of quitting, to go from quitting one thing to the other, from quitting smoking to quitting a relationship, quitting things in your diet. That's a strange state, and imagining the forest as your society or your community. Just kind of taking yourself out of a scene or something while being in it. T: How, lyricaly, does "How We Quit the Forest" differ from "Thanks for the Ether?" M: The concept of the forest is part of the main theme running through the disc. While our first album, dealt with historical situations and characters, the new album is based around fairy tales; how they're created and distorted and "the secret meanings" behind them. Like in fairy tales, they wanted to treat animals as characters, something that definatly carries over to how we quit the forest. We have lot more knowledge and confidence this time around. With the first one, I would say that we were all kind of passive, not having done it before and not being very able to voice what we did know how to do, On my own, I worked with lots of ways to record the cello, different systems of combining acoustic with distorted and stuff like that. T: The end result is an album that is much more varied sounding that "Thanks For The Ether." Though it's nothing like the Marilyn Manson - -remixed "Transylvanian Regurgitations" ep, the use of different types of effects and arrangements truly break new ground for cello-based music. [It also means the Rasputina are even more difficult to classify. They don't like being thought of as a goth band, because, as Melora puts it:] M: We don't wear back, we wear white." T: Well, that is about as un-goth as it comes! How not-morbid M: I feel that mainly it's about different age groups. We played club shows in New York for a long time. And the NY audience tends to be older, more sophisticated. We assumed that's what a music audience is. But I think it's only just NY, with all the touring the bigger the audience, the younger the audience was. I really, really loved that. It seems like a very open audience, and an audience that you can affect, rather than being judgmental and bitter. So maybe if we did a nursery school tour .." T: I'm sure they would really like the spin on fairy-tales! ====================================== OK, i realized this interview is VERY long, this is hardly half of it. For the article i AM NOT having the whole thing in the paper, i'l have to edit it and write a review rather then JUST the interview, which i like doing better because its less work :) So this is only the 1st part and in a few days i'll have more of it, k! All feedback is VERY MUCH APPRICIATED! thornia@hotmail.com ************ ThOrnIA ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of goths-digest V2 #179 ***************************