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Emit Bloch Interview

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Creature Interviewed Alessi for the Festival edition back in 2008.

Click here to view this interview in The 2008 Festival Edition

For those who do not know you please describe what you do?

I play songs. I feel lucky you came across them.

What artists/ musicians/ things in general, are the main influences on your song writing?
Really good people are influential. Kind folks going about their ways. Family, friends, travels, the sea, the moon, a sweetheart – quite a few things are precious and influential. Music wise : some very beautiful music is made over in Omaha (where the album was recorded) – Neva Dinova, McCarthy Trenching, Thunder Power, Son, Ambulance – to name a few and they are inspiring in their own ways. Of late I’ve been writing quite a bit and listening to Patti Smith and Sam Cooke – and a song by Burnett & Rutherford called ‘All Night Long Blues’.. it’s such a good one! Listen to your Nana and Grandad – they’ll tell it like it is.

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Creature speaks to Etienne from Zombie Zombie

Click here to view this interview in The 2008 Festival Edition

For people out there that have never heard of you, please give them a brief run down of what Zombie Zombie is. How would you describe what you create?

ETIENNE : it’s a duo… I play an old analog keyboard from the 70′s and Neman plays drums. Our music is mostly instrumental, we have a lot of respect for the first creator of electronic music ! We have an old sound and a cinematic way to compose our songs… we love the music of the horror film… and we love to improvise. We have a rock background, you can find all these elements in our records.

You released your debut album A Land for Renegades earlier this year. What were your major influences for this album and is there a specific theme that runs through it?

ETIENNE : Our major influence was the sound of the analog keys. They create images, we improvise most of the songs when we record the album, so we just wanted to use some sound we love and try to create songs with it. These instruments was theremine, rototom, the space echo…

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King Creosote (Kenny Anderson) Interview

By Alexandra McLoughlin.
www.alexmediaproduction.zoomshare.com

How long did it take you to write your new album ‘Bombshell’?

Well, half of the songs on ‘Bombshell’ were written after I released ‘KC Rules OK’, and then the other half were older songs. Some of them were put on the list for KC Rules OK because it was kind of a retrospective. It was the label’s pick of songs I’d already recorded and put out on my own label (Fence Recordings), so by design that was quite a strong album. Although I’ve got quite a back catalogue I don’t want every record I do being cherry picks out of the past, so I tried to balance this one with new songs and songs that the label knew were quite strong already. I think I’ve got the balance pretty much 50/50.

What is the story behind the songs on your album?

The new ones are pretty much my insecurities or paranoia of whatever I’m going through at this part of my life. I’ve got a daughter now, she’s 8 and there’s a song ‘Churches Whiteness’ about a fall out she and I had, and yeah, there’s others coming from a sort of older period in time just about all different things really. They are some comedy things on there. A lot of it I suppose is relationship based and then I suppose there’s ‘You’ve no clue Do You?’ which is a kind of a “who-done-it?” in the grand “Cluedo” tradition.

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We interviewed John Smith after seeing him play at the Greenman Festival in 2007. What a lovely man he is.

Click here to view this interview with accompanying artwork  in The 2007 Festival Edition.

What do you love about the Green Man Festival?

Everything! Such a unique atmosphere. They always put on good music and everyone smiles. And they have the best cider.

What was your personal highlight, who did you enjoy listening to?

Vetiver. My girl got me listening to them a few weeks previous and so I thought I knew what to expect, but seeing them live was one of the most profound musical experiences I’ve had. Battles were immense, too. Their drummer is an insane beast.

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