"..a cross between 80's Pop/Synth Pop, Dream Pop, Shoegaze, "Oldies-vibe-esque" (it's a word, trust me) music, and Metal (yes, Metal)..only with a slightly stronger focus on the "Pop".."
Violens
Nostalgia From The Future
Violens Bio:
Violens are a New York-via-Miami four-piece formed in the fall of 2007 featuring members Iddo Arad (synths/vocals), Ben Brantley (bass), Jorge Elbrecht (lead vocals/guitar) and Kris King (drums). Their music imagines a place where The Zombies & The Byrds meet Wire & The Violent Femmes, and Crass meets Angelo Badalamenti & Prefab Sprout.
Violens songs conjure descriptions of nightmares, the passing of time, speculations on spiritual messages, and accounts of psychedelic hallucinations. Even their most frenetic guitar work and aggressive rhythms are draped in a gauze of reverberant, harmonized vocals and synths which create a sense of creepy, artificial comfort. A fitting characterization, lyrically and musically, for a group whose name is a melding of the words “violence” and “violins”.
New York-based, Florida-bred Violens is fairly new to the music scene in its current incarnation, the quartet having come about as they are now in late summer 2007. There’s not much to be found if you Google the psychedelic indie pop rock band, and currently, they don’t even have 250 MySpace friends, but rest assured, it won’t be this way for long.
Hello, how are you?
I'm great, thanks so much.
What are you currently listening to?
I just started listening to an album by the band Viraemia, it's pretty insane.
How did you come up with the name “Violens”
I remembered an interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky I saw in college where his pronunciation of "Violence" sounded like "Violens" and then thought the word would be a funny hybrid of Violins and Violence. I mainly liked the way he said it though, so hopefully everyone who says our name will try to say it with thick Chilean accent?
What is the overall theme on your debut album “Amoral”? Did it take long to put together?
The overall them would probably be taking the idea of amorality and applying it to the thought process in making a record, or playing guitar, producing a song, writing lyrics, etc. The general feeling in 'Amoral' is intended to be about a kind of horrific giddiness, if that makes sense. Yes it took a while.
I love the mixtapes that you do (the meshing of Washed Out w/Slowdive was particularly amazing),how long does it generally take you to put one of those together?
Thanks so much. It comes together pretty quickly. Maybe a few hours. Also depends on the idea.
If you could score any movie of your choice what would you choose?
I'd love to make a movie and score it. It would be a horror movie called "Coke Booger."
Is Lansing-Dreiden done or..?
Nope, L-D still meets regularly and we are planning a pretty large-scale project involving dogs and robotic wrought-iron. It will probably be done in a few years.
You can only keep/listen to ONE album for the rest of your life ..which album would it be?
Necrophagist '"Epitaph".
Are you living your dream?
Yes
Thanx Jorge!
Violens debut LP "Amoral" comes out in less than a month, much touring followed right after..
Violens
Nostalgia From The Future
Violens Bio:
Violens are a New York-via-Miami four-piece formed in the fall of 2007 featuring members Iddo Arad (synths/vocals), Ben Brantley (bass), Jorge Elbrecht (lead vocals/guitar) and Kris King (drums). Their music imagines a place where The Zombies & The Byrds meet Wire & The Violent Femmes, and Crass meets Angelo Badalamenti & Prefab Sprout.
Violens songs conjure descriptions of nightmares, the passing of time, speculations on spiritual messages, and accounts of psychedelic hallucinations. Even their most frenetic guitar work and aggressive rhythms are draped in a gauze of reverberant, harmonized vocals and synths which create a sense of creepy, artificial comfort. A fitting characterization, lyrically and musically, for a group whose name is a melding of the words “violence” and “violins”.
New York-based, Florida-bred Violens is fairly new to the music scene in its current incarnation, the quartet having come about as they are now in late summer 2007. There’s not much to be found if you Google the psychedelic indie pop rock band, and currently, they don’t even have 250 MySpace friends, but rest assured, it won’t be this way for long.
Hello, how are you?
I'm great, thanks so much.
What are you currently listening to?
I just started listening to an album by the band Viraemia, it's pretty insane.
How did you come up with the name “Violens”
I remembered an interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky I saw in college where his pronunciation of "Violence" sounded like "Violens" and then thought the word would be a funny hybrid of Violins and Violence. I mainly liked the way he said it though, so hopefully everyone who says our name will try to say it with thick Chilean accent?
What is the overall theme on your debut album “Amoral”? Did it take long to put together?
The overall them would probably be taking the idea of amorality and applying it to the thought process in making a record, or playing guitar, producing a song, writing lyrics, etc. The general feeling in 'Amoral' is intended to be about a kind of horrific giddiness, if that makes sense. Yes it took a while.
I love the mixtapes that you do (the meshing of Washed Out w/Slowdive was particularly amazing),how long does it generally take you to put one of those together?
Thanks so much. It comes together pretty quickly. Maybe a few hours. Also depends on the idea.
If you could score any movie of your choice what would you choose?
I'd love to make a movie and score it. It would be a horror movie called "Coke Booger."
Is Lansing-Dreiden done or..?
Nope, L-D still meets regularly and we are planning a pretty large-scale project involving dogs and robotic wrought-iron. It will probably be done in a few years.
You can only keep/listen to ONE album for the rest of your life ..which album would it be?
Necrophagist '"Epitaph".
Are you living your dream?
Yes
Thanx Jorge!
Violens debut LP "Amoral" comes out in less than a month, much touring followed right after..
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