Monday, August 29, 2011

EIC'S10Q'S w/When Saints Go Machine

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When Saints Go Machine

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When Saints Go Machine Bio:

When Saints Go Machine is a Danish electro-pop group from Copenhagen. The group consists of four men: Silas Moldenhawer (drums), Jonas Kenton (synth, vocals), Simon Muschinsky (keys) and Nicholas Manuel Vonsild (vocals).



When Saints Go Machine was formed in 2007 and debuted with their Selvbetitlede EP in 2008. In May 2009 they released their debut album Ten Makes A Face. Their most popular tracks is “Fail Forever, ” “You or The Gang”and “Kids on Vacation”.



The group was awarded P3 Talent by P3 Guld 2008.



In 2010 the group opened Orange Stage at Roskilde Festival.



When Saints Go Machine signed a contract with German label! K7 Records in October 2010 for releases outside Scandinavia. On 16 May 2011 the group published their second studio album, Konkylie.





Hello, how are you?

Good. I am sitting in the back of a van raging through a German forest.



What are you currently listening to?

Deerhoof’s "Offend Maggie" and Nico’s "The Marble Index". I know these records are kind of old, but they’re amazing and two out of the six albums I brought on tour. I have been trying to find Patti Smith’s "Horses" on vinyl for cooking and hanging out in the kitchen for a while, but no luck yet.



Besides it sounding awesome, is the band name a reference to anything?

Not really. We needed a band name when we started out and Louis Armstrong was lying on top of a pile of records in the studio and we stole his words, erased and changed two of them and thought what came from it fit our music somehow. It is a long one though and people always mess it up. Don’t know if people care about band names?



When you began this project did you have a specific "sound goal" in mind?


With "Konkylie" we just wanted to make something we could all feel. Paying attention to every little detail, we wanted to make a pop record you could listen to more than once without being bored.

While we were working on it a lot of horrific stuff happened and I don’t know if making an album helps you or pushes you further towards some kind of social paranoia, maybe a bit of both.



What's your favorite track of yours so far?


My favorite is "Add Ends". This song is very important to me and it took me a year and a half to get it right, Trying to write your way out of something, but standing in the middle of it all can be a hard one some times.



Got any side/upcoming projects coming up?

We’re always in the process of recording so I guess something is bound to come up, always does. Also we just released "Konkylie" under a month ago, that should be enough sound for at least five more weeks. We all have different side projects, but right now I think we’re trying to understand each other through writing some more music together.



If you could collaborate with any artist of your choosing whom would it be with?

Laurie Anderson, Greg Saunier, Beth Gibbons and Los Reyes Del Tambor. Actually all of them on one song would be a dream come true for us. Maybe that’s too much to ask?



The best time to listen to When Saints Go Machine is?

Scuba diving with your eyes closed.



You can only keep/listen to ONE album for the rest of your life ..which album would it be?

Can’t do that.



Are you living your dream?


Sometimes.



Thanx Jessica & Nikolaj!



WSGM are currently touring Europe, hopefully the US will follow shortly after..(please?)..


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