Interview with The GraveyardZ
Nattsol: First of all, tell me more details about the birth of ‘The GraveyardZ’. So now tell me about the reformations in the line up. As I understand, it was the duet for the first time?
TGZ: The band was formed one year ago, in October 2007 and we were not a duo, we were 5. Everything began well, until for motives (mainly musicals) several went away of the band, and we continue with the project as a duo. There was a temporary bassist, but he did not last too much, equally we manage more in this stage than in the previous one. The band grew much more as a duo, and it became more personalized and creative. Our musical beginnings and first recordings were bad, but then, we could find our way. Now we feel much more comfortable, and though we are ..2 in.. the creative process, there are more people working with us.
Nattsol: You had several concerts. Tell me more about it. Did you take a part in some festivals, or it was solo concerts? Tell me about the deathrock stage in Argentina.
TGZ: In first place, we only did some spontaneous samples in our test site, because here the deathrock scene is not very spread as it is in the capital city of our country, where the genre is more known by the people, although there aren’t bands lol. It was difficult to be able to obtain a place to play, but thankfully the next week we are going to do it! :D In an exhibition of underground art. Later on, we expect to be able to play more often, including in ….Buenos Aires…., the capital city.
Nattsol: I want to ask you about the manner of your play. As I understood, this thing makes the TGZ style more unique and original. But this manner, which makes your sound more dirty and surrealistic, and breaks the rhythms in really interesting way, looks like as you’re just studying to play the music. So how did you ‘discover’ it? While you were studying to play, or any other way?
TGZ: Everything that we do is part of an evolution, the things are arising, agreeable to our musical experiences. We do not have a school formation, and we prefer not to call ourselves musicians… we are just people who transmits our feelings to the music trying to be original…that’s why sometimes things come out of the ordinary.
Nattsol: The next question is about The Gravecat. As I understood, it’s like the symbol of the band?
TGZ: There are several symbols that identify us, and certainly Gravecat is one of them. We love the cats, and we love Gravecat. At this moment it must be playing with branches in the yard.
Nattsol: So now about your new album. First of all, tell me the translation of the name. And tell me, do you have some common ideas of your texts? What are they about?
TGZ: The album is called “Projections of a Macabre Childhood”, and we both think about the lyrics in an equal way. The lyrics of this album treat principally topics as the childhood and the fantasy; especially this fantasy that we lose when we grow… a fantasy which we should all live again once.
Nattsol: Why did you decide to release the online album? Do you have the plans to release the CD?
TGZ: Mainly because we are in favor of free copying and copyleft license, to our country there does not come any disc of the bands that we like, and it is very difficult for us to get them… we do not want that the same thing happens to other persons, beside being able to spread it in a more ideal way non-profit-making in the middle. And as regards to the CD, we did some copies, and we sell them in fairs at musical shows.
Nattsol: The release of the first album is really important experience. Now looking back, what would you like to add or remove?
TGZ: As you say, this album was a very important experience…and we feel it has synthesized all the experience of this year of life. In the future we are planning to make a more extensive album with a different thematic, but we are not in a hurry, we’re going to let it emerge from the experience.
Nattsol: While listening to your release, I noticed some songs which presents ‘the soul’ of the project. And the ‘Souvenirs’ seems to me the most important. (Not the best, but the most important). The popular melody, the mechanical sound. While listening to it I imagined the music casket with dancing toy – ballerina in it. That strange unnatural machinery of life…. So do you have that ‘the most important’ songs? And what songs for your opinion are the best?
TGZ: All of them are important; they all represent something in particular… “Souvenirs” is beautiful, and it is for us the soul of the disc led to the daily thing. «..La Pesadilla.. de Amara (Amara’s Nightmare)» is also very important to us, because I composed it in ….Buenos Aires…. with Uxor, a very good friend, and it is for us the «opinion» outside the band.
Nattsol: And the last question. Tell me about the plans of the ‘TGZ’ for the nearest future.
TGZ: To continue playing and fighting for the art freedom; we hope to be able to know many places and take all kinds of beers! However, the most important thing is to continue opening graves and leaving to go out to bat!
We send greetings to all that listen to us there… and those who do not listen to us too lol.
The Russian cold must be beautiful …and Moscow! A city with so much history…
Thank you for the interview Nattsol! Бай!
Questions: Pall ‘Nattsol’ Zarutskiy.
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