Interview Novembre





Can you tell us more about your new album called « The Blue » ?

THE BLUE, just like all our other albums is a collection of pure music. No themes, no concepts behind it. Just music. Hard to talk about lyrics, as they’re always written in the flow and very quickly. As if they come straight from some deep hidden place, with no interferences of sort.

It’s made of 12 songs, one of which is an instrumental ("Zenith", maybe my fave song!). They’ve all been written very quickly and easily. No big troubles on song writing, recording, mixing, packaging. Just the opposite of what happened with the other albums. A sort of miracle :)


How long have you been recording the album?

Well it must have taken some 2/3 months, if I remember correcly


How did you proceed for the composition ?

Summer 2006 was particularly prolific. Dozens of great tunes came out. So all I had to do was to record them on a Dictaphone and bring them to my band mates. Then we spent some 3 months developing them and we had 12 songs ready. We could have written much more, if we had time. It was quite strange; all that music, all together!!!


Can you tell something about the lyrics?

Hard to talk about lyrics, I always write them last. This time I wrote them one week before actually recording the vocals, so, really in the flow and very quickly. As if they come straight from some deep hidden place, with no interferences of sort.
I also don’t like to analyze them. I like to read them in 10 years and try to figure out something from a long time distance


What are your favourite songs out of this new album ? And what makes them so special for you ?

I love it all but the award goes to "Zenith". It’s quite an odyssey and I still can’t believe we made it work. It’s so full of hard-to-record parts; like for example, classical guitar parts on distorded gutars and stuff like that.
It’s almost an instrumental and there’re elements like flutes, medieval percussions, special keybord effects, reversed harmonies. I’m so proud of it.


Can you speak to us about your musical evolution ? For you, what are the biggest differences between this new album and the previous?

I like to put it this way; when we wrote Materia we were a bit "up in the clouds", under every aspects. Physical, emotive, etc.. We were working in a deeper lever of consciousness, where aggressiveness and hate barely reach. While THE BLUE was gathered in a more rational stage where reality bothers, causing reactions like aggressiveness and rage.


Who created the artwork ?

Travis Smith did it and did hell of a great job. Maybe the best till now. But that’s usual shit. He always overcome himself… Damn, if he’ll ever quit this job I wouldn’t know who to ask to…


Which songs from the album will you playing live ? Why did you choose that ones?

By the moment we’re performing Anaemia, Triesteitaliana, Bluecracy, the second part of Zenith and Argentic.
Maybe because the easiest to remind and the best for a live situation


Can you tell us more about the promotional video for the song « Anaemia »?

It’s the result of the director’s free interpretation of the song. We have us playing in the fields nearby the town, mixed with images of a girl wandering, looking for something she can’t find. There’re shades and lights… It’s our first video at all and we’re very satisfied of it. Its whole black’n’white aura makes it very classy.

Are there certain songs on the album you want to mention or tell something about?

There’d be so much to say. I can mention the song "Nascence" which I sang with a female singer (Francesca Iacorossi). It’s the first time we do something like this and experiment succeeded totally. The song was meant to be sung by a male female duo, since its conception.


What are your touring plans for 2008 ?

There’s so much going on in the hands of our management right now. We’ll see what will become real. Now we’re gonna do some great Summer Fests. Check our Myspace to know exact dates (myspace.com/novembre1)


Can you tell us an anecdote which particularly marked the band ?

We can’t think of anything else than the 2001 European tour with Opeth and Katatonia. I think it was unrepeatable :)


And as a conclusion, can you say some words for my radio show Metal Choc ?

Well, thanx for ur support and hope to meet u around!!!

　

 




 


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