PHOENIX FESTIVAL INTERVIEW
2JUILLET2010
BEAUREGARD
Learn the middle of the night, returning from a concert the next day you have an interview set up with Phoenix, and realize that you have less than two hours when you wake up to prepare your questions, c ' is the kind of thing that gets the adrenaline pumping a notch. But when, in addition, at the time of your interview, you are robbed your niche (15 min) by a radio reporter shamelessly Normandy as a result of that, time to promotion of the group is completed and you see the singer (with whom you were supposed to talk) from the press area running (literally), then we reached the pinnacle of pre-stress interview. In these cases, you gather the little courage you have left when I say that, anyway, you have nothing to lose, and go to boarding the slightest Phoenix you'll find in the surroundings. In this case, the two brothers and also two guitarists of the group, Lawrence and Christian, who very pros were kind enough to take a few minutes to answer these questions.
STAGE INVASION: It works particularly well for you in the United States. In your opinion, what is this craze for Phoenix had overseas?
Brancowitz LAWRENCE: A misunderstanding, I would say! I do not know what happened. It's very strange, because we really thought that this record was for very few people, and finally, the disc like the most, which proves we really have no idea how the success or failure. But that's fine, because it will encourage us to continue in the way of anything great!
/ / When writing Wolfgang Amade Phoenix, you had no label. Is it allowed you a freedom you would not have had if you had been under contract with a label?
MAZZALI CHRISTIAN: That's what we wanted. They would not re-sign with a label. Before, it was at EMI, and we really wanted to have accounts to anyone on this album. It has always been a freedom, even at EMI, they have always left alone but it was the result of a painful struggle, and long ... (irony)
LAWRENCE: It's just that we wanted to make a record without compromise, even if we have never compromised finally ... The idea of being left to ourselves, artistically, it was good. We wanted to find a partner who listens to music, that says "we love it," we wanted it to be as healthy relationship. We had the idea of working with independent labels, the people who have fallen in love with the disc, and not people who we signed for the wrong reasons. Finally, it was the best calculation because we worked with very small structures and that is exactly what we needed.
/ / Why this name Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix?
LAWRENCE: It's a name that came suddenly. It was in the studio, and we stunned. At first it was just paralyzed, unsure of everything. I remember it took us 24 hours to digest, and then by cons, there was a sense of obviousness. The biggest shock aesthetic are often things that at first disturbing, with which it is uncomfortable.
/ / You composed the soundtrack of Sofia Coppola's next film, Somewhere . How is this different from composing music for film and that of an album?
LAWRENCE: It's completely different. When working with a director, it is with something larger, it is necessary to serve a vision. We have not really had any direction, but the film was a coherence and a sort of rhythm and tone that made it knew immediately what he to do. Quite simply, this is a music very humble, and finally loves to be humble!
/ / How it happened, you had already seen pictures, scenes that were shot, or you completely cut off from all this?
LAWRENCE: There were pictures, yeah. What is good is when you work with someone who knows what he wants. Sofia, she knows what she wants, so when's the way it is very simple.
CHRISTIAN: It was very concrete, it went very quickly, within days.
LAWRENCE: It was great because we had pictures, and he just needed to melt it. With film music, which is complicated is that it is not necessary that the brain is overwhelmed by a refrain. Let's stay in the background and this is clear.
/ / How did you react when you saw the video the choir of kids who resumed Lisztomania ?
LAWRENCE: We loved it! It was in Australia, I remember, was before a concert, a time when no one knew what to do, and suddenly we got a link. It came at a time when we were ready to receive a gift, and then we took it one hundred percent! This is the kind of stuff you would have loved to imagine, to stage, but that never worked because it does not work when it is the product of a calculation. It had to come like that, out of nowhere.
CHRISTIAN: One of the most beautiful things that happened as a result, we will say.
/ / Is what you have experienced invasions scene?
LAWRENCE: There was a time when it happened very often. It is a moment when it has cooled, moreover !
CHRISTIAN: Yes, I believe in Dijon ... The scene has collapsed, there were three hundred people on stage and she collapsed. They made a hole in the scene. It was very funny to see! Finally, the moment we were afraid that people are injured, which would have been really horrible there ...
LAWRENCE: So, now we pay attention, but there comes a time when we were carefree and where it happened very frequently ... Not too long indeed! (laughs)
/ / What is the dumbest thing you ever did?
LAWRENCE: Well, it was so stupid!
/ / This is not your fault ...
LAWRENCE: Well, we looked for a little thing! We opened the doors ... we have opened our heart! It was a little known people to go on stage. OK, but it could have been the most horrible thing that ever happened to us, because there are metal beams of several hundred pounds, and when you drop it on a girl for example, it can really be horrible.
/ / Do you have a ritual before going on stage ?
LAWRENCE: Yeah, it was a series of small things, but it's not really a ritual to Madonna if you will, the collective prayers and etcetera, it's not really our thing!
/ / Do what you can find a title for this interview? When the transcript is always the big white ...
LAWRENCE: We, we ask that question never there! ... What is the name of the duck?
/ / Stage Invasion.
CHRISTIAN: Ahhh that was why the question? "
LAWRENCE: I do not know, he should find something you said, right?
CHRISTIAN: If y 'puns a bit shabby ...
LAWRENCE: That's quite something French! For example in France, was a serious newspaper, Liberation , where each title is a pun, a pun. It is unique I think! We, we are pretty nil pun, but there has been a lot of Phoenix ... based off of the Phoenix, etc.. It should be avoided at all costs, eh! I count on you!
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PHOENIX.
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