This is part 2 of an interview conducted with Dlas Scott for MPx magazine,while he was in the studio recording "Hiding in the Eye".-(jason stuart)
JS-Tell us the brief history of your band.
Dlas Scott:"The Still" was "officially" formed sometime in the summer of 2005,although the idea of the band was some years before.I've always looked at my band (Baron Lesh)and it's musical projects as visual concepts,Something i can wrap my mind around and see from beginning to end."The Still" became a place i could put all the ideas that i couldn't see within the Lesh context.
interviewer:Who are your musical and non-musical influences?
Dlas Scott:I've never really considered other musicians or bands as being influential but as inspirational.My fellow musicians and my closest circle of friends probably have the biggest influence on me.
interviewer:Who writes the songs and how are they written?
Dlas Scott:I guess i bring the musical blue prints to the table then we build off them as a collective.Lyrically i write everything for "The Still".It makes things very personable to me.
interviewer:Personable as in personal experiences?
Dlas Scott:They are all very personal as they are all my own theories about things. But, in fact, I'd say that maybe only one or two of them are relevant to my own experiences. What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like books I've read. I deliberately personalise them by reading about the main character as "I". That's very important because music is a very personal process. But not all the songs are necessarily to do with me.
interviewer: what are they about?
Dlas Scott:I think if there were a common theme or feel on "hiding in the eye" it came before the sound or the songs, for me it came even before the act of writing.And on this project that's all I could focused on.It became my occupation, I'm a"Stillist". My profession was about artistically painting myself into corners.
And;"I'm trying to find some way to express this", was all i wanted to say.
Interviewer:Had the writing gotten smoother or rougher the closer you came to completion?Or are you hurrying or waiting?
Dlas Scott:Both.Hurry up and wait. like in the song "trial by fire" a man's salvation is found watching his house, farm and everything he'd worked for all his life burn to the ground.The moment he finds having nothing is nothing left to lose, he also finds that he's the one who lit the fire.Now he's just stuck there wondering how I'm gonna get him up off his knees,but I'm still here wondering how long it'll take this paint to dry.
(Jeff chimes in from the next room,"And I'm wondering about Scott's sanity!")
interviewer:Describe your show, visual and musically.
Dlas Scott:I try to incorporate principles I've learned from the theater.I tend to like building on the contrast between songs,showing the light against the dark.
interviewer:What's your outlook on the record industry today?
Dlas Scott:Pretty bleek at the moment. I'm almost a non-participant as far as main stream music.The air waves are full of fifteen year olds singing the blues.
interviewer:What are some of your pet peeves about other musicians/bands?
Dlas Scott:It seems theres only so many spaces available for a band to be seen and heard and i hate that there filled up with all these corporate cookie cutter acts or old dinosaur bands that cant seem to gracefully bow out.Theres to many people thinking their musicians, I dont think I'm a brain surgeon so i stay the hell out of the operating room.
interviewer:What's new in the recording of your music?
Dlas Scott:Probably the way we communicate our ideas.After working for so long inside the Lesh bubble,were exploring new ways to approach our music.Developing a new language to tell the story of "The Still".
No comments:
Post a Comment