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PODCAST: Episode 874 - Kariti on Still Life - Atmospheric Darkness and Emotional Weight · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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Play with a lot of heavier metal bands, same show.
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And it's always, it's surprising and humbling and like shocking
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to me sometimes that I would be putting between two like black
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metal bands on a bail and people would stay and some people would
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come to me after the show and hug me and cry.
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This metal dudes with beards and like black metal T-shirts would
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tell me like, oh, you made me feel feelings Like that's,
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that's, that's what it's about. What's up everybody?
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It's Kifi. It goes cold. man.com, I am
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super stoked to be joined once again by Karidi.
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How are you doing today? Fine.
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Thank you. Hope you are doing well as well.
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Yeah. It's been a few years, hasn't
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it? We, we met during the the plague
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times and I'm still a huge fan of yours.
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And you've made so much music in the last few years and the.
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Yeah, I'm. So I'm just so pleased and proud
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to see where you've come. And I often, I often cite your
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past records as records that really helped me get through a
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tough time, which I think was your.
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You know, part of your intention is you.
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We talked about I don't like to redo my interviews when I talk
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to someone for the second or third time, But you know, your
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music's got a very healing factor to it.
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It's it's, you know, I love anything that makes you feel
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anything is good. But especially when you're not
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feeling good, music can be a great, you know, a great healer.
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So I think it's crazy, crazy for me to hear this.
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Thank you. Oh well, it's all true and from
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the heart, as you know. And so Still Life is your new
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album, your second for Lay Bare Recordings.
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You you've you've carved out a nice little niche for yourself
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between, you know, these sort of underground records.
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But like oral music is a label that is still very well regarded
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in the world and they bear has been doing a fabulous job with
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you for the last few releases, including the the little joint
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release with void, which I also loved.
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And I feel like this album has elements of everything you've
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ever done, just like, you know, not, oh, you know, overtly so
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much to make the mix album, the split album.
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But I love this record. It's it's every record you make
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is different. It has its own character and
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personality. I know you're a storyteller
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first and foremost as a POTUS. And so, yeah, what a fantastic,
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what a, what a great treat to get to talk to you about this
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new record still. Life.
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Thank you so much. Yeah, I'm glad.
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I'm glad to to be here again and talk to you again.
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Thank you. Yeah, I'm so thrilled.
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And I hope, you know, generally speaking, outside of art, I hope
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music is in life. I hope life is going well
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because we live in crazy times, just very, you know, very hard
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times in general in the whole world.
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This record being born in different times, I think, yeah.
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For sure. I I don't know that we're all
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made for these times. It's like so hard.
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I didn't I, you know, I wonder, I guess it'll build character if
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what we're made of, we'll find out.
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What doesn't you make make you stronger?
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So sure, so true. Not just not just good saw, not
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just good song material, but real advice for life.
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So yeah, let's take it back. You know, we're in the end of
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somehow at the end of 2025 almost.
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And you know, this, it's also really, I feel like this is a,
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you know, a really fantastic album for the season.
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I, you know, some, some albums are a winter, some albums are a
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summer. This is definitely an autumn
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album, right? It's very reflective, you know,
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Tell me about the last few years of, of life and music and, and
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what led us to this record if you want to share.
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Well, you were one of the first people who actually cared enough
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to ask me questions and interview me and put my music on
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the radio I think as well. So thank you for that.
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And last few years have been crazy as I think for everyone on
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this planet. And in terms of music, I
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released the second album in 2024.
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And while I was still processing that one, this third one started
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pouring out the lyrics first, as usual, I had this ideas in my
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head. I was reading a lot of, doing a
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lot of self search, introspection, reading a lot of
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books on, you know, growth and spiritual development and
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enlightenment and whatnot, and listening to different kinds of
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music. And with what's happening around
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the world, with a lot of things that touch, you know, some touch
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me more than the others. But you know, the world is, as
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you said, it's a very, it always have been, I think, but it was
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just with the Internet and the availability of information, we
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have faster access to all of that.
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So it's like very overwhelming. It's everywhere and there is no
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place to hide from it. So the world is very heavy,
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very, very heavy. And for some people heavier than
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for the others. I'm one of the lucky ones.
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My life is pretty OK. It's it's it's great actually
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comparing to many, many other things that happening to many
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other humans and non humans everywhere.
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So, yeah, I've been touring a lot for comparing to what I've
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or like ever planned or, or, or thought would happen.
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And, you know, I got invited on a tour with Coltane first and
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then we did the second one because we had so much fun
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together. They're like my family and
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played here and there and some, some some festivals played in,
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in many different countries in, in weird places like cemeteries,
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in church ruins. And, you know, my kind of music
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is, you know, nice. It belongs in, in, in this kind
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of places. So I'm always very stoked and
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touched by, you know, people organizing this kind of shows
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because it takes much more than just organizing a show at the
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venue with, you know, normal PA and everything, like functioning
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and everything. So yeah, that has been great.
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And yeah, this third one is coming now.
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Didn't plan it. It just came out, wrote itself
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basically. So here we are.
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I love that for you and all of us.
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It happens when it happens. And I think that's really cool.
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And I I fully agree. I think this is music that can
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work in theaters. It can work in small, you know,
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out, you know, the cemeteries and you know, Karini coming to
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you soon from the mausoleum. Why not?
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I'm a big fan. It's.
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Funny remember this please in a in a few months time.
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Remember this what you said? There you go.
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I'm going to also go play the Lotto today anyway, the lottery.
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You know, I'm a big fan of a lot of the Norse Pagan folk music
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like Mirkar and were Truna and Hilum and they built they
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sometimes they play it a forest and I could see you also.
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I think you could work with their music as well.
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I know I'm so proud that you got to do some touring.
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This is where we left off when we last met.
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And he reminded me we did put we did.
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We had the occasional show on the Gimme Metal radio station.
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And I played your music on both of my shows, like 3 shows.
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I played it on two of the three. I had you on my playlist.
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I have it somewhere. I think it's there's a ghost
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cult mag, Spotify, where I still have the song list from those
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shows that I made and you're definitely on there.
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So I'm really proud of that myself.
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Thank you for that. You have a great memory.
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I have a weird life. I get remembered for things like
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people see me after like 15 years and they're like, you have
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a beard now, right? And you used to do, you had a
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metal band when you had long hair.
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And, you know, like, people have remembered me for like, I don't
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know that I'm that memorable. I think I'm pretty forgettable.
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But like, thank you for remember.
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That was a very good memory for me to put that together.
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So thank you. And I feel like, you know, I
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know you always talked about having a full band maybe at some
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point and, and touring. So I'm really glad you at least
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got to do some touring and and you found some, you know,
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musical peers, some collaborators and and allies
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that because that's kind of what you need.
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I don't know. I know, I don't know how much of
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A scene there is where you live. I know we always talked about
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like sort of the metal scene, but you are such a singular
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unique artist that there's probably only a handful of
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people like yourself that you couldn't perform with.
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So it's. Good.
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Yeah, in. Front.
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Of different people I, I, I play yeah I Kariti will always remain
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like a solo, somewhat solo journey.
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Now Marco is very present live especially and also on the
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record he plays a second guitar and like noises and and drawing
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machine and on the new record you could hear more of him.
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But besides that, it's still very personal though, like the
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the new records are not that much introspective more about,
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you know, the outside world and my my view on that.
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But yeah, I, I toyed with an idea of of having a band, but I
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I'm I'm too much of A control freak and it's just too personal
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really. Like I would not also all the
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good musicians. There are so many.
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I know a lot of them, but they're they are full of other
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bands like there are. There is no way.
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So this is staying that where it is, I think, and I'm adding
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things to live setup. I'm using more machines to make
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it happen because it's not just the guitar and and the
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microphone anymore, but it's it's it's fun.
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It's nice. And yeah, I tour with bands.
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I play with a lot of heavier metal bands, same show.
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And it's always it's surprising and humbling and like shocking
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to me sometimes that I would be put in between two like black
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metal bands on a Beale and people would stay and some
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people would come to me after the show and hug me and cry.
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This metal dudes with beer and like black metal T-shirts would
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tell me like, oh, you made me feel feelings like that's
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that's, that's what it's about. So yeah, that's thank you.
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Nice. They're gonna go back to their
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dark caves and cry no one could see them and do this.
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But I yeah, I agree. I think I remember talking to
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you. You know, I'm a big fan of the
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black metal, our disaster. And he does like all acoustic
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stuff now. Once in a blue moon, some black
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metal gets in, but it's mostly just like, very mournful.
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You've been very like, it's like you're reading into something.
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I don't know what's happened to you over the years, but you've.
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Been sleeping, I got super powered.
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Just yeah. Coffee and weed gummies that
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help me sleep and now my brain is working better again.
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In a couple of months like you will understand what I think.
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Yeah, right. Absolutely.
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And we, yeah, we've talked, we talked a lot about, you know,
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bands that I like Panopticon and and Obsidian Tongue and Zester
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and things like that that's take black metal, but do it in a
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different, you know, unique and original way.
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And I do. And I do think like, you know,
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Europe is a little more open minded.
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You can in America we have like 7 bands that are all the same.
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And I think Europe, I think maybe it's because of Rd.
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Burn and and things like Desert Fest and things like that, you
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get a little variety, a little more variety from the European
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fan at, you know, they're used to more eclectic lineups and
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we're not. Probably never played in the US
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so I don't know, but whoever. I hope, I hope someday, or I'm
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going to have to come there because that's what's going.
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To happen. You're always welcome and thank
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you. You're always welcome.
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But I hope so too, someday. Italy, it's on the list.
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It's probably a few years away. My dream, my dream vacation is
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Florence because I'm such an art nerd and a music nerd and A food
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nerd, unfortunately, too much of A food nerd.
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But like, Florence has been on the list.
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Yeah. It's been on the list for a long
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time. But, you know, in general, in
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general. So, yeah, I'm really happy for
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you. And I love this record.
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There's so much, you know, in all your music.
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There's so much weight, you know, like there's, it's, it's
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always, you know, so, you know, makes you think.
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It makes you feel from the very beginning, from the piano in
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spine all the way to the end in baptism.
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It's always, you know, I don't, I don't know if every record by
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you is a concept record or you're just continuing to just
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ply this entire concept of your art to everything, but you know,
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it always feels like a unified thing.
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I know, I know, I read the press materials and shout out to
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Earsplit again for putting us together and letting me discover
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you in the 1st place. I know that Still Life was the
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last song composed, but it does seem to pull everything together
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in the bit in the middle of the record very well.
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Yeah, still, life was not even finished when we started.
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I wrote it while I was rehearsing, preparing to to
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record and it was like 3 bits of songs put together.
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The lyrics were from a dream I had about different.
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I have very vivid dreams. And there was a friend of mine
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who's not longer no longer with us in this dream.
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But also many other things that made me, you know, it's
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eclectic. It's, the song itself is
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eclectic as is the album, I guess a little bit at least.
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I don't know, not very homogeneous.
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And yeah, I just put this 3 little bits together.
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And the third one was purely improvisation basically in
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studio because we started doing the layers and layers of vocals.
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I started like I turned the snare drum over and I started
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doing the thing with the just, you know, just playing with
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things because I wanted to play everything by myself.
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Although I don't know how to play drums.
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That's you know, and it was a, some sort of a, a trip outside
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of my comfort zone in terms of singing as well.
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Because Lorenzo who records me all the time, he made me almost
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record without almost like a reverb, which, you know, is like
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a security blanket for me for many, many people who saying
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like, oh, reverb, nice big reverb and things are good.
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But I don't like my, my own voice.
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It like feel weird about it. Like I, I grew to be OK with it
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over the years. And of course people say you
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continue singing. So there is, you know, you must
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like it somehow. Yes, but also it's it's a
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different relationship, so being very, you know, raw and like
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almost nude in, in terms of the voices outside of my comfort
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zone. But it was very liberating, very
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inspiring. So I'm I'm grateful we we got to
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do that. And yeah, Still Life is a is a
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song that when it was done, I said, OK, this is the the name
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of the album as well, because it's just so it pulls everything
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together, as you said, so. Nice work.
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I, I do, I agree. I think, you know, as, as
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artists, whatever that you know, whatever it is, singing, poetry,
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music, you know, painting poetry.
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I said that already. I think whatever we do to push
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ourselves to go beyond what we are, the easiest thing, the
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thing that comes first, even if it's good.
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I know there's sort of a thing inside of us all trying to light
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a little voice in the back of the head saying like, try, try a
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little more, go a little further, do it a little
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differently. So it's nice that you're, you
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know, even if it's, you know, the best art comes from, you
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know, the the best art and the most success, whatever that
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level is for you personally happens when you push yourself
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out of your comfort zone. So it's nice to hear that you're
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experimenting and and open, even if it's hard.
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It is, you know, we are. It's, it's thanks to the people
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I, I sort of work with, like because I, I, I don't think I
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would be able to do this at least this way the, by myself.
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So I write everything. It's my, my, my child, let's
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say. But yeah, it helps to have
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people who have an outside perspective and they push me
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outside of this comfort zone and I'm very grateful for that.
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Right, Do you get do I never asked you this before, but do
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you get to a point with a song or a poem or a vocal where
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you're like, this is good enough or I'm this is this has to be
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the last one or the end. It's finished now.
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It's I always find that to be the hardest part of the process,
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like when is it done is the hardest question for me to
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answer. I have to ask that to you, do
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you do you have you struggle with that?
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Is it easy? Surprisingly, like in my life,
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I'm a perfectionist and it's never enough.
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It's never good enough in everything I do except with the
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music, which is weird because it's a very, it's the thing that
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makes me the most insecure because I pour myself too much,
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so much in in it, you know? And it makes me like, it bears
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me basically in front of other people who listen or who
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especially when I play live. But with the music, the lyric,
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the vocal part is only almost always take first take the good
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one. We never redo like recording.
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We never redo the the vocal part.
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I'm more I have a lot more problems with completing an
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instrumental part because I'm just not sure that it sounds
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good. Oh, there is this little lick
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that doesn't sound nice. Let's do this again.
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And yeah, that's end UPS. That end UPS being like 100
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hundred takes. But we recorded a very short
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amount of time because I stay in in, in the in the place for a
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few days and we do it. This record, record was recorded
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in like a week time. Even less, I think, yeah.
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Wow, nice. I know you like to work fast.
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We talked about that once before.
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Once you're starting, you want to.
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Get it out there. Get it out of the way.
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Get it, get it out of the way and work, you know, move on to
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the next thing, which is, you know, a very good approach.
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It's very, you know, that actually key is there's a purity
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in that. Like if you spend, you know,
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it'd be interesting to see if you had like, time, more time,
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what would develop, you know, a double album maybe.
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But I like the time. The self constraint is
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impressive because, yeah, I'm also, I think anybody that's
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ever worked with me knows that I'm also a bit of a
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perfectionist. And, you know, I have to.
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Yeah. It's hard to let go.
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Yeah, You know, it's like a child.
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You don't want to let it go. But I do it because, again, I
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have this two people, basically Marco, who also plays some
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instruments, guitar and drones and, and and on the record and
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plays live with me. But also he's the person I look
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up to the most in terms of music because of his musical culture,
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taste, experience and everything.
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And also Lorenzo, who has a very different approach.
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He's a musician as well, but he also he's a super, super music
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technical nerd. So he like comes up with this
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weird ideas, weird things like putting little things that you
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don't even hear them, but they are there and they're making a
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difference. And these two people are like,
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especially Lorenzo because he spends the time with me from the
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beginning to the end. Marco comes at a certain point,
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records everything. His takes are always just one
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take, almost improv. All of it is improvisation,
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which are perfect because, you know, he knows what he's doing.
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Compare to me and Lorenzo. He's always like, OK, this is
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it, this is it, this is done. Now you know that like that's it
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and you have to be OK with it. And then I listen to it after
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like the day after and said, OK, yeah, you're right.
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It was done. It's just my perfectionist mind
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was going crazy because I'm so much into this.
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But yeah. So again, I I'm helped by by
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people to to make it efficient somehow.
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But it's also very spontaneous. It's like very, very, it comes
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the, the, the way I write this music, it always comes on its
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own. And we recorded the same way.
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So, yeah. And I don't have, I, I don't
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think I would ever be able to record with anyone else.
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I don't know, Never say never. But this is like my safe space.
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And I, I, I, the songs are born in, in their final shape in that
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place. And yeah, it's it's my favorite
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part. Nice 2-2 words we don't often
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hear in these interviews that I do many of efficient and
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spontaneous. So I love that for you.
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I love that so much. And it really when you hear the
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whole record it, it really hits home.
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And I would say like what I'm really enjoying is Repeat
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Lessons I think is this album, you know, like overtime, you
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know, like a good classic rock record.
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I hear new things when I go back and listen to your earlier
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records. I hear new things when I revisit
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them. So I love I can't listen.
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To them anymore. Yeah, I get it.
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I know. I know how you are and I totally
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understand it there. You know, we all, you know, the
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ear and the brain are weirdly connected.
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Like how sound, how we hear our own voice and singing voice
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inside our head is so different and alien when you hear it
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recorded. And yeah, doesn't sound.
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Like, yeah, same. You know, I'm, I'm back to
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actually singing again for the first time in, in like 20 years.
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I've been up in, in a band and, and I wasn't even my band when I
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was in a band 20 years. I was like a backup guy, which
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was fine. It suited me at the time.
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After being like a singer for the my whole life, I was like,
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let me just be in the background and scream a little and play
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bass. But now I started playing music
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again and I really appreciate it.
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I was like, Oh yeah, this is hard.
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And I hate the way I sound in the PA and I just kind of block
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it out and I do what I do. But I know it's sort of like a
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tug of war with your own. You wanna get this music out of
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you because it's inspiration and it's healing and helping, but
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it's also difficult because it's like, I don't wanna hear.
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Me exactly. I wanna do everything else but
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hear me. Yeah.
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Yeah, exactly. Super interesting.
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I love the artwork of this album.
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I wanted to talk for a minute about that We never get to talk
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enough about the artwork because I'm always like this about your
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voice and your poems and your and your writing, but I love
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this artwork. It's probably my favorite piece
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of artwork. I I wanted it yeah, I wanted you
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to talk a little bit about it and.
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And if it we know what's the connection to the?
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Music. Yeah.
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So for this one, I knew that I didn't want to have myself on
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the cover of the album. I wanted to to have something
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that represents the concept concepts, multiple of the songs.
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So the person who I work with for a long time, Laura, who
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makes made, she made all of almost all of my videos.
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Some of them are yet to be released.
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And she introduced me to another friend of hers and colleague
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who's a digital multidisciplinary artist,
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Ashley. So ask them please to come up
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with some ideas for for this. You know what they could come up
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with after hearing the because Laura is also very deep person.
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We have a deep connection outside of music, so she had
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feelings about the songs and we made the one video and then
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another one. And then for the artwork, I
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said, OK, please come up with something.
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And they came up with different options and there were different
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versions of all of them were some sort of flowers on this
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black background. And when I saw that one, the one
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that ended up being the cover art, I was like, I had chills on
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my, you know, and everyone who saw it as well, they, they had
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the same similar reaction, very impactful somehow.
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And it, it matches very well the, the, the, the ideas behind
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the, the songs. And they got the inspiration
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from this flower that is called the Queen of the night.
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And it blooms only once and has this very strong smell when it
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blooms. And it's like, I don't know, it
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emulates some light or something.
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It's so it's, it's, it's native to Central America.
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I don't know which countries exactly.
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So they get, they got inspired by that flower, which is
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regarded as something connected to rebirth and you know, like
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changes in life and, and personal growth and, you know,
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growth through hardship and things like that.
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So, and then they added, digitally manipulated the image,
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they added the, the, the spines which represent the, the other
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part. So it's like it's, it's a, I
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love that it's a match of, of a, of an image and of a, the man
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made elements to it. So it's, I don't know.
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It's just, it's when I saw it, I said, OK, this is this is the
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one. And I love it.
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I just, I'm so grateful for, for the people I get to share my
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vision with and who share theirs with me.
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So yeah. Queen of the Night is also
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appropriate for you and your music.
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That's amazing. And shout out to Laura.
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These lyric videos are beautiful just.
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Yeah, this is Ashley. Ashley made the second one.
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The one the for purge is just mind blown.
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Yeah, the song, when we recorded it, people who heard it like,
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oh, this is very David Lynch. This is very twin picks.
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I'm like, oh really? Yeah, I didn't think about it,
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but it is. And I guess David Lynch passed
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away during that time. So we were all about, you know,
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re recording his like remembering his art and and I
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guess there was some subconscious inspiration to it.
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I don't know. And obviously Angelo Badalamenti
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is a huge inspiration as well because of the music.
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He like the the incredible sound.
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He, he, the them too, they created the universe of their
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own and the video is representative of that as well.
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And it's so just mind blowing. Yeah.
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There will be another one that both of them made together.
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So it's. Yeah, I can't wait.
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Oh, that's so exciting. I mean, I'm a freak for David
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Lynch and I'm so sad that he passed away.
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Don't smoke cigarettes, everybody.
24:50
They'll kill you. He.
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Yeah, it was his one is one problem in life was cigarettes
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couldn't couldn't quit it. But yeah, I I totally got that
25:00
the minute I saw the purge video.
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But I really even even the the still life.
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Still life. I made it by myself actually.
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Yeah, the great job. Great job.
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Yeah, it's great. I need it.
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I, I, I guess the, the main thing about the, the, that song
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are the, the lyrics and they're really, you know, sharp and like
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repetitive. And so I said, OK, I just, I'm
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just going to do that with very little experience I have in into
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making anything on like digitally.
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So yeah, I, I shot first part of the video.
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I actually shot it in a museum in, in Vienna, like an
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exhibition. So I had to like change it a
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little bit so that they don't sue me for cooperating.
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But it's my own video actually. Like I made it not, I didn't
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steal it from someone else. And then I just, yeah, I just
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wanted to give the space to the the words.
25:46
I don't think I ever asked you if you were a fan of Chris
25:48
Cornell or Soundgarden, but this reminded me of a funny story.
25:51
So you know, Soundgarden became pretty big.
25:53
Chris Cornell was gorgeous and great looking guy with his long
25:56
hair and Jesus Christ pose and all the music videos on MTV.
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And I am, of course. I mean, I am a fan, obviously.
26:02
Who isn't? Hated that he hated being the
26:05
center of attention. So then they went to this thing
26:08
in the mid 90s before the band broke up where all their videos
26:11
were not with the band in the video, but it was that he was
26:14
like, it was actually more work to not be in the video than to
26:17
be photographed in the video. So it was just as bad, he said.
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So I think it's pretty funny. I know that I know, you know, we
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all have, you know, a little self talk about ourselves and
26:27
how we sound and again, how we sound outside and play back to
26:30
us and how we look. And you don't want to betray the
26:33
music you're trying to express. So I love that you're trying to
26:37
stretch out and and not necessarily be the center of
26:40
attention with. The music, the the the next
26:43
video will have me in it because it's like it tells a story
26:46
because as you said in the beginning, I am a storyteller,
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at least aspired to be or whatever.
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But yeah, I I like to distance myself because it's not as much
26:55
about my own things as about the things that touch me one way or
26:59
another, but they're happening somewhere else outside of me,
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so. Nice.
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Well, we look forward to that. And also, you know much more
27:07
from you. I sincerely hope we don't go
27:09
five more years without talking, but I'm so pleased and how far
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you've come. Yeah, I know you're here.
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I'm here. Let's.
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Do more, you're busy. And I have been busy, but never
27:18
too busy for good artists and good music to share to share.
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Just for a last question, you know, I always end these with a
27:25
wild card question. So I don't think I ever asked
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you. Who is your favorite poet of all
27:29
time, if you had to pick one for life?
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Oh my God. Oh my God, this is a horrible
27:33
questions to ask a person. They're all, they're all
27:37
horrible. That's the secret.
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No. When they start asking about the
27:42
favorite albums, like I'm like no, no.
27:44
I learned my lesson last time. No, if I had to really choose
27:48
just one poet, OK, I think it would be an Ahmatova.
27:54
Yeah, because of the depth and the anger and the the audacity
27:59
she put in her in her work. But there are so many more, like
28:03
so, so, so many more. There are so many more people
28:05
who are not poets in a like a traditional sense.
28:08
They're like, they like they write lyrics for songs, for
28:11
instance, but they are like like Nick Drake or, I don't know,
28:17
ducks rigs, Like, I don't know if they released like they
28:22
published books with their pointer.
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I don't think so because I would have had it already.
28:25
But there are so many people who who put so much poetry into just
28:30
the music lyrics. So yeah, too many.
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But Anatomy would be the one if I had to really, really choose
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one. Nice, I'm on record as saying I
28:37
never thought Acid Bath would get back together and not only
28:40
do we have an Acid Bath tour touring this year in festivals.
28:43
Yeah, that's. That one of my favorite records
28:45
of the year is the DAC solo record from Early.
28:47
In the yeah, it's amazing because everything he touches is
28:50
amazing. But they're coming to Europe
28:52
with this crazy like. System right now.
28:55
Yeah, we'll see. I think they're going to
28:58
probably do some sideshows by themselves, like I.
29:00
Really hope, I mean you guys are lucky over there because you get
29:03
to see them. It's easier for you, but for us
29:06
it's just it would be a dream like anywhere.
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I would go anywhere to see that band.
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Right on. Well, I'm rooting for them.
29:12
I'm rooting for you. Really lovely to talk to you
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today. One of my favorites.
29:16
I'm not supposed to have favorites, but you are one of my
29:19
favorites. Karidi, thank you so much.
29:21
Thank you from and for your support over the years.
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Thank you so much. Very it's.
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My pleasure. Very nice.
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Thank you. Yeah, my pleasure.
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Whatever we, whatever we can do to help.
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We'll talk to you soon. And I look forward to hearing
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your music. I will go check it out later.
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Someday. Someday too, and I hope, yeah.