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AURI's Ethereal World: Dreams, Distance, and Cinematic Soundscapes · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Well, Hello, I'm Yohea from Auri, I'm Troy from Auri,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm Dormous.
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  Speaker 2: From Beautiful Thank you so much. Candles and Beginnings feels
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  Speaker 2: like a deeply emotional and cinematic experience. What emotional state
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  Speaker 2: or personal reflections were you channeling when creating this album.
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  Speaker 3: We were all manically depressed, quite the officers quite yeah,
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  Speaker 3: oh nice?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, the topics are really there at the back
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  Speaker 1: of the album in the names. But I mean, well,
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  Speaker 1: we're it's sort of in our ethers not to open
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  Speaker 1: the songs too much.
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  Speaker 4: We sort of.
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  Speaker 1: Provide a stage for feelings to enter for each listener,
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  Speaker 1: and they could be different. The interpretations for the songs
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  Speaker 1: could be different for every one of us. So and
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  Speaker 1: there's no put wrong answers really, so yeah again, once again,
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  Speaker 1: we were inspired by things that we encountered in this
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  Speaker 1: beautiful life and earth of ours.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, little little mysteries with clues thrown within them.
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  Speaker 4: Ah. Interesting. See.
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  Speaker 2: I have the opinion after listening to the album, and
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  Speaker 2: this could be so wrong, but I feel like there
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  Speaker 2: was almost a Celtic quality to some of the songs
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  Speaker 2: on Kennels and Beginnings, with the use of the strings
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  Speaker 2: and the Airy Melodies. Was that Celtic influence intentional or
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  Speaker 2: is that something that that naturally emerges from your musical chemistry.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think it's all down to identification. We personally
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  Speaker 3: don't identify with any genre really. We just we use
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  Speaker 3: whatever tools we have to accomplish the the music musical
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  Speaker 3: expression that we need, and that's that's always been the
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  Speaker 3: same way with our ing and it's no difference with
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  Speaker 3: this album. Yeah, So no, I think it's it's very
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  Speaker 3: neutral really as far as genre goes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to guide. It's hard to categorize you
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  Speaker 2: guys as just one genre as you do. We've in
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  Speaker 2: so many different genres and elements.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 4: We like to baffle the.
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  Speaker 5: Listener itself, especially.
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  Speaker 4: No No, but you guys go, what do we do it?
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  Speaker 5: What's this?
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  Speaker 4: It all comes together? Though?
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  Speaker 2: No, No, sorry, I didn't mean it like it's baffling
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  Speaker 2: in a bad way.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what's going on. I meant like it all.
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  Speaker 2: You've got so many different influences and the songs, each
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  Speaker 2: song is different from one another, which you know, I
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  Speaker 2: guess you kind of expect. But then in that vein
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  Speaker 2: as well, they all do cohesively. Go together on this album.
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  Speaker 4: I'm happy you say that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we feel as well. I mean, we each have
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  Speaker 1: a very distinctive style of writing music. But when you
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  Speaker 1: put it all together, if it's yeah happy, you feel
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  Speaker 1: the same way.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And the three of you come from such rich musical backgrounds.
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  Speaker 2: How do your individual influencers shape the hour sound when
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  Speaker 2: you come together?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I suppose it's just a natural thing for us.
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  Speaker 3: Really, we can't avoid our influences, which go back to
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  Speaker 3: our childhood, so we can't escape them.
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  Speaker 6: I've always wondered what kind of music I would make
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  Speaker 6: if I never heard music in my life, but I
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  Speaker 6: would still be able to play. Yeah, very interesting thought.
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  Speaker 4: That is a good question.
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  Speaker 6: Now if I would would have lived in a vacuum
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  Speaker 6: from music, but still knew how to play the keyboards,
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  Speaker 6: And you know what kind of music would I do if.
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  Speaker 5: You knew how to play the keyboard? Yeah, if you know,
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  Speaker 5: that would be different.
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  Speaker 3: I think there might be anthropological uh areas of this,
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  Speaker 3: and I think I've read something on this. Is it
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  Speaker 3: some Some some of the really ancient unknown tribes and
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  Speaker 3: the rainforest have rhythm, yeah, and and basic plain song effects,
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  Speaker 3: But as far as harmony, and the scale. They've got
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  Speaker 3: no concept of that at all, so yeah, maybe maybe not.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe, Yeah, My point being that we are influenced by
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  Speaker 6: what we have heard.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: And with you guys coming from you know, different backgrounds
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  Speaker 2: such as Nightwish, did you guys going into or really
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  Speaker 2: know the sound that you guys wanted or did it
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  Speaker 2: just kind of happen along the way.
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  Speaker 6: The latter.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, nothing is ever pre calculated. We don't think in
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  Speaker 6: the advance. We don't plan ahead what kind of album
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  Speaker 6: to do. Everything coming up natural?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And Troy, you work from your ship whilst Tuomas and
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  Speaker 2: Joanna were in Kitty. How did that distance impact the
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  Speaker 2: creative process and did it lead to any surprising inspiration?
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  Speaker 4: That's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it always leads to inspiring moments and
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  Speaker 1: discoveries when we work like that, and it's been our
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  Speaker 1: way of working for three albums now and it's proved
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  Speaker 1: to be a really fruitful and working one for us.
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  Speaker 1: It's something that I think just fits us so well
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  Speaker 1: because we do have the solitary moment and environment to
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  Speaker 1: let the ideas take their first form and then we
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  Speaker 1: share them with each other.
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  Speaker 4: And work on them together.
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  Speaker 1: And there's always lovely moments when you receive a new
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  Speaker 1: file from one another and then you open its like
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  Speaker 1: another Christmas present and yeah, then you build it, feeds
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  Speaker 1: onto the next idea and it's it's perfect.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so obviously there's a moment where you guys all
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  Speaker 2: have your input and then do you all get together
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  Speaker 2: and put those inputs together?
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  Speaker 3: No, we only we only come together when we mix
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  Speaker 3: the music. So we record music in isolation as well,
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  Speaker 3: we record all of our parts, but because of the
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  Speaker 3: very yeah, yeah, so we.
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  Speaker 5: Only all get together when we put the.
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  Speaker 3: Final when we finally realize what the music should sound like. Wow,
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  Speaker 3: that's when we get together. But before that we do
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  Speaker 3: it all over the invisible gossamer bridge, you know, between
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  Speaker 3: us and and it's a wonderful way of working. And
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  Speaker 3: I suppose it all goes down to the nature of
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  Speaker 3: our friendship in that we we completely try to each
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  Speaker 3: other and we all feel the same way about not
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  Speaker 3: just about life itself.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's awesome. And how did you guys all come together?
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  Speaker 2: I know there's two of you that were in Night Wish,
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  Speaker 2: but getting Joanna on the on the project as well,
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  Speaker 2: how did you guys all figure out that's what you
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do?
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  Speaker 6: Well, the pair of us, we live under the same roof, so.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of oh, they go, yeah we met nine,
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  Speaker 1: didn't we, all three of us, And yeah, we just
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  Speaker 1: instantly fell in love with each other and the friendship
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  Speaker 1: and it felt like you discovered a piece of your
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  Speaker 1: soul that was missing. That's how it felt to me
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  Speaker 1: at least. And yeah, everything just finally clicked.
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  Speaker 4: In life.
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  Speaker 1: And also musically, I mean, the fact that we're all
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  Speaker 1: musicians and some writers really enables us to make magic
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  Speaker 1: rarely seen.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, that's beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: And the very first, very first song that goes back
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  Speaker 3: to twenty eleven. That was the first song and we
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  Speaker 3: recorded that in Yorkshire.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, from the first album.
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  Speaker 3: So it's been an ongoing thing for well over ten years,
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  Speaker 3: twelve years.
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  Speaker 2: And talking a bit a little bit more about Yorkshire,
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  Speaker 2: can you tell us the significance of the line in
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  Speaker 2: at Blakely Ridge and why that location found its way
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  Speaker 2: into your music this time?
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  Speaker 4: Is that a will ship?
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  Speaker 5: You really have to go there? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to go there, So we'll meet you
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  Speaker 3: there at this coming Thursday.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, sounds good.
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  Speaker 6: You see what we mean.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, we'll pick you up from the train station.
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  Speaker 7: Sounds great, damas. Yeah, what do you want, lady Rick,
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  Speaker 7: what do you want?
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  Speaker 5: Never you mind? Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Blake Rich is a place that we have been going
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  Speaker 6: to for the past fifteen years pretty often, and we
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  Speaker 6: have taken our friends there with us as well. We
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  Speaker 6: have the experience of the modern day prancing pony in
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  Speaker 6: so to say, and we just realized that there's a
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  Speaker 6: song in here somewhere that needs to be realized with Ari.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah we are.
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  Speaker 3: And actually about one am, between one am and two
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  Speaker 3: m after lots of ill we had our first ever
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  Speaker 3: our show in there.
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  Speaker 4: No way.
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  Speaker 5: It was just us three.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and a ghost as well as the ghost is there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so we we've got it. We've got a perfect history
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  Speaker 3: with that place. We will we will forever more, you
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  Speaker 3: know we we we miss it. Yeah, out of our makeup.
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  Speaker 2: Now lovely and the visuals, especially Joanna's calligraphy and the
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  Speaker 2: watercolor artwork and another layer to the experience of the album.
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  Speaker 2: How do you see the role of visual art in
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  Speaker 2: complementing your music?
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  Speaker 5: Really important?
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  Speaker 4: Truly?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, we were lucky to this is the
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  Speaker 1: first time we worked with borderlining for this for this
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  Speaker 1: album cover, and it really came up beautiful, and I
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  Speaker 1: think he really got to our vision of how we
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  Speaker 1: wanted the.
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  Speaker 4: Album to look like.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, just the album artwork. I think it took months
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  Speaker 6: or four months to get just perfect. So we would
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  Speaker 6: send files to each other and correct every single little
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  Speaker 6: thing that we wanted to so we put a lot
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  Speaker 6: of effort and piety into it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was surprised. So there's no like AI involved.
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  Speaker 2: Like you guys have really truly made everything.
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  Speaker 1: You really used real watercolors to deal with coloring.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, so it's handling and painted.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: And Johanna with your calligraphy, are you a calligrapher or.
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  Speaker 4: Well just by accident?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I love writing Christmas cards in that lovely style,
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  Speaker 1: but that's how it kind of it started.
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  Speaker 4: So it's just a hobby. Yeah, I love beautiful skill,
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  Speaker 4: beautiful skill.
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  Speaker 2: And sorry, could you tell me your favorite song from
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  Speaker 2: this album, each of you and maybe why it's your favorite?
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  Speaker 2: I like them all, but I love the the apparition speaks.
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  Speaker 2: It's unique with a little heavy edge. But yeah, as
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  Speaker 2: I said, they're all beautiful. But how about for you guys,
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  Speaker 2: which one is your favorite?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you naughty thing. You know, we can't say. We
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  Speaker 3: can't tell you babies all the other songs would get
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  Speaker 3: really really really jealous.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, upset, let us play that live, so we can't
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  Speaker 5: do that to them.
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  Speaker 4: That's fair enough. We can't risk it.
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  Speaker 3: No, no's we genuinely love them all as the music
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  Speaker 3: when folded on the mix, it was just a constant
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  Speaker 3: river of delight pouring through as the thing became all
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  Speaker 3: but we yeah, we love it all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all just so beautiful and nothing that I
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  Speaker 2: ever really expected when I listened to it.
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  Speaker 4: Like from the first.
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  Speaker 2: Song, it's really airy and you know, with those soft
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  Speaker 2: vocals and the strings and all that. But then as
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  Speaker 2: you do move down, you know, you have those different
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  Speaker 2: elements like the guitar and the heavier aspects. It's just
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  Speaker 2: it's really beautiful and very cinematic.
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  Speaker 4: If you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Were to put your songs to a movie, what type
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  Speaker 2: of movie do you think you'd put them to?
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  Speaker 5: Blacky Ridge?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I know what you mean, I know what
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  Speaker 3: you mean.
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  Speaker 5: It is very visual.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, you muse its question.
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  Speaker 6: If Stanley Kulbrick, Peter Weir and emmaa Chaam and did
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  Speaker 6: a film together.
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  Speaker 5: I think that would work fit perfectly.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's awesome and I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: One of your favorite non musical ways to find inspiration books, films, places,
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  Speaker 2: or even dreams or anything, all.
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  Speaker 1: Of the ones that you mentioned in video games and
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  Speaker 1: just everywhere. I mean one song came to me when
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  Speaker 1: I was at a gas station filling up my car.
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  Speaker 1: It's just our music is everywhere. And you had a
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  Speaker 1: lovely encounter with a with a horse fly.
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  Speaker 3: I did, yeah, yeah, with a stripe a striped horse fly,
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  Speaker 3: only last week east in eastern Finland, and I was saturd.
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  Speaker 3: He was walking around on a succulent, this little plant,
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  Speaker 3: this striped fly, and its wings fluttered so fast you
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  Speaker 3: can't see, you know, like a humming bird. And it
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  Speaker 3: was he was wandering around. And I was just observing
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  Speaker 3: this little little fellow wandering around for quite a while,
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  Speaker 3: and I wondered to myself if he would allow me
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  Speaker 3: to touch his wing. And I just reached out to
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  Speaker 3: him and I touched his wing and he didn't fly off.
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  Speaker 3: I held my finger on his wing. And as I
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  Speaker 3: held my finger on his wing, a giant D major
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  Speaker 3: ninth Chorde in my in myself, so I'll use that
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  Speaker 3: at some point.
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  Speaker 4: Did that really happened?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, something happened about seven minutes ago, which I've been
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  Speaker 6: thinking ever since. I'm a bit lost in my thought
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  Speaker 6: at the moment, and I think there's definitely going to
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  Speaker 6: be a song about the thing that I just realized. Yeah, ago,
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  Speaker 6: there you something we both said was it was a
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  Speaker 6: bit of an inspiration.
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  Speaker 5: All right, tell me later.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you'll have to tell me later as well, on Thursday. Okay, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: that's right, I'll see you then. And we know you
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  Speaker 2: guys are going on tour soon. Is there any chance
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  Speaker 2: of an Australian tour with this album?
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  Speaker 5: Can we see people?
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  Speaker 6: Wish?
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  Speaker 3: We hope, We hope it would be wonderful. But we've
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  Speaker 3: got a film that this moment in time that all
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  Speaker 3: of you there. Oh, we might not have met many
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  Speaker 3: fans in Australia.
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  Speaker 4: Oh well, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Sure after we get to hear we all get to
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  Speaker 2: hear the full album, I'm sure we'll all fall in
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  Speaker 2: love with you and you'll have a big I really
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  Speaker 2: want you guys to come here.
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  Speaker 3: It would be wonderful to go to Australia. We love Australia.
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  Speaker 3: Where earlier are you? Where do you live?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm in Mudgie so I'm like just north of
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  Speaker 2: Sydney and then inwards Inland a bit.
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  Speaker 5: Oh okay, lots of wine.
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  Speaker 4: It's very rural.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, you guys with Thomas and you guys have
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  Speaker 2: been here before for Night, which haven't you.
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  Speaker 6: We've done three tours yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Awesome and they were wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and the Australian crowds are just fabulously mental, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's just brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh beautiful guys. It's been so lovely chatting with you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry I've rambled a bit, but we can't wait
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  Speaker 2: for the full album to release and hopefully to see
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  Speaker 2: you guys down under sometime soon.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you guys so much.
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  Speaker 5: It was wonderful.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you guys.
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  Speaker 5: Take care, don't forget thirty.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll see that