EPISODE 31 - “gARAKUTA” WITH TEKE::TEKE
SHOW NOTES:
Host Shawna talks to Maya and Sei of the Montreal (by way of Japan) surf rock band TEKE::TEKE about their song “Garakuta,” which details how all the used and disposable items we create will one day rise up and take over. We also discuss the desire to create a visual world through music, starting out as a cover band, who is considered disposable, and how much more trash there is in North America. How many Barbies have you found in the ocean?
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SHOW LINKS
The new TEKE::TEKE album - https://pocp.co/hagata
TEKE::TEKE Live on KEXP at Home - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej0LV6MCteo
Takeshi Terauchi - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEwndMqFLcY
TEKE::TEKE covering 'Chidori' by Takeshi Terauchi & The Blue Jeans - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7z1CE-WaG0
TRANSCRIPT
Welcome to But Her Lyrics...the show where we delve into the meaning and politics behind the songs of artists you love or are about to fall in love with.
I’m Shawna Potter, singer and lyricist for War On Women - and your host. This episode falls under the category of political lyrics of songs I like, verses songs I wrote, or topics that I think should be a song. And I’m so glad to be back! I had a big summer of releasing raw, unedited, and personal conversations with some of my friends in music, or writers, that I only shared with my patrons who support me on Patreon. If you’re interested in hearing some new WOW songs get written, almost in real time, sign up at patreon.com/shawnapotter, there are different levels, you can get a discount for paying annually versus monthly, lots of options, and lots of fun stuff in exchange for your support. Since the summer was so WOW-focused and I did that entire lyric-writing series, it’s been a minute since I’ve put out a proper But Her Lyrics episode. What better way to get back to it than to interview Maya and Sei of Montreal psych rock band TEKE::TEKE. Keep listening to hear us talk about art and artistic expression, some differences between Japan and North America, and all the cool stuff you can get dumpster diving. But first?
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INTERVIEW TIME
I’m so excited to share TEKETEKE with you - I shared them with Brooks, my guitarist and podcast editor, ahead of doing this interview and he could not stop listening to them for like a week straight, so we’re fans! They had a new album come out over the summer of 2023 via the legendary Kill Rock Stars, called Hagata. And they supported Unwound on a tour, which I am so sad I didn’t see. Like always listen through til the end of the episode to hear the song we are discussing today.
[INTERVIEW please excuse any errors, this transcript has been auto-generated]
Maya and say thank
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you so much for joining me on but her lyrics please introduce yourself to everyone than you thank you for having
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us Maya Maya and Andi pel I'm the founder of the band te
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and I play guitar as well and Maya is the singer yeah in
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tiet all all the visual art also the artwork and writes all the lyrics and
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everything that's all her you do the artwork as well oh my goodness I mean that's one thing I really like about the
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band is just the visual of of of I love the album art but also just all of you
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as a band visually look pretty
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cool so so total respect for that um now when prepping for this interview I had a
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couple songs to choose from right and the focus of this podcast is political
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songs so before we dig into the song in question do you all consider yourselves
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a political band or do you just have some songs that are political I don't know exact the definition of a political
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band but uh we always want to be uh Curious and uh to look for the the more
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information and like we want to say what we want to say and uh also politic is a
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like a kind of a reflection of what we think what we have as a and personal and
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philosophy and everything so just uh the the whatever song can be
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politic also uh you know the other hand also and like uh because of just a
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simple Love Song it can be the talking about the the politic too yeah it can be
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political too so and at the same time to look uh look for the the the the inside
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uh our unconsciousness and try to grown up and it's those personal thing uh U
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I'm really curious about that but that is the politic is it will be the
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reflection of what all we think and so yeah it's all connected yeah I think
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probably we don't claim to be a political ban or like we try to avoid as
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you know labels as much as we can I think or like we're not too worried about it but I think uh that being said
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a lot of our songs I think would include a lot of uh well of course like Maya was saying just maybe layers of of it and
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um uh you know for sure like how we view things and how we view the world and
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certain issues because we do talk about that stuff a lot you know in this band
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um in on tour in the van or whatever so of course it you know it's I think um
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it's in the lyrics and um I think it's just that we
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don't call oursel like a we don't need to uh call oursel a political band but
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I'm you know I was always really attracted personally to artists uh bands that had like
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something more to say than just a but for me it's like uh it has to be a nice
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um combination of you know if if you have the political side to it it
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shouldn't compromise uh the artistic and musical side of it if that makes sense so like
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in for me um in the late 90s for instance a lot of the bands that I was
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listening to like fugazi or like um who else Unwound or like even bands
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on uh kill Rockstar as the you know take a dick as label
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uh were very political and uh but they were also very interesting
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musically artistically and so it's like I like when it's kind of a whole package
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but for us I feel like with I think maybe well you you'll tell
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me if I'm wrong but I think it in the first place it comes from a place of
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like uh poetry and and more of like art and uh trying to like a desire to
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create a visual world and then through that there's some some of our
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philosophies or views on things and so in that I think there's it feels more
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holistic you know like so it's the like political band is not the focus of your band like my band is a political
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feminist band but um but it's like how could it not be a part of what you're
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doing I think it actually might have to be more of a conscious choice these days to not say anything political at all
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right but I love that you just mentioned you know the art and and the the poetic nature of the songs because I totally
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caught that right away when listening for example today we're focusing on the song uh garakuta help me with that yeah
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is that how you say it Maya you said in an interview that garakuta is a Japanese
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term used to describe Goods that are considered to have no more use and they
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thrown away by us human beings but what I love about the song the lyrics they're
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from the perspective of the trash we've thrown away um the objects are
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communicating to us as humans um and somehow it's beautiful also um so where
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where did that idea come from have you done that before did it just happen tell
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me more about the perspective of that song I came from Japan I was in Tokyo I
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grown up in Tokyo after I moved to Montreal and when I moved to
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Montreal I start to see more uh garbage
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like a it's a very North American thing yeah because it's just in Japan it's like a very specific time you can put
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the garbage in the street the specific place and they like uh you don't like
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they try to organize to not to see it and it's organized it's separated the
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plastic goes in that bag and then paper in a different bag they all you but it depends on the city but yeah but it's
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really it was just normal like life we don't see less but in Canada in
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Montreal uh when I arrived here like I start to live with my friend in a big
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LOF and it was just beside the secondhand shop and then each Monday and
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the Thursday five o'clock and back back they throw away like thousand of
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thing because they got so much donation too many you know so like me I I just
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arrived with the backpack but we found everything there it's crazy just clothes
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and the the asset like the everything furniture so not
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even trash you're not even talking about trash or Garbage like just items that could still be used yeah yeah because
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people think if well okay we don't need need this so let's bring this to the
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secondhand shop but they have too many things so they have to throw away anyway
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like it's like a 10 big bag each two two two days in in a week and it's crazy
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amount and we could find so many things I I really didn't buy anything just and
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we found everything in a street like at that time we didn't have so much bed bag
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problem we were lucky though but it was like this and also there was a big
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Market beside our place and around 5:00 every day they they threw away all the
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the the the vegetable and fruits that it it's little old or scratched or whatever
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but it's much fresher than what you you
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forgot anything in your fridge you know it's so many amounts too so like uh lot
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of kind of lot of people are picking up those and also with our friend we we
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pick pick up those and cook all the big me eat together and I really love that
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experience but anyway but with with seeing all that I really realize that
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how many amount of thing that it's just going to garbage just and also in Canada
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uh like uh we dump it to and if it was
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not recycled it's just dump it you know it's crazy just H but so many plac like
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that in this world still so yeah go but I love the in your lyrics uh one of the
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lines is lyric reference in in translated English it's this flower is
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made from plastic that snow is polystyrene that hill in the distance is
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a mountain of cell phones and I mean yeah just the trash We
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Leave Behind items We Leave Behind will Outlast all of it but it's somehow like really beautiful the way you put it you
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know and I I'm sort of rooting for the object I'm like good for them we should all just go and leave them to it it's
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their world now you know um do you do you often find yourself
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personifying objects or animals or speaking from you know human humanizing
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things that maybe aren't human that's true but yeah I don't know it's just
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yeah I think uh at a certain level she does it in every song in a way it's like
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she's a different character or maybe even uh several characters within one
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song yeah so it's like different perspective different perspectives and
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also just to come back to gak for me when she presented the lyrics and everything uh yeah I thought it was an
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amazing idea too and and the thing is she was talking about um the thrash but
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also I sort of I I saw it a little bit also as like a thrash from society or
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like any um um outcasts or people who are like um considered useless and away
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or thrown in jail you know I started thinking about the whole jail system and the problems related to that and and uh
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so it's it's interesting it's like u in that sense I think gak is kind of like a
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is very much political you know it has like an environmental angle to it but
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also just uh yeah like I said uh thinking of like people or just human
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beings are considered like thrash and inequality and all that stuff you know yeah who's disposable in our society and
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who's not yeah yeah that's on my mind a lot lately a lot um so that's that's a
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that's an amazing angle um yeah so you said that Maya brought the lyrics to you
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so did this song start with lyrics and then you wrote some music say or like how did that writing process go yeah it
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it's music at first always what we do this way and when I heard this song I
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really felt like Rebellion rebellious
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yeah yes yeah watching like it's really the
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the whole process of like from the music me bringing the music and then uh Maya
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reacting to it and like it's almost always instant like she knows okay it's going to be about this really
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like that like that quick all the time of oh I know exactly what the song's about yeah kind of but for sure it was
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it was like that because uh and even like you know the song usually the songs are not finished and then uh it's just
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uh I have this idea this riff and it's also kind of influenced by uh
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Japanese Festival music or traditional music from from festivals and so it's very uh upbeat and and kind of Joyful in
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a way but she with her lyrics and and her vocals uh she turned it into
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something a little more yeah rebellious and kind of punk and and then uh yeah
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it's it's just those things I don't I don't really know how to explain how those things happen but they just happen
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it's uh there's a little bit of magic with songwriting right it just kind of things come and uh yeah it's not always
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easy to define or categorize now probably like most Americans North
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Americans I know you're in Canada um I don't know a lot about uh traditional
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Japanese music surprise right um I think that's really common uh to not know a
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lot about the Japanese music scene uh traditional or not or modern over here
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um but I do hear that in influence in the music clearly um how now say are uh
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did you come from Japan as well yeah I was born in Japan but um I'm I grew up
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uh in Canada okay and went back several times but uh my mother is Japanese and
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my father is French Canadian oh okay okay so yeah I'm wondering like how do
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you blend um you know the more of the musical history from Japan with I know
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some of your bandmates are Canadians uh White uh I I don't know every where
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everyone's from but like how do you work with all those Styles or is it even conscious is it even a
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thought well I mean we started out as a tribute band so really yeah we we uh
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we're a Tribute Band tribute to uh takesi Teri he's a Japanese guitarist
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from the 60s 7s surf Rock uh really really amazing musici and and badass uh
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dude and then so we kind of well pretty quickly evolved from there and but the
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first two shows were mostly like covers and uh but because we were playing the
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music with a different energy kind of and more like with a I don't know it was a little edgier or punkier I don't know
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uh that sound that came out of it really like got us excited to go on and and you
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know do this band thing and and our own music and
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so to go back to your question H yeah it's interesting because
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I mean Maya has been living here in Canada for 20 years or so uh I grew up
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here but a lot of the music that we know about uh you know Japanese music from
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the 70s or late 60s we heard from records that our parents uh would play
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at home and also it just so happened that we had a lot of we knew a lot of the same artists from that era and loved
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a lot of the the same music and so um but Maya living in Japan and then maybe
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she can develop on that or not uh but her perspective of the whole scene or or
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even just the traditional Japanese music and other stuff like just the art in
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general in Japan or the culture was very different for her being there than for
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me uh growing up in Canada yeah yeah and having you know both sides of you know
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from my parents more North American and and Japanese side I I was able to be in
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a position to enjoy a lot of that Japanese culture whereas Maya was in it
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and had a bit of a LoveHate relationship maybe sure sure and once she got here
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and joined the band and it's funny she she got to ReDiscover and see a lot of it from a different uh angle and and
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enjoy it a lot more does that sound true Maya yeah yeah yeah exactly so so like
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in the music sometimes like a I give a comment that that's that will be that we
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too Japanese know this is too much Japanese
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too much too it's like because you were
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talking about the other members in the group and and we don't just like we yeah we we don't
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consider ourselves like a a Japanese uh right we we consider oursel actually a
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Montreal band where because a lot of I mean
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yeah there's just a lot of different cultures here and people mixing up and everything and like yeah I think it it
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could only this Bank could only uh exist or get together because we were here at
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the same time in Montreal so for instance our trombone player iten is
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really big on uh Bulgarian music he's ah yeah and he loves the Bulgarian chant
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and all that and for us there's a lot of influences from not to in our music or
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even Brazilian music that we love um so really of course there's some Japanese
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flavors uh in the music and unconsciously because of where we're going with certain scales and whatnot
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and not like I'm not that's not how I view music with you know it's it's not a
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technical thing but I'm sure if a m music Specialists would you know analyze
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music if they they could well this scale there's a lot of pentatonic stuff going on yeah you
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know but this is all like you know it just happens organically and um yeah it's just the
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influences from everybody in the band with different backgrounds and tastes and and so the fact that Maya sings in
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Japanese makes it more like oh you know this is this is a Japanese band perhaps
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yes but because I cannot write in English or French so that that's why I
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write in Japanese and yeah of course I write but in Japanese and not so many
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people on live people will not understand but I hope they will
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understand a little bit so like uh that's why on the video we try to put the translation and the website we try
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to put translation and also I draw so like I can explain a little bit to the
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the universe of that uh that are yeah and and your energy when you perform you
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give it 100% And so I'm sure that Vibe comes across live too um but speaking of
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your writing Maya um I reading the the translations of your
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lyrics they're so poetic you paint these wonderful pictures um it's wonderful I'd
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love to know more about how you got started writing and if it's changed over
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time um or or just anything yeah I I was
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doing theater in Japan in Tokyo but at that time I couldn't Express really what
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I wanted like a as actress I have to be
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engaged engaged for the contract for that somebody give then
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like I get this role so I I will do this but uh like sometimes like I'm not agree
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with this or like whatever like it's it was also in Tokyo it's very uh more it's
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more hard hard life for the the poor artist to to do the thing to continue
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but in Montreal it was much much easier so like I and there was just free food
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in the alley it sounds like exactly that's why immigration
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oh free lamp hooray yeah for for the rent also it was really
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different too and it's big thing and just when I start to have a more like a
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and know to to do what I really want to do uh I start to write the poem and like
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a drawing and then they start to record my song or whatever but everything it
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was nothing for the career or like I I want to be the single or whatever
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nothing it was really just for fun and like yeah why not just to do then then
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like yeah it's just I continue and now it it with the take I can I can say
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100% my uh it was for fun but probably out of necessity too she just needed to
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express herself and and write down everything that she she had inside so I think uh yeah and about the style and
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like uh I really like uh like Sur realism or like d
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ISM those kind of style it has a very irony irony and
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experimental uh like feeling and also like try
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to uh try to use the the the thing in
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this world or the all the thing uh what we have Consciousness to explain our
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unconsciousness so it's like uh it's like when when we
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see when we see someone in our dream like sometimes the uh oh my mom but my
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mom's face is not my mom but not my mom but not not my mom but that's the
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reality of our UNC Consciousness so this is more real actually it's more real I I
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feel and so like surrealism it's it's more that it's try
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to do the directly like from that yes yes I think I get that um get that in
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and Advance back to the interview I am very interested in um
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going from performing as an actress to performing your own words that you wrote
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yourself because that can be a very different experience uh saying someone else's
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words words and then saying your own in front of an audience like was that a difficult transition for you or were you
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like finally yeah I feel I think I was better
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for this way I don't I feel better I feel that I
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can say what I really want to say and you know like I
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just I I don't think I'm professional musician or professional
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painter or poet nothing like I feel like I'm professional of myself
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just that's great that's great that's it so like uh I don't know yeah I I I want
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to look for more that way I I think that
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I think it's so hard to support yourself as an artist these days
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so I think most of us don't consider ourselves professional even if we get paid at a show and oh it pays for dinner
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you know like that's nice but we have to have other jobs yeah but we also have to still make art because we just want to
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it's just in us so yeah exactly and also the the definition of a Prof
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professional is very like weird sometimes somebody who get a lot of
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money and career but it doesn't have a like a heart or like it can be like
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something really what you think or like somebody who doesn't know what really
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think like I don't know it's yeah
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so I don't know it's all mixed up yeah well that's true that's true um so your
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album came out in the early summer of 2023 I'm
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curious how did coid and the pandemic affect your writing process and the
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timing of this record um because it's certainly messed me up uh in a few ways
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so like how did that work for y'all I mean when I think of coid I
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think uh we had more maybe more challenges uh back uh when we were doing
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or like after uh cuz it really happened more uh
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when we were trying to release our first album so when was that 2021 okay okay a little bit before that
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um so we had the the first album in the can for quite a while and um but
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actually we were pretty lucky I think uh in terms of like we didn't get any big
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tours cancelled or anything like we we've seen a lot of other bands or artists uh who had it uh way worse than
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than us like if anything it gave us more time to
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um you know really plan a release for the first album and also it ended up um
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you know we we we got to uh be in touch with the kill rockstars and do the the
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you know the release with them and we released it during the pandemic too that's kind of a a miracle too um so but
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in terms of the second album the last one um I think we were kind of pretty
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much post coid and the recording sessions uh we had two weeks uh two two
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separate weeks um in in the summer of
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2022 and so yeah I don't think it really affected us maybe we got a few shows
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cancelled again and and stuff like that but yeah we were pretty lucky I think yeah we are really L we were lucky that
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Canada government they pay for for yeah also they give a lot
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of because in Japan for example it's just only one time the $1,000 for
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everyone that's it but that's it for for anything just I don't know so many so
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many other country had so bad situation so like we were just so
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lucky did it affect your lyrics at all like was it on your mind and seeping into any themes of the songs
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oh or did you have like more free time to get even more surreal that's for like
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yeah anyway like we had so much so much time in a house so like yeah it was a
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different like a mode like I'm sure unconsciously maybe it affected it
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influenced your uh writing in some ways like I mean just when uh we had a
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here uh Jesus what's the word you know we weren't allowed to leave after 800m
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at some point when I think back on that I'm just like wow crazy right and uh I'm
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sure some of that stuff uh you know made it to in some ways into the music or the
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lyrics just just the craziness of of it all that rebelliousness in these songs when when
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you're you live in a state of like not knowing what's GNA well we never know what's going to come tomorrow but like
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that was like uh yeah just being on the edge kind of yeah yeah but it's true
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that like somehow like really I felt this can be the big changement a change
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for the like ecological thing too like to have a more conscious cons
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Consciousness conscience Consciousness so like uh like a maybe G it came
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a because of that to like maybe this is the time I don't know this might might oh this might not
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be a very fun question but how do you both deal with the existential crisis of climate change of knowing the Earth is
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getting hotter and hotter and hotter how do you deal with that yeah but like what
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what we can do we have to do so like I just uh we buy pretty much everything
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from second hand and we try to to to buy
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the the less plastic as much as possible and then
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like re we really do think about it every day and uh you know with the kids
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to try to but it's it's really hard but um we we have no choice we we have to do
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it and we have to kind of like yeah we have to really like have
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the law law that law about the for
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example if we talk about plastic like the the company has to change because the the
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product with the full of different kind of material all together and how can we
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recycle this and so like they have to just like but they don't they will not
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do because it will cost a lot but if there is a law it yeah we have to do
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because we have to do I don't know just a no I get you it's like the the the companies and corporations actually
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should be doing more than we're doing as individuals as consumers it's their job
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the government and the companies and they're not doing their jobs yeah exactly yeah yeah yeah but it seems like
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they would have the means to do big moves and big changes we were just looking at uh you know how the the whole
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Barbie thing and I'm sure you probably saw Nadia Riot's post about all that and
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the and Mattel's prank anyways it's just you know
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how yeah I mean maybe this is too much but anyways uh it's a political podcast
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it's okay right I mean just how like oh Barbie and it's you know this movie
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about society and this and that and how but but you know how we still find Barbies in the
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ocean and every day and like how it's you know it's like on one side they're
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they're all like uh talking about Barbie and how how it's I don't know I great
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femin your angle on that yeah because um
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you know the true heroes and wom Warriors in the world they're they're not in you know obviously not in
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Hollywood they're uh you know in Iran and and like Ukraine and like yeah like
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they're really so it's it's just weird it's always kind of like that it's you have that big image very superficial
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image of uh of uh on one side and then uh you don't see what's really happening
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and like the real issues are like hidden under all that beautiful pink
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uh stuff right all right let's let's lighten it up a little bit before we go
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because that is pretty heavy thank you for sharing all that though um what is your least favorite question to get
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asked in interviews what are you so tired of talking
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about well I have to say this is probably probably my new favorite question in an
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[Laughter] interview good um let me
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think I mean we're we're usually like we don't have problems with anything really
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uh and also we're aware that because at some point maybe I was like a little
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Anno well I don't really want to put it out there but too late um you know how
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like after a while you you get asked like oh what is what does the band name
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mean or you know yes I'm very familiar with that but then again it's like you
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know not mly crew we we you know we're not a huge band we still have to explain
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and and it's fine and also where we come from and how it started and all that so at the end of the day I'm always like
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grateful that anybody would ask me any questions about this band and show interest so that's a good way to look at
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it yeah what about you I don't know for me
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anything but like today we we could really talk about about something
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personal too and that's more fun and when I when I hear the interview too
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when I hear something personal it's more fun than just I don't know and know
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maybe it's not about the interview or of music band but uh uh like a lot of like
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for example if we W to we want to ask for the ground or something like we want
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to we have to talk about concept and everything like before the the creating
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or whatever but I really hate that concept thing like I I don't know like
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we don't know the concept that's I express and then we see that the as the
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mirror that I'm thinking that's the what I think about the Earth like what I like
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that's what yeah the Earth does so like uh but uh like if people want to uh talk
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about concept and because of that that that is like a puzzle
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to it can be that too it can be that there is a like that but for me like a
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uh it's not I'm not good I don't like so much that kind I I've never understood people that love to analyze art you know
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like I I I think I'm with you Maya where where I just want the I just want to create the thing and then maybe
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afterwards I can see where it came from but like before or during it's like just
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let the process happen you know there's a magic to it that I don't want to mess with by thinking about it too much so
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yeah I'm with you also for the people who who hear or
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watch to like uh before the reading the concept and understanding like just feel
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it and dive into it then like what you feel what you experience with that
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that's the important part but people are scared to do that so like what does it mean that what does
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what what is this look like that look what we it does we like I don't know for
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me it's not so important it's what look like or like yeah that kind of thing
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well from seeing the footage like I've never seen you play live but seeing footage of your band I definitely
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recommend to anyone listening go see this band Live and feel it feel it let
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it wash over you analyze it later go to the show have a good time it looks
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really fun and I hope to see you guys live myself one day yes thank you so much for joining me for
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this interview I really appreciate your time it was really nice to meet both of you thank you likewise
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