Hello Alessandra and Lucas! I would like to thank
you at first for your time here on Die Seele radio.
1) We already know how did the name Schonwald
come up. Lucas, if I’m not wrong it’s the last name of one of your parents and
at the same time it means ‘’already in the woods’’. How did you decide to use
this and not something else?
Luca
: Yes, you're right ! Schonwald means in German something like "already in
the woods" and it has also a personal connection because it's a variation
of my mother's family name, in fact I'm of German descent, the correct surname
is Schönwald.
We
think that the name is full of poetic suggestions so very good for a band name.
2) What is
your music past before Schonwald and Shad Shadows ?
Luca : Our
first band for witch we were involved to was a project called
"Tennis" a kind of alternative dreamy pop band, after a while I
joined Alessandra in her project called "Pitch" an indie cult band of
the 90's here in Italy.
3) How is it to work together as a couple?
Alessandra
: We are a couple and we have just got married two weeks ago.
When
we play music is a sort of emotional waterfall created by the feelings between
me and Luca so it's an advantage to the creative process.
4) What are your music influenses and where do
you find insipration to create new songs?
Alessandra :
We love bands like The Cure, New Order, The Jesus and Mary Chain, DNA, Suicide;
our music is truly inspired by the 80's sound!
We grew up
listening to the New York NO WAVE scene and British Post Punk bands mainly.
5) Tell us some words about Shad Shadows. Why a
second project?
Luca : Shad
Shadows is completely electronic stuffs, without guitar and bass. We are
oriented on the search of sounds recalling movie scores, late 80s and 90s
industrial dance.
I started a
second project because it was a challenge to me for starting to sing and try to
express myself with another kind of music.
6) What your
lyrics mean for you?
Alessandra :
In my opinion, writing song lyrics means to communicate without too much
schemes and to let freely flow our own sensations and the images that are much
closer to my experience of life. Usually, my lyrics consists of the repetition
of sentences and words that give a more obsessive and more
hypnotic mood
to the song.
7) What are your other interests besides music?
Luca : We love
ART.
Regarding
visual artists in our top list there are Bruce Nauman, Bansky and Marina
Abramovic. About painting we like a lot the impressionism, Abstract
expressionism and we like also the portraits of Kevin Cummins as a
Photographer.
8) You are
about to give a concert in Athens for first time. How do you feel about it
and about playing with Paradox Obscur for a
second time?
Alessandra : We are very excited to play there
for the first time of course and can't wait to share the stage again with Anna
and Kostas of Paradox Obscur. We played last year in Belgium and it was great !
9) What the greek audience has to expect?
Luca
: Dark atmosphere from our previous album "Dream for the Fall" and
also sick noise hypnotic rythm from the songs of our last
album "Between Parallel LIghts".
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