Thank you for the interview! I’m very happy for this
conversation. Welcome to DieSeele!
*Selofan were very
active the last few months..A new album, live gigs and your name getting bigger
day by day. How do you find the
reception of the audience in Greece
Thank you “Die Seele”.
Both the environment we live in and our personal obsessions demand to be
active, but we don’t feel we would become popular in terms of commercialism.
Our home is a small but eclectic scene of uneasy listeners, the construction of
which started first abroad but lately the Greek audience adds passionately
bricks to this building.
*You are part of a
great label (Fabrika rec.) with some of the most talented groups. Tell us about
the Fabrika team and your friendship with the other bands especially with Lebanon Hanover
Fabrika is a platform
for unconventional artists, releasing limited editions of vinyl. Fabrika
managed to remain outside the current marketing mechanisms and still become a successful,
independent, Greek record label. We are absolutely happy to belong to the
Fabrika family, because even if we didn’t we would be its most loyal fans and
buy for sure all its releases. This is our connection with the other bands and
especially Lebanon Hanover
*Vinyl or cd? Why the
vinyls are released by Fabrika label and the cds are released by Dead Scarlet
records?
As a music consumer
vinyl for sure, as a band both formats and even more are equally good. Did you
know that we already have two tapes released from other labels? Time to reveal
you a small secret, Fabrika is Scarlet’s younger sister, so the music remains
in the family, it’s just the name that changes.
*Which bands inspired
you to become musicians?
Our lives are
influenced by the sound of the underground in the 80s, many bands from
different scenes and countries inspired us not to become musicians, this
happened naturally for different reasons, but they sure contributed to the
fact, that we don’t focus in one particular music style and enjoy mixing
elements from different genres.
*Selofan is a duet.
However, we can see the difference in the mood and style between songs
performed by each one of you. Which is Joanna’s role and which Dimitris’?
The roles are quite clear, Dimitris
“synthesizes” the sound and Joanna the words, of course we both contribute to
each others part and fire up each others imagination.
*What do you find
beautiful and aesthetically inspiring? Is it a kind of music, or other forms of
art? I think that poetry is one source of inspiration according to your lyrics.
Poetry is a basic
source of beauty, some of our tracks are based on our favorite poems. But also
the underworld princes, all outsiders, old rejected movie divas, drama and drag
queens, gay culture, we are inspired by the extremes of passion in every
thinkable way.
*What do you think of
Greece
Athens is our base,
it feels like a long lasting but hopeless marriage, where at the same time you
deeply love and hate the partner. Opportunities are not given to us, so we
create them for ourselves.
*What kind of
message, feeling do you try to convey with your music?
Love each other,
death waits around the corner with a rose between his teeth.
*On stage Selofan
present a theatrical concept with their
performances .I think there is a
specific aesthetic. What can you say
about it?
The theatrical part
is mixed up with the personal element, we walk on our own path but also
reinvent ourselves once on stage. The concept is improvisation and we are lucky
to have friends, who inspire us by just being who they are part of this project
by performing on stage and in our videos.
*Your music is an
amalgam of diverse music structures and
moods, that sometimes gives to the listener
a deep romantic sensibility and sometimes is cold ,giving the feeling of despair and suffocation . What
does inspire you to pursue this sound?
Our emotional world
is the leading energy, our lifetime’s experience, we are romantic realists.
*Some songs are in
German, others in English and some others in Greek language. How do you choose
the language for each song?
We don’t, the
language chooses the song itself. The audience in Athens
*You are about to
give a concert in Athens
We can’t wait. Athens
is the concert we always get more emotional about, because it is the only place
where the audience understands us 100%, not only because of the elimination of
the language barriers, but also because most of them are close friends, so that
it feels more like a private party, happening only once a year, where we want
to be good hosts. That is why we invest more time to prepare this show and it
is the only show which includes a unique surprise-performance. Monowelt is our
new favorite band from the 80s..:) Beside the fact that the girls are lovely,
they really sound like coming from another time and we are looking forward to their
live show.
*What are your plans
for the next months?
To squeeze out of our
every-day madness more time for ourselves and our music, in terms of
live-show-plans, next one is the Wave Gotik Treffen.
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