domingo, 26 de agosto de 2012

Interview with Rod, Saturna's bassist.


-Hi Rod! The first question; can you tell us about the beginnings of Saturna?
-Hi! After I ended in my old band Ätman Acron, I wanted to still doing music and composing more songs, without an specific style of music. After I get a couple of ideas I meet a couple of musics that I played with them before, to start to play my music. As the time pass, we decided that we had to working in this project, so finally we did a solid band.

-Which is the concept behind Saturna?
-The idea of Saturna is to put music over any other thing, without a specific style, always with the base of rock music. When we have to compose music, we use all our influences of our favorite music, and we do it like a natural process.


-I know that the band recently has a couple of changes. Who are the actual members of the band?
-You’re right,  our previous drummer is no longer playing with us. These are the actual members of the band: Patrick on voice/lyrics, Aureli and Henry on guitars and me on bass guitar. For a few months Alex (Prisma Circus drummer) played with us in our rehearsals and helped to us to record a few songs, but now we’re looking for a new drummer.

-Sincerely, I really love your lyrics. Which influences did you take when you wrote them?
-The merit of this is Patrick, who has had total creative freedom. His influences are his real life and his own experiences, and of course he took influences of the books he read about the karma, occultism and hermetic doctrine.

-Your album has a couple of different styles.  All the members of the band have the same music taste? Which are your influences?
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Actually all the band have varied tastes. Me and Patrick have the same musical taste, we really love the heavy sound of 70’s bands like Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Blue Cheer…  Henry loves the classic Hard Rock like Led Zeppelin, and Aureli loves all kind of blues music, and he’s a great fan of Hendrix too.


-Where did you recorded/produced the album?
-We recorded the album at “Álamo Estudio” in Barcelona with Wero (“The Eyes” guitarist), and it was mastered by Yves Roussel.


-Which are the differences between Saturna in live and Saturna in studio?
-The people says that the principal difference is in the sound of our live performances. They say we have a really “overwhelming” sound, this why sometimes we’ve
been classified as a doom / stoner band.

-Before Saturna, which bands/projects you (The whole band) had?
-Me and Patrick were in Ätman Acron (Doom band), and we released  an EP with Doomentia Records. Aureli was playing in Rosebud (Blues), with Joaquín and Alex of Prisma Circus. We had a couple more of bands/projects, but these are our most relevant bands.

-Which future plans do you have? Are you working in new songs?
-Our goal is to play in live as much as possible and edit more records as we composing more songs. At the moment, we recorded three new songs, that surely will appear in our next LP. And of course, now we’re working in some more stuff.



-Which are your next shows?
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We have two dates in Barcelona: 5 of October we gonna play with Plomo (Barcelona) at Sala BeGood, and the 28 of November we gonna play with Truckfighters (Sweden) at Sala RockSound. We have more dates to be confirmed.


-Where can we get your album?
-You can buy our álbum contacting us via Facebook, in Odio Sonoro Records and Seven Snakes Records.

-Many thanks for your interview, Rod!
-Thanks to you!

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