This is my translation, check part 1 too if you haven’t already... hope it’s useful Have fun! 0:13 Int: Talking about psychedelia, inevitably, you think about a specific historical period, the end of the 60s, and a specific geographic place, the North of California... so I wonder how much it makes sense talking about psychedelic music and culture these days, in an updated form... 0:34 Bent: It was, you know, at that time, in San Francisco such a big turnaround for the whole society... it was a momentous event. But the thing is that for the very first time rock music has become a mass market. You know, psychedelic music is a sort of jazz version of pop music... musically speaking, that idea was for us the perfect combination: we like to do pop songs but with a “jazz mentality”. What we always try to do with live songs and when we make records is to make bases where we can put our souls and drag people... because the intent is to grab our listeners and grab ourselves... and take it all away for 2 hours, becoming enriched from this experience 1:54 Bent: Motorpsycho is a family thing because we live in Trondheim, which is a small city far from Oslo, the capital and nerve centre of the Norwegian music business... and we’re trying to stay away from all this. Because we’re not into these things, become big rockstars or make a lot of money... we love playing and we’re trying to keep away from these mortal traps, where it’s easy to fall in when you start to sell a few records So, in this way, we've built up a relationship of trust with all of our collaborators. Most of the deals we make are done with people we know, and we split fifty-fifty the income from our job. 3:00 Bent: Motorpsycho is a family thing, as it was for Grateful Dead... we drew inspiration from their way of playing, improvisation plays an important role. We always try to write our songs so that we can change them and...improvise. It’s important for us to work on that basis and be in a constantly changing. 4:01 Bent: The funny thing is that looking back to the 5 or 6 albums we’ve made, you see a line somewhere which is always changing... None of our records sounds as the others, they are all very different with all different musical angles. You know, my favorite artists, as John Coltrane or the Beatles, would love this. Think about the Beatles, in every record, from “Rubber Soul” onwards, they have taken a step forward, and this what we’re trying to do. 4:58 Bent: We’re trying to avoid the things that we’ve already done too much before. For instance, there’s no long songs in the album, because it would’ve been a cliché. And we ended the album with a whisper instead of a crescendo, and this is a thing that we’ve never done before. We worked a lot with 2 guitars, trying to obtain from both a smooth sound. And you know, with all these guitars, it’s a new approach for us because we’ve never had 2 guitars in the band before. That’s a lot of small things constantly changing. And we’re also trying to shorten songs to make them more intense, trying to take advantage from all the technical possibilities that a song offers, without extending unnecessarily. We wanted songs even shorter and even more intense... and I think we succeeded! 6:16 Snah: Oh, we are getting ready a lot for our upcoming tour in Europe and in Norway. And we’ll continue as a trio: drums, bass and guitar, with some electrical gizmos on the floor. This is the new line-up of the band, with a different approach to the songs and kind a new face, I think. Because we used to be a quartet and now we’re just three persons. 6:50 Int: In the upcoming European tour, do you think you will also come to Great Britain? 6:55 Bent: There’s people in our booking agency, working both in France and Great Britain but we don’t know yet... It would be nice to go. But I think they aren’t yet ready for a band like our because they’re too much involved in 60s pop music... we’ll see
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This is my translation, check part 1 too if you haven’t already... hope it’s useful
Have fun!
0:13 Int: Talking about psychedelia, inevitably, you think about a specific historical period, the end of the 60s, and a specific geographic place, the North of California... so I wonder how much it makes sense talking about psychedelic music and culture these days, in an updated form...
0:34 Bent: It was, you know, at that time, in San Francisco such a big turnaround for the whole society... it was a momentous event. But the thing is that for the very first time rock music has become a mass market. You know, psychedelic music is a sort of jazz version of pop music... musically speaking, that idea was for us the perfect combination: we like to do pop songs but with a “jazz mentality”. What we always try to do with live songs and when we make records is to make bases where we can put our souls and drag people... because the intent is to grab our listeners and grab ourselves... and take it all away for 2 hours, becoming enriched from this experience
1:54 Bent: Motorpsycho is a family thing because we live in Trondheim, which is a small city far from Oslo, the capital and nerve centre of the Norwegian music business... and we’re trying to stay away from all this. Because we’re not into these things, become big rockstars or make a lot of money... we love playing and we’re trying to keep away from these mortal traps, where it’s easy to fall in when you start to sell a few records
So, in this way, we've built up a relationship of trust with all of our collaborators. Most of the deals we make are done with people we know, and we split fifty-fifty the income from our job.
3:00 Bent: Motorpsycho is a family thing, as it was for Grateful Dead... we drew inspiration from their way of playing, improvisation plays an important role. We always try to write our songs so that we can change them and...improvise. It’s important for us to work on that basis and be in a constantly changing.
4:01 Bent: The funny thing is that looking back to the 5 or 6 albums we’ve made, you see a line somewhere which is always changing... None of our records sounds as the others, they are all very different with all different musical angles.
You know, my favorite artists, as John Coltrane or the Beatles, would love this.
Think about the Beatles, in every record, from “Rubber Soul” onwards, they have taken a step forward, and this what we’re trying to do.
4:58 Bent: We’re trying to avoid the things that we’ve already done too much before. For instance, there’s no long songs in the album, because it would’ve been a cliché.
And we ended the album with a whisper instead of a crescendo, and this is a thing that we’ve never done before.
We worked a lot with 2 guitars, trying to obtain from both a smooth sound. And you know, with all these guitars, it’s a new approach for us because we’ve never had 2 guitars in the band before.
That’s a lot of small things constantly changing.
And we’re also trying to shorten songs to make them more intense, trying to take advantage from all the technical possibilities that a song offers, without extending unnecessarily.
We wanted songs even shorter and even more intense... and I think we succeeded!
6:16 Snah: Oh, we are getting ready a lot for our upcoming tour in Europe and in Norway. And we’ll continue as a trio: drums, bass and guitar, with some electrical gizmos on the floor. This is the new line-up of the band, with a different approach to the songs and kind a new face, I think. Because we used to be a quartet and now we’re just three persons.
6:50 Int: In the upcoming European tour, do you think you will also come to Great Britain?
6:55 Bent: There’s people in our booking agency, working both in France and Great Britain but we don’t know yet... It would be nice to go. But I think they aren’t yet ready for a band like our because they’re too much involved in 60s pop music... we’ll see