COLLECTION 5 THE MALE - A FASHION SPECIAL!

cosy and inspiring atmosphere. Networking
time. We had to skip the ceremony because
we didn’t have our business cards ready.
KALTBLUT: The video you put
forward for that was “Alien Babies” is
certainly intriguing but the lyrics are
even more fascinating. The pace of the
video and your singing match each
other perfectly. Can you tell us a little
bit about the video and how the filming
took place?
EASTER: The concept for the video
was built around the central image of one
particular person dancing. The rest came
from our then current interest for crystals,
enhanced by a crystal growing kit, a birthday
present from the cream cake girls, and
MDMA. Britta was super professional after
we got her in the mood with Usher. She
was immediately hooked by the song and
improvised the moves on the spot. We shot
everything in one hour in our former studio
in Berlin Weissensee with Stine’s new Sony
and a lot of light equipment provided by
UDK. The next day we posted it.
KALTBLUT: Britta’s the girl in it?
EASTER: Yes, she’s our friend Britta Thie.
Max knows her back from high school.
She’s a Berlin artist and surely the city’s
most important social networker right now.
KALTBLUT: Did it take place in
Berlin; you live here right? What draws
you to Berlin?
EASTER: It did and we do. You can say a
lot of nice things about Berlin. The dogs are
much bigger than in other European cities.
KALTBLUT: Can you explain what
inspires your lyrics? Quite simply
they’re fascinating: sensual, uncanny
and sexy.
EASTER: Thank you! Force and deadline
inspires us. Having to put down our
immediate feeling under a time pressure
and making the best of it. For the latest
album we had to make it before our release
party, as the date was set and the talk of an
apocalypse and all. It was November, a dark
month, and the lyrics just came around that
darkness and drama.
KALTBLUT: Although your videos
are low budget, we think they’re great.
What’s the creative process there?
Do you work with the same producer
every time?
EASTER: Yes, we do, Easterjesus Productions,
the big whale that we ride to make
brains meet and art slide. We sometimes
recruit friends to help us and go on a twelve
hour hell ride through indoor tropical
landscapes and such. Afterwards it’s mostly
decided by who of the both of us has more
339
time or feels more inspired by the material
to edit it. It’s always a very quick procedure,
to process everything while it’s warm,
before we get bored by it and move on.
Bang bang bang.
KALTBLUT: How important is the
visual to Easter?
EASTER: The visuals are as important to
us as to any Youtube viewer. Songs always
get at least twice the amount of attention
on video platforms. Videos are easy to make
and fun. Who wants to look at a still of the
album cover?
KALTBLUT: The song Heterosexual
obviously deals with sexuality and
gender. The lyrics for the song, “I
believe that love could be my sexual
orientation/ to love whatever boy or
girl / I thought that was thing/ Now all
my friends and lovers wants a clearer
explanation /sleep around its all okay,
but you must choose your wing ” are
bold, impudent and sexy. What do you
want to convey or promote with these
lyrics?
EASTER: Just that, what it says. There’s
an extreme focus on sexuality and gender
going on. It’s kind of similar to the music
genre thing; people have this pressing need
to label things. Sometimes this is funny,
most of the time it’s just not interesting. I
think you can choose to ignore the whole
thing, and politics being personal anyways,
just act on what you want. Love is huge.
Love got space for you. We are educated.
We’ve learned about western civilization.
Do you know what the message of western
civilization is? I am alone. Am I alone
tonight? I don’t think so. Am I the only one
in the room with bleeding gums tonight?
I don’t think so. The question is not what
kind of sexual desires someone harbours.
That much is freely admitted by all. The
question is: could this be used as a way to
get beyond the stuckness that we feel?
KALTBLUT: What’s your reception
been like so far?
EASTER: We are big in the Ukraine. It’s
changing. Someone once wrote on our
Youtube video “How the fuck did I get
here” which is an interesting indication for
an expanding audience. Increasing feedback
always includes hateful comments because
it’s not only your friends or a certain scene
any more that passes the link within itself.
The further you spread your signals the
more distant you are to the recipient, which
causes different reactions. When you just
got back from Europe Somewhere - alienated
- and people acted as if they know who
you are; or is it actually nice because yes
you have done a lot of work and so could
it be so rad that our passion is beaming
energy so far?
KALTBLUT: How would you like
people to view you as musicians? It’s
certainly a refreshing removal from
the overly commercial, over produced
music we’re hearing these days.
EASTER: Thank you, refreshing sounds
good. Refreshing musicians.
KALTBLUT: How long have you lived
in Berlin? It’s changed a lot in the last
few years and I’d like to ask how this
has realized itself for you.
EASTER: It’s been about seven years.
Guess we missed out on the big change, by
mostly staying in. But we love a passionate
story on life, city and realization.
KALTBLUT: How does Berlin
manifest itself into your music?
How different do you think your music
would be if you lived in another city?
EASTER: We just talked about pasta. It
says a lot that in Berlin you can eat a lot of
real nice food for not much money. If we
were living in Oslo having to stick to the
cheapest supermarket food to survive, we
would’ve become depressed a long long
time ago. That would definitely have a say
on the music.
KALTBLUT: What do you think
Berlin will look like in 1, 2, 5 years?
EASTER: Bright! Reminiscent of the view
that from the complete state of the universe
at one moment of time, as described by
the positions and velocities of all particles,
it should be possible to predict all future
states.
KALTBLUT: What’s next for Easter?
Is there an album coming out soon?
EASTER: We’re going make some more
videos for the songs already out. There
should be a new album out by the end of
this year.
KALTBLUT: Last but not least, one
word or sentence that sums up Easter?
EASTER: BANG BANG BANG!
Interview by
Ange Suprowicz
Photo by
Charlotte Jonsmyr
www.easterjesus.com