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BLAC RABBIT<br />
Psych rock is a genre that can encompass a spectrum of<br />
sounds ranging from pop-oriented songs to less-defined<br />
and at times downright chaotic jams. Risen to semi-celebrity<br />
status in NYC through busking in the subway to the<br />
tune of songs by the Beatles, Rockaway Beach, New York’s<br />
Blac Rabbit creates music that falls in the former category,<br />
with precise song structures and thoughtful lyrical content.<br />
What bridges those extreme ends is a like-minded penchant<br />
for phased guitar textures and dreamy introspection.<br />
After impressing with their 2017 debut 6 track EP, the band<br />
recently released new single “Seize <strong>The</strong> Day” from their<br />
forthcoming record Interstella. We asked the two brothers<br />
at the helm of the band a few questions about their creative<br />
process and gear. (DAVE CROMWELL)<br />
You guys became some kind of NYC sensation for busking in<br />
the subway, how long did you do that and was it a formative<br />
experience for what the band is today?<br />
Busking originated for us as a way to raise money to see our<br />
mother in Puerto Rico, she was living there for a while a few years<br />
ago. It was only years later after settling in to several dead end<br />
jobs, getting sick of them, quitting, and then busking for about a<br />
year and a half before it began to blow up for us. Busking definitely<br />
sharpened our skills in terms of performing. I think pre-busking<br />
Electro-Harmonix Small Stone<br />
Nano / ZOOM G3 / ZOOM G3X<br />
Psych Rock<br />
I would have considered us producers more than anything else.<br />
Does gear have a role in this process? If so, how?<br />
We knew we wanted a “Psych Rock” sound, so when trying to<br />
figure out which analog pedals we would need to achieve that, we<br />
stumbled across these Zoom pedals. <strong>The</strong> G2 and G3. We chose<br />
them mainly because we were too broke to afford a shit ton of analog<br />
pedals. At first I thought we were settling, but now I think the<br />
sounds have grown on us. We mainly use a compressor and drive<br />
setting which adds some sort of mid range-heavy EQ. It does<br />
a really great job emulating a vintage analog tone. A delay and<br />
reverb combo which nicely washes out a guitar sound makes it<br />
sound ghostly, which I really like. And a Vibrato modulation. Really<br />
like the way this sound warps the pitch ever so slightly… so sick.<br />
Is there a person outside the band that’s been important in<br />
perfecting your recorded and/or live sound?<br />
For me Steve Lacey and Kevin Parker have been major influences<br />
for getting “the right sound”. I remember listening to Tame<br />
Impala and being blown away by the way his record sounded.<br />
Finding out that he produced it all on his own was crazy to me<br />
and super inspiring. An artist who was just as obsessed with the<br />
engineering as the writing resonated with me. I had always been<br />
obsessed with production since high school and hearing Steve<br />
and Kevin definitely inspired some of the sounds on the EP.<br />
24 the deli Winter <strong>2019</strong>
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