Will Guthrie og Mikko Savela N-ensemble og Lemur Torsdag 29. april kl 20 (start ca 21) Podium, Hausmannsgate 34 cc 60
WILL GUTHRIE OG MIKKO SAVELA PRATER MED HANS FRETTE: Det er Guthrien som er mest kjent. Masse utgivelser og samarbeid osv. De kunne sikkert dekt hele plenen <strong>for</strong>an huset mitt, og den er ganske stor. En av platene er på Lasse Marhaugs Pica Disk, <strong>for</strong>resten. Guthrie spiller på en blanding av trommer og skrot. Litt mikker og elektroniske duppeditter. Hva gjør så Mikko Savela, og hvordan møttes de? MS: Nu använder jag oftast flera gitarrer samtidigt, liggandes eller ståendes. Preparerade med olika typer av metall. Jag använder också olika elektroniska apparater. Jag träffade Will första gången i Umeå 2006 då vi spelade på samma konsert. WG: he was using 5 or 6 guitars ! He did a fantastic solo gig, so we decided to start working together, we played <strong>for</strong> the first time in Nantes in 2008, and then last year once in trio with Keith Rowe. HF: Musikkscenen i Umeå aner jeg ingenting om. Hvordan er den, og hva er bra med å bo der? MS: Ingen fara! Just nu så händer det inte mycket på den experimentella scenen i Umeå. Tidigare fanns det en förening som hette Moonshake, som anordnade konserter för mer alternativ musik. Varje år är det jazzfestival och en festival som heter MADE. Umeå är nog mest känd för rock och pop band, den scenen är störst här. Just nu så ser jag inga större fördelar musikaliskt med att bo här. HF: Will, you’re from Melbourne. I’ve heard that there’s a very vivid music scene there. Could you tell a little about it, and also how you think it became that way? WG: yes, it is very vivid, very rich in alternative culture. There are many great musicians and many people organising concerts. Basically in Australia there is nearly NO financial benefit to playing music at all, there is very little funding <strong>for</strong> music, even <strong>for</strong> jazz. Even playing commercial music dosen’t earn much money ! So the people involved (musicians and organisers alike) are doing it because they love it, because they beleive in it. Also I feel that different styles of music are much more likely to mix than in other countries I have seen. This I feel is because there aren’t so many ’specific’ venues <strong>for</strong> specific types of music. So we play the same night as a grindcore band, hiphop acts, noise, improv, freejazz, it is all mixed up. HF: If it’s such a great place, why did you decide to move away? Most musicians chhose to go to Berlin, but you moved to Nantes. Why that, and how is the music scene there? WG: I never wanted to live in Berlin, it’s cheap and lots of musicians, but it is too trendy <strong>for</strong> me ! I moved to Nantes because my partner is French and she got a job there. In a way I don’t really care where I live, as long as I have a place to work. Having said that I do enjoy living in Nantes, where the scene is pretty small. We organise concerts here of experimental music with an association called CABLE#, and often the people we bring to Nantes to play are completely unknown to the audience, so I enjoy working in a context where I play (and organise concerts) to a public that is not really an ’expert’ or ’educated’ public which actually annoys me when I play in Berlin, or even Paris. It is an opportunity to try to introduce music to people that have never seen or heard things like that. HF: Hvordan tror dere konserten her blir? MS: Jag vet inte hur våran konsert kommer att vara, kanske Will kan svara på det? WG: Ha! No idea, good I hope ! http://www.antboymusic.com/cable http://www.myspace.com/cablenantes
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