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March 6, 2020June 23, 2022 Mew Zikwryder

The Burma release music video for ‘When You’re Gone’

Indie rock group The Burma have released a fitting video to their track titled ‘When You’re Gone on the 24th of January 2020 via Spooner records’. The video features the band members performing with shadows cast around them, infiltrating them, warping around them and their appearance, as to suggest that they have regret and are being haunted by it. The black and white grading of the video adds to the somber, blunt and confessional lyrics of the track. With their first single release in 2018 to date, they have performed at Vantastival, Doolin Folk Fest and Whelans Ones to Watch. They have opened for acts The Academic, The Strypes and Delorentos .

The band members Tony O’Donovan (vocals), Peter Piggott (guitar) and Cian Doherty (Drummer) took six years to form the band. Each one of them has a musical upbringing, and were all raised in Cork, Ireland. Their name originates from The Burma Steps in their area. The Burma have cited major influences on their music from American Indie music from the early stages of the 2000’s, as well as 80’s and 90’s guitar ballads.

The band shares the issues with filming, “We did the video for this one with Isla Media, our buddies from Cobh. We’ve done a couple of videos with them in the past and we’ve loved them, we have great craic doing them too which helps because it’s usually a really long day. We shot the video in Mill Studios in Dublin, it turned out to be practically the only studio in Ireland that would work for the idea we had. We were giving up hope until the lads eventually found this place and it turned out to be perfect.”

Follow The Burma:

Website – Facebook – Twitter – SoundCloud – Youtube – Instagram – Spotify

March 4, 2020November 25, 2020 Mew Zikwryder

Q&A with Uk-based guitar trio SEN3

UK-based new genre-hopping guitar trio SEN3 have emerged from London’s melting pot. The band create a compelling wide-screen soundworld that’s rich in melody and emotive harmonies, contemporary beat-culture and heavy riffs.

The SEN3 adventure started in 2012, when guitarist Max, drummer Saleem, and bass player Dan met at a live music night in Shoreditch and felt almost instant chemistry. They quickly started a jam band who navigated between Hip-Hop, Jazz Fusion, Funk and 70’s rock, organically developing their sound solely through playing together.

What are some of your earliest memories of music?

Being 8 years old having guitar lessons at school and hating it ha!

Listening to Nat King Cole in the car with my mum

Take us through your songwriting process. Are there any particular steps you take when putting music together?

We meet up improvise either freely or around some kind of template. Most of the material is put together and tested live on gigs. We don’t really come to the table with finished songs we each bring a different element and mesh it together to create a unified sound. We find the best stuff happens when we are playing freely and ultimately having fun. This tends to happen when we take a risk and try out some new unrehearsed ideas in front of an audience. We used to have a few residencies around London that we’d use as writing sessions eventually fully finished tunes came out from these performances. For us we come up with the best stuff this way – you can always tell if something is working in a live show more than in a rehearsal room. Sometimes things don’t work as well as we thought and then we go back to the drawing board. With enough trial and error we ended up piecing together the songs in a way we think works the best for an audience.

Studio work and music creation or performing and interacting with a live audience, which do you prefer?

We love making new music and getting in the studio but we are definitely a live band at heart – we love playing live and taking an audience with us on a journey. We always dig in more live. There’s an energy you get on a gig that you don’t get in the studio.

What is the most memorable response you have had to your music?

Hard to pin that down to one thing. We are genuinely blown away that people come out to these shows and show us support. We started this band to have some fun and play out some ideas without any real preconceived plan. It means a lot to us that people keep coming back for more !. We recently played a sold-out show at Pizza express soho it just shows how far the band has come since we started this to have a laugh playing some ideas in a pub. We are really proud of this.

If you could put together a radio show, what kind of music would you play?

A mixture Psychedelic 70’s jazz-rock, Indie and minimalist electronic music

Name five artists and their albums who would appear on your radio show

Four Tet – There is love in you

Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon

Mahavishnu Orchestra – Inner Mountain flame

Madvillain – Madvillainy

Joy Division – Unknown pleasures

What would you like to achieve with your music? What does success look like to you?

We want to travel the world with our music and meet new people in places. We’d love to play in Japan!

One last thought to leave your fans with?

We are always working on new material and taking our sound to new unknown territories – album III is coming soon!

Follow SEN3 online

Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify

March 2, 2020May 14, 2020 Mew Zikwryder

Interview with singer/songwriter Ang Low

Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Ang Low defies easy categorisation, with the exception of one, effortless talent. With a golden voice, his is a story of constant discovery and change. From military brat and choir boy to petty thug and rejuvenated all-soul icon du jour, Ang Low has seen it all and bought the outrageous t-shirt.

See our exclusive interview with him below

What are some of your earliest memories of music?

I always have had music present. From hearing my mom sing at church or trying to create a rock band at 12. I was always interested in how music gave you feelings.

Take us through your songwriting process. Are there any particular steps you take when putting music together?

My songwriting process is always different. It could start from a nagging melody in my head.. a few chords on the piano.. or just a lyric I’m trying to find the right mood for. I do like to always get other producers to help me arrange after the template is laid down so I can primarily focus on songwriting and recording.

Studio work and music creation or performing and interacting with a live audience, which do you prefer?

Great question. Both have areas I’m addicted to. Studio work gets me lit because it’s like you’re lost trying to find your way out and the song is the exit. You’re always searching for a vibe or lyric or melody… it’s intoxicating like a drug or as a puzzle. Performing tho is like good familiar sex. I already put the work in to make the song… it’s practised and tuned. The only thing I’ve got to do is come lay down with it and marinate in it.

What is the most memorable response you have had to your music?

I got a response on a video the other day from this young girl saying that one of my songs had really helped through some tough situations in the past. She wrote she had been a longtime fan and always used my song to get over stuff. I’ve never thought about my work helping people like that. I mean it’s just a song I thought. But it’s so much more for others sometimes. It’s a great feeling to know that I am part of something artistic that’s bigger than me.

If you could put together a radio show, what kind of music would you play?

pop, r&b and jazz all zzay

Name five artists and their albums who would appear on your radio show

Well first of all… I’d have myself as the first guest lol cause I’m dope… Ang Low (UP), then maybe… Frank ocean (orange), Jazmine Sullivan (lions tigers and bears, Robyn (Konichiwa) and Adele (19).

What would you like to achieve with your music? What does success look like to you?

My goal with my music is to consistently connect with the everyday person. Being an artist means I’ve chosen to sacrifice my regular life for art and eventually I hope to get a little time back. Success means better connections with family and friends and most of all understanding myself better.

One last thought to leave your fans with?

It’s ok to fall down… you always get back UP.

Follow Ang Low online

February 24, 2020

February 24, 2020June 3, 2021 Mew Zikwryder

Composer Vincenzo Ramaglia & Laura Le Pruenec collaborate on avant-garde album

IDM composer, Vincenzo Ramaglia is known for his unconventional style and he brings more of it in his latest album La parole. The album was released on 14 February 2020 via PEM Records and features the celestial vocals of the vocally gifted, Laure Le Prunenec. The album was realized via an alternative set-up, which involved no influence from computer generated soundscapes.

Vincenzo receives his inspiration from talents like Autechre, Björk, Arvo Pärt and Radiohead for his avant-garde style. Laura Le Prunenec adds her own mark on the tracks with her haunting vocal range. She has vocal similarities to that of Elizabeth Frazer by creating melodies before the word is sung to completion. Laura has received attention from various projects, a noteworthy collaboration would be her involvement with world-acclaimed French band Igorrr. La parole is an equal collaboration for both Vincenzo and Laura to shine in their own light. Vincenzo creates an unsettling soundscape, that Laura compliments with her echoing melodies and soprano range.

“It offers an alternation of hypnotic atmospheres and broken rhythms, somewhere between composition and improvisation, with Laure Le Prunenec’s voice that has long gone straight to everyone’s heart, around the world, with its thousand shades: from the whisper to the scream, from the ‘growl’ of metal ancestry to the lyric and from the bass to the falsetto and to the highest range. The style of the album is at the crossroads between IDM electronic avant-garde (in the mood of Warp and Raster-Noton artists), ‘real-time breakcore’ (with an analog electronic setup strictly without a computer) and experimental pop. In short: a mixture that is not easy to find.”