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segunda-feira, 24 de novembro de 2014
Reverberation with The Northern Drones - An Interview


Iniciando mais uma semana aqui no TBTCI transpirando alucinações e viagens psicodélicas, uma cortesia dos irlandeses do The Northern Drones.

Se a função do TBTCI é conduzir vocês a uma viagem ao submundo dos bons sons, certamente uma das trilhas é o Northern Drones.

Psych moderno, altas dosagens de Kraut, leia-se Neu! e acordes repetidos a exaustão até que o ouvinte adentre a um estado de euforia cadenciada, o Northern Drones leva a risca seu nome, e sua discografia é a iniciação a catarse cíclica.

Aqui não há escapatória, uma vez iniciado, eternamente devoto.


***** Interview with The Northern Drones *****


1. When did The Northern Drones start, tell us about the history...
It was 2008 before we started to put something together, but myself and Steve had been playing on and off for about five years before that. We started out fucking around with the blues and the songs gradually became closer to what they are today, more hypnotic and droney. Maybe the name came before the drones or the drones came before the name, I can’t remember.

Inga played bass. Sometimes she still does. So did John. Other people played too, some for a few songs, some for a few gigs and some just for a few hours over a few beers. It’s good to keep things loose.

We released the ‘Fanfare Meltdown’ album in 2009 with a poet from Seattle called Kim Acrylic. After that the first Northern Drones record came out in 2010, followed by ‘One Hundred Eyes’ and ‘High Sky’ in the following two years. ‘Psychic Waves’ is our latest album, released this year.

2. Who are your influences?
Rockers, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Velvet Underground, Bukka White, The Rutles…different people in the band are into different things - we agree on certain things and disagree on others when it comes to influences but some things you can’t argue with.

3. Make a list of 5 albums of all time.
Here are mine, today…

The Who – Sell Out
The Specials – The Specials
Teenage Fanclub – Songs From Northern Britain
Pixies – Trompe Le Monde
Guided By Voices - Propeller


4. How do you feel playing live?
It’s like going to work, but doing a job you love. We play in darkness, with strobes and projected visuals. The band isn’t important, only the noise it makes. No-one can see who we are.

5. How do you describe the northern drones sounds?
Drones. Drums. Guitars.

6. Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
Wherever we set up our equipment, we turn it into a studio. We don’t use a traditional recording studio and we don’t pay for someone to record our albums. We use our own gear and our own digital 8-track. We press record, then we play, and we release everything ourselves. We do it all, from recording to printing. Keeps costs down.

7. Which new bands do you recommend?
Ex Hex are great. The Altered Hours too. The Vincent(s). Wild Rocket. The Pox Men, Morning Veils and September Girls

8. Which bands would you like to make a cover version?
The Bangles

9. What’s plan for future?
Release records

10. Any parting words?
Anyone want to fly us over to play Brazil?
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Thanks Justin

www.thenortherndrones.com
thenortherndrones.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/thenortherndrones
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GIG REVIEW FROM WE ARE NOISE
The Pavilion, Cork, 31.05.12
by Stephen Purcell on Jun 1, 2012

Although the students of Cork have wrapped up for the year, there must be something in the air that has them out in droves tonight. A tough year spent warbling over lecture notes? The fear of what lies in store with the Treaty? A night where you can forget your worries for two hours and let the soundscapes of fellow countrymen suspend you in a vortex of absolute bliss. Whatever the reason, they sure do a fine job of setting the scene for what I can only describe as an experience.

Supporting The Altered Hours tonight are Dubin-based purveyors of momentum Northern Drones. You’ll have to excuse my lack of seeking but I’m unfamiliar with the name and tonight really is my first introducion to the band. Three albums in two years isn’t an easy feat for any band not to mind an independent Irish band in this ecomomy. Arguments aside, I was hooked after the first 60 seconds. Kicking out with the loudest waltz I’ve ever heard, the noise-filled drone insantly suffocates any conversation about “band name generator” apps that happens to be going on. The vocals are completely and utterly buried and although the crowd are aware, the band too, it couldn’t work any better.

The Drones’ frontman delivers a raw punk drawl that at times sounds like Mark E Smith, but then again maybe that’s what we think we’re hearing. ‘Mornin Lite’ from the band’s self titled 2010 album follows, combing a gorgeous Route 66 twang with some serious guitar hammering to follow. There are element of kraut in place with its successor, the Jaki Liebezeit style groove changing the pace of the swaying bodies. Finishing with another track from the same album, ‘Nothern Drone’ must be their signature song. Combining elements of Ride and early Dandy Warhols, it has the band grooving back and forth with the audience in a worryless world. By the time I’m rubbing the inside of my ear wondering how many more db’s I’ve lost, the band have thrown the guitars on the floor and knocked over the mic stand, and that’s it. Four songs, delivered with more affection than a packet of Love Hearts. Raw, real and ready!!



Free Download: The Northern Drones – ‘Earth Walker’
November 28, 2013

www.thepointofeverything.com/2013/11/28/free-download-the-northern-drones-earth-walker/

The Northern Drones hail from Dublin and don’t put too much information up online – not that there’s anything wrong with that; well, they don’t put much truthful information up. Their Facebook page lists their members as ‘few, aye’, their general manager is ‘howard wilkinson’ and their influences are ‘benson and hedges’. The Northern Drones uploaded a new track to their Bandcamp page this week, ‘Earth Walker’, which is a slowly evolving shoegazey saga. I think there are vocals but they’re buried so down in the mix that you’d need a plunger to even begin to strain to hear what they’re saying. ‘Earth Walker’, a song title which I love, is taken “from unreleased, released 21 February 2037” (info is from Bandcamp, may not be truthful). You can download the five-minute-plus track for free at said Bandcamp page.

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releases February 21, 2037

Kim Acrylic & The Northern DronesKim Acylic & The Northern Drones
Fanfare Meltdown (Soundstudio)

An oddity, this - but an engaging one. Here we have the result of a transatlantic collaboration between Kim Acylic, a coffee house poet from Seattle, and the Northern Drones, a band from Dublin. This album, on which Kim declaims her beatnik poems over mantra-like backing music supplied by the band, was apparently put together without either party meeting in person.

You can hear the spacetime mismatch in the production, to a certain extent. Kim's vocal is down in the mix in a way that I suspect wouldn't have happened if everybody had been in the same room when the recording was made. But for all that, there's a scuzzy appeal here, and a real sense of lower east side beat-era grooviness. The band sets up a bohemian groove and dances the mess around. Kim paces through her words with deadpan deliberation. She's got exactly the right voice for her poems - the way she enunciates 'Rock 'n' roll' on the title track is worth the price of admission by itself.

Weirdly, there's no real attempt to coordinate the words and music. Sometimes, it all fades out, mid-poem, and then fades in, randomly, before vanishing again. The effect is a bit like listening to an uncharacteristically laid-back Lydia Lunch over an ill-tuned radio, through a drifting haze of hallucenogenics. It's all quite weird, but never less than compelling.

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