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Tiger Lily: http://community.livejournal.com/valo_daily/4107688.html#cutid1 Статья оттуда - перевод с итальянского на английский Many things have happened since, on 1991, a young Ville Valo gave life to HIM. An important and constant rise has taken the band at the actual level, consecrating the charismatic and emblematic frontman as an icon of the most suffered and dark rock. Recaptured his own dimension and abandoned the excesses of the past, Valo and fellows are back with their seventh studio album, an album able to mark a new and important goal. It's the singer himself explaining how, finally, everything reached the right and pursued dimension. EVERYTHING IS SCREAMWORKS: LOVE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE SEEMS TO BE WOVED TO LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS, WHAT IS YOUR POINT OF VIEW ABOUT THIS ITEM? Many people watch relationships egoistically, thinking just what the other person has to offer them. I think it's more correct to ask what do we have to offer. People wear a lot of masks and always pretend that everyting is okay, but reality is different and everyone of us is scared by something. For me love is like Baudelaire in Braille. It's a mathematical equation I don't know the solution and of which, I'm quite sure, I don't want to know. MELODY, ROCK OPENINGS AND EMOTIONS ASSUME ONCE AGAIN GREAT IMPORTANCE, WHILE THE DARK TONES OF THE EARLY DAYS FIND A NEW DIMENSION: HOW DID YOU COME TO THIS RESULT? I've never been a huge fan of aggressive music, perhaps this is why the new album seems darker than the previous ones. To me melody is the key. I naturally write very melodic tracks, sometimes melancholic, and I have always hated the common idea bound to happy songs. When you're extremely happy for what you have got, then you stop making music. You find yourself with the guitar in your hands when something scares you but you don't know what It is, when it's difficult to express in words the emotions...and to me it's easier to express what I feel through music than to trust myself into long and less interesting monologues. Now we do have an equilibrium and this album is the perfect concretization. FOR THE PRODUCTION YOU PUT YOURSELVES INTO MATT SQUIRE'S HANDS, FAMOUS FOR THE PAST COLLABORATIONS WITH PANIC AT THE DISCO, BOYS LIKE GIRLS, THRICE AND TAKING BACK SUNDAY, JUST TO CITE SOME OF THEM: A CHOICE THAT TESTIFIES, ONCE AGAIN, THE DESIRE TO ADVANCE AND DISCOVER NEW TERRITORIES. WHAT LED TO THIS COLLABORATION? At the base of this choice, the desire to not leave anything to the case and to emphasize at best what at the moment was just imagined. Under this point of view Matt revealed as an essential collaborator,. I knew what to obtain and I knew how the product had to sound, and he was the only one able to give a shape to the expressed desires. The drums had to sound impressive, in a perfect American style, and the synthesizer had to be real and not a pale copy of another instrument, as in the past did Duran Dutan, Depeche Mode and all the big bands bloom in the 80's. Matt and I were both born in 1976 and we have grown up listening to the same music. Our ideal trinity is made by Depeche Mode, The Cult and Guns N' Roses. HOW DO YOUR COMPOSITIONS COME TO LIFE? Inspiration is unpredictable. It may come from something simple and natural as the smile of a person and activate as a merciless twirl. I've always been fascinated by the complex journey that leads to the birth of a song. Every time is different, every time is like it's the first time and every time is like to witness a miracle. It happens and that's it and there are so many steps along the way that it's easy to lose the orientation and find yourself in a place completely different from the one you imagined at the beginning YOUR CAREER HAS BEEN MARKED BY EXCESSES AND ADDICTIONS, FIRST OF ALL ALCOHOL, THEN, ON 2007, THE TURN AND THE DECISION TO CHANGE LIFESTYLE. HOW MUCH INFLUENCED ALL THIS ON THE RELEASE OF SCREAMWORKS: LOVE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE? This is the first album I composed being completely sober, Speaking the truth I have never wrote songs being drunk, but this time, instead of passing nights at the pub I stood home working and writing. I put a lot of energies in Screamworks: love in theory and practice. In the past due to alcohol, I ruined my work, my relationships, friendships and I have been really close to ruin everything I have done with the band..but I wasn't aware of that because I was too much addicted to my life style. Now everything is different and the evidence is what you now are able to listen to. HOW IS YOUR LIFE NOWADAYS AND HOW THE CHANGES YOU DID INFLUENCED THE CONCRETIZATION OF THE SITUATUION? Many things in being happy may be scary. It's funny thinking how much my life has changed in the last years and how much I became some kind of hermit, vowed to a solitary existence spent writing new songs. At the end you are forced to grow and this awareness, united to the mental state acquired, made me sensible to everything that surrounds me and, simply, I didn't want to make mistakes. You never know what is gonna happen, you can't know when all this may end and renounce to the beauty of life because of deep and unsolved existential questions would have been a great mistake. WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR YOU, BEING A MUSICIAN AND IN WHAT WAY AND MEASURE MUSIC CHANGED YOUR EXISTENCE? It is what I do better and it's the only thing I want and I can do. Music has always been the best way to escape for me. When I compose I leave it all behind my back, I eliminate every day stress and all the irritant and oppressing thoughts coming from little things. I don't think anymore at bills to pay, I don't think at work appointments, at what I have to do tomorrow and what I could have done today: I write and that's it, immersed in a sort of ethereal concentration that's able to relax me as nothing else can do. When I dedicate myself to music I need wide spaces around me. Not physical spaces but mental. To me it's impossible to live with someone during this process. I have no spare time and I have no time to dedicate to friends or love, not while I'm writing. For the ones next to me it may not be an easy situation but to me it is essential. I don't want anyone to suffer, above all for something that I love to do. When the day is over you understand that a song will be reduced into three, maybe four minutes, carved onto a piece of plastic: it's important to understand the funny aspect of all this. You can dedicate millions of hours to the album release, aware that everything will be then zipped into cold electronic binaries and, in the end, experiences, emotions, and feelings will be mechanically absorbed and translated. Once the recordings are over, once the artwork and mastering are closed, I feel like emptied from everything. It's not a surprise for me, I know how to manage the thing: in the end it's a cycle that I believe I will never be able to get off. WHO IS VILLE VALO TODAY? I am the same person as I was at 14. I am still interested in the same things. Aging is a process that involves the body and not the mind. Day after day you learn new things and grow up thanks to the mistakes you have done too. You know that you don't have to put your fingers in the electric socket, but you always find alternative solutions to turn around the problem and you go on making mistakes from which you can take new knowledge. People carry this burden and they can't change the situation, despite someone keeps on ignoring it. Disdain past mistakes is not good, you can pretend not to listen to them, but making every time the same bad moves is not really intelligent, and really unproductive. AFTER FEW DAYS FROM ITS RELEASE, SCREAMWORKS LOVE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE IS ALREADY CONSIDERED BY MANI AS YOUT BEST WORK. DO YOU AGREE WITH THIS ITERPRETATION? We have given our best and now finally the wait is over. Obviously we are proud of what we've done and we hope everything goes for the best. Opinions of today will be conditioning future yeas, promotion and future tours. When you start composing, it's useful to have a general idea of the path to follow and of the goal to achieve. Once finished the first tracks everything becomes clear and chaotic thoughts lead into a clearer and defined vision. Luckily for us the entire process went on without troubles and, now, we are ready to handle every thing that the future has got for us. “Screamworks: love in theory and practice” Arrived at their seventh album in more than 15 years of career, HIM find themselves in front of a classic dilemma: remain always the same, gratifying the fans who love them since forever or try to evolve a bit their sound? On the other hand, when a band has even invented a name to define its musical genre, it's difficult to go far from the roots, and despite the band tries to show us a more radio friendly side (with the discreet “Scared to death” ) or to challenge with slow songs and half-acoustic (the trivial “Disarm me” and “Katherine Wheel”) it's right when they touch love metal sounds that HIM show their composition skills. “In Venere Veritas” then opens the CD reminding us that this band is able to sound heavy, and right at the end of the album three songs takes back the attention on the “metal” side of their genre, with Ville Valo even trying a screaming with his wide throat in “Shatter me with hope” , pushing the accelerator then with “Like St.Valentine” . The lights are more than the shadows, at least, on this new work of the Finnish band, even if some perplexity remains on the lyrics a little too trivial: writing “I made an essay of everything I have learnt and wrote just one word: Love” or rhyme “blue” with “you” are things we wouldn't want to expect from a mature artist as Valo is. In every case, there is much material to use set on fire fans' hearts, and to make sing along everyone at gigs.
Ответов - 7
Tiger Lily: что-то очень напоминает....опять понахватали из разных статей. Tiger Lily пишет: perhaps this is why the new album seems darker than the previous ones. мрачнее чем VD чего они тут напереводили то....
daydrinking: Tiger Lily пишет: чего они тут напереводили то.... похоже кто-то изрядно дунул
olga2188: Tiger Lily пишет: опять понахватали из разных статей. ага... ничего сколько-нибудь примечательного... по поводу "мрачнее, чем предыдущие альбомы", кстати не факт, что это итало-английский переводчик накосячил... может автор статьи смеси для курения перепутал А вообще типичный случай для перевода перевода... Это ж сначала понадергали из английских статей, потом перевели на итальянский, потом снова на инглиш
Tiger Lily: daydrinking пишет: похоже кто-то изрядно дунул тут не то что дунули, еще и нюхнули и глотнули и вообще тут все старо как мир...сто раз уже это читала
daydrinking: Tiger Lily пишет: сто раз уже это читала все равно что прошлогоднюю жвачку жевать
Tiger Lily: Tiger Lily пишет: I don't want anyone to suffer, above all for something that I love to do. When the day is over you understand that a song will be reduced into three, maybe four minutes, carved onto a piece of plastic: it's important to understand the funny aspect of all this. You can dedicate millions of hours to the album release, aware that everything will be then zipped into cold electronic binaries and, in the end, что-то керангом повеяло, про пластик то с набором циферек
summerwine: Tiger Lily пишет: и вообще тут все старо как мир...сто раз уже это читала так это ж спецом так тип ниочем и обо всем, это до выхода альбома кажется и это для итальянских слшателей. мол типа эксклюзив. а когда брали ивью тип никто не знает
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