Ο Θοδωρής
Αδαμόπουλος συνομίλησε εφ' όλης της ύλης με τον ένα
εκ' των δύο
κιθαριστών των VANE ,τον Robert Zembrzycki.
I want to
start the interview by congrats you about your amazing debut album!Firstly,because it is the first time for our blog to present your work, tell me about the
band’s first steps to nowadays, “The Prologue” e.p. line up etc.
Hey man – it’s a long story. But to put it shortly, I’ve been friends
with Mateusz for years, and we decided to form a band together. We decided on
the pirate topic, because we like pirates a lot, and we started completing the
lineup. Marcin Parandyk and Marcin Zdeb were our first choices, and amazingly
they both agreed to join us. Marcin Frąckowiak was happy to join us too, but
soon his duties in Percival forced us to make a decision to change the lineup.
Łukasz stepped in and he’s a valuable addition to the band and a very good
showman. The five of us really put our backs into making the album, and after a
year of hard work writing and promoting the album, we are where we are.
I think i’m
already sure about the answer to the next one, so… is the band’s name VANE,
inspired by the well-known pirate, Charles Vane?
Yes. Charles Vane was one of the most fierce pirates
to ever sail the seas, and thus
Personally, I
always loved the “piracy concept” in metal music and I hope you will continue
to write stuff like this in the future. What made you choose that subject
lyrically? Are you all the guys in the band fans of this historical era and the
great pirates that lived back in the golden age of piracy ?
Well, I love sailing, I grew up reading books about seafaring mariners
and pirates, I’ve always liked franchises like Pirates of Caribbean or Black
Sails, and naturally I wanted to pay some homage to that with the band. Mateusz
also was very keen on this idea, and so it went. The rest of the guys may not
be so interested in the history of the Golden Age as the two of us are, but
they like the topic non the less.
Even if it is
your debut album, I can say that the first thing I noticed, was the good
production, something rare to find in debut albums. I know that Mateusz Gajdzik
(one of the guitar players) was involved in it and I think he made a very good
job with Przemysław Nowak who made also the recording / mixing and the
mastering. Which is the producer approach you prefer as a band? The “friendly
coach” producer who helps the band but not change a lot of things, or the
well-known producer that maybe is tough and but in the end, he/she will extract
from you things you could not imagine?
In our case Mateusz is the tough producer pushing everything and
everyone to the limits of their capability. But I think that precisely there,
far outside of your comfort zone and on the edge of ability is where great
things are happening.
There is this
great song entitled: “spilling guts” in which we can hear very well placed
guest female vocals from Ewa Pitura. The female character in this song is the
person who changed the entire future of our hero as I noticed, but I’ll leave
it to you to explain it further if you like and a few extra details of the
concept would be welcomed.
Well, You can watch our series – Behind The lyrics, which premieres on
our Youtube Channel every Thursday – where I discuss the lyrics and the story
behind every song with Marcin, our Vocalist. But I’ll tell you this – this is
not the end of the story of the female character from this song. I can’t tell
you anything more, but eventually those who are curious about the story will
find out what happened to her. And for those who want some more info on the
story of “Black Vengeance” – please check out our Youtube.
I will stay a
little bit in the concept, but not from the lyrical aspect, as for the musical
side. The first time I listened to the album and I was reading the lyrics at
the same time, I noticed that the music was playing a big role as the concept
was going on and on. I felt it as a soundtrack of a horror pirate movie (LOL,
not the DISNEY shit..you know) with a huge ending with the last song “hangman”
with the amazing “cinematic” narrative vocals in the middle. Did the making of
the orchestration build as the lyrics were in progress, or you’ve already
planned it like this from the beginning?
The songs were pre-recorded and pre-arranged by us before we entered the
studio, so it was all planned. Nowadays it’s the only way to go about recording
– you can record stuff decent enough at home, to find out if the songs work or
not, and polish them until they are perfect.
Does the idea
of making concept albums seems more natural to you in the future, because you
started with one like this? You know most bands find it very difficult to write
a concept album even if they are in their 4th or 5th
album and not the first!
We hope to create a pirate universe of our own. Like in Black Sails for
example – watching this series you know this is not 100% historically accurate,
but it’s plausible, it seems real and it is believable. We want to achieve the
same thing with the stories we tell on our releases. So you can definitely
expect “Vane Cinematic Universe” expanding with every song we create.
Of course it
is early now, but are there any new ideas for the follow up album?
Not so much an album, but rather a few singles – we’re
already working on them.
I regularly
see your facebook posts etc. and I think (unlike other bands) you use very wise
and right to the point the internet, for keeping’ your fans posted with updates
and not with “net trash” and “what did I eat today” stuff .Back in the days of
course it was absolutely impossible for a band to let the fans know what the
band do the very same day. I so much enjoyed for example (still do and wait for
the next one) the series of your videos that explains songs and lyrics! Do you
believe on the other hand, that the too much information feeding, is getting
the fans to lose the “hunger”? What do you believe as a net user?
I believe you have to maintain a fragile balance, you
have to deliver just the right amount of content to your fans, so that you
switch between spiking and satiating their appetites. I love these sneak-peaks
into other bands lives, however if I see one band popping up too much, I
quickly become bored of it. We try to feed our fans with something cool quite
often, but we care deeply for the content that we put out, so that we don’t
spam people with trash.
You are on
the “Black Tour of Vengeance” now (Amazing tour name by the way). How is it
going so far? Are there any shows already booked outside Poland? Summer
festivals abroad?
We have some shows already revealed and being
promoted, while others are still secret. But basically, we try to get out there
as much as we can and play whatever shows we can. Wish I could tell you what’s
cooking up, but unfortunately I can’t get into any more details.
I know it’s
early, but any luck to see you perform here in Greece? Do you have any feedback
from fans and promoters from Greece?
We’d love to come to Greece. Maybe one day it will
happen – let’s keep our fingers crossed for this .
Closing, I
want to thank you for this interview and If you like, give a message to the
Greek metal fans that will read this interview and of course to your already
“pirate crew members” fans here in Greece.
Thanks for listening to our music. Go follow Vane on social media,
stream our music, buy our merch and wave the flag of piracy, and I hope we’ll
get to meet you all during our live shows. Ahoy, my friends!
OFFICIAL SITE: https://vane.band/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/vane.band
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