{"id":3059,"date":"2022-08-06T22:42:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T22:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lostinthenordics.com\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2022-08-06T22:42:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T22:42:58","slug":"interview-disorder-hungry-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nightshiftblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/06\/interview-disorder-hungry-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Disorder &#8211; Hungry Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Disorder is an alternative rock vehicle from London, UK &#8211; a collaboration between multi-instrumentalist and engineer Machi-ei Faron and drummer\/percussionist John Stewart. The project is equal parts musical journey of self discovery and an attempt to reevaluate and reimagine what rock n roll is in the XXI century.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lostinthenordics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ab6761670000ecd4e477f1466213584dd835fd87.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3060\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hey, super nice to have the chance to chat with you.<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Can you tell us about your early career? Where did you get the idea for the music industry?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d like to think we are in our early career stages right now haha. I have worked as a sound engineer and a studio assistant throughout my adulthood so these experiences were crucial to my perception and, ultimately, acceptance for music industry and everything it is.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"m_-3845534813642243587gmail-m_-8990512465089051084yui_3_17_2_1_1656183383120_336\"><strong>Where do you start when producing songs?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"m_-3845534813642243587gmail-m_-8990512465089051084yui_3_17_2_1_1656183383120_336\">Itall starts with a direct transmission from, let&#8217;s called it, &#8216;beyond&#8217;. Usually the song arrives in my head fully formed as a certain feeling, mood, only then, it is the intellectual part that kicks in when I need to channel it properly to make it &#8216;materialize&#8217; on this plane. And this doesn&#8217;t ever stop up until the song is fully mastered. There&#8217;s a feeling, emotion I want and need to convey even all the way down to selection of artwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"m_-3845534813642243587gmail-m_-8990512465089051084yui_3_17_2_1_1656183383120_339\"><strong>Your latest song is &#8216;Hungry&nbsp;Ghosts&#8217;. Can you tell us more about the making of it and if there were any unusual things happening during the process?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"m_-3845534813642243587gmail-m_-8990512465089051084yui_3_17_2_1_1656183383120_339\">I&#8217;m extremely fortunate to work with a drummer like John, he is to me one of the most exciting musicians I have ever heard playing and the parts he writes are always challenging, surprising and ultimately, satisfying to work with for me. &#8216;Hungry\u00a0Ghosts&#8217; started as a simple, two-chord psychedelic jam, but the different patterns, grooves he introduced to the song pushed me into a very different direction &#8211; inspiring me to built those different sounding sections around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Disorder - Hungry Ghosts (Official Music Video)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uxrs52KMlNY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"m_-3845534813642243587gmail-m_-8990512465089051084yui_3_17_2_1_1656183383120_342\"><strong>What was the most difficult challenge you faced?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"m_-3845534813642243587gmail-m_-8990512465089051084yui_3_17_2_1_1656183383120_342\">Quite honestly the biggest challenge for me is marketing our music, I love writing, producing, performing, but one thing I absolutely hopeless with is find a way to reach wider audiences with the songs. It feels somehow wrong to think about something this precious as a product that needs to be marketed, yet it is absolutely necessary. I suppose finding a way to do that that is not against my personal beliefs and doesn&#8217;t degrade the art and my relationship to it, would be the ultimate challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"m_-3845534813642243587gmail-m_-8990512465089051084yui_3_17_2_1_1656183383120_345\"><strong>What is your goal in artistic activities?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"m_-3845534813642243587gmail-m_-8990512465089051084yui_3_17_2_1_1656183383120_345\">To be a device through which the worlds of energies and spirits communicate with our world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"m_-3845534813642243587gmail-m_-8990512465089051084yui_3_17_2_1_1656183383120_348\"><strong>How do you know when a work is finished?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"m_-3845534813642243587gmail-m_-8990512465089051084yui_3_17_2_1_1656183383120_348\">It never is haha. But realistically it needs to eventually; I have this really old stereo my parents bought when I was a kid and I&#8217;ve been listening to music on it pretty much all my life, so I know it fairly well &#8211; if it sounds acceptable on it, I feel it&#8217;s ready to be send to distribution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"m_-3845534813642243587gmail-m_-8990512465089051084yui_3_17_2_1_1656183383120_351\"><strong>What is your trademark? It&#8217;s about unique sounds or behaviors on stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"m_-3845534813642243587gmail-m_-8990512465089051084yui_3_17_2_1_1656183383120_351\">I strive to write music that&#8217;s uncompromisable &#8211; I want it to sound familiar, yet, like nothing else on the radio today. Also I look great in black gothic dresses haha<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"m_-3845534813642243587gmail-m_-8990512465089051084yui_3_17_2_1_1656183383120_355\"><strong>What are your biggest achievements so far as an artist, but also personally.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"m_-3845534813642243587gmail-m_-8990512465089051084yui_3_17_2_1_1656183383120_355\">I would divide this into two: personally, every song that we finish is the biggest achievement as, ultimately on the day I write each and every single one of them in my head I go &#8216;This will never be done, I cannot fathom the amount of work it will take for this to be done, ready, out&#8217; and then we always do, so yeah. On an industry level when we got to work with Billy Bush who mixed and co-produced our single &#8216;At The Door&#8217; was an important milestone &#8211; having someone who worked alongside Butch Vig on some of the greatest rock records of the last decade or so appreciate and collaborate on your work, was a huge validation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"m_-3845534813642243587gmail-m_-8990512465089051084yui_3_17_2_1_1656183383120_358\"><strong>What memorable responses have you had to your work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"m_-3845534813642243587gmail-m_-8990512465089051084yui_3_17_2_1_1656183383120_358\">My grandma always says I don&#8217;t sound like me whenever I play her any new song. I am yet to find out who DO I sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"m_-3845534813642243587gmail-m_-8990512465089051084yui_3_17_2_1_1656183383120_361\"><strong>What are your plans for the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"m_-3845534813642243587gmail-m_-8990512465089051084yui_3_17_2_1_1656183383120_361\">We will have a new song &#8216;Lily&#8217; coming out in August, followed by 3 more till the end of the year. 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