We had a little chat with the filthy sludge beasts "Sadhus, the smoking community" and we present you this interview.
Welcome to Downtuned. Tell us a few words about the group, when and where did you get started? How did you meet?
Welcome to Downtuned. Tell us a few words about the group, when and where did you get started? How did you meet?
Back in August of 2008, we formed Sadhus, as a band of friends who had a
connected idea about heavy music. Starting with some jams in our special place
in Piraeus, we found ourselves making our own music and we started giving shows
in local clubs of Athens. The meeting place considering the formation of the band,
is our studio, although we've all been friends many years and some of us many more
or almost a whole life...
Which are your musical
influences?
We all have several influences that come from different scenes of rock
and heavy music. On "sadhus" music, sludge and doom bands such like
Electric Wizard, Bongzila, Eyehategod, Iron monkey, Saint Vitus, Sleep and as
always Black Sabbath are the main musical influences.
What are your lyrics about?
What catches your interest?
Some say that we haven’t lyrics…
That’s not true. Our lyrics express our thought for that abomination in which
we live in… Topics such as the human brain, the wreckage of
human societies, the human relationship always tickles our interest. The
production of mass negative or rotten feelings is the combination of our music
with the lyrics and that is our point of creating music.
Is the communication with
the crowd something that you care about, in all levels, or do you do music for
yourselves?
The
communication with the crowd and everyone who have some thoughts about our
music or generally for the rock scene is always very important for the “living”
of Sadhus. We like to play live in front of people that love music and the
reactions of them always is considered. We create music at first point for our pleasure, coming from inside and our music
influences, but then the reaction of the crowd make us have a more spherical
option of our music and help us finding the way we can achieve more....It’s odd to see people love your music and we
are very happy for that.
Do you feel like you’re a
part of a particular “scene” in which you would like to join and contribute or
you are indifferent about it?
We are part of the local underground scene. If you want the label of it,
we could say that we are part of the extreme music scene. There is a very
important point about this participation. We consider that it creates a kind of
unity between several persons, ideas and music influences that makes a kind of
progress with the whole music of the scene. If for example Sadhus is a part of
sludge worldwide music, that make opportunities for this group such as, for
example, tours with similar bands, the constant listening of the bands'
progress and further so, the product of new ideas that make the whole thing
more interesting and goes on...we hope to be a unique band creating our special
sound and the participation to a scene helps us more to achieve it...
How do you imagine that
the band will be in ten years from now?
You could imagine so many things about the future and in the end nothing
of these thoughts will come true... so we say that we hope at first sight to be
together as friends in the near future, to make some good music and to have
healthy ears and soul. For sure much
more older, much more wiser, much more “garbage”. In sludge we trust!!!
Which famous artist you
would like to do a guest to a record of yours and why?
Matt Pike off course… Because he had
more beer abdominal from us… Heh! just joking. He is a fucking freak of heavy
and loud sound.
What plans do you have for
the near future?
We hope our first album to be ready
in the near future (2-3 months from now).We would like to promote it in some
ways like playing more gigs out of Athens, such us Patra at 17/5 with Toner
Low, and we hope more to come. Also we would like to try playing live gigs in
oddly places such us caves, forests, beaches, resigned buildings. The feeling
of doing something like that would be in several ways extravaganza.
We wish you good luck to
whatever you’re doing, the epilogue is yours.
Thanks a lot for this interview we
really appreciated. Roll fast, play slow…
by Kavaldi
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