We had the chance to have a little chat with Landskapp and we present you this mini interview.Welcome to Downtuned. Tell us a few words about the group, when and where did you get started? How did you meet?
Landskap
formed in 2012 when George and me (Fred) left our native countries to go and
live in the London area. We both wanted to start a new band and met one day in
2012 after we got in touch via an advert. We both shared a mutual interest in
early hard rock and psychedelic rock, so we started jamming the week after
that. We were soon joined by Paul on drums and continued like that for a couple
of months, trying our various other musicians as well. After 6 months
we decided the time was right to write some songs out of our jam sessions and
Kostas joined us on organ to record our debut album. Soon after Jake joined us
on vocals and that’s how we finalized our first recording. We have since
released our debut album on Bandcamp for free and it’s now also available on glorious
12” via Iron Bonehead Productions.
Which are your musical influences?
Our musical
influences are very broad, and they are a summary of listening to great music
for 20-30 years. Our main influences are based on good riffs and atmosphere,
the first names that come to my mind are Deep Purple, King Crimson, Pink Floyd,
Sir Lord Baltimore, Neu, early Kraftwerk, Jethro Tull, etcetera… We also source
influences from more modern musical genres, and they might be harder to detect
but we are very open minded.
What are your lyrics about? What catches your interest?
The lyrics on
I mainly deal with misery; I guess that what’s Jake used to write about. I’m
not entirely sure what the context is and whether this will be a reoccurring
theme but we’re happy with what Jake came up with.
Is the communication with the crowd something that you
care about, in all levels, or do you do music for yourselves?
I speak just
for myself here, but I believe it’s a very personal thing> I’m happy to appreciate
our music and support us, and I’m happy to share my passion mainly through our
music but also via other channels, but in no way would it ever influence the
way I approach songwriting. We have been a
bit overwhelmed with the good reactions to our music, which is great, but we all
played in bands long enough to realize that we might just be the flavor of the
day for some people.
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?
No, I don’t
think we belong to any “scene”, and I’ll happily stay away from any scene rather
than join it.
How do you imagine that the band will be in ten years
from now?
That’s a tough
one, who knows, I don’t know whether we’ll even still exist. Landskap is the
main project for George and myself, but it’s a sideproject for the other
bandmembers. We just come together to make great music and time wil tell where
we’ll be tomorrow, next week or in 10 years…
Which famous artist you would like to do a guest to a
record of yours and why?
I wouldn’t
want to make any record with any famous artist, my experience tells me it would
only turn into disappointment. We have a great line up as we are, that’s more
than fine for me.
What plans do you have for the near future?
We’re playing
our first gig on the 14th June in the Camden Underworld in London,
and after that we’re planning to go and record our second album hopefully
somewhere this summer.
We wish you good luck to whatever you’re doing, the
epilogue is yours.
Thank you for your support, we really appreciate it!
by Kavaldi
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