Guitarist, March 2009 – scanned and typed out
As of today, the sun is in Pisces; so here’s a dessert for all the fellow Pisces…and others, of course. It’s about a, whatdoyaknow, a Pisces.
It looked like nobody in UK who had this magazine owned a scanner and that nobody who owns a scanner could find this magazine. Guitarist staff posted on their blog that the original first stack of the magazine (ironically) burnt down with a lorry and that it’s the reason for its being late in many places, so UK people, perhaps you should wait for a couple more of days and settle with the scans until you have a copy of your own.
An enormous shout out goes to Jules who took his time to scan the images in a good resolution (and even tore the pages out to scan them properly!) and to Katrina who found Jules. You can see all the pages in the gallery or hop to individual pages using the thumbnails below.
Eleni & I have typed out the article already for everyone who likes it as text only. Click here to read it; but be aware that the last heading is from a page that comes with a tab and that there’s also something on the CD. Therefore, the best idea would be to buy the magazine.
Here are some nice quotes from the article:
[…]So, the album, lyrically, goes back and forth between a mixed up insanity to thoughts gradually coming into clarity, and then going back into a kind of insanity, and then gradually going into a clarity. It’s the same thing musically, where the album starts in these murky depths, and then it starts ascending and getting higher and higher. Then when it reaches a peak, it drops down again, then it continues to reach up, and then it reaches another peak, and then it drops down again. The end of the album is higher in pitch and in vibrancy than at any other point of the album. I tried to make the album continually feel like it’s moving upwards. That’s why the last song doesn’t even have any bass drum or bass guitar, so it contributes to the feeling of it floating, in relationship to the rest of the record. But I can only really speak about the concept in the abstract. There’s stuff in the lyrics for somebody who’s at a particular point in their path, and I’m sure that person will be able to get something out of that, or somebody with a certain type of experience that might be parallel with mine in some way. But I don’t feel things of this nature – when it comes to things or somebody’s personal inner journey – I don’t feel like that’s the kind of stuff that anybodz can tell another person, with any kind of clarity about their own experience. I think I’ve done it on the lyrics about as clearly as I would be capable of doing it. Everything gets twisted around in interviews, so what I’ve said is all I can say.
(On the story behind the lyrics on The Empyrean)
I’m too involved in making music right now to tour. I spend four-and-a-half of the last 10 years on tour. In a way, I’d love to do it; it’s a nice way of connecting with people. But in the case of this record, I wouldn’t want to just go up on stage with my acoustic guitar like I used to. I’d want to put a couple of months into rehearsing a band, and then probably spend a couple of months on tour. Four months just seems inconceivable for me to get away from what I’m doing here. I won’t say absolutely that there won’t be any touring, but at this point, I can’t imagine it. Recording, writing, and playing – that’s really where my soul needs to be, so that’s what I’m going to do.
(On not touring for the album
So, yes, another good read and definitely NOT a clone of the MusicRadar podcast, at least 75% of it is new material.
