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Asofy interview (01/2005)


Conducted by: Azhidahak
Published: 29.01.2005

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Asofy






-Could you please give us a short history of your band?

Asofy first appeared in november 2000 at the hand of Tryfar, the only member and creator of the whole project. Asofy's aim is the simple and pure expression of its own thought and feeling, using Italian language is very important both for an easier personal transposition from idea to text, and to achieve coherence at a word-mean-emotion level, which I think, only the mother tongue gives in a correct and exhaustive way.


-How would you describe your debut album Ebym?

EbYm is the first work and it contains some text based on solitude and the will to continue to live far away observing from distance, judging in silence, brushing for a little while other people's skins, moving in the emptiness, waiting for the day when the world will be purified from all those who live in mistaken feelings and forced emotions, in a society in which superficiality and indifference are seen as virtues.
but I'm always interested in how the others would describe ebym even when it is a negative critics because ebym is a description in itself.
And I couldn't do better?





-You have signed with the record label Trazeroeuno which is not really famous for being a metal label. So I was wondering how you ended up with them?

Under the name Trazeroeuno are joined some different projects, which have in common the will to develop and experiment one's own poetics in a critical way, through the cohesion of different languages.
At first, the trazeroeuno main aim is to make more visible these bands using this means:
-a website (that will soon be opened/active), structured as a mini-portal, from which will be possible to ?accedere?to the differt entities it represents.
-a first compilation available in the first months of 2005, where will be offered a large view of the rooster.
-a first issue (around april or march) of the first three ep (with a particular care of coordinate and multimedial image), cooproducted together with the bands.
The purpose is to let these singular enetities that will constitute the rooster form a scene, that is recognizable for visual/sound quality,
and turn tzeu to an effective artistic production label (in the future, because in Italy the way to keep seriously in practice a similar project is not very clear, is not simple, I think also because there isn't that kind of culture that cares about this things, or the interest to promote them?)

On this side we would very glad to keep on contact with european scenes, to exchange some stuff, link, and receive advices and impressions.
Trazeroeuno will not be characterized by a singular defined musical genre, it will accept all music is generated by a conscious thought. Anyway, it will have a particular care and interest for: avantgarde, noise, post-rock, hybrid metal, electro-wave, industrial.


-When I listen to your album, it really reminds me of bands like Bethlehem and Dolorian. What do you think of this comparison?

I'm very glad about this comparison because I appreciate both the bands and I certainly feel close to their way to compose a sort of musical hybrid which however is never far from a well defined atmosphere; I can say I like to put everything in music, on condition that it coudn't make a conflict among the constituent.

-Do you plan to play live any time in the future?

I think I will never play live, I don't feel at my ease in these situations.

-From Italy I really like the doom/black metal band Forgotten Tomb. What's your opinion about them?

as music is concerned, I quite like them (in particular "songs to leave"), but I don't agree with their lyric and conceptual choices.





-In your website, there are some very strange pictures, like a picture of a window which is stained with mud. Could you please explain these pictures?

I'm very glad you noticed them, images are made to be watched and if they are a visual support to a musical concept (the images from my website are closely linked to asofy music) I think they are definitively part of it, so they express or amplify a concept that can also come spontanious from the listener.
I mean that every "emotional" interpetation can be correct there's no misinterpretation, on condition that you admit that it is one possible interpretation.
Anyway, my personal interpretation is that the image is a window and through it I look what happens outside, but often is difficult or impossible to see clearly and understand what happens outside. The stain (the one you interpreted as mud) is an obstruction.


-Do you plan to get any other members in your band or do you prefer to be alone?

I've considered several times the possibility of increase the line-up, and I've try, but till now I never get a best and easy composition process from it, so, in this moment I think I will stay alone, even if, as far as lyrics (and maybe some voices) are concerned, I will let me help by Vocisconnesse.





-When will you start working on your next album?

Just in this period I'm playing for Asofy, so I hope to have as soon as possible some material for the next cd (it will be a mini that consists of only 3 songs). A new piece will take part to a compilation for the israelian Totalrust music.


-Your music is very depressive, are you a depressive person yourself? Do you think that the music you play somehow affects your personality?

I don't think I'm depressed, there have been certainly some moments in which I wasn't happy at all, but now I can say that everything goes right!
All the music somehow effects the listener, and I think that metal is one of the genre (kind of music) that more show this effect, but it is thanks to the "metallaro" (Metalhead or Metal Listener in italian language), who rightly let himself be caught by the notes.

-Beside music, I got this intuition, from your website, that you must be very interested in art too. Is it the case? Please explain.

Yes, I'm very interested in illustration, photography, graphics and all the rest?I can't separate music from images, they goes on together to me. Music come from what we see, and whatever we see can become so emotionally important to be the base for the following creations.

-Thank you for your time, any last words?

Thanks to you!

www.trazeroeuno.org
info@trazeroeuno.org





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