Hello sir Peter! Is your world shining bright
and spinning round smooth enough?
Kaleidoscopicaly so :)
Well it was a great 12
month period after this CD release, it brought us to the attention of the
Italian label Vincebus Eruptum, which led on to them releasing this album on LP
in black and glorious purple vinyl. It quickly sold out and the start of a good
relationship with a new label.
I’m glad to hear it
Peter! And even with more pleasure I would like to hear something new about
Sendelica road adventures! I remember how successfully you did that brief tour
in snow-covered Russia
Early in 2012 we did
an Eastern Europe tour. We flew to Finland and did a great opening show in Helsinki before driving through, and doing some great
shows, in Latvia , Lithuania and Estonia
before coming through to Russia
This year we have had
some big line up changes with Jim Barber on bass and Jack Jackson on drums, so
we concentrated on finishing the new album and doing some UK
And right now looking
forward to upcoming shows with Vibravoid, The Luck Of Eden Hall and the Pretty
Things.
It’s not a secret anymore – Sendelica have new
release “The Kaleidoscopic Kat And It’s Autoscopic Ego”; we did an interview or
two before that but (with all my respect) I never asked about your albums’
title meanings. So let us clarify only one tiny detail – who is your dealer and
where does he find such stunning weed?!
PMSL!! LOL….. brilliant question Alexs. Well my
album titles and song titles have often been a topic of conversation…. I can
honestly say that I have no idea where these titles come from….. they just seem
to slowly form in my mind as we are working on the album tracks…… quite spooky
in some ways, but just seems perfectly natural. The songs often have working
titles right up to the end of the recordings, then suddenly their meaning becomes
crystal clear, to me, and all is reveled in the eventual song title…..
If I do not err, then there were three artists
who did an art-work for “The Kaleidoscopic Kat And It’s Autoscopic Ego”, did
Morvenna, Andreas and Jack really work together? And how did you find them?
I discovered Andreas’s
(from Sweden) artwork on an art web site just after I had come up with the
albums title, he works with manipulating photographic images and had this great
cat picture that had been fractulated. I sent him a message but sadly did not
hear back from him. In the meantime I approached a painter called Morvenna
Richards (from England), who had done a gig poster for Sendelica a few years
ago, and we had a long chat about her doing a psychedelic painting for the
album sleeve. We looked through some 60’s / 70’s artbooks and she came up with
this great idea for the cover. Then just as we were putting the finishing
touches to the album artwork Andreas got in touch saying he would love us to
use his work. So Jack (graphic designer and Sendelica drummer) combined the two
pieces of art into the finished artwork. Viola…. Welsh, English and Swedish
magic!!
It’s obvious that such fantastic art-works
visualize your sound-scapes perfectly, didn’t you ever think about any classy
gift edition of your albums? With more pictures or maybe with Haribo candies as
bonus?
Yes indeed!! We
released a very limited edition box set for the new album comprising of the new
album on cd, dvd of the Sendelica movie ‘The Sendelica Psychedlic Drive In Movie’,
a mini kaleidodscope, signed poster, cd of outtakes from the album, piece of my
psychedelic smiley face underpants (as worn on stage at Kozfest!!), haribo
spacemix sweets and other goodies in a numbered jewelers box!!
AVAILABLE at http://sendelica.bandcamp.com/
AVAILABLE at http://sendelica.bandcamp.com/
I think that you and Colin Consterdine keep
your intensions crystal clear considering Sendelica and it’s musical
conception, I understand it well at some level of subconscious but I would like
to ask you to describe it with some earthly words, will you?
Mind expanding and
joyous, we always like to take the listener on a musical journey….. no genre
boundaries… we dip into any musical bag we want but always give it a little Sendelica
twist.
Peter, did you ever analyze how Sendelica evolve
through years? Which phase did you reach with new record and how does this
evolution show itself?
Yes, of course… if you
remain closeted down one path then it gets boring for both yourself as an
artist and also for the fans, the listeners. We have been very lucky in that,
right from the start, we have had a fan base that seems to embrace our musical
eccentricities. I guess they love that they are never quite sure what the next
Sendelica album will sound like… which is a great thing for us….. we have never
felt pressure to do the same type of album. So yes it is forever evolving and
unfolding….. I think that this is
particularly noticeable in this new album which on many levels is probably the most complex album we have recorded to date. We
were recording and mixing this
opus for over a year, much longer
than our previous sessions, and this was the intention right from the start…. to produce a much more ‘focused’
album. There is a lot of light and
shade in this work…. sometimes you have to work hard to strip things down to build them up again. I
love the feeling of ‘space’ that we have made in this album, and a certain
etheralness underlying all the tracks….. everything flows with a passion and a
purpose. Several people have already
mentioned that they can hear PIL
& Killing Joke influences on tracks like ‘Clever Meat’ and there is certainly a little nod to early Pink Floyd on ‘Set The Controls For The
Heart Of The Buddha’. I think this is
a very ‘expanded’ Sendelica set..... and we are very, very proud of it......
Did you ever think of playing more simple heavy
stuff? Or sabbathian riffs don’t even warm your cosmic soul, don’t they? And
hey – how do you like modern musical tendencies – both underground and pop?
I was/am a huge fan of
Sabbath, but I have never had a desire to be them!! Or to play like them…. It
is just another influence you take in that moulds a little of your artistic
vision. There has always tended to be at least one heavy rifer on each of our
albums and their is one on Kaleidoscopic Kat in the form of Tinsel Tears, an
old track that got a reworking on this album. I listen to lots of music both
old and new all the time….. I think there is always great stuff out there to
listen too… you just have to look for it….. at the moment I am listening to a
lot of Michael Rother, Neu, Daughter, Sigur Ros and The XX……..
Peter, you released albums pretty often, and I
remember that you have DVD and Cdr as well, don’t you want to have vinyl
edition of some Sendelica work? Band’s conception, art-works and music of
course are ideal for that honored format.
Well we have had quite
a lot of vinyl out over the years on fruits de mer label….Venus in Furs 7”
vinyl single and tracks on ‘Keep Of The Grass’, ‘Roqueting Thru Space’ and more
recently one side of the split LP ‘Strangefishone’. BUT, yes I know what you mean…..
I always wanted our own albums out on vinyl… to see the artwork in full glory….
with posters and inserts….. the whole tactile thing…. So it was great to link
up with the Italian vinyl label Vincebus Eruptum and see our last album out on
glorious vinyl.
They will also be
releasing Kaleoidoscopic Kat on vinyl in September.
Well sadly this turned
into a very disappointing project for us. When we were last in Moscow Ilya
suggested that two members of Sendelica, Glenda and I, would go into the studio
with two members of Re-Stoned, Ilya and
Vasily, to record some jams with idea of
releasing it under the name Re-Send. We all went into the studio with no songs
and simply jammed and riffed of each other, very creative day….. we came out of
that session with some great material. Sadly Ilya did not think it was very
good and did not want to go ahead with the project but suggested that both
bands might tinker with a track or two for their own bands releases. We were disappointed
and then quite amazed when much of the ‘tinkered’ session surfaced first as a
digital download, then a CD release on RAIG and then a vinyl album on Nassoni…
all under the name of RE-STONED!! I
assume all the jelly babies and haribo starmixes have gone to a certain
individual!! So, lesson learnt…. Beware of musicians offering gifts!!
On a much happier
note, YES, I keep strong ties with many people we met in Russia, including
yourself…. along with many fans we met at gigs and also a couple of the guys
out of Sound Of Ground (a great Moscow band) and of course Lord Kamille (Grand
Astoria) has become a great friend and I have played guitar on a couple of his
projects…. I am so pleased for the success that he is finding now as he is not
only a very talented musician but a great guy who has worked so hard at his
craft.
This question may sound sudden for this
interview, but I was thinking about Great Britain
To be honest Aleksey, I
think you are right…. but the whole world is going down the fucking plug hole.
Does invading countries make ‘super powers’ feel superior??….. certainly gives
them more oil… Our own country is going to the dogs as the conservatives wreak
havoc once again on our nation, the rich get richer and the poor get more
fucked by the day. In Russia
you have punk band members in prison as your tip of the iceberg of
conservatism…… in the USA
Yes, you’re totally right and I’ve got your
point though I have to explain that Pussy Riot hardly can be named as “punk band”
‘cause they barely could play any instruments. They thought they were “artistic
persons” but I guess that not too many people abroad know about their glorious
performances – for example when few naked girls (one of them was pregnant) and
their partners do sex in museum before people including children. So let us
finish this theme with following question - do you see a border between art and
senseless kitsch?
I think it often has a
very grey area… what is art??, what is punk??
I think in psychedelic music from the sixties to now there has been a
lot of theatrics gone hand in hand with the music… from hawkwinds naked dancer
Stacia, Arthur Browns fire theatricals, prog rock costume drama to modern day
Goats stage outfits….. so when does it become senseless kitsch?? I guess that is in the eyes of the beholder
to decide…. We all love different bands and get off on different things…. Lol…
nothing stranger than people!!
Peter how do you keep on holding that positive cosmic waves into Sendelica songs when a whole mortal world as it seems confidently come down? What is a source of that bright psychedelic space shining which penetrate your music and once again was expressed through “The Kaleidoscopic Kat And It’s Autoscopic Ego” album?
I just love playing
and I am surrounded, and get to interact, with some amazing musicians. I try to
keep the music exciting for me, try to be challenged to do new things with my
guitar playing and writing… if you have joy in what you are doing I think other
people will get off on what you are trying to do…. It’s a positive circle….
Everyone feeding off each other in a good way…. Be it the listener or the
musician…… one cannot live without the other…..
Let us finish the interview onto this
statement! Good luck my cosmic comrade! And let Sendelica prevail! Peter would
you like to say something else?
BUY OUR ALBUMS, COME
SEE OUR SHOWS AND FEED MUSICIANS….. J
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