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Conor Fynes
Prog Reviewer Joined: February 11 2009 Location: Vancouver, CA Status: Offline Points: 3196 |
Topic: Random Posted: September 27 2011 at 21:34 |
A great band, I loved their album. Their influences show through but they manage to be a unique spin on things. Great stuff!
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Lyu_Rei
Forum Newbie Joined: January 27 2010 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 11 |
Posted: September 21 2011 at 23:53 |
It was difficult but we answered all the questions without google's translator (?)
Thank you so much for the support bro |
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The Truth
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 19 2009 Location: Kansas Status: Offline Points: 21795 |
Posted: September 04 2011 at 10:29 |
I'm just having my first listen and this is definitely something worth checking out, great interview as well!
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tupan
Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: August 22 2005 Location: Brazil Status: Offline Points: 1239 |
Posted: September 04 2011 at 09:38 |
This band is awesome! If you like brutal and funny prog metal, with many avant-garde influences, Random is more than recommended!
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"Prog is Not Dead and never has been." (Will Sergeant, from Echo And The Bunnymen)
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toroddfuglesteg
Forum Senior Member Retired Joined: March 04 2008 Location: Retirement Home Status: Offline Points: 3658 |
Posted: September 01 2011 at 08:06 |
RANDOM are an extreme progressive metal act from Tucuman, Argentina. The band was formed in 2006. RANDOM went through some lineup changes and also some changes in musical style in the years between 2006 and 2009. In the beginning of 2009 RANDOM was close to splitting up but Raul (vocals/guitars) and Pablo (bass) kept composing with the desire of finding a drummer to make RANDOM complete. Just in time, a partner of Raul at the Psychology's University (UNT) accepted the challenge and decided to give RANDOM a chance. So Marcos (ex-FLOW) started playing with the band and a mutual musical understanding and innovative expression took form. After several rehearsals and a few concerts, RANDOM released their first EP "prrimo The". Both that EP and their album is available as free downloads. I got in touch with the band and Raul answered them. ############################################################################################ When, where and by whom was your band born ?
Did any of you, past and present members, play in any other bands before joining
up in your band ? Why did you choose that name and which bands were you
influenced by ? Random appears in 2006, when Pablo and Raul get
together to make some noise. The other musicians changed several times, until
Marcos joined the band. That's when Random was really born, in 2009.
Pablo started playing bass guitar for the first time in Random, but Raul and Marcos were part of other local bands, Cefalea and Flow, both metal bands. We chose this name because it reflects the true
spirit of our sound, always dynamic,
dialectical, constantly changing along with our
selves. That's the way
we feel comfortable working with music, and we think this is
because each one of us listen to very different styles and bands.
Despite this, we share the
passion for some bands, such as The Mars Volta,
Meshuggah, Hella, Tool and Mastodon, to name a few. Your town Tucuman is situated in the Argentine
highlands (?) up towards Bolivia and Chile. Most important; hundreds of
kilometers (1000 ?) from Bueno Aires and Montevideo. How is it to run a band in
Tucuman and Argentina these days ? Please also describe the landscape and the
area to us. Tucuman is
the smallest province in Argentina, but
still, is the most densely populated, people call it
"El Jardín de la República", wich means "The Garden of the Republic". It is very
difficult for a Prog band like us to grow in a country where people mainly
listen to other stuff, like cumbia or pop. But we have managed to be heard
in our country and in many others,
mostly Spanish-speaking ones, by learning how to spread our material on
the Internet.
For those of us unknown with your music; how
would you describe you music and which bands would you compare yourself with ?
It is difficult for us to explain with words what
we do, people often say that we are an Extreme Prog Metal band. But we think
it's useless to put tags when it comes to art. The only certain thing about our
music is the fact that it is unpredictable, and we
believe that is because of freedom and
the undestanding we have reached between us.
In short words,
our music is for those who expect the
unexpected. Over to your only album so far. Please tell us
more about your Todo.s Los Colores Del from earlier this year. "Todo.s los colores del" is the title of our first
full lenght album, in english it means something like "All the colors of the
everything". It is a conceptual album, based in Lacan's conception of structure.
This french psychoanalyst says that the human being,
conceived as a totallity, is not complete, there will allways be a void in
him/her.
Each song of this album tells the story of a character, who has a particular way trying to fill that void we named before. Behaviors such as hedonism, laziness, narcissism, surrendering and others, are reflected in both the music and lyrics. The most interesting thing
about this musical piece is the fact that it is structured like a human being.
Even the music has its own void somewhere during the album, and it will be the
listener the one who will fill it out with his experience.
The album is full
of curiosities and interesting details, very progressive
indeed.
Back in 2009, you also released an EP called
The Prrimo. Please tell us more about this EP. We recorded "Prrimo, the" after a very short
time we started playing togheter. So, for us, that EP was our
way of telling the world we
were alive.
It received an overwhelming feedback from people all over the world on the internet, including on distant countries like Russia. It is free for downloading at our official web and myspace, so does "Todo.s los colores del". Half of your lyrics are in Spanish and the rest
in English. I happens to think Spanish is a great language for metal and any
other music styles. But why two languages on one album and what is your market ?
We have allways listened to bands who sang in
English, that's why we feel more confortable working with that language. Many people in our country criticize us because of
that.
Despite that, in our first
album we wanted to experiment with both languages, English and Spanish, just for
fun.
But we don't
believe that language is
essential in music. We even dispensed on it in the one that we are writing right
now, vocals are there, no lyrics, but anyway, songs will tell you whatever you
want them to tell you. We think that's the main idea in music.
As for the target
market, we believe that music is a
universal language, so ours is destined
to anyone with ears and a willingness
to listen. No space/time boundaries.
What is your plans for this year and beyond ?
We want to share
our music and play live all we can, there will
be Random's music for a while. It would be awesome to play in other countries,
we are looking forward to get some gigs outside Tucuman and Argentina, why not?
To wrap up this interview, is there anything
you want to add to this interview ? Just wanted to thank the PA staff for the
interview and the space to share what we do, we really appreciate it.
Hope all of you guys enjoy our music! Thank you to Raul for this interview Their two releases can be downloaded from here
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