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Topic: Torgo Posted: November 03 2011 at 17:30 |
TORGO is a US act consisting of Farris Antoon (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Martin Antoon (guitars, soundscapes, vocals, keyboards), Ryan Talbot (bass, vocals, keyboards), Casey Wilkes (saxophone, clarinet, vocals) and Ian Paine-Jesam (percussion). All of the classically trained musicians, and aiming to give their fans a true to life multimedia experience when performing live. Their philosophy as far as performing goes: That the listener should feel like they are watching an opera, listening to a film score, and attending a rock concert all at once. I got in touch with the band and Farris Antoon answered my questions. ##################################################################################### When 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 ?
The band's sound is rather difficult to define, and I think it is in
large part that way by design. The focus is always to make music that is
"visual," in that it works in service of the concept to take the listener on a
journey. We try to create music that is akin to experiencing a film, musical,
and opera all at once, all presented in the form of a progressive rock concept
album. Every member of the band listens to countless different types of music,
and we never saw any reason why we couldn't utilize all of those influences in
the context of one band. Sometimes that means even within one song there will be
a diverse combination of styles, but we always aim to make sure it remains
cohesive. I think the best comparison that I've heard about the band was "if
Tool and Queen had a car crash, Torgo would be the
soundtrack."
What is your plans for the rest of the year and next year ? Now that we've got our first album out, we plan on spending the next few
months playing live regularly while continuing to expand the film and literature
components online. We've already got a few hours' worth of new material
composed, so we expect to begin rehearsing it soon to incorporate into the live
show. To wrap up this interview, is there anything you want to add to this interview ? Of course we'd like to thank you for taking the time to talk to us, and
we encourage anybody who is interested in what we have going on to download a
copy of the album. You can pay whatever you want for it on torgo.bandcamp.com, and we
hope that people find something unique and worthwhile in what we have to
offer. Thank you to Farris Antoon for this interview |
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