Taurus & Pisces
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Topic: Taurus & Pisces
Posted By: toroddfuglesteg
Subject: Taurus & Pisces
Date Posted: August 20 2011 at 13:20
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TAURUS & PISCES consist of long-time friends Gert Bruins (Pisces) and Peter Everts (Taurus), who got to know each other in 1985 and have stayed friends since. I got in touch with them and they answered my questions. ######################################################################################## 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 ? Actually T&P didn't start as a band in the
regular meaning of the word. Gert and Peter teamed up as musicians after being
friends for many years. It all started somewehere after the turn of the century
when we decided to sing and play guitar together. Gert had to be encouraged in a
certain way to pick up the guitar , write songs and start singing because,
contrary to what you might think, he's a very modest guy. haha. Before that
Peter had been playing in bands since mid seventies, mostly rock and symphonic
rock orientated. We chose the name T&P simply because, astrologically, Gert
is Pisces and Peter is Taurus. Inertia is our second album and formost the
result of a studio project. After releasing the album we were asked if we could
do the whole thing live, which wasn't our purpose in the first way. We felt
challenged and decided to find some other musicians with which we, as a musical
collective, could performe live shows and arrange new material together.
Our main influences stem from the experimental
adventures in the seventies when all different kinds and types of music were
mixed and put together. A tremendously inspiring era in rock music. Nowadays
you'll find bands as Porcupine Tree and the likes travelling the same path.
How is it to
run a band in Holland these days ? Complicated; Holland is a small country with a
small audience for our style of music and even less oppurtunities to play.
 Over to your only album so far. Please tell us
more about the Inertia album from 2008. As we mentioned before it's actually our second
album. Inertia was written, composed, arranged and recorded in a relative small
studio at Peters house. He lives in an old farmhouse with plenty of space. We
met on many occasions and every session was fun and inspiring. Especially the
proces of recording and producing propelled us in a exiting phase; because we
didn't have a reputation that could be harmed or should be met we felt free to
experiment with all kinds of different sounds. E.g. sometimes we compressed
parts over the top just for fun, to see how it would work out, as we liked it we
decided to keep it that way.
It is my understanding you are now working on
and off on a new album. What can we expect from this new album ? Due to lack of time (we both have our daily jobs
and families) and the fact that we live quite far apart from each other the
proces of our third album turns out te be a bit frustrating in terms of output.
Maybe we should give it the title Inertia as well, haha. Because of our own need
to bring something in the open we're working on the release of a 16 minute
track. The third album will be released after that. We're planning to record all
the new material with a real drummer and lean a bit more on heavy guitar riffs.
For those of us unknown with your music; how
would you describe you music and which bands would you compare yourself with ?
The hardest question so far. Describing music in
words is like saying 'water' to a fish in the desert suggesting it will feel the
wet. Just listen and stigmatise it with your own words. Besides of the new album, what is your latest
status and your plans for the future ? We certainly would like to be on stage more often
because performing for a live audience is uncomparable to anything. But our
greatest wish is to be picked up by any professionals as producers, a label,
etc. that would help us to bring the whole thing to the next level.
To wrap up this interview, is there anything
you want to add to this interview ? We'd like to thank our fans for buying our music and being so patient with
us in delivering our new album. Thank you to the band for this interview Their PA profile is http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4632" rel="nofollow - and their homepage is http://www.taurusandpisces.com" rel="nofollow - |
