Hej Color War!

Göteborg har ett fint gäng klubbar där tjejer som på ett eller annat sätt sysslar med musik står i centrum, men popscenen har inte riktigt hängt med i utvecklingen. I helgen ska det bli ändring på det, närLes Femmes S'en Mêlentintar Stora Teatern. Under kvällen kan du bland annat se Brooklynbaserade duonColor Warpå scen.

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Hi Color War! What are you up to?

Lindsay Mound: – We're going on a Euro Tour!

How'd you introduce yourselves to the Swedish masses?

Billy J: – We get some statistics on plays and downloads per region and Scandinavia is second on that list. We hope this show will serve as a proper introduction. It’s our first time playing in Europe so we are incredibly excited!

And what can we expect from your gig here on Friday?

BJ: – A transporting sensory experience.

LM: – Not necessarily to our native USA, but into a new existence of colored lights and undulating patterns that you can hear as well as see.

You're combining music with visual art. Why is that so important?

BJ: – Audio and visual interact intuitively, perhaps the most seamless pairing of senses besides taste and smell. We draw inspiration from art, film, literature and other music, and we feel these forms are continuously in dialogue. For our live show, we’ve integrated visuals into the performance, creating projection-based installation works manipulated live by our visual collaborator Brandon Sciarrotta.

And how do you hope the combination affects the listener?

BJ: – The goal as always is to help the audience escape our present reality to achieve an ecstatic place.

LM: – The visuals are a way to bring listeners deeper into the Color War experience. With meandering psychedelic visuals present, listeners engage more emotionally with the performance and less with the limitations of being in a physical room.

In what ways have you guys benefited from having a background in visual arts, rather than in music?

LM: – I don't know if I'd call it a benefit, but coming from an art background, we are interested in the overall feel or emotional impact of a song, than its technical structure. We often abandon structure for feeling. Some songs build forever and never drop, some are monotonous. This is about feeling, not about song science.

BJ: – I think I’ve always visualized music in three-dimensional space, particularly since we incorporate electronic instruments and are involved at every stage of production. My background is in photography, and I feel that building a song piece by piece is very similar in process to shooting in a studio. Layering instruments, determining pace, flow, structure, adjusting frequencies comes naturally like composing an image, choosing its colors, lighting and so on. I think there are a lot of parallels between mediums, and I’m very interested in exploring the area in which they intersect.

Les Femmes S'en Mêlent is for bands with mainly female members. Do you think it's important to have that kind of events?

LM: – Sure. It's important to have all kinds of events, but women in music can always use more exposure. The industry is pretty well balanced these days, but the rockstar is a male archetype and the pop star is female. It's important to carve out space for women to be more than pop divas and for men to be other than rock'n'rollers.

It feels like every other person in the world wishes they lived in Brooklyn, but you actually do. What is it that's so great about the place?

LM: – The 99 cent stores if you ask me. But really it's the proximity to such a variety of things. Food, art, jobs, communities, fashion, landmarks, bars… it's all there. But without the headache and with half the pretentiousness of Manhattan.

BJ: – And for nearly the same price! Brooklyn rent has really shot up in the past few years, to the point we’ve all moved further and further out. Lindsay and I used to live in the same building, same floor, which was a breeze for getting together for practice, but now she’s moved like an hour away. Meanwhile, Manhattan prices are dropping…

You just released It Could Only Be This Way. Which song on the album do you think represent Color War the best?

LM: – We may not agree on this, but I would say Obelisk. I think the vibe, the subject matter, the vocal range, the undulating sonic space is all very Color War. But I think there are a lot of clues toward our new musical directions that you can find in songs like Baby Don't Make Me Worry and I Like It This Way.

Morrissey gets daffadills and Tom Jones panties. But what do you wish people threw on stage when you're playing?

LM: – Are glow in the dark glitter roses a thing?

Karin Londré

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