Formula Indie Sessions – Interview with Afterwise
What is your earliest memory connected to music?
Listening to out parents’ cassettes and CDs, MTV, and local radio stations
How did your passion for creating music begin?
It’s different for each of us, but a common starting point was getting our first musical instrument at a young age.
What’s the story behind your current music project?
This current music project is the result of about 5 years of effort. Everything is composed by us through experimentation, jamming, personal compositions and synthesis. The album ‘Disintegration’ was recorded and mastered in our studio, BlackBox, by Jim Spanos. The album concept is about reaching equilibrium through disintegration, cycles in life, and the consequences of anthropocentric thinking and illusions.
How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard your music before?
Instrumental, cinematic, effect-driven, structurally linear and not repetitive.
What is one thing you’ve learned that completely changed the way you make music?
Everything in music is an accident, every mistake is a potential discovery.
What tools, instruments, or software are essential in your creative process?
Pretty traditional: guitars, keys, synths, bass, drums. And many, many effect pedals.
Which indie artist or song are you loving right now?
Bruit ≤, Mogwai, The Ocean, Deafheaven, Their Methlab, Mass Culture, among many others.
How have your personal experiences influenced your music and artistic vision?
Like with any art form, we believe that music is influenced by personal experiences and social context. Though, being an instrumental/vocal-less band, our music is more difficult to directly connect to our personal experiences, so in a way, it is a more subconscious process. Regarding our artistic vision, we try to align it with our common values and everyday lives, doing what we want to do with what we have available at each moment. We want to be as interactive as possible, finetune things while maintaining the DIY energy; this is also reflected in what we do for the local underground music scene here in Athens, Greece, through the BlackBox collective that we are part of.
What emotions or messages do you hope listeners take from your work?
We like to keep things abstract, maybe that’s one of the reasons we chose to be an instrumental band. Any emotion our music sparks to a listener is welcome and we consider it a success. If there’s message at the moment, it might by: respect your environment, embrace long-term thinking and empathy, avoid being ‘afterwise’ 😊
What’s the most important lesson music has taught you so far?
Anything that cannot be communicated through words, can be communicated through music
What is a dream venue or festival you would love to perform at?
Arctangent, Glastonbury, or basically any festival or big venue in the UK!
If you could collaborate with any artist, past or present, who would it be and why?
Bruit ≤, The Ocean, Russian Circles – at the moment pioneers in experimental / instrumental rock music.
ISIS – a common reference to all of us, their ability in making non-repetitive, structurally linear music progressions is still inspiring.
Oliver Laxe – collaborate in the sound design of one of his films
Where can our listeners follow and support your music? (Website,Spotify, IG, links)
Bandcamp: https://afterwise.bandcamp.com/track/silverfeedssilence
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3irfoR3vdFzVmPGaP38pkD
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AfterwiseBand
Soon our debut full album will be available on all major music platforms
Looking toward the future, what’s your dream for the next chapter of your musical journey?
A european tour with a 9-seat van and good friends 😊
What do you hope listeners will discover about you along the way?
Nothing really, just our music
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