Nouveau Riche::
Nial Conway and Conor Gaffney make up Nouveaunoise, Galway’s sample manipulators, electronic beep coaxers and acoustic layerers du jour. Their debut album, Paraphrase Accolade, was finally released this month, which will be a relief to those close followers who have been living in excited suspense for several years in the wake of various sumptuous singles and compilation tracks.
Are you really making new noise?
We’re making music inspired by all the music we listen to and have listened to. Is there such thing as an original though?
How did you end up making music the way you do?
We began with a tape deck, guitar pedals and a few instruments. We had a buzz with that for a while until we got Cool Edit. Then we started recording and editing there. We had Reason at the time too, but it was more enjoyable for us to make our own sounds than use software synths. That’s changed though as software now has become more capable.
Do you see yourself as organic or electronic? Or are they not mutually exclusive?
“Organic” isn’t exactly a genre on its own. But you know, we don’t see ourselves particularly fitted to electronic. Our songs on Paraphrase Accolade fit a pop structure, which is something that is not too common in electronic music.
How do your song titles relate to the songs? Are there any that are literally just unrelated names?
We normally have a working title that’s usually unusable when it comes to publishing the track, while others are made up words. We do think about it though, and try to give a song a title that fits it.
If you could do a split 7″ with any band present or past, with them covering one of your songs and you covering one of theirs, who would it be? And which songs?
Jaga Jazzist. We’d cover All I Know is Tonight and they’d do a psyched out 12 minute version of our Paperdew. It would be snowy Scandinavian jazzy dream pop heaven.
http://www.myspace.com/nouveaunoise
Essential Logik::
Seven inches of plastic was all it took to propel Logikparty into the position of “exciting new band” which they currently enjoy. A Dublin-based four-piece with their own personal styli hovering over unadulterated post-punk, new wave and no wave, the Good Hood/Iodine single established Benni, Gib, Stevie and Daniel as the city’s next fun underground thing to see, even if their hard-nosed style and anti-image is enough to put off the hordes. We talked to singer Benni, who has never been in Abba.
What’s a Logikparty? Is it fun?
The term Logikparty isn’t an actual grammatical phrase in itself, but I guess what it means to me is the ability to be absoutely truthful to myself musically with 3 other people who I know understand exactly what I’m trying to achieve. Sometimes to a frighteningly accurate degree. And yes, it is a HELL of a lot of fun.
Say how you formed, and why?
Logikparty formed about a year ago in May 2009, through a series of chance meetings and unexpected mutual friends. We always just wanted to make music that we wanted to play and would enjoy listening to ourselves.
Everything else (at the beginning) was secondary, but we seemed to get into a groove pretty early on and so talks of recording and gigging ended up popping up quicker than expected. To have received such a reaction to the 7″ too and for it to be picked up from stores abroad so quickly was awesome. So while we still have the basics in tact in terms of drive etc, we are a good bit more ambitious with what we’ll be
doing over the next while.
Have you got plans for an album? How far along are they, if so?
At the moment we’re planning to write for a pretty decent amount of the summer. We’ll be hoping to release again before the end of the year, probably not an album just yet, but more than a 2 track 7″ for sure.
How was the last Hideaway House gig in Dylan Haskins’ house in Deansgrange?
It was amazing. It was such a cool thing to be asked to play the last ever one. What Dylan has achieved with that place is so commendable. It was great to play in a non-venue’ setting in front of a load of people who’d never seen us before and with bands like Jogging and ASIWYFA. Good vibes all night.
http://www.myspace.com/logikparty
Words: Karl McDonald
