20 years ago: ASP + BLUTENGEL + SANGUIS ET CINIS + SAMSAS TRAUM in interview!
From the spirit of cooperation – part 5
(The following interview was first published in the Orkus! issue September 2003)
20 years ago Alexander Kaschte realized with Samsas Traum with the album “Tineoida oder: Die Folgen einer Nacht. Eine Gothic-Oper in Blut-Moll”, a scene music collaboration in a class of its own. We look back and continue the interview with him, Asp, Blutengel and Sanguis et Cinis. What did the artists see then in 20 years, “now”? We’ll get to the bottom of that in the last part.
Asp: “I think if you still have your mind behind it, you can do it at any age. And if they roll me on stage in a wheelchair, I want that!”
Orkus: Can you imagine still making music in 20 years, and if so, the music you are making now?
Asp: I can’t feel and do anything else. So it’s very difficult for me to say at some point in my 40s, my God, I’m way too fat or way too ugly to still be on stage. I already am!
(Peals of laughter from the others)
Asp: I think if you still have your mind behind it, you can do it at any age. And if they roll me on stage in a wheelchair, I want that!
Chris: I could also imagine doing this until someone says I’m getting too old for it, or until I can’t make it on stage anymore or I don’t have any more ideas. But I can’t imagine stopping music in general, I would just concentrate on my label or produce younger artists.
Orkus: You have now always answered my question also in relation to the stage. Is making music inseparable from live performances for you?
Asp: You’ve caught me out a bit now. Being on stage is such a kick, it’s addictive. People give you so much back there, you never have that when you’re producing a record.
Asp: You’ve caught me out a bit now. Being on stage is such a kick, it’s addictive. People give you so much back there, you never have that when you’re producing a record.
Constance: The direct contact is priceless. When you see how people move to the music, how the spark jumps over, no one can replace that. For me, a live performance also has much more to do with making music than producing an album in the studio.
Celine: Live contact with the fans is also very important to us, if only because the songs develop a real momentum through the atmosphere and interaction with the audience.
Alexander: For me, music is mainly about composing and about the song. For me, the recording medium is in the foreground, because composing and recording is such a process of catharsis for me. I’m all about that feeling, expressing that and somehow getting that out of me.
Orkus: Because it’s so insanely warm here right now, finally the question about your summer plans.
Chris: We will be at all the big festivals, even outside Germany. I will also retire to the studio and continue working on my projects there.
Celine: We are in the middle of the preparations for the presentation of our new album.
ASP: I always have more plans than I can actually follow. On the one hand, there is the “Zusammenkunft” to organize, and on the other hand, the “Schattenbraut” comic is urgently due. Many more songs are waiting to be written and I want to start another musical project.
Alexander: I will hopefully go abroad as often as I can and spend some time by the sea. But in any case, do not work.
Interview: Axel Schön, Christian Hector
Text: Axel Schön
Photos: Jens Howorka
Layout and image editing: Ingo Römling
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