Q+A / Story (1/5): KIRLIAN CAMERA: Cold pills?

…feed on the wonderful black light.

Unsettling tension, fear, goosebumps, the knowledge of a secret – these are all buzzwords that fit “Cold Pills (Scarlet Gate of Toxic Daybreak)”, but are not enough to even begin to describe the darkness of this eighty-minute mammoth work by Kirlian Camera… Well, Elena manages to dive deeper than we ask her about the album title.

Elena Alice Fossi: The subtitle describes the feeling one can have when watching the sunrise in a deserted street after a long night without sleep. It is an almost tragic dawn, but one that stays with you for a long time, with its taste of malaise, drowsiness, cold and semi-despair. It is a dawn in which the sky reveals reddish scarlet layers, surrounded by a gloomy gray, with melancholy tones. We recognize in this image almost the end of the world as we know it, almost a painful photograph that evokes a futuristic and “intoxicated” decadence.

Orkus: What was most unusual during the process of creating “Cold Pills (Scarlet Gate of Toxic Daybreak)”?

EAF: That was… when we completely changed the route we were initially on! The old “Cold Pills” was much more oriented towards Artpop and Ambient, while we felt no longer attached to such an orientation – at least temporarily – so Angelo and I looked at each other and realized that we didn’t want to put aside the new visions in favor of an idea that had become old in our musical minds by now! So we started all over again. Don’t get me wrong: I really love the atmosphere of “Hologram Moon”, “Blue Room”, “K-Pax”, etc., but I think Kirlian Camera needs to connect with their darker side as well. We need to breathe new musical air all the time. As for more relaxed atmos, maybe there will be time and space in the future, I don’t know, but for now let’s feed off the wonderful black light.

In the next part we talk about the cornerstone of the album, deepest pain and “Blade Runner”.

(Interview: Claudia Zinn-Zinnenburg, Photo: Terri Harrison)

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