| head | phone | over

From the many tales of the Zig Zag Wanderer… Stumbled upon | head | phone | over | tone | in Waterloo. Many conversations were had, met up with the Orange Monkey and by the end of the night umbrellas were flying everywhere.
Lost many o’ things but met up with Calvin and Daniel.

The two unsuspecting gentlemen have played together for about ten years in various projects. But it wasn’t until last year that they realized that they were searching for and developing similar sounds, ideas and musical philosophies. At this present moment they have expanded to include a vocalist from Mexico, Ignea Neblina. What follows is from another string of thought…

How would you describe the music that you guys do?

Calvin: Personal, spiritual, transcendental, allows the mind to wander, it is the accompaniment/documentation of the cycles of seasons, the heavens and the changes in our lives.
Daniel: Watery, nebulous, open, spontaneous, alive, free, fresh… it might get inside you. It’s the soundtrack to a dream, which is appropriate because it might put you to sleep. I suppose I could say it is the sum of our joy and frustration, at any particular time… but, all music is.

Has this changed with the introduction of Ignea Neblina?

Calvin: The music hasn’t changed. The peaks are higher.
Daniel: The light is brighter… she brings another colour to our sphere. Our music likes her voice, and vice-versa. We’ve recently completed a few hours of recordings with her. Unfortunately, she’ll be returning to Mexico soon, so this is her only show with us, for now…

On the new CD, summer of love (pleasing media), there is a conscious effort in achieving a cinematic quality to the recordings as a whole. Does this differ from your live performances?

Calvin: Most of the recordings were improvisational pieces, recorded directly to hard disk, some songs required later overdubs and tweaking, but for the most part what you hear on summer of love are first takes, so the sound is consistent with our live performance.
Daniel: Cinematic in what way? I’m not certain we made a conscious effort to do anything besides create an original sounding record. I believe we succeeded in doing that. If it sounds widescreen, that’s great.

What are some movies that inspire you?

Calvin: The director’s cut of my life… although good cinematography is always an inspiration.
Daniel: Most films I appreciate use music in a subliminal way. Background music should consist of exclamation points, commas, hyphens, etc. — what some people might not even consider to be music. But I believe the purpose of movie music is to underline the drama, not undermine it or sit beside it.

Has this been a summer of love?

Calvin: Yes, to me the phrase summer of love refers to the points in our lives where we feel that we are peaking creatively and emotionally and feel that everything is beautiful.
Daniel: Yes. In several ways. I knew it would be, so I’m glad we settled on that as the concept/title.

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