i trespassers william sono un trio, al loro terzo lavoro (uscito quest’anno “having”) si può dire che abbiano raggiunto la loro vera maturità da un punto di vista musicale, di sound.i loro riferimenti sono abbastanza vari, il principale probabilmente sono i mazzy star, con la stessa poesia e la stessa morbidezza, lynn e la sua voce accompagnano storie di disillusione, di amori finiti e di sogni. un loro disco (che straconsiglio di ascoltare) è una gemma e si intitola “different stars” e per chi scrive è superiore (con tutto il fatto che ami hope sandoval e i suoi ex-mazzy star) a qualsiasi disco di quel gruppo che ormai non c’è più. i trespassers william sono la dimostrazione che la musica può andare avanti..non rimanere ancorata a un clichè..trespassers william sono poesia nella nebbia..

“Trespassers William” where does this name come from?
Matt: The name comes from “Winnie the Pooh”. More specifically, thereis a series of books that explain the Chinese philosophy of Taoism through Milne’s Pooh (The “Tao of Pooh” and the “Te of Piglet”.) Anna-Lynne and I were both reading these books when we first started working together and when we needed a name for the first few shows we starting playing, we pulled that name from a story in one of the books.I was a bit random, but it stuck…

About your music, you’re one of those groups that from the beginning found the “right sound”, the right way (your way of course), and during the years (and the following albums) that sound became richer but equally consistent with your roots. It seems that everything comes from your hearts in your record they always seem so honest. Is it difficult not selling out your musical ideas? Your musical honesty?
Anna-Lynne: I often think that the most important thing that can come across in someone’s music is honesty. But that is such a subjective thing to try to judge, you can only go by the way the music makes the listener have an honest response, I suppose. And while there are elements that have always been in our music, and always will be, I think there are elements that we have purposely and accidentally moved away from. I certainly think the performances on our earliest record, Anchor, come from a different background of experiences and influences than our last two records. And each record so far has come with the addition of one new band member which has a big impact on the sound. On my own part, I am only interested in approaching a few subjects with music. Love, death, and trying to create something. Other things interest me, but I’d never want to write a song about them, they wouldn’t fit with the sort of melody I write. I hear my voice change as I change, but I will continue to tell particular types of stories with music. As far as selling out, I don’t think I even have the ability to write a straight-up pop song so that is not something I have to consider. I like long formats, I prefer space and slowness. I really enjoy joyous harmonies and intense rhythms in other people’s music but wouldn’t choose it in what I do. Even what I consider pop music is probably not the sort of stuff that does well on the charts.

Here in Europe you had more visibility for “a love song for bobby long” soundtrack. Did you see the movie? Did you enjoy that? Where does this collaboration come from? Your cinematographical tastes?
Anna-Lynne: I am not sure who was involved in the film that chose to use our music but we happily gave our permission. i think a serious independent film is a perfect setting for our music, scarlett johansson is a favorite i think of everyone in the band. I’m glad to hear that the movie was received well in Europe, it’s hard to know things like that over here. I was able to see the film at an early screening, but missed out on getting to sit in a theater with a real audience and experience it. I watch lots of movies, particularly quirky or scary ones. I hope our music is used to enhance many films.

Anna-Lynne and Matt you started everything, I suppose (correct me if I am wrong) that one of your greatest influence were Mazzy Star, I found in your cd’s the same melancholy, (a sane melancholy) Which were your other musical influences? and now whose are the artists you feel more related to?
A – There are some bands that i probably listened to in excess in high school when I first learned to play the guitar and write music: U2, the Cure, Tori Amos, the Cocteau Twins. I can understand the Mazzy Star similarities, and I had heard some of their songs when I met Matt but I would have to guess that it was actually the Patsy Cline and Velvet Underground music that I had been brought up on that really led to that parallel. I would like to think that people don’t just end up sounding like the bands that they like but more like the life that they’ve led, that some of our vocal tone comes from the shape of our body and not just the songs we sang along to as teenagers. I hope that i sound like Me, I guess I’m trying to say. The people I have listened to most certainly aren’t the ones I sound like – like Tom Waits, ha ha.I would say that paying attention to Lisa Germano’s career has had an impact on me as a writer. She has found really different approaches to discussing similar themes on her records, and with consistently more beautiful sounding results. I listen to her a lot.

Your last “Having” seem to have a bit more electronical spirit then the other albums, was this an experiment and are you going to try to use this in your next records or was it just helpful in the arrangement of some songs (like safe, sounds for example)?
Ross:I like to use the word “experiment” for pretty much any music that we create. The last record used electronics and the new record will probably use more, but in a different sense. Before, most of the electronic sounds were actually acoustic instruments. The electronic sounds on No one, for instance, are acoustic. Sometimes we manipulated them with computers, but mostly, they were traditional instruments played non-traditionally. These days, on stage, we don’t really use computers or acoustic instruments at all. There are more organic samples, live effect pedal manipulation, electronic percussion, looping, effecting of live vocals, live mixing. A lot of the equipment on stage is more suited to DJs than to rock bands. Some of this can be heard on our live KCRW session. As you’ll see, the sound of the band really hasn’t changed that much, just the method and vocabulary we use to create that sound.

In Different Stars you covered U2′ Love is Blindness, it feels very comfortable with your attitude, you had a great courage because I don’t remember any cover from u2. Was it an accident (to make a cover) or do you think you can repeat the thing? which artist would you like to cover?
A – Very soon after Matt and I started to collaborate, we were already playing live to an audience. So we only had a half dozen songs or so, and would sometimes play 2 or 3 hour sets, which made it necessary to play our songs multiple times as well as lots of cover songs. Our record collections overlapped greatly so we threw together versions of many cure, london suede, morrissey, portishead, james, and U2 songs to name a few. love is blindness worked particularly well and we played it for a while in our first year of coffee shop shows. a few years later, after we had recorded Anchor and had plenty of our own material, we were asked to record a U2 cover for a tribute cd entitled Even Better Than the Real Thing – we asked suggestions from fans on-line as to which song we should try and Love is Blindness ended up being the one. Our band line-up had changed so the recording was a vast improvement on the early coffee shop version. We haven’t played that cover since, I don’t think, we don’t usually play covers live anymore. I did record an Idaho song recently though, “To be the one”, which might surface somewhere. But not on an album, we already have 2 covers on our albums and from now on we’ll stick with our own songs because we have tons of those. I feel that the reason we included Vapour Trail and Love is Blindness on albms was because the recordings had a slightly different quality than we usually have, a quality we wanted to express on the record. Sometimes it’s easier not to take yourself so seriously and just improvise with someone else’s music instead of pain-stakingly crafting your own. Though the painful personal music is what lasts longest and therefore remains in our set.
You Toured with Damien Rice, Lisa Germano, was it a good experience to share the public with these artists so close to your musical ways?Matt:: Yes it was. It is always humbling and exciting to share the stage with artists that we respect so much. Touring is always complicated, but ultimately always worth it.

Are you going to make a European Tour sooner or later?
Matt: Yes. Probably later than sooner, but we are working on it right now!

Your current listenings? Do they contemplate your tw’cd’s? which songs do you prefer to listen to? In which moments?
Ross:The new Oneida record “Happy New Year” is one of the most exciting rock records I’ve heard in a while. I’ve also been listening to every Volcano the Bear record every day. Also, the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music is a favorite. The albums will definitely anything I create in the future. On the last album, I was listening a lot to Talk Talk’s “Laughing Stock”.
A – I used to listen to music all day long but lately I think about an hour a day is all that I crave. Keeps me more enthusiastic to play music when I don’t have a dozen other songs in my head. My favorite recent albums were put out in 2004 and 2005: Interpol, Iron & Wine, Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Cocorosie, Animal Collective. All of those artists create gorgeous creative records from start to finish. And some of my long-time favorites are Radiohead, Kent, Lisa Germano, Cat Stevens, Elbow, Sigur Ros, Will Oldham, Hayden. I just heard Under Byen on the radio recently and was very impressed, I’m trying to track down their record in the US.
Matt: I’ve been into a lot of instrumental electronic and post-rock lately. The new Mono, Boards of Canada, the Octopus Project, Antlerand, Kid Koala, Talkdemonic, Mogwai, Arovane, and Mum have been in serious roatation for me. Also I’ve been going back to the Cure quite a bit latley…
Thanks for the answers guys (and Lynn),

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