Friday, August 17, 2007

The Sound Check Interview - Mobius Band

My favorite part about The Mobius Band is your innate ability to sound organic and electronic at the same time. When I play your music it still feels like I'm listening to a rock band. Is "Heaven" along those same lines? Any departures? New methods?

Yeah. I think we are probably worried less about what is organic or electronic rather than just not limiting ourselves to any particular sound.

I love the guitar and I've been playing it since I was 10, but it's not always the best choice for the song. So we try and think of it in really open-ended terms as far as what can make up a song.

Specifically with Heaven, Noam got really into 'circuit bending' keyboards last year, so he was taking apart $5 toy Casio's with a soldering iron and turning them into these amazing, sophisticated machines that sound like a more interesting version of whatever plug-in is popular now. His attic is full of these great Frankenstein instruments. So there are a lot of sounds from those circuit-bent keyboards on the album.



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