DomminLe 01/12/2009
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LAM : your music is a mix between what we could say gothic metal with songs like ‘My Heart Your Hands’ or ‘Closer’ and there is some really rock songs like ‘New’ or ‘Dark Holiday’ which sound like spooky cabaret like jazzy and there is some very slow song like ‘I still lost’ or ‘Remember’. How do you create your music? What is the most important part of that ? Do you let the song lead you to create a song or is it the purpose of the song or…
K D : The most important for me is be passionate and honest like I what to make sure that whatever the song that I’m creating I what to make sure most people … have some king of impact. I never want to be put inside a box where I can’t write a different kind of songs. That’s why I’m unconscious I put on this album to include some heavier like slower stuff. Sucking old cold metal like ‘My Heart Your Hands’ to really straight old rock stuff like ‘One Feeling’. Even more introspective with a song like ‘Honestly’. And I really want to be free to create. I approach music more like a song writer stamp point than anything else. So for me it’s always what’s right for the song. And I don’t think you do a song like ‘Remember’ like a metal-song. It’s not the same impact. So for me I’m always doing what’s right for the song.
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LAM : Everything depends of the feelings you put in the songs…
K D : yeah, I mean same music, I think, contains certain emotions, certain feelings better than others. So if I was angry I was writing an angry song. I certainly couldn’t do it for a song like ‘Honestly’ or ‘Remember’. What just wouldn’t come across. There wouldn’t be even a feel of anger. You know what I mean. So it’s definitely dependence of a feeling. And the feeling determine what kind of song it wants to be.
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LAM : You say that ‘Love is gone’ is a painfull album for you. Why did you choose to express yourself in an album like that and to show your feelings to everyone if it’s so painfull. Is it something like an exorcism for you?
K D : For me it’s just a … I don’t really know any other way, music as always be an out lack for me. You know there’s a appropriate kind of music for every occasion. There music more for background and there is some music more for making you move, or getting you worked out like more aggressive music, heavy music. And for me, I’m just not really inspired by something I don’t really care of. I can’t really write what I will consider a good song to listening to, that’s about arguing or something. Because to me lt’s like… It’s not going to inspire me. So naturally, the things that inspire me are the things I care about the most. You know: love and the absence of love and the constance of love of the people that I care about like my family or you know relationship. And so naturally if I’m writing about those things and if I care about those things so much I will be passionate about it. And I think that comes across my music.
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LAM : What is for you the feeling you prefer to talk about in a song ?
K D : I don’t really have a preference for a feeling. It’s just a matter of whatever… You know, for me it’s not important what feeling, it’s writing a song. It’s more important for me to make sure, that I am put ahead by feelings. And that makes people feel what I feel.
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LAM : For ‘Love Is Gone’ did you change some score from ‘Mend Your Misery’, because there is 5 songs that we can find on each album.
K D: Yeah, we recorded a little from scratch. I mean we started over again, because I wanted to make sure that every thing sound like they did two or three years ago. I wanted to make sure that the sound was consistent and also for me a song is never completed, never finished. I’m always kind of making changes, even in live, there are something that change.
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LAM : in which conditions did you recorded the album because we can see a small video on the internet where you seem to record the album in live conditions.
K D : There were some parts that were done live. And other parts that were, like when you double guitar tracks or things like that.
The nice thing is that we pretty much done everything in one take. Maybe 2 takes at the most.
Obviously the singing wasn’t done live
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LAM : Is there a song on ‘Love is Gone’ that you really prefer to perform? And if yes, which one it is?
K D : My favourite song on the album is the title track ‘Love Is Gone’ that’s my favourite one, but not on stage to perform. I think my favourite one to perform is ‘Without End’.
To me in live that comes across way more epic than it does on the record. That’s the one among all the song we play live, that people are really reactive the most.
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LAM : There are 2 versions of the video clip ‘My Heart Your Hands’ on your YouTube page. Why did you record the same video clip twice?
K D: Actually, that’s funny, we actually shot a third one just 3 weeks ago. Because the first one we made, we made it ourselves. It was directed by the keyboards player Konstantine. So he did his first shot of a video. And so because of maybe some of the scene and because, you know… We didn’t have good lightning we did have proper equipment for shooting a video. So we thought maybe the first video we did ourselves was maybe too dark and not appropriate for a regular tv. So we decided to shoot an other video. And so we have that. And after having this video, I think that everybody thought we could maybe do it ourselves again but maybe out of the box, the first time the people see a Dommin, they maybe could view a better version of the video. So look the video again, and now we’re working with the director called Phil Mucci. He directed an other video. And I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m looking forward to see the first shot.
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LAM : A last word, you would like to add. Maybe you know some words in French.
K D : (rires) I have a little translation book, and I try to learn French in a very short time. But all I can really say is ‘hello’, ‘please’, ‘thank you’ (rires). Somebody told me that’s all you need to know. We really looking forward to play here. For me music is a really intimate thing and it’s very personnal. So I hope people will give music a shot and give it a welcome. And then becoming fans. I, you kwon, I look forward to meet them first and they come to our show. Usually, specially as an opening band, for a band like Lacuna Coil, once we are done playing, we watch the thing out in the crowd. And enjoy the show with every body. I hope people come up and say hello. People in France and people all over Europe, wherever we’re playing and really connect with them on a personal, intimate level.
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LAM : Thank you so much,
KD : Merci
LAM : Have a nice day in France.
KD : Thank you very much, thank you
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