In the rehearsal space, we write with constraints of what we can achieve in a live setting with ease. There is no use writing to everyone’s absolute limit, because it’ll be impossible to replicate with finesse.
In the studio, we create music with those compositions as the framework and go nuts, exploring any and all ideas. We enjoy taking our live music to new sonic places on our records. Conversely, we like taking our recordings to more extreme energy levels while performing. Our goal is to universally blow your mind.

The effectiveness of the pedal sages is like a fairy-dust light switch to the brain. How are these pedal runs put together?

We use pedals to create different landscapes within our music. We slide between sounds, constantly shifting moods and dynamics. Pedals are a way to give each section/idea its own feel, to create a true flowing story. We spend a lot of time working on the perfect pedal combinations. It is laborious, but eventually quite a payoff!

Your packaging aesthetic perfectly complements the aural bliss. How does the packaging fit into the whole?

We have always salivated over lush album art. Be it terror inducing metal, or the modernism of classic jazz. We try to create a visual counterpart that tells its own tale and supports the sounds within. We want the art to be gorgeous and for others to salivate over it!

Got any basic touring advice?

Remain a team on the road, don’t get divisive. Eating well is of extreme importance cause we like to party at night! Everyone needs access to their vices so we can all feel good, as long as that happens, things’ll be alright. Some folks are made for the road. Some ain’t. It’s floors across the galaxy, but I wouldn’t have it any other way!

Looking into Otracina’s crystal ball, what’s the future?

We make music and organically create our current sound as a mixture of what musics we have played before, what music we are currently studying, and what music we think we want to be making. We never actually achieve that. We just end up sounding like us!
We explore many realms of heavy based musics, incorporate ideas from jazz, modern composition, etc. People think we’re just metal or psych or prog. Anyone who cares to listen will hear a different thing. We’ve always been all of these things. We just get bored. So we morph, we are wizards, you know? Most folks can’t jive with that. Miles Davis said, “what are we supposed to do, wait around for them to get it?”