|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Villanelles  |
A
band growing parallel with the returning rock scene, Villanelles will
stick a flower in your gun, but still bring the bang.
It’s
obvious that the Pixies hold a huge part in their history – Villanelles
bring a side of grunge with their indie-pop, which makes their style
raw and lively.
Villanelles are a quirky foursome.
Tristan Baribeau and Kevin Marcello have been playing together since
their first band, and they began playing with Evan Borden a couple of
years ago. Zane Gundersen, trained classically on piano is the
newest edition, and the final touch to Villanelles’ sound. By
bringing in Zane, Villanelles pull a bit further away from rock, and a
bit closer to…fancy. (I mean this in the most positive of ways.)
They’ve got style and personality, but soon they’ll have the unfettered confidence and skill to bring them all the way.
See them Friday, March 13th at the Monkey with Rosesmiths and Parmaga (a part of Maga.)
Deli – It’s a new year! Tell me what’s new with Villanelles.
Tristan
– We have been laying pretty low – the last show we played together was
at the Radio Bean for New Years’ – since Zane joined – last Feb, we
have been going pretty strong, playing in Burlington three or four
times a month.
Evan - We have been doing some recording – we are
preparing to record 6 or 7 songs ourselves, and send them out the Ryan
Power to have them mastered…he is an amazing guy, and he writes
beautiful music himself.
Deli – How do you see the scene in Burlington changing?
Evan – I have been seeing a lot of rock in the Burlington scene lately, it’s been bubbling up…
Tristan
– it’s been amazing just watching the scene change in the last year. I
think it just goes to show there is just time for a change….it’s time
that this city moves into a new direction. It’s always been eclectic,
sort of a bubble. We all know what the last big thing was, and it will
never go away, and that’s not a bad thing…
Kevin – I think popular music is moving away from jam sounds.
Evan
- Lee {from Radio bean} is the guru of the rock scene…even Paddy [from
the Monkey] works at the Radio Bean in the mornings. Of course, Tick
Tick, and Nick Mavadones, they do it for mostly nothing at all but the
joy.
Tristan – In the past year, we have done pretty damn well
for ourselves, like recording the live album with Egan Studios through
Exposure! on WRUV.
I was working at the firehouse gallery, and
one random day, my supervisor asked me to email Jeremy about
something…and in the P.S. it said “What are your 3 favorite rock
bands?” So it was this casual conversation about music that turned into
him brining us on exposure and recording the tracks for free!
Deli – The beauty of a small town…
Tristan
- There are a lot of people n town right now [whom] have the passion
for whatever this new sound is that is developing. People are bringing
what they love into fostering this new development. [ie Burly Song and
Nuda Veritas.]
Deli – Taking off anytime in the future?
Tristan
– we just moved into this great house on South Champlain, we have a
sound proofed studio in the basement. We have the whole house, we
have a back yard, and it’s just a great environment. It’s an
inspirational place…going back to that, we’re cozy.
Deli
- We were talking about the new CD – so your recording an EP? Tell me
about your recording process, and what kind of sound you are looking
for.
Tristan - We have one song recorded already, and we
are doing drum tracks tomorrow night. That’s how we do it, drum tracks,
then Evan, Zane and I can just go over it….
Evan - If you listen
to “Sulferine and Eachother’s Uniforms,” our first album, it’s
representative of our sound, but those songs were all written [and
recorded] before Zane joined the band.
Tristan – It really was the turning point.
Evan
- He comes off sort of shy, but he’s a barrel of monkeys…this is really
his first band. He’s just studied classically for so long.
Tristan
- Kev and I grew up together in Topsham, Maine…Brunswick area. We went
to the same daycare, got on the bus to kindergarten together…there is a
picture of us somewhere…but anyway, we have been playing music together
since we were 15.
Kevin - The first song we ever played live in from of anybody was ‘where is my mind’ by the pixies…at a library.
Tristan - When you develop as a music lover and musician, you carry those earlier influences with you forever.
Deli - What has inspired you most recently?
Evan - Elvis Costello…
Kevin - “This Year’s Model” has become my favorite album of all time as of right now…
Evan - Animal Collective….
Tristan - The Kinks are a huge influence, and I’ve been listening to a lot of the Pogues recently.
Evan
– Oh, and I’ve been deep into the Howlies, we played with them recently
at the Monkey, actually…Oh! And this local guy, Paul and the Mystery of
Gravity – he’s got this beautiful voice and he sings songs about
Frankenstein…and the roadrunner…
Tristan - …gorgeous stuff with a funny backdrop.
Deli
– It’s great that you are so supportive of other local artists.
Are you looking to spread your wings any time soon – to go on tour – or
are you content saturating Burlington?
Tristan - We’re
still growing as a band, developing. This town is changing and growing
too, so we might as well utilize that before we try to go on a huge
tour….we’d rather play to full rooms here, than spend gas money and
play to no one.
Evan - We’ve met all these bands from all over,
and we have been in touch with them about setting up shows in NYC…and
in turn, brining them here to play with us. [It seems that ] unless you
have a giant fucking corporation behind you, you cant really bounce
around the world….
Tristan – But along those same lines, I think
it’s beautiful that businesses are making recording and sharing music
so simple and inexpensive that we can afford to give it away, we can
afford to give our music away…
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
