![]() ![]() Yako: I just write what I see and feel in my usual life. What subjects do you usually deal with and where do you draw inspiration from to write them? Yako, Melt-Banana is known for its very strange lyrics, that are always difficult to figure out. We have a lot of tracks that we had not put out and it is because we are not satisfied with those songs or they do not fit on an album.Īgata: There are some good ones I think and we might release those on 7 inches in the future. Yako: We always try to do something new for ourselves. It just takes time to write new songs that we satisfied with. What caused this change of pace?Īgata: I’m not sure. Bambi’s Dilemma followed four years later, then it was six years till Fetch and now it’s also been four year without a new album since. I think she is very busy with her own life.Įarlier you released a new album every year or two, but it changed after Cell-Scape. What happened with her?Īgata: Nothing happened between us, I have not met her for more than 5 years now. You were playing with different drummers all the time, but bassist Rika, even though she was only a support member, was with you for a long-time. Yako: I think we noticed there are some possibility doing shows with a computer when we did Melt-Banana Lite using a computer. And Melt-Banana Lite live album is also with a drummer. Concept for Melt-Banana Lite was doing something without guitar and bass guitar and actually we were playing shows as Melt-Banana Lite mostly with drummers in Japan. Is this new line-up somewhat of a continuation of the Melt-Banana Lite project, that you also did as a duo?Īgata: Not really. We bring many speakers to feel good for ourselves. So we asked if we could play using a computer and they said yes, so we started programming drums and bass to play the show.Īgata: We look different from last time on stage since only 2 people are there, but I think we are loud enough compared to a 4 piece band. We wanted to take part in it because it was curated by Shellac ( sound engineer legend Steve Albinin‘s band) who is our favorite band and also we know them for a long time. Yako: In summer in 2012, we had no touring members and got an offer to play at one festival in UK which was called All Tomorrow’s Parties. What were your reasons and how much did your live sound change compared to the times you played as a four-piece?Īgata: There is no big reason, we just found it fun playing a show with a computer. Since your last visit in Hungary in 2010 you reduced your previous full band live line-up to the duo of the two actual core members, Yako on vocals and Agata on guitars. ![]()
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