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Friday
September 12 th 2003
Interview
of Sergio Vilar, Publisher
of the web site Nucleus and Music Director of the broadcast programs "Una
Larga Pasión" and "Radio Babel, from Buenos Aires, Argentina
http://www.nucleusprog.com.ar/ingles/r-quasars.htm
1.
you could introduce the band, one each , for those that don't know you, and to
tell some detail on the beginnings?
The
group was born from a meeting between Flavio and Andrea in June of 1995.
The
common passion for the music and the sharing of the same musical tastes has
brought to the creation of the first song of the band, "The Prophet"
in 1996. From March of 2000 has
entered to belong to the group Giovanni "Alabamas", that has brought
his experience of musical studies .
I
am Andrea. I am fond of music since young and I have played in different
occasions the drums and the recorder . I am fond in classical music (Vivaldi and
Verdi) and I listen gladly to the melodic rock and the pop of the ‘70s /
‘80s.
I
work as electronic technician in a firm of
telecommunications. The Quasars project has involved me since his
beginning, in 1995, and it still pushes me to continue with engagement and
passion during the leisure time. Inside the group I compose the music and I deal
me with to perform all the parts of sinth, drums and the choirs.
Besides
I also deal me with the management of our internet site . The Quasars band is
the result of sacrifices, great interest and strong desire to see to concretize
more and more (Like amateur which we are) our musical project.
Now
I give the microphone to Flavio…
I
am the soloist voice of the group and I write the lyrics of the songs. In the
life I work in a firm of telecommunications. The thing most important for me
when I write it is to avoid to say banal things or already said by others, even
if this is a thing enough difficult, especially in musical field. The Quasars
have been mine first and one direct musical experience. For the rest so much
passion for the music and so many songs of all kinds passed in my stereo.
However I am happy about the experience that I have had in these years. And I
now pass to you Giovanni for his solo….
Inside
the band I play the electric guitar and the bass. My musical training is in
classic music, however I have always deal me with different musical kinds.I have
approached to the rock of the Quasars and I was remained fascinated . I feel me
fully involved in the work of this second disk to which I could be
participate till from the beginning and I am bringing it ahead
with particular enthusiasm .After the presentation now we
pass to the questions.
2.
how would you define your style?
Our
musical kind takes inspiration from models and styles of the years '70s and
'80s.Is a kind that today could be defined "alternative”.
3.
you consider the Quasars a progressive band , or just a group that play the
music that seems good at that time
without stopping to think about which musical style you can to situate your
music ?
We
believe that few (Apart who make only commercial music) take care about to
compose thinking about staying inside a certain style. We also think that every
musician or band while the time goes by evolves him and therefore inevitably
change style. We consider this a growth. And it is what is also happening to us.
4.
you have always remained in the same musical style?
Not
always; in the first disk we made a kind of rock that we could define "spatial",
with many effects and the use of the vocoder.
5.
how is going , currently, the
progressive music in Italy?
In
the years '60s / '70s there were a juvenile ferment very tied up to the
discovery of new values that found
space in the mass movements, in the great assemblies, in the politics and
however in the “ stay together “. The music tied everything and was the most
effective “glue”. There were’nt discoteque
or dance music that could kill that more human dimension .People listened the
words of the songs besides the music and criticized the whole official
discografy that had serious problems of sale in that period. The record labels
drew near to the progressive music because they smelled a "business",
not because they loved that kind of music. Then the phenomenon has passed and
everything is returned in the "underground". Now it needs to accept
the fact that the progressive rock is to appanage of "few but goods".
They are so many the researches and the artistic avant-garde that have not a
good acceptance from majority and this is normal , otherwise avant-garde there
would not to be. Then today with this cultural brutishness that the young people
live, literally disorientated and also drive to dotty , better being particular
, specific that to make themselves
grow foolish from the system. Decidedly we have many doubts that there is a
resumption and a regeneration of
the progressive music in a sensational way . Despite a more and more
strong and dignified return , the progressive music remains still a
cultural phenomenon and not for the mass , specially in Italy.
Today
many young musicians rediscover the progressive music and they propose it with
great courage, but around them circulates little interest and musical
productions are difficult and binding without promotional supports. It is
difficult to survive in a musical jungle where the part of the lion is in the
hands of whom produces and promotes commercial music and music of subculture.
That’s enough to see the hit parade and the
hammering proposals of the mass-media to understand….
6.
which are , according to you, the possibilities and the limitations to make to
know the work of a band as the Quasars inside the Italian musical market?
Also
answering at the same time to the following question, we consider internet a
fundamental tool to make to know our work to the foreign countries and in Italy,
also considering the fact that we make a particular kind of music , not for the
mass , therefore not very suitable
to spread with mass media .And also considering the fact that we haven’t a
producer that distributes our music .
7.
you think that Internet has been, or it can be, an important tool to spread your
music in the world?
You
see the answer to the question 6
8.
how you have planned the diffusion of the disk? What have you done till now in
that direction?
When
we finished the making of our first disk, Empty Spaces, we were not prepared to
spread our work. For the our second album internet has come in help of us and it
has also helping us to spread the
first one.
We
have some contacts with some small record label, still to appraise.
9.
if someone, after having read this interview want to know more informations
about the music of the Quasars, what can he do for having its ?
We
realize on our own our musical productions . We compose, we record, we make the
mixer and we record on support CD
our works and we don't have a producer that guarantees us a musical distribution
of the product…….. At the moment, who was interested to our music, can
contact us to our e-mail quasarsmail@libero.it
10.
How do you think that the music of the Quasars will evolve in the next years?
We
don’t know what will happen in a far future but we think that in the next
years our music will drive to a melodic rock that we could define “
alternative “ , even if is ever hard to define a kind of music or put a label
on .
11.
Many thanks . I would like that you closed the interview with some messages...
We
don't deceive ourselves to become famous. We make our music because we like and
it give us satisfaction. However the thing
that gratify and join every musician, amateur or professional , it is
that others share with him the pleasure to listen to his music. The people's
appreciation, when there is , make
you understand that you have done a good work . So , we hope that who listen our
music send us a message and let us to know what they think of it . For the
moment we send you many greetings
from “ the other side of the world “.
Thanks
again, with affection, from your friend in Argentina
Sergio Vilar
__________
Jorge
Sergio Iglesias
Spanish
musician and composer from
Santiago
de Compostela
Critique published on the site:
http://www.articmist.org/direct/c_empty_spaces.htm
on
the 11’t / 04 / 03.
Hello
Quasars!
This
is my modest review of your CD "Empty Spaces." I can say that I judge
your music really interesting . I really like it . I hope that you don't have
difficulty to translate my words in Italian from the Spaniard . (Ah !.. I have
also put my comment on your Guest book...)
http://www.articmist.org/direct/c_empty_spaces.htm
Greetings
!
Jorge
Translation
of the critique
Before
receiving from the three components of the Italian band "Quasars"
their first job, "Empty Spaces", I didn't know yet what I would have
discovered to the first listening. The adjectives that I had listened or read
reported to this group went from "band" of alternative music up to
band "spatial rock" inspired to a part of the music directed to this
style in the years 70 and 80. Trying to understand what I would have had to wait
me, I visited their page official web, http://www.quasars.cjb.net, to know more
about the way to make its music of this Italian group.
The
waiting for a short time it was completely worthwhile . After having listened
the 5 tracks of "Empty Spaces" I remained completely surprised. They
says that their name "Quasars" it tries to evoke spatial atmospheres.
What will result clear when to this disk is listened is that, although of modest
realization (Recorded in the "Microstudio" home of Andrew, the
keyboards player of the band and product on his own through the "Microrecords"),
it shows, as it regards me some clear and personal musical ideas.
It
is not frivolous music and without spirit. All the contrary.
4
years are taken for giving the form suitable to the disk , but finally in
December of the year 2000 the disk saw the light. Andrea (keyboards, percussions
and various electronic tools ),
Flavio (soloist voice) and Giovanni (Bass and electric guitar), with the initial
collaboration of Cristian and the support of the friend Fabrizio, has succeeded
to realize a disk in which I can see clear influences of the most real “ Space
Rock “ , but also with touches of symphonic rock and electronic music and the
presence of a clear base of synthesizer in the themes. The five songs are
powerful, with a base of percussion well marked , and with curious turns of
bass guitar that were insert perfectly
in the whole . Her good setups of the keyboard are always punctual and the voice
of Flavio invites us with its lyrics to visit desolate planets, trying to drive
us in spatial adventures, as it says in " A
New Life": "And when I ‘m flying near the black holes, I look
at my video... and I think
sometimes at the Earth, irretrievable now ... but I’ll survive... " .
When
you will listen to these five songs you will remain with the desire to be
involved more and more by the rhythm of the Quasars . Nevertheless , they
already works to their new disk that will be
call "Lightears" and that according to themselves it will
contain a lot of surprises. We attend with trepidation...
Jorge
Sergio Iglesias
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