Jochen: How would you like to describe the music of LES FRAGMENTS DE LA NUIT?
M & O: We call it music for the night, that’s why our first demo was called like that. It’s a fantastic and emotional vision of our nocturnal and musical exchanges.

Jochen: Do you intend a certain audience for your quite unusual music?
M & O: Not really, we just want to share our music with everyone. At the shows we meet always different people, from 10 to 70. It’s a real pleasure to touch them because we just have a musical message to propose.

Jochen: What’s about the general feedback on your music, and especially on your first record?
M & O: We had really good feedbacks, from a lot of countries, that’s why we don’t want to tour only in France, it’s very important for us. What we liked more was the sincerity and interest of those who wrote to us, we appreciate it much more.

Jochen: It seems that darkness plays a large role for you both, which concerns the name of the band, and the album title. And it’s being a part of your music, which ranges between a sparkling gloom and some kind of slightly melancholic feelgood-sound. What intention is behind this „Jekyll & Hyde“ character (casually speaking)?
M & O: You’re right, we range from tragic to epic. We don’t consider that it’s opposite feelings but complementary feelings. Sometimes it makes you think that we travel from dreams to nightmare but it’s a personal perception and for some people a nightmare is a beautiful and passionate dream.

Jochen: What answer do you give to critics, who claim your music partly too “cheesy”?
M & O: Cheesy? Maybe because we have minimalist intentions. It’s the melt of our influences which are various so we have to condense it in this way. Criticism is very good for young bands, we are completely open to it, it’s necessary for our development each day, but we live in doubt each minute.

Jochen: Although your album isn’t part of any scene of electronic music, some short passages reminded me to Klaus Schulze. Is there a relationship to such music, especially the "Berlin School", mainly in the vein of Schulze and the early works of Tangerine Dream?
M & O: Cool, it’s the first time we hear this! We have repetitive intentions also and we like a lot ambient and weird ambient. LES FRAGMENTS DE LA NUIT is also experimental in some ways; we’re always making a dual with classical and rock possibilities. We’d have to ask Klaus about his opinion!

Jochen: To what extent is the influence of cinema on your music? You have worked on several soundtracks, what’s the relevance of these works for making Musique Du Crepuscule?
M & O: Musique Du Crepuscule is 50/50, some tracks have been composed for cinema sequences (that’s why there is short versions) and other tracks are just music for making travel imagination of the audience. When we began composing, we recorded it on tapes, during the night. It was like fragments we associated and a lot of pictures came to us. It was a natural way to compose for cinema after that and we’re also following this way actually. We’re a lot inspired by pictures.

Jochen: What kind of movies have you accompanied with your music? What are they about?
M & O: For the moment we don’t have international movies but a lot of French productions. Sometimes there are independent directors, other times it’s for French cinema, we don’t have frontiers if we like the movie, and it’s a very important exercise to do it. We have the chance that the movies are programmed on French TV, so now we have an editor company. This editor is an important media and it works on additional music through the world. Check the credits at the end of movies, maybe we will appear now on it - if it reminds you of LES FRAGMENTS DE LA NUIT...

Jochen: Are these soundtracks available on CD or on Vinyl?
M & O: Yes, some are available on CD, but you have to contact the editor: www.kosinus.fr, you can also listen to it online searching for us in their catalogue. Musique Du Crepuscule has been released on vinyl in May 2009, you can purchase it contacting DENOVALI RECORDS - www.denovali.com, a German label who makes us tour also.

Jochen: What are your most important musical, cinematic and literary sources of inspiration?
M & O: Music: Dvorak, Erik Satie, Magma, Arvo Part, Godspeed You Black emperor, Entombed, JS Bach, ethnical music from Java Island, The Cure and too much more...
Cinema: David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Paul Thomas Anderson, Dogme and Danish directors, Andrej Tarkowskij.
Literary: Mikhail Boulgakov, Stefan Zweig, Dostoïevski, Maupassant, Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg, Herman Hesse and too much more...

Jochen: Is LES FRAGMENTS DE LA NUIT a real band or rather a project built by two masterminds?
M & O: It’s a real band! We compose for our musicians and they play it for us, because we know how they play and what they want to play. We are not masterminds, just the slaves of a music which haunts us and we have to serve it every day.
Jochen: Will there be any Live-performances outside of France?
M & O: Sure! We’ll play at The Wave-Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, Germany, on May 29th 2009, just check our myspace. We travel through Europe for the moment, more in the north, Germany and Holland but we’re gonna do the south soon and everywhere they invite us. The best to appreciate our music is coming to the shows, it’s another dimension.

Jochen: Thank you for your outstanding music and the friendly Interview :)
M & O: Thanks for this interview. Bonne Nuit.