| Hailing
from Rome, Italy, NEVERDREAM have released their
debut album around one year ago. The unusual topic of Christiane
F. (Autobiography Of A Girl Of The Streets And Heroin Addict)
as well as many complaisant up to great reviews downright demand
an interview with these friendly musicians. Good humored bassist
Federico and drumming lyricist Gabriele answered all questions
about past, present and future…
Jochen:
Congrats on your first full-length cHristiane F. cHemical
FaitH. I think it’s not perfect but I absolutely like
it and it is definitely a good beginning. How are you doing these
days? As there was to read you guys are back in the studio for
the pre-productions of your sophomore…
Federico: Thanks a lot; we also think Chemical
Faith was a great beginning! Obviously with Souls,
our next record, everything is going to change. Just in these
days we came back in studio and Gabriele is recording his drums
parts! We’re all excited! Everything is going according
our plans, and we’re thinking about introducing our new
record officially on March 2008 right in Germany.
Jochen:
What I want to know first - ok, it’s quite obvious - how
does it come that an Italian band dedicates a concept album to
Christiane F. and the lost kids of “Bahnhof Zoo”?
Federico: Our drummer Gabriele had got the idea after
reading the book and after seeing the film, then he proposed this
idea to the other members of the band and we immediately liked
it. Every one of us already knew the film so it was easy to make
a choice just because of the intensity conveyed by the story and
by the words used in the book, the subject dealt, the feelings
coming out... You have to know that every time we met each other
in the studio to rehearse we had in the room showing the film
Christiane F. on repeat, suffused with light: such an atmosphere…
Jochen:
Are you in touch with her? Does she know about your album? You
already got any feedback from her?
Federico: No, unfortunately not. I confess you that the
idea of contacting Christiane would have been great, mostly to
know her opinion about the concept. Even to contact the director
of the film was in our intentions, seen and considered that we
practically set his film to music.
Jochen:
How was the response so far on cHristiane F. cHemical FaitH?
What I have seen, most ratings are above average :) Did you expect
such feedback?
Federico: They were all very good responses, put in so
good words for us. We knew our disc was a great work and in fact
we hoped to read good reviews, and so it has been.
Jochen:
Any chance to land a deal or distro for it or future releases?
Federico: We’re considering different things. For
sure now, the most important thing is coming back in the studio
and recording the new album. Once finished the recording, it will
be something different. We’re sure of it.
Jochen:
With Fabrizio Dottoris you have a guest saxophonist on cHristiane
F. cHemical FaitH who adds a very own note. On the German
NEVERDREAM site there is to read that Fabrizio is now a permanent
member… So we can look forward to get more sax tunes in
the near future?
Federico: We already met Fabrizio for having worked with
him in some other projects. At the beginning the idea was just
to have some sax supply in Chemical Faith, and then because
of the great result, we decided to integrate Fabrizio in the band.
But this is not the only reason: Fabrizio is a well-qualified
musician, and besides he even helps us in live concerts with keyboards,
programming and backing vocals.
Jochen:
Btw… it’s quite unusual to have a saxophonist on a
metal album…
Federico: Yes, we know it’s rather unusual to have
a sax in a metal band, but we immediately want to avoid any misunderstanding:
NEVERDREAM is a band composed by guys loving
music, very good tunes, arrangements, who loves to convey true
feelings over all. So if at a right moment we feel that a sax
supply could be useful, for sure we don’t really matter
to be out of the classical standard of the music genre. We think
instead this could be original.
Jochen:
…what leads me to the next question: I mean… especially
the fact that you break with “metal standards” makes
your music so exciting. Will you go on with the tightrope walk?
Or will you gonna take the safe path, taking a step back again
to please die-hard metal heads on the next one?
Gabriele: The sound of the new album will be something
more particular than in Chemical Faith,
it has more acid resonances, and electronic parts both like sounds
choices and like harmonious and melodic choices. And at the same
time it’s more powerful and metal than the previous…If
I have to be honest, Souls won’t be of course a safe path
album because of the variety of the influences used, and of course
it won’t be an album to appreciate just at the first listening.
Jochen:
The next record will be entitled Souls 26 April 1986.
Sounds like another concept album? About Chernobyl? Anything you
already would like to reveal about it? What we can expect?
Federico: Yes, the next album called right Souls,
will be a concept album about the Chernobyl event. And just because
of the subject will be treated and interpreted the relation between
mankind and nature, and in the second part will be narrated the
suffering, the tears of a man who has lost his family… What
you’ll have to wait for? A huge amount of riffs, effect
tunes, very good arrangements, more elaborate progressive parts,
dark and psychedelic atmospheres, and all these aspects rose to
the nth power! In a full NEVERDREAM style!
Jochen:
It seems like you are generally pursuing a superior concept, like
to describe special decades musically, something like David Pearce
does with his thrillers in a lyrical way… If so, please
tell us more about it ;)
Federico: Gabriele has had this idea after the release
of Chemical Faith, make concept
album that talk about the sore of humanity in the time. Seventies
for the drugs, eighties for the nuclear etc… I don't tell
you nothing for the other concept albums obviously (ah ah ah)!
We will make an album for every decades starting from the years
40 up to the twentieth century. This to tell the seven capital
sins in our way, not telling those imposed by the “Catholic
church”.
Jochen:
Founded back in 2000 you are still a young band. So I guess you
can’t live on your music yet. Who has enslaved you in your
real life and how to get job and passion under one roof?
Federico: Yes, we are a quite young band, and you absolutely
are right when you say we can’t live only of our music.
We are normal guys who live their lives not just on dreams but
even thanks to their jobs. Of course music is our biggest passion
and we sacrifice us for the band, with a lot of pleasures and
such humbleness. We believe at all in NEVERDREAM,
we know it’s a dream could live only by our music, but in
our opinion dreams are good for health “ah ah ah”.
And moreover you have to trust one day dreams will became truth.
Jochen: You only played one show in Germany, of course
in Berlin. Any plans to tour other German cities with the second
record?
Federico: Ye, we only came in Germany with full Chemical
Faith show one time, exactly in Berlin, even because
the show in Aalen was erased. We’re working to have some
dates in Germany next year as soon as the new album will be released.
By the way I already can confirm you that we for sure will play
in Stoccarda at RockFabrik together with other bands known in
Germany. And if everything will go in the best way, it will be
followed by a little tour of ten dates, all in Germany…
Keep on listening for the news! We definitely want to come back
to Germany because we spent such a great time and so we’re
going to prepare some explosives shows.
Jochen:
Thank you much for spending time on answering these entire questions
:) If there is anything left I forgot to ask or you still want
to tell us, now you can do ;)
Federico: Thank you and thanks to Nocturnal Hall for
the time allowed us. I don’t think we both have forgotten
something, or at least I hope so… By the way, if you want,
we wait all of you guys on March in Germany and keep you informed
on our space www.myspace.com/neverdreamband
and on our German site www.neverdream.de,
which will be soon updated with a new graphic and translated in
German, English, and Italian. See you soon guys!!! |
