Sunday, August 4, 2013

Azoora - 130804 - Music Manumit Podcast

Azoora



Audio
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In this episode:
We talk with the band Azoora


Here are Doug's note from the interview.

https://myspace.com/azoora

http://www.23seconds.org/azoora.htm

http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/338968/azoora (now defunct)

https://soundcloud.com/azoora

www.lastfm.com/music/Azoora

www.discogs.com/artist/Azoora

www.soundclick.com/azoora

Azoora from our past:
http://www.musicmanumit.com/2010/08/music-manumit-music-only-podcast-100828.html

Tell us about the band/project and tell us what’s new!
Band members

Paul Loader: Songwriter / Vocals / Guitar

John Purcell: Producer / Composer / Multi instrumentalist

Ben Cochrane: Drums

Trudi Lawrence: Backing vocals

Special guests: Graciellita and Jon Partelow

another Jon P is in Arizona but moving to LA

Jon P...not to be confused with John P...

Singer is in Sweden

Krautrock

New releases coming up!

Another instrumental

one of the new releases is classical/post-rock

23 seconds on Music Manumit: link

How does the process work?
John remixes all the tracks! (when working with Paul)

John is the guy with the computer! (Pro Tools specifically)

Paul and John lived in the same town before

Picked

London to Malmo: http://goo.gl/maps/W1bQD

Johan was just getting started with 23seconds (23 seconds is in Gothenburg).

basically, everything is

What about Spotify?
Johan (23seconds) is doing that

John was a little hesitant about iTunes

What drew you to Creative Commons?
Wanted to put it on the Internet

Why do you use the the license you use?
There has been an evolution

What about Jamendo?
Not allowed to sign up for other collection agencies these days

What about C3S?
John signed up to the newsletter.

Videos?
http://www.23seconds.org/azoora-videos.htm

YouTube is used like Spotify

Bleep Lab?
Thingamagoop - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue1esrT33tU

John P has synths and stuff

Ben lives down the road from John P

Drums?
Not an acoustic drum kick, but sounds good!

It’s a real kick, just electronic....so no microphones.

Ben plays in a lot of cover bands and such

What is your (John P) background?
piano lessons

obsession

Computers?
quite a long time ago...tail end of the 90s

computer is actually glorified tape recorder for thems.

He likes actual knows and guitar pedals

moog on Netflix - http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Moog/70034246

Where did the project name originate?
Just made it up!

What the hell is http://www.azoora.com/ ? Related?
They grabbed it!

Maybe it’s their name

Artwork
Paul’s girlfriend does all the artwork

Tell us, who made the artwork for one of our former guests?
Doug thinks it might be Louis Lingg and the Bombs

Shows?
Nope...just an excuse for getting drunk in the past.

No physical releases either

New album?
John P is working on instrumental

might sound pretentious

Paul is on a bit of a hiatus

Compilations?
FrostClick basically said “Can we release it?” - Link

Who are some people you think we should try to get on the show (aka, who are the important people in Creative Commons music today)?
Nina Paley

Mike Masnick ← is he really a music person? Maybe we could.

Dan Bull ← let us know if we should but some extra effort in!

Pete Cogall?

Dark Compass...not CC...or at least not remixable

Closing stuff:
announce new show format.
announce new feed format while we’re at it