Melphomene
From
México, is for you!
The Interview
By Darkzen
Greetings friends! This end of month, I have
this great interview with a band with style and eager to make his mark in the
Metal and National scene in México, Melphomene! which leave us and tell us who
they are!
Greetings
from México, it's a pleasure to know about you guys
¿How have you been guys?
Melphomene: Hi!
What's up, We have been fine. we are very busy and happy with Melphomene
¿How did the band begin?
Mario: The band gradually emerges and started when
Esthibaliz and i decided to rescue many old songs, that we had saved since a
long time ago.
We had
never used this songs before.
We decided
to rescue them, update them and remove dust, from that moment we created a new project where we could play
all that songs.
¿What does the name of the band mean?
Mario: Melphomene is the greek muse of the tragedy
and also was considered the muse of the singing, the harmony and the mother of
mermaids.
We decided
it was the right name for the band.
¿Esthibaliz is your real name?
That's
right, it is my real name.
Its origin
is Basque and it means "made of honey".
¿What has been your vocal and musical
training?
Esthibaliz: My training has been within the classical
singing, this has allowed me to develop a technique and a wide vocal range.
I like
many musical styles and try to use every style and every technique in my
musical repertoire.
I studied
the singing career in the University of music in Mexico and took lessons of
classical singing for many years.
¿What are your musical influences, bands or
singers that have influenced you?
Esthibaliz: My main influence and also favorite singer,
is the soprano Joan Sutherland. Tarja and Nightwish have been an strong
influence in my music.
Bands like
dream Theater, Aesma Daeva, Rhapsody, Within Temptation and pop artists like
Michael Jackson and Madonna.
¿What are your activities offstage? What are
your hobbies?
Esthibaliz:
Offstage i'm dedicating to the music and the art. I'm a private singing teacher
and i have a chorus with my students.
Also, i'm
still studying singing, acting and dancing to continue my artistic growth.
¿What is the essence of Melphomene? What do
you want to share us?
Mario: We want to share what we are, what we like,
the ideas that inspire us to compose our music. Besides, we want to share the
incredible voice of Estibaliz.
This genre
had always liked us but we had never had the opportunity to explore it.
Melphomene
is feelings, ideas, inspiration, exploration, experimentation, ideals and
dreams from all of us.
¿What can you tell us about the EP
"Destructive Crescendo"? How was the production?
Ignacio: It was a curious and funny process, i had
just entered to the project when the recording started. The songs were taking
form gradually.
Mauricio: The ideas were pretty clear and it was easy
to carry them out.
The
tracking of the drums was made in two days and the rest of the instruments were
added little by little at the studio.
¿Did you write some songs?
Esthibaliz: Yes, Mario and i. We take care of the songs,
but there are collaborations from the other members of the band.
Mario composed "Always" and "Little
sins", the song "Mother night" was composed by our friend Jorge
Castilla.
"Howl"
is a song composed by Omar Silva who was the former bassist of the band. I took
care of write the lyrics and the voice melodies.
"Maiden
and Death" is a song that was elaborated in collaboration with other
friend of ours, Adrian Gallardo. The music of that song was totally created for
me.
Finally,
in the song "Destructive Crescendo" Mario and i decided to work
together, creating the music and lyrics.
¿It will have a video clip?
Ignacio: We have been talking about make a video and
we want to have a good visual material to share. We will give you more information
later.
¿What do you guys think about the survey that
won for the Female Metal Voices Fest?
Mario: It was a great surprise, we realized of all
the support that we have, from the people who voted for us.
We are
excited of have won, in this poll there was a lot of great bands. Bands from
all over the world.
Win this
poll means that more people will know us through, people from other countries,
not only from mexico.
¿What do you guys think about the Female Metal
Voices Fest?
Esthibaliz: We want to play in this festival. Is a
festival very famous where all the important bands within the genre come.
Besides,
this festival helps to a new bands and we'd like to play at this festival in
the not too distant future.
¿There's something else you guys want to share
with us?
Esthibaliz:
Keep you aware with all the relative of us, continue supporting us and keep
listening our music!
Thanks for
all the support and all the affection!
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