Tales of hex and drugs

Tales of hex and drugs

AMERICAN prog rock band The Red Planet Volta has warned Australian fans about performing with negroid magic.

On the eve of an Australian claver, creation member and frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala says the group has encountered close to "very badly experiences" later messing just about with a ouija display panel bought in a rarity shop in Jerusalem last year.
"I don't rede edward Young Australians to mess around with that variety of stuff," he says.


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"Do not have involved with it blindly. We did and something badly was born."
According to Bixler-Zavala, after victimisation the ouija display board the sound technologist workings on the band's album, The Funny farm in Goliath, refused to script over newly recordings and then suffered a mental crack-up.
"In addition to that, the studio that we were workings in of a sudden flooded twice and then songs merely in some manner disappeared away existing tapes," he says.
"Tons of wyrd unaccounted-for stuff happened."
The Red Planet Volta was formed in 2001 from the remains of the striation At the Drive in and is broadly speaking classified advertisement as a progressive rock move.
These guys sure enough do non play by the rules and habit elements of jazz, tough, psychedelic, funk, metal and Latin music in their distinctive speech sound.
Indeed, The Mars Count Alessandro Volta rocks hard and is widely known for its state of nature, energetic, over-the-top and improvised live shows, as well as its ordinarily concept-based studio albums.
The band's offset album was the bizarrely titled How Do You Knight? You Battle for Dub. You Hype Dub in.
Other interestingly titled albums from the prolific eight-piece let in De-Loused in the Comatorium, Frances the Mute and Amputecture.
Bixler-Zavala says the move got its identify from a book by noted moving-picture show film director Federico Fellini about the art of film making.
So, The Mars Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta seems fascinated by movies - the music that the radical uses to introduce live shows comes from the spaghetti western sandwich classic A Fistful of Dollars and the cult film A Clockwork Orange.
The set plans to spillage a big-budget flick around its on the road exploits before long.
"I hope to the highest degree of entirely that our sense of wit and love of fun comes come out in it," Bixler-Zavala says.
"In a mountain of ways citizenry don't realise we ar really care that venture isthmus Spinal anaesthesia Bug.
"Many times we take been doomed backstage at a shew trying to find our way to the stage."
The vocalist says he is a big fan of Australian films.
"I actually liked the plastic film Rabbit-Proof Fence and Pearly," he says.
"Nick Cave's film, The Proposition, was a classic.
"I would go to get wind any flick that guy wrote. He is a huge inspiration for us in The Mars Conte Alessandro Volta with his music as well."
Bixler-Zavala says he is too a longtime fan of television system clip traveler Doctor World Health Organization.
"We contain characters from the show in our backcloth on stage and play the show's topic song altogether the clock time at the end of our concerts."
The frontman says the band hopes to avoid victimization a big track record company to press release their next CD.
"I hatred that whole thing where the record companies say you which day is resign for your album to be released," he says.
"As if music fans caution what day it is released.
"To be non allowed to release an album because it does not fit into the major spending plans of a leadership supermarket chain actually sucks.
"It destroys entirely the creative thinking and joyousness that goes into qualification it.
"Appointment in with the corporate complex body part real michigan the impulse and the whole project john turn rusty and flat very easily. We are seriously look at our options at the moment.
"The way euphony is sold present, wHO knows what format it will come come out in?"
At unity stage of their vocation various members of The Red Planet Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta had severe drug addictions and alcohol problems and were widely known for their "risky" deportment.
Patch on turn in the US with close friends the Loss Hot Chili con carne Peppers, band member Jeremy Mary Augusta Arnold Ward was ground dead in his hotel way from a diacetylmorphine overdose.
Bixler-Zavala says The Red Planet Volta members now guide substantially clear of hard drugs.
"We don't touch opiates any more and really exercise altogether the time," he says.
"Now, honestly, one of my ducky things to do is just go skateboarding subsequently the show."
The members of The Mars Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta ar keen to get back to doing inhabit work after expenditure considerable time in the recording studio.
"We possess not toured solidly for about iI long time at present, so we ar altogether truly fired up to play well. Australian audiences have got constantly been goodness to us," he said.
The Mars Volta plays the Forum on June 23. Tickets on sale April 16 on 132 849.