With their debut EP, Peep, out on the 7th November 2011, we’ve managed to ask Punkunoizu a few questions in an interview about music and life in general. The Copenhagen-based band’s answers are class and if Time is Like a Melody is anything to go by, Peep could be pretty good too.
1. If the band had to pick out their single biggest musical influence, who would it be?
Pavement
2. Favourite venue to play?
We’ve been enjoying playing at Loppen on Christiania in Copenhagen, Denmark. People usually pay attention there. They go out to listen to music, not to be seen by the right people at the right place, and see the right people being seen on stage. The atmosphere is great there, a bit dark and a bit rough but you most often walk out from there with the feeling of upheaval. Loppen also has some really mean ass bookers who snatch up all the good stuff before it’s commonly known. I’ve heard a lot of interesting
concerts there on that account
3. Words of wisdom?
“A book is a small cog in a much more complex, external machinery. Writing is a flow among others; it enjoys no special privilege and enters into relationships of current and countercurrent, of back-wash with other flows – the flows of shit, sperm, speech, action, eroticism, money, politics, etc. Like Bloom, writing on the sand with one hand and masturbating with the other – two flows in what relationship?” – Gilles Deleuze
4. What are your thoughts on the digitisation of music?
It’s the everlasting thing to discuss in these times. Hmm, I guess I basically love the ritual connected to putting on an LP. And the analog sound is perceived in a much more appealing way the ear. On the other hand I think there are so many vast opportunities in the digital music field that are so interesting to me. New rituals are formed in the digital domain that you shouldn’t underestimate. And the idea of a piece/work/album is possible to re-interpret and interact with when talking digital music. I guess i feel it’s generally exciting as I’m drawn more and more to the old school listening practice of analog music.
5. What’s the most unusual musical instrument you’ve ever used in a recording studio?
We’ve recorded some stuff with this one string wooden box instrument that I bought in Vietnam. You snap the string in a certain manner at a certain point on the string with a certain pick, then you bend a thin handle and it sounds like a woman singing. That would probably be it.
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