by Angela C (aka Eugenia)
From left to right: Eric, Neil, Pat and AJ
An interview with The Falling Trees on Feb 21, 2009 at Annie’s on Queen St. East
So AJ you are the singer for the Falling Trees?
AJ: Yeah. This is Pat, he plays guitar and does a little bit of singing. He’s also mastering the album right now
Pat: Yeah I play guitar and am working on recording the album right now.
AJ: Neil’s the engineer for the album and the drummer.
Eric: I play bass. (I’m the master bass player.)
How long have you guys been together?
AJ: (since) December 2005, there was some effort to get this band together. I first played with Eric in January 2006, but then in late August Eric went to Korea and I went to China for a year. He came back in November 2007 and our first show after that was in Montreal. We had a big hiatus in there because we all like to travel. Unfortunately we haven’t got our stuff together enough to travel as a group and make a tour of it or anything.
Pat: We’ve been in the musical community for six and a half years now and there are a number of different bands we have all played in together. There were a number of different people in a band which AJ started was called Urineluck. It was basically the worst band ever (laughs). We purposely tried to be the worst band ever though.
AJ: But, also the whole premise of that band was that you got a free pint if you went up on stage and there were like fifteen of us.
Neil: Basically we’ve been in a number of different bands including one I am in with Pat right now called 10,000 creatures; there’s Barn Owl, which Pat and Eric are in, as well as various other bands including Danger Danger.
So, is this loose network of musicians an advantage to you guys? 3 blind mice dvdrip
george and the dragon online Pat: Oh absolutely. Having everyone we know playing in bands is such an advantage because if ever we want to put together any sort of show, instantly we have people come out. It’s not like we’re just one band where we have to find all these people to put on an event, it’s a massive community in general.
AJ: It’s a great advantage as someone who does a lot of the booking. There are a lot of bands I know who won’t play unless I book the show.
It’s also a great way to learn from each other and be inspired by other people’s music.
Pat: There is a great variety of sound as well, there are folk acts, hardcore acts, punk acts… which makes it that much more interesting.
Eric: Pat has a choir going which gives things a great texture since you don’t get to hear it much outside of churches.
Pat: It’s a completely secular choir though. We sing various songs that Pat’s written as well as a slew of covers that gets a good dozen people out every week.
AJ: There are so many genres that we incorporate within the band that I don’t really feel that we fit into one. I was in a country band this summer. I’m working on a hip hop project and a techno project right now too.
What’s your favorite thing about music?
Pat: I love the explosion and the release
Eric: My favorite thing about music is that it’s like a waking dream, like a meditation or something. If things go well for the first 10 seconds then I forget everything else that happens for the next 40 minutes.
Neil: It gets me high… Music transports me somewhere else, it’s its own universe that I can emotionally connect to; when I create my own music I can then express and create the exact music that I want to hear.
I hear you guys have recorded an album?
Neil: We are in the process but we already have a couple of recordings.
Pat: There have been many Falling Trees recordings.
AJ: There is one called shadow puppets but it was basically a solo album by me that I got Andrew, who is here tonight (he used to be our old drummer) to help out with it, and Pat was on it I think. Everyone that was in 10,000 creatures at the time except for Neil.
What are your influences?
free murder in three acts movie download Pat: I love punk, I love metal, I love jungle, and break core…
Eric: Sonic Youth I think is one. Dead Kennedy’s for me personally
AJ: Noise rock, 90’s grunge. I like really droney stuff like My Bloody Valentine and a lot of old stoner rock. But I also really like country and folk. I listen to a lot of jazz and classical too. Actually we started getting a lot of Asian sounding riffs after living in Asia.
I think Godspeed… should be there, that kind of epic of the feel and the build. We learned a lot from bands like that- I don’t know many other bands that have that build and rock art as much as we do, though. Godspeed… does that but it takes like half an hour to do so whereas we do it in about eight minutes.
Where do you see yourselves a few years from now?
Neil: There’s no ultimate plan, at least for me. I don’t feel like we’re working specifically towards a goal except just creating good music, having fun, playing as many shows as we can. We all sort of have our own careers going outside of this and we’re not relying on anything. This is just fun, this is what we do to chill out and release and go crazy on stage.
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