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Rating: Some questions with Carlo Fellet, voice of A Flower Kollapsed.
- How and when were A Flower Kollapsed born? In what environment and so on.
We are four friends who had similar musical interests and for this reason, we decided to start playing together, to form a group, the band.
We started doing our first concerts in 2004 after the release of the 7" split with Esicastic, initially in Veneto and Friuli, then a bit all over Italy, and after the 3" split with our friends Afraid!, I think it was the summer of 2005, we went to play in France.
To date, we have been in almost all of Europe.
- Who are your reference groups, for your sound, and those who pushed you to play?
We have been influenced by metal, by bands like Botch, Coalesce, Converge, by the sound of labels like Releapse or Hydrahead; by punk-hc that between the late '90s and early 2000s came from San Diego, see Locust, Crimson Curse, Holy Molar, Ex Models, Antioch Arrow, and Clikatat Ikatow; by screamo bands like Jeromes Dream, Orchid, Reversal of Man, Ampere, Pg99, and by the 80-90 Chicago sound like Shellac, Fugazi, Jesus Lizard.
In recent years, we have listened to more "experimental" music like Sightings, Lightning Bolt, Air Conditioning, but also Prurient, Emeralds, Aaron Dilloway, Hive Mind, Sewer Election, Kevin Drumm, Jason Crumer, Wolf Eyes...
- All excellent music I would say, so is it fair to say that you had a significant evolution of your sound from the first to the second album?
I think there has been an evolution but I don't know if this concerned precisely our sound.
The latest songs that we have made and that we are doing seem better structured to me, less frenetic, less "noisy" but perhaps more powerful and endowed with greater impact.
- You come from Orsago, right?
Riccardo, the guitarist, and Teo, the drummer, are brothers and are from Orsago; we had the rehearsal room in Orsago from 2004 to 2008.
For about two months, we have been rehearsing in Cosniga in a very private, new rehearsal room.
- Tell us about your first album, how it was born, and based on what needs. Your relationship with independent labels.
"Orsago" our first full-length was recorded by Giulio Favaro in April 2006.
The album was released towards the end of the summer of 2006 on CD for Shove, Holidays, and Gaffer and on LP for Shove, Holidays, and Sons of Vesta.
The figures behind each label are, first and foremost, our friends, people we met at concerts and with whom we collaborated through a completely natural, spontaneous process driven by mutual respect.
- Precisely where have you played in Europe? Where did you feel good, and what differences did you find compared to Italy?
We have played in France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands, and Belgium.
I can't tell you a particular state where we felt better, what I think is that for a band on tour, the best thing is to spend as little as possible on fuel and highway, and perhaps France is not the best from this point of view.
For the rest, we found positive and some slightly less positive situations everywhere; I want to remember a concert in Berlin where the reimbursement, as a surprise, was 15€, very punk.
The main difference is the concert time, which often starts in the late afternoon and by 10 pm the show is over.
- I found your second album much more mature, from what impressions and needs was it born?
The songs of "Brown Recluse" were written between 2007 and spring 2008 and were recorded again at BloccoA.
For this record, we wanted a format that was original to us, and since the timing allowed it, we chose the 10".
Externally, the record turned out great, Matteo's (secondsleep.org) graphics are wonderful, and the version with the splatter vinyl is truly delightful; unfortunately, I must admit that the format penalized us in terms of sound: cutting a 10" well is not easy and in some passages, the record sounds a bit more closed compared to "Orsago".
- Am I wrong or do you sing in English, why this choice?
I sing in English because it comes easy and natural to me, I manage better in terms of metrics.
I don't know if it's a legacy of my musical culture (I mostly listened to music sung in English), however, I find Italian very musical and I don't rule out that in the future I may start writing lyrics in my native language.
- I understand, however I must say that Orsago was already a very mature and well-structured work to be a first work, even if "noisy" as you say.
Are you composing something new? Would you like to talk to us about any particular song from "Brown Recluse"?
Yes, we are working on new pieces, so far we have finished 5.
A piece of Brown Recluse, I remember an anecdote about "Ghost Chorus": about a week after finishing the direct takes we met in the studio to start mixing, but of the recorded pieces, ghost chorus had indeed become a ghost, in fact it was no longer in the PC memory, I still remember the embarrassment of Giulio and Giovanni; the only possible solution was to go back to recording the piece in question the following week. The second time, the piece was played and recorded better than the first so in bad luck, it actually went well for us.
- Are you currently playing around, if so where?
Last week we played in Brescia and Genoa. For Easter, we have a small tour between Austria and Hungary and then we are setting the dates for the summer tour in Eastern Europe.
- Your relationship with music, do you manage to support yourselves or do you also do other jobs? How do you see independent music, distribution, labels, bands, in Italy?
We can't live off music, so we all have jobs. Quantitatively there are many independent labels and bands in Italy, but qualitatively the things I like can be counted on the palm of one hand.
- Why did you choose to allow your music to be downloaded from your site?
To spread it, make it available to anyone. I usually download a lot of music, then the records I like I buy regardless.
- Any bands you would like to recommend?
In Italy, the best HC band is Laquiete, then, wanting to go beyond this genre, I like G.I.JOE, Aucan, Dune.
-Plans for the future?
Soon a split cassette with "Building Of The Heartbreaker Pyramid" will be released in Malaysia (utarid:tapes), and then we still have two unreleased tracks from the last recording session that we still don't know exactly how to use. In the meantime, we are trying to produce new material and hope to record again by the end of 2010.
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