INTERVIEW TO EISENLAGER
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Today we did an interview to the german experimental composer EISENLAGER.
First say welcome to this written interview for Cian Orbe blog.
hello my friend, thank you for invite me to answer your questions.
- What is the meaning of the word "EISENLAGER"?
In German EISENLAGER means a place where iron is stored, for example. in a factory that works with iron or makes things out of iron. When I founded EISENLAGER in 1999, I found my music cold industrial and hard and so the name was a good fit. later i thought the name no longer fits and i started to publish music under the name midnightradio11. however, a few years ago i went back to the origin and changed all publications under the name EISENLAGER
- Which is the concept behind your music project, how you categorize your own music?
the concept of my music doesn't exist because that would mean that I started working as EISENLAGER in 1999 with a certain intention. but the only reason was that i wanted to create something and that i had to be creative and that is not a concept but a feeling. my music can be described as a kind of electronic KRAUTROCK and film music for films that only exist in your head. everyone who hears it and closes their eyes can experience their own film. maybe it's AVANTGARDE too, but one day other people will decide. in short, it is my diary and an echo of world events and history. but to put it briefly, it is 1.0.1.0.1.0 etc.
yes i only publish under EISENLAGER as i already mentioned there was also a phase where i worked under the names midnightradio11 & 21 gramm, which is over, everything is only created under this one term / word EISENLAGER. when i work with other musicians no project name is used but both artists are named. Once there was an exception, a good friend of has a project called: Im Wesen. When we made an album together we called the project EISENWESEN
every now and then one finds a track by midnightradio11 on old collections of MIDNIGHTRADIO COMPILATION
- Favorite music genres?
Everything is possible, that means that i find something good from all musical genres, really all of them. I don't want to name an electronic music genre as a huge cliché just because I make electronic music, well, I want to; -) DARK AMBIENT or to make it even shorter, almost everything from the great label: Cold Meat Industry
something current from the european charts? Purple Disco Machine - hypnotized
;)
- In what year did you start making music? which was your first band/project?
In 1999 I founded EISENLAGER. in the eighties i made some experiments with music that had been edited from vinyl records to casette, a kind of remix, redesign of songs, there was no project name and the tapes are all lost
- Which inspiration you have from the place where you live? There's some inspiration from your country in your music?
I don't think so, but you have to say that electronic music had its experimental beginnings in Germany in the 50/60 years. maybe the experimental is in my DNA, who knows. what influences me so much, no idea. maybe just my brain after i had a beer or two pieces of cake
- Which are your favorite music projects and visual/plastic artists who inspire your work?
I have already said something about how I am and whether I am influenced at all, but of course there is art that I particularly love, and that includes without a doubt DAVID BOWIE, La Düsseldorf (a 70/80 years band by Klaus Dinger, who worked with Michael Rother made music under the name Neu!
i love the film: CHRISTIANE F. WE KINDER VON BAHNHOF ZOO from 1982, I have to watch it once a year. i love the gothic scene and was immersed in it at the beginning of the nineties and since then until today i only wear black, also because it makes your life easier ;-)
SILKE BISCHOFF SISTERS OF MERCY and what would we do without THE CURE? this is just a speck of dust that I can mention here. if we both sat together with a beer or gin, we would be able to talk about these things for 189 hours.
- How do you see the current Experimental / Drone music scene?
I don't care. I can't say anything about it because I don't know anything about it. i am not an analyst, i am a wanderer in worlds and i consume art and scene without having to know why everything is the way it is and was and will become
- Favorite drone, dark ambient, experimental composers?
There we are again at 189 hours ;-) what can I say, too much what I love, GAS, Geir Jenssen, GUSGUS, DAFT PUNK, Endraum, Katatonia, Neil Young, Nick Cave, Type O Negative, Underworl, old Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, Coil, Global Communication, La Düsseldorf Harmonia Neu!, Lustmord, Pete Namlook, Roedelius, Solar Fields, The Field, John Carpenter and many more.
and excuse me, i can see now that your question was more specific to certain music styles, no matter, let's leave it at that ;-)
- Do you make live performances?
No. I don't even know how to do it live on stage. it is impossible. I could just run a tape and, while wearing sunglasses, bend over a computer and smoke a lot of cigarettes and pretend I'm unearthly ;-)
- Which is your favorite song or composition and album created by yourself?
Always the latest. but i really enjoy all of the albums that i have made with Gabriel Pereira Spurr. but it's unfair because i love all the albums i have made with others. i love everything about me all the same and i love myself and love life and EISENLAGER ;-)
I don't talk about how I make music and what hardware and software I use because I'm bored. this is a compulsion that everything has to be explained. enjoy it without a head, enjoy it with a heart. why do i need to know what kind of oil a picture was painted with? i don't need to know and i don't need to know why my mother's food tastes so damn good. I don't have to know anything. i don't have to be an artist to make art. myself you and all people are art. I leave the special things and knowledge to a few experts and science. EISENLAGER is my soul and believe me my friend, my soul cannot be explained. the reason why i did the album (AMBIENT FOR LANELL DUPUY) was, i wanted to make LANELL DUPUY happy and surprise her. always remember, no one will one day tell their children how they were injected into their mothers as sperm and tell the details of the evening. let everything be a miracle, or at least every now and then ;-)
- Tell us about the underground music scene in Germany, and which are your favorite artists from your country?
I really don't know and I'm afraid you are disappointed in me now. but such things are not my priorities and are unimportant for me personally. you see, i'm pretty boring and not a good interview partner. But it really is, I am me and out there is everyone else. they make their music art and things and i do that too. sometimes our paths cross and we hug and make music together, sometimes not and we fly by. that's not more. yes there are more and experts will be able to talk about them. that is not me
Sometimes I sit here and think it's too much. not for myself but when I distribute it on facebook. I am a little ashamed then. I do not know why. but there are times when i just can't stop making music. after 30 minutes i leave a horror movie on netflix because i have to make music. something in me makes me do it and it makes me so happy. yes, every now and then I have a break, but not because I impose it on myself, it happens by itself. I cannot explain the exact reasons why art happens exactly as it happens because I don't know and don't want to know. but the inspiration simply comes from the 24 hours of a day that i live
- Any anecdote that you want to share with us in the creation of some track?
Yes. I once put the microphone in my girlfriend's vagina to record a sound for a piece. the piece is called: Inter Vaginal Tonaufnahme from the album, Ton1
- Any news for 2021 in your music project or future collaborations?
There will also be a lot of new music in 2021. 4-5 albums are already finished and some are in progress. an album with M.Nomized is in the works and a new HIMMELHOLZSTEG 7. and THE JOY DIVISION 14, but many things also come about spontaneously, also work together.
- Any other thing that you want to say to your listeners?
Stay healthy. enjoy art and if you feel like doing art, because you are important. everything is important. art is important. i hope that i have destroyed your worldview with this interview but i don’t think it’s because i’m too small for that. if you feel like it, visit my bandcamp EISENLAGER page and let yourself be kidnapped and seduced. if you really feel like listening to music from all over the world, visit my page of MIDNIGHTRADIO COMPILATION on bandcamp because there I present everyone with their music who wants to be there, including you. come to me, come with me, take care of yourself. in love, glasklingeat zeitenlicht EISENLAGER eierkochautomat der schlachter.
I am: Dr. Drone, Diaries Of An Emo Outcast Junkie.
EISENLAGER RELEASES IN CIAN ORBE NETLABEL:
https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=eisenlager+cior&type=all
