INTERVIEW TO GORIUM
https://soundcloud.com/user-884461255
https://www.instagram.com/deathcultdevotion/
https://blvckgovtcvlt.bandcamp.com/
https://necromancia-darkmusic.bandcamp.com
https://diablovalentine.bandcamp.com
https://andre-gorium.bandcamp.com/
Today we did an interview to the dark electronic composer André Gorium from Brazil.
First say welcome to this written interview for Cian Orbe blog.
- Which are the concept behind your 2 current projects? Gorium & †▼†††, and which are the differences between them?
Gorium is a dark ambient project that I created in 2008, focusing on dark atmospheres, noise and sound experiments. It became my main project, even though I don't have current releases, I will always be working on it. I try to create the soundtrack with varied themes but always an obscure version of things, sometimes mythological.
In † ▼ †††, I create things in the witch house / post-witch genre, also with some characteristics of the dark ambient, which is practically my essence, and industrial. In this project, the main idea is to address themes related to death and also a sound version of disturbances that affect me daily.
- †▼††† (Death Cult Devotion) is the continuation of your past project Black Goat Cvlt? or is something different? why you decide change the name of the project?
† ▼ ††† was a consequence. When I decided to end Black Goat Cvlt, due to some emotional crisis and also when vocalist Rokayda left the project (it was her decision), I spent a few months without creating anything, until I released the last album entitled Via Dolorosa with all the unfinished songs from project.
After a while I started creating some tracks and taking the first steps of what would become † ▼ †††. I didn't want to go back with this musical genre, witch house, but my desire to create and what I experienced with Black Goat Cvlt made me try again. Now with a new project, a new existence.
This sequel made me have another vision and helping in the creative process, now even more intense.
- Gorium & †▼††† are your only monikers? or you release music under other alias?
I am always working with the sound and genres that I most appreciate, sometimes creating new forms of something I've done before, sometimes just experimenting.
And yes, I have other projects. Some are still active, others are "sleeping" and others are still in the creation phase. They are:
- Diablo Valentine" (lofi, triphop): https://diablovalentine.bandcamp.com
- "Ghost Church (⍫)": (witchwave, emotional, atmospheric):
https://necromancia-darkmusic.bandcamp.com/album/sacrament-nm-001
- "Nimrod": (spooky dark beats): https://necromancia-darkmusic.bandcamp.com/album/consummatum-est-nm-006
"Zigoto": (experimental, noise): https://sickcultlabel.bandcamp.com/album/cotard-ep
"MoOoN": (ambient, glitch, downtempo): https://cianorbenetlabel.bandcamp.com/album/mooon-ep-cior-269
"Old Witch": (dungeon synth, ritual): https://necromancia-darkmusic.bandcamp.com/album/old-witch-nm-025
"Cryptopurge": -
"Entropia": -
- Which inspiration you have from the place where you live? There's some inspiration from your country in your music?
For some time, I have been inspired by ritual music from Afro Brazilian religions, such as Umbanda, to create atmospheric tracks. I believe that I will use this element much more in the creations, it is really something that fascinates me.
- Which are your favorite music projects and visual/plastic artists who inspire your work?
In music, since the beginning of what would become the Gorium project, I have always been inspired by artists like Mortis, Atrium Carceri, Black Autumn, Kandelabrum, Ahab, Doom: VS, Akira Yamaoka, Posthuman Tantra, Maiesti and Morgul.
In the visual arts I can mention Roberto Ferri, Wayne Barlowe, Olivier de Sagazan, Francisco de Goya and Gustave Doré.
- Which is your favorite song and album created by yourself?
I don't have exactly a favorite album or song. I always like a lot of things I do.
But I can mention the work with † ▼ †††, the album "Abaddon" and the first song I did for this project, "Nothing Inside", they are definitely very different works but I really liked the result.
- How do you see the current Witch House music scene. How you imagine the future of the genre in the next years?
I met the witch house in 2014, when a friend introduced me to the genre and soon I was fascinated by this whole new world. Today I see more producers coming up and many amazing works day after day, and that is indescribable, all this passion, all this need to want to participate in the genre, do your own work and contribute, made the genre grow. Now I see that we are the consequence of what they did in the beginning, just as we can be part of the inspiration for what will come in the future.
Everything happens very fast, I cannot imagine a future, but it is certain that it will not be a genre lost in limbo. much will be created.
- Tell us about the concept & the creation process of your latest album "Abaddon" released by Blvsphemy Records. link: https://blvsphemyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/abaddon
Abaddon was a mix of crisis and bad moments trapped inside me, at some point they needed to be purged. Part of the concept was based on passages from the Habraic Bible about a destroying angel who rules an endless abyss. So this whole panorama became the concept for the album. I see this abyss as my own mind. Each song is based on personal things, they became my demons. An angel of flesh, hate and disorder.
- Tell us about the underground music scene in Brazil and which are your favorite artists from your country?
Here the underground scene is full of influences, many different genres of music and new things always come up. Metal bands still have a strong weight in the brazilian underground, and it's great to see that the world is listen more from here. Since many don't appreciate the local bands, unfortunately.
Some Brazilian bands have even become part of my musical influence and my personal development in the area. Some that I always listen are Serpent Rise, Arte no Escuro, Plastique Noir, Sonata Soturna, The Downward Path, Posthuman Tantra, Mythological Cold Towers, Hell Light, Mortiferik, Subburbia, Maldita, Noturna Régia, Gorempire, Bells of Soul, Vultos, Lupercais, Pecadores, Keptrancour, Maiesti and Luz de Velas.
- What has been the experience of make live performances?
I came back with live performances about three years ago. It is always a very intense experience. I always choose the heaviest songs to create a dark atmosphere and I usually try to interact with the audience to offer them a more direct experience with my performance.
And everything is connected, the songs, the visuals, colors, everything to give a different feeling to each show.
- Any anecdote that you want to share with us in the creation of some track?
Many of my songs are based on real experiences, I can quote the song "Faust" from the album Abaddon.
One night I was trying to finish the song, but I was so exhausted by things that made me think about suicide, I had been thinking about it a long time, that I couldn't concentrate on finishing the track. That same night I heard about an event in the city and decided to go there. Soon when I back to my home, I feel more relaxed and inspired, so I back to work on that track and finally I finished.
So the next night I showed the track to Moisane (Moy Veishchi) and remembered Goethe's poem called "Faust", so I decided that that would be the name of the track, I felt a similarity in parts of the poem with what had happened to me that night . This is one of the most significant tracks on the album, one of my favorites as well. And that's it.
- Which was the reason for create your own netlabel Necromancia?
Necromancia came from the idea of helping unknown artists and also involving all those who always want to promote their music. After feeling this need, I decided to create the label. Even being from Brazil, we accept artists from all over the world.
The netlabel is temporarily not active due to personal problems and I am not managing to manage (since I am the only curator on the label), but I will continue with it until I die. Then I will need someone to bring me back.
PS. But i'm making occassionally v/a compilations as Elisium Mortis:
https://elisiummortis.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQKjlBx_CbN3892j-5WRJAA
- Any news for 2021 of any of your music projects?
I am currently working on two projects to try to release something until March 2021.
They are genres that I always like and I always wanted to do something in the area, doom metal and goth rock. So these are my main focuses for next year.
I also want to do something experimental to play live, and it sure involves several projects, like a festival, but I'm still thinking.
Another thing is in cinema area, producing short horror films. I hope I can focus on that too.
And that is what I can say that I am already planning for 2021, but a lot of things can happen.
- Any other thing that you want to say to your listeners?
Thanks for all the support over the years, I do it all with love and devotion. Knowing that you appreciate my art is an incredible payment that I cannot explain. You are amazing, you are beautiful.
Search for everything that is buried within you, do it until you find your purest essence. There are no limits to your mind, there are no rules to trap you in the flesh. We are all imperfect and that is our beauty.
See beyond what the eye can see. Show what is most beautiful inside you. And even such a vast desert surrounding us, we can still find unique pleasures to live and death will unite us at the right time.
With love Gorium.
André Gorium releases in Cian Orbe:
- MoOon - MoOon (EP) (2018): https://archive.org/details/mooon-ep
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