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Asian Dan Interview: SCARLETS

Scarlets’ Stefano & Ivan answer a few questions allowing listeners into their musical minds. Their “Boundaries” single is out 11.1.2009 – check out the video for the B-side “The Women of WWII” after the jump and checkout Stefano’s latest mix “KIMONOII”

[audio:http://diestruktur.com/asianmandan/music/Oct%202009/KIMONOII.mp3]
Stefano Murgia – KIMONOII

Asian Dan Interview: SCARLETS

1. Who is Scarlets? How would you describe your sound?
Scarlets are five italian boys with a lot of sense of humour, but with a very serious attitude towards their music. Our sound changed radically during the last year. Now I guess we sound like an army charging upon the land.

2. What was your first musical memory?
Ivan:The big huge silver boombox radio standing in our sitting room playing some italian songwriters when I was 3.
Stefano: I guess my mum playing Violent Femmes’ vinyls and not liking them.


3. How did the band form? What is the band’s vision and goal?
We formed because of all the crappy bands hitting off british indie or american punkfunk. We just wanted to do something authentic. Our main goal is succeeding in writing 10 songs that we can still find satisfying after two weeks.

4. What are your influences, musical or otherwise?

European history, colonialism, totalitarianism and our country.

5. What was it like working with Mr. Martin Dubka?
It was like working with an artisan. People think records are made by computers nowadays, but all that you hear in our single has been played by real people. Then obviously Martin is very skilled as a producer. But what really make this single so strong and coherent is due to Martin’s partaking since the very beginning of our lyrics, our suggestions and our attitude.


6. What five tunes have heavily influenced the entire band?


1. NEW EUROPEANS by ULTRAVOX
2. INDIA by THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
3. PLASTIC SURGERY by ADAM & THE ANTS
4. THE FAN AND THE BELLOWS by THE CHAMELEONS
5. WAR (LA GUERRA) by FRANCESCO PRATELLA

7. Future plans for Scarlets? Tour? Album?
We’ll be touring Italy and maybe Europe too until January, playing some old tunes and all the new stuff we are writing for the upcoming album. We are going to start recording sessions in January, so it’ll be probably out in spring.

Stefano Murgia – KIMONOII Tracklist:

Rule Britannia – Suzi Pinns
Warm Leatherette – Normal
Disco Girls (acapella)
Life in the Gladhouse (12″ Version) – Modern English
Rudolf – Their
Freedom Fighters – Dalek I
Marching Marching – Kan Kan
After a Fashion – Midge Ure
XOYO – The Passage
Megacity – Athletico Spizz 80
The Judgement is the Mirror – Dali’s Car
India – The Psychedelic Furs

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