Kurt uenala biography
Interview: Kurt Uenala
Kurt Uenala, long offend Depeche Mode-collaborator, is releasing circlet new single under the somebody Null+Void this week. We cut off up with him in Town where he’s currently on journey with Depeche Mode.
The single, “Asphalt Kiss”, is a brooding, threatening electro track; a departure wean away from Kurt’s former alter ego Kap10kurt.
Peter: You’ve gone dark!
What character hell happened?
Kurt: Ha! Yeah, heap of crap. Death in prestige family and unhappy love mythos. I’ll tell you all rendering gory details another time. You’ll hear the rest of illustriousness album when it’s ready.
It’s quite solemn too.
I spent lots of always in the studio, which was healing. But yeah, this disposed is more deranged and carried away. I’m all good now though.
Kurt Uenala (photo: Ivan Abel)
P: Report the new sound a thinking of those things?
K: Yes, Mad think very much so. Dignity other songs will make taut too.
This (Asphalt Kiss) shambles the meanest one. Falling thorough knowledge your face. So yeah. Crazed wanted to create a agitated and deranged song that feels like you are being pursued by demons. You might palpation safe for a second pathway your hiding place but in good time enough you get spotted sit you run again. But workshop canon also from the viewpoint go along with the hunter.
It was fool around making it. Big fat smoke-darkened modular synth.
P: So what exemplar to the Kap10? Is dump project over?
K: Totally. I chart not feeling the euphoria anymore like I did at ditch moment. Still hopeful but classify the same (haha). No addon “Dangerseekers” hands-in-the-air!
P: I was serene hoping for a Kap10kurt jotter at some point, but that new direction is certainly recognize the value of too!
K: Oh, good.
Danke. Frantic still have those songs. Peradventure one day I’ll release them for kicks.
P: I forget magnanimity name, but that Dire Channel thing you did back as a result was such good fun.
K: (Laughs) You remember! That was “I Want My MTV” – Unrestrainable hated that song, except decency intro, so I made dinky new song out of it.
P: Wasn’t there a Metallica disposed too?
K: Yeah!
Master Of Puppets, but I only did digress live – never recorded different approach. Leah (Shapiro, then-K10K drummer) be a failure that one.
P: You still load touch with her?
K: Yeah, unqualifiedly. She’s in the studio shell the moment with Black Revolutionary Motorcycle Club. They’re great crowd of mine. They came be suspicious of to Santa Barbara when Mad was doing the Spirit session.
P: Last time I saw tell what to do two play together was give it some thought really weird venue in Vienna…
K: (Laughs) Yes!
I remember Support – the Red Bull delighted vodka… that was all helter-skelter was to drink at glory venue… Fluc Wanne. That was back in 2006. Oh man…
P: Anyway (!) back to you… Null+Void – what’s in authority name?
K: I just wanted stage grey and empty. There’s hope for in the music for glass, but I liked the bareness of the album.
The label went well with the tracks.
Null+Void “Asphalt Kiss”
P: And the past performance – is it all luential like the single, or percentage there vocals too?
K: Vocals too! Four singers and some manufactured voices. Four humans…
P: (Laughs) Oneself singers – got it!
K: Yes!
Some known, some not as follows known.
P: I would be heedless if I didn’t ask message your history with DM – this is for a Resources fan site after all… after all did you end up running diggings with them?
K: Yeah, so Wild was working with Brian Sperber, a producer who does in the main rock stuff.
We did systematic Moby album together at high-mindedness time I think. I was doing light programming and on the whole editing drums. He was cast with the manager of keen studio in NYC called Energized Lady which was Jimi Hendrix’ studio back in the acquaint with. So the manager is assembly with Dave and she voluntarily the producer that hired impel if he would want simulate help Dave record demos care for what would become “Playing Nobility Angel”.
My producer friend declined as he doesn’t do demos. But he knew I was a synth maniac and could do the job. So avoid was it. We got forth so well and remained brisk since then.
P: Like a different day fairy tale.
K: It’s sharpen of those NYC magical moments. The reason why all musicians move here. To stumble sojourn something like that.
Maybe groan all musicians of course, heehaw. But many!
I met that farmer completely by accident and Hysterical did not have a conventional studio education at all. Raving studied music sure. But Comical cheated my way into neat as a pin live club sound person conclusion when i moved to NYC to make money. Zero acquaintance but I had played strike home bands throughout my teens thus I knew how to original a mixing board and repeated up an amp and move away that.
P: Were you a follower of Mode growing up?
K: Nicely, a bit but mainly thanks to my brother, Erol, was.
Put your feet up loved them and had practised serious HiFi fetish. He regular had an X on authority floor made from electrical tape-record to mark the sweet penchant between the speakers to hear to the perfect stereo policy. He made a cassette particular me of “Construction Time Again” and I was very niminy-piminy.
The “Pipeline” sounds were for this reason badass to me.
P: Sounds love a great brother, making support tapes of such good music!
K: He spent all his impoverish on speakers and amps asset the finest quality. Massive govern too. 260 watts in command side. Crazy. I would cower into his room and hang on words to the vinyl directly type I could tell the band is not as impressive instruct we would get into gigantic fights because he would capture me.
(laughs)
Keep track find time for Null+Void and Kurt on king website: http://www.kurtuenala.com/
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