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| Interview with Pervy Perkin - Impressive debut by Leonid Auskern  Pervy Perkin is a Spanish prog-rock band. Their debut album Ink was released in March 2014. This work can surprise many experienced music fans. Ink is a 2 CD album with 16 compositions and total sounding time more than two hours. Impressive debut for a band consisting of young boys to whom hardly passed twenty!We talk about Ink with two musicians from Pervy Perkin - Dante (guitar, vocals) and Carly Pajaron (drums, vocals). Leonid Auskern: Ink, your first album, had impressed me with its scale. I can't remember anyone starting a discography with a double album. Did you have any concerns about that? Dante: Yes, of course. I mean, we didn't really care, we just wanted, needed to present the band with all that music. If you listen to the album, each song is very different from the others, each one is a branch of the huge tree Pervy Perkin is. Besides, the band itself needed a vast, diverse album debut, to prepare the listeners for what may come. Obviously this could be a problem, to get that quantity of material out, for a new band...is really ambitious, and could work against us, but it was just a requirement of the music. L.A.: As far as I know, you worked on Ink for about two years. Is there anything left behind the final product? Carly: There were some compositions left behind, an instrumental demo and some other ideas that we hope to include in following albums when the time is right, maybe in a little while, who knows? But in general terms we have put everything that we wanted to show in this double album. L.A.: I knew about the story behind your band name from interview with Nikola Savic from Prog Sphere*. But why is it specifically called "Ink"? Carly: Ironically, the two CD's inside ''INK'' are called ''BOOK OF EQUINOX'' and ''BOOK OF SOLSTICE'', and they came before the actual album name. So these two were originally the guide that inspired us to call the album ''INK'', we think is a cool name and encloses the whole meaning of our debut. L.A.: How do you compose your tracks? Is there an "idea-maker", or is it a team effort? Dante: Definitively, a team effort. We are very "democratic" when composing, we are lucky to be really good composers each one of us, and bring different points of view and influences to the composition process. We compose as the majority of the bands I suppose, we come up with a concept for a song, one brings an idea, a riff, and we develop from there. L.A.: Many tracks are filled with pretty mature musical ideas, while the band's members are relatively young. Do Pervy Perkin's musicians have musical education? Dante: Thanks! Well, the truth is only Alvaro, the other guitar player, has had a solid musical education, in classical guitar. The rest of us are all self-taught! L.A.: Our site is dedicated mainly to jazz, blues and world music. It felt like your prog rock has some jazz elements, hasn't it? Do you listen jazz? Do you have favorite jazz musicians? Carly: Yes, it definitively has! Some members are great fans of jazz. I should listen more jazz bands, but our ex-keyboardist and friend Ugo introduced me to the musical genius John Zorn and a lot of his projects, and I enjoy too the Jazz Fusion that O5RIC and Gavin Harrison make. Dante: I do listen to jazz, and I love Alex Skolnick's trio, the man, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis...and I'm a great fan of the swing and the wonderful Sinatra. L.A.: How important is the balance between acoustics and electronics for your sound? Dante: I think it has become really characteristic in our sound. Personally I love both sides of the equation: I love the artificial, futuristic sound of a synthesizer or some computer manipulated sound; and I love the organic sound of an instrument played with nothing more than your hands. Each one expresses something, and the combination of technology and traditional sound, of high gain and soft, touching clean sounds, that balance I think has a lot to do with our sound. L.A.: Female vocals felt very right in some compositions. Who is she? Would you like to cooperate with her in the future? Carly: She was a very friend of Alex called Marta, I don't think that we will cooperate with her in the future cause' we have suffered some kind of distance, but of course we will use female vocals in the future, we love them! L.A.: Are there any musicians who influenced most on your music? Carly: There are quite a few. Drummers like Chad Smith, Marco Minnemann, Mike Portnoy, Gavin Harrison are some of my favourites. But also musicians in general like John Lord, Bruce Dickinson, Devin Townsend etc. Dante: An awful lot!! Naming just a few very important artists for me and my understanding of the music: Pink Floyd, Akira Yamaoka, Opeth, Steven Wilson, Alan Parsons Project, Sting, Satriani, Mike Oldfield, Nile, Peter Gabriel, Tool, Vangelis, Conway Twitty, Eminem, Rammstein... L.A.: It is, one might say, impossible to play 2-hour album on concert. What do you pick for concerts from your album? Carly: We rotate set list as much as we can, we haven't repeated the same set list ever. We always try to include some covers and change songs from the album. Our longest gig lasted almost 2 hours, and we could play almost the whole album except some songs, it was truly magical. L.A.: Are you planning foreign tours? Carly: We hope to play in many places as we can for sure, it is our dream life, but that seem so impossible right now because of our budget. Maybe with a nice promotion and if things turn good for us, it will be very soon! L.A.: When can we expect a new album? Will it have something common with Ink? Dante: I always say this: expect the unexpected with Pervy Perkin. Next album will have very little in common with Ink, it will be more experimental, it will reach more extremes, and will definitively be a whole new chapter in the Pervy Perkin history. For us, each album is a completely blank, new world; new material is beginning to take form, and proving to be something completely different. L.A.: Who plays in Pervy Perkin today? Dante: Nowadays Pervy Perkin are: Carly Pajarón (Drums and vocals), Álvaro Luis (Guitars), Aks (Bass), Alex Macho (Main vocals), and myself, Dante (Guitars and vocals) L. A.: Thank you for the answers and successes to you! Thank you for having us! It's been a pleasure. Be sure to check out our facebook page, hit the like button and expect the unexpected from Pervy Perkin! *In this interview Dante said: Alvaro and I are really interested in astronomy. One day I was reading some names of celestial bodies and 2482 Perkin came up. It is an asteroid from the main-belt of our solar system (a concentration of asteroids in the space between Mars and Jupiter). The name seemed interesting to me, I don't know why, it really seemed a person's name. So Alvaro and I created this character, a living asteroid who hated earth because it was envious and locked in the main belt, and who wanted to escape and crash against our planet. We called him Pervy Perkin. **Great thanks to Nikola Savic from Prog Sphere for the help in the interview organization write your comments about the article :: © 2014 Jazz News :: home page |