Last week I just listened Viodre vs A Fail Association tape. Its the latest one, and one of those easier releases will less of "wtf is this?" -stuff and more just eye candy noise blast.
I don't remember have I even read their interviews before? I often heard people raving about how great the project is, but never really got the greatness of Interpol Alchemi. Even if I appreciate really highly albums that appear like collections of different sessions and different approaches, this album I do own, but it never really hit hard. However, as a band format, and live act and all that, of course very much appreciated!
In interview pt1, I think interesting moment is when the main spokesman says, grown man, that all his friends are from noise scene, perhaps just one isn't. I think this could be even interesting topic of its own. When I think of it, I barely have so called "normal friends" at this age. Of course there are upstanding citizen, family men, hard working manual labor guys, more intellectual guys and whatever... but it is hard to really point out anyone who would not be, or have had past in the underground culture. The so called normal folks I know, must be relatives.
Of course I do not know only noise people, but also metal, punk, skinhead, visual artists, activists, hooligans, ...whatever, but all they have some sort of different angle to things compared to just grinding the daily life as part of society. I am pretty sure this does effect in life quite a bit. First of all, that people you know, are somewhat different from the mass. But also, when not being part of any specific "community", but interacting with wide variety of very different kind of underground movements, there is not really strict cultural guidelines for thought and behavior. It often leads into situations when you are in situations where you react in ways of am I supposed to be upset about this? Should this somehow anger me?. Things that only make sense, if you replicate behavior in specific community, but barely makes sense outside it. Situation put you literally in position where the normal, meaning conforming to a standard or expected, just ain't happening.
However, of course in life, you end up interacting with regular citizen all the time. Many are indeed not as regular as one would expect, but most often it is frustrating and annoying interactions. Of course grown up man can handle it, but it is not preferred to waste time on that type of discussions or life in general.
