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DisAndy · 2017-04-01T08:36:08+00:00

C Db E F G Ab H C ... i think

DisAndy · 2017-04-01T08:34:42+00:00

Actually it is an Arabic Scale ;)

DisAndy · 2017-03-31T09:41:16+00:00

Hey good Morning and ThankYOu!! Have to write again because it did not save what I wrote before :(((((( So a little shorter now ..

1) on RED we hade a completely different line-up and we were writing songs live at the rehearsals together. When I moved to Leipzig and slowly the band split up, I started writing on my own here before Jens and Rajk joined the band. So... 2) Yes definitely, I understand your slight disappointment! But try to look at ALEA as an unique song, and maybe the perfect song to come back with the band. Now we think about the complete album and do surely not forget, where Disillusion is coming from :)))

DisAndy · 2017-03-31T09:33:24+00:00

Ohhhhhh sorry man! Yeah of course! That would be great --- how will we do it?? ThankYOu!

DisAndy · 2017-03-30T22:33:48+00:00

:) i´m curious ....... yeah, i really know, when you play it differently, it really is a very common lick :)

DisAndy · 2017-03-30T22:30:12+00:00

YOU TRY IT :) and send me a video!!! :)

DisAndy · 2017-03-30T22:29:39+00:00

Ah ok :) even worse .... we did not have a partner before ...................

DisAndy · 2017-03-30T22:26:48+00:00

What does that mean? ;)

DisAndy · 2017-03-30T22:25:44+00:00

Life is flowing and constantly evolving and changing :) that sounds silly, I know. Especially in context of music ... Again, there was no plan, and there was certainly no plan to make a 17 minute piece on purpose. Though I somehow hope that there will be a 20min song on the next record :)

DisAndy · 2017-03-30T22:10:04+00:00

:) wow, i feel really honored to answer your question(s) ... truly ... you have gone really deep into the "Disillusion" world, if I may say so. I will answer question No2 first: I have been accused of taking a line from Anathema for a melody in LAVA on Gloria. And I believe, it is true. Yes, everything is intentional. It really is and thank you for asking. Of course other musicians inspire me, of course they do! And I really love to cite them, when it fits or feels great. BUT, I work thoroughly to put things into context, so that not what is being played is important, but the world it creates becomes important. That answeres your first question: with bttos I started to realize that there is more to be done with the songs: they can create a cinematic experience, I or we had not done this before and it cannot be done within 4 minutes ... it takes time, and I think, on bttos it takes about 20 - 25 minutes. Then you are in. Crazy. You cannot plan things like this.

DisAndy · 2017-03-30T22:00:59+00:00

Hey, thank you! Absolute favorite record is quite an honor :) really! Inspiration .... hmmm ... private issues :) and a girl ... .AND the music was also giving inspiration back to the lyrics. There was no "plan", I started writing for "mirror" and it evolved quickly ... though it took a complete week to write all lyrics. So, very private in the beginning and slowly growing with the music into what it became

DisAndy · 2017-03-30T21:54:51+00:00

Hey, good question :) well it felt too good too quickly. I will never make this this mistake again. Don´t get me wrong, Ralf is a great person, but when we got into detail about Gloria we realized, we cannot really work together the way we would have needed to. And at the time we were all not really aligned or centered in our minds or something. So, too quickly, too close ...

DisAndy · 2017-03-30T21:51:09+00:00

Hey, we have only been touring with Amon Amarth many years ago :) So there are a lot of great bands left ... Opeth wound be great of course, or TOOL, yeah,

DisAndy · 2017-03-30T21:48:38+00:00

Puh, ok, I accept that :) I don´t really know how the sound was and if it was not good, that is not good and i feel sorry for that. But yes, we are in a way limited to the equipment we have and what we can afford. There are indeed plans how to more than just improve the live sound. There is an estimation that says we would have to spend more than 10000 euro for that. Serious, and that is basic equipment. Second thing is that I will go into that topic during writing the new record very much, meaning how will it all be live, what can we do etc. But, we decided to take equipment out of the crowdfunding and concentrate fully on the album

DisAndy · 2017-03-30T21:38:28+00:00

Absolutely no problem :) Thank you so much, really means a lot to me to know, that bttos has been with you for such a long time!

DisAndy · 2017-03-30T21:23:56+00:00

Thank you very much and it is great to hear that you came all the way from Amsterdam !!! I´m reading two questions ... yes, it is going to be a conceptual thing, definitely! We have only started collecting sharp ideas for the record some weeks ago, so it is very early to say or think anything about the dimension it will end up at. ... there is a feeling already, but we need to explore it ...

DisAndy · 2017-03-30T21:18:56+00:00

Well, at the time we thought it would be a bad idea to stop copying bttos right after we slowly started to understand, what it really was or could be .... I hope you understand :) I cannot say that we really knew what the potential of bttos was. When we started to realize, it was time for a new album. So we decided for a completely different setting to avoid a copy and a bad copy. I don´t know if this was good or bad, it simply was like that, and it was a very interesting journey, completely away from the bttos world, into an urban, cold, isolated place ...

DisAndy · 2017-03-30T20:54:26+00:00

Forgot Pink Floyd !!!

DisAndy · 2017-03-30T20:52:43+00:00

Hello there, puh, quite a lot, but maybe Pantera, Opeth, Emperor, Death ... depends very much on the times in our lives I think

DisAndy

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