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Pensées Nocturnes interview
Let's start this interview with an introduction. Who is Vaerohn, what is Pensées Nocturnes and what should we know about this band and this kind of deep music?
At the risk of being impolite, I don't think who Vaerohn is is important. Pensées Nocturnes is a one man band which gives me the opportunity to express myself without other constraints than my imagination. It's really difficult to work in symbiosis within a band and concessions aren't easily made when related to art. This project lies on a Black Metal basis and approaches many other influences to fit to what I have in mind. No matter what is usually done. No matter what people want. Pensées Nocturnes is the image of how I see music, what I really want to listen to.
Is there any analogy or connection between Robert Carl's Pensées Noctrunes and Your music?
I've never heard this name before, which shoes that interviews can prove to be interesting from time to time! To make a word-for-word translation Pensées Nocturnes means "Night Thoughts" in French. I wanted to retranscribe what I can feel at nightfall alone when listening to a piece so deep that it involves a spiritual dimension. This name is also a reference to Chopin, polish composer whom pieces for piano can bring you so far. Hence the homage in "Dés-espoir".
It seems a bit odd that the band was formed in 2008 and after less then a year came out a full-length colossal album. Were the songs born before the band was established?
Actually Pensées Nocturnes is for the moment a studio project and we've called then its formation the writing of the first song which is "Flore", it was in August 2008. Even if the concept was worked out in my mind for quite a long time the composition has been a quick process. I was satisfied enough with the production not to make a demo and Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions was willing to take the risk to launch an unknown band. Hence the fact you've never heard of this project before.
From where is the idea to combine the classical music with depressive black metal genre?
It's a quite natural result. But to begin with I would like to take advantage of this question to make clear that Pensées Nocturnes has no intention to make what too many people called "Classical Music". Structures are too simplistic to belong to this prestigious genre. I don't compose with the idea of copying or mixing styles but on the contrary I try to stick to what I want to express. I wanted to widen the spectrum of emotion efficiently approached by Black Metal and this inexorably goes through the diversification of sonorities and influences. That's why there is no limit as to the styles we can meet in Vacuum.
Influences?
Since I don't intentionally try to copy a band or a particular style I don't think I'm in a position to answer. And actually that's your job! To give you an idea of what I'm used to listening to, generally speaking I prefer to judge bands on a case by case basis and try to avoid cataloging as far as possible: Black Metal obviously (in all its forms: Symphonic, True, Depressive, Melodic,. ), Death Metal, Classical Music (mainly Romantic Period and the following ones), Blues, Jazz, Post-Rock.
A beautiful concept can be discovered within the Vaccum. Which was the image to follow up?
"Vacuum" refers to the futility of humans' activities and purposes. Religion, politics, science, philosophical ideals, all these illusions which keep our mind busy and keep us away from our condition. Nothing we do has an existential foundation aside from spending time. As if life comes down to everything that allows us to forget life.
Did the music inspire the lyrics or inversely?
It depends. I usually start from a concept, a thought, and I develop the music with the idea of what I would call a scenario. Sometimes this logical sequence is led by a text, sometimes it inspires one. There is no strict rule. I just let my imagination leading me when inspiration is here. I think it's important to be led by emotions rather than brain during composition (or more exactly both of them but separately) that's why I don't censor myself even if I've a text to follow. In a way music express more precisely than words what you can feel and I don't want to miss this particularity. So to come back to what I said previously: no rules, just try and see.
In the six songs of Vaccum we can hear a lot of instruments? Which is Your favorite? Who were the musician guests?
Pensées Nocturnes is a one man band, only the piano improvisation on "Coups de Bleus" was performed by a friend of mine because it's something I'm only able to do on a guitar. To be honest I don't think I have a favorite instrument: each one has its own sonorities, its own sensibilities depending on the pitch you play and then is used to fit to a precise idea, to play a specific role. That's why most of the time you can't find a lot of instruments playing at the same time. Mixing many tracks or including distorted guitars tends to sterilize instruments' expressions and to reduce them to a simple melody. It's something I wanted to avoid even if the structures seem to be a bit simple: the most important point is the result, not the means of achieving the result.
Will be ever a Pensées Noctrunes concert? How can we imagine a gig?
I don't know if a concert would be something suitable for this music and I don't want to know. For the time being the priority is the band's discography. I'm not convinced being able to share as easily as I'm able to do with an album and that's why I don't want to lose time trying to set up a line-up only for promotional interest or to do like everyone. It's not a final decision but the priority is the next album.
Do You want to rise from the metal underground, or You prefer this enigmatic space of metal?
Actually I don't really care because what this music becomes doesn't matter to me. "Vacuum" is a part of the past; it doesn't belong to me anymore and that will be the same for any potential future album. I know what I want and whatever is thought or is said on this project won't be taken into account. This the fact that this project stays unknown or not is not something I want to think about as long as Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions makes profitable each release.
What do You think, will it be an easy work to be beloved in French or on the whole Earth? Your plan with the Pensées Noctrunes?
This refers to what was said previously: I don't want to think about stuff like that. Music isn't due to become famous or beloved. It's just an outlet, a way to emptying yourself. As for the future of the band, I'm presently working on the next album. I can't say a lot of things except that it will be something less kind, more unhealthy and dissonant.
Your own philosophy?
I've read a lot. But only one certitude emerged from all these readings. The one that no philosopher, no scientist, no artist, no man brilliant as it is has ever find the solution, the truth, the meaning of all this. And no one will ever find it. I've never managed to be totally convinced by an author, a philosophical ideal. No fight to delude myself, no cause to defend, no issue at all.
Favorite musicians, cartoon hero, film hero, chord, riff?
What a vast question! I like many things as well as I dislike a lot of things too. I'm the kind of guy who has a well-defined opinion on everything he is able to judge. But no hero, no dogma, no track to follow.
Best Regards,
Attila Sebesi