Summary
[Efrim Menuck]: For the most part we get broadly cast as a political band or anarchists or openly idealistic. There are all sorts of generalizations made about us, and I think that's what I bristle at. We don't conceive of ourselves as activists or political. We just think of ourselves as formed, grown-up human beings who choose to write songs that sort of address the mess that the world is in. There aren't any statements we've made that are contentious or anything. They all seem to be plainly held truths by most people. I don't know why people feel the need to characterize us as "political anarchists" or anything. But it's really far from the truth.
EM: It is absolutely a collective process. We'll start with a handful of riffs ... there's very few songs where I'll come in with chords or lyrics ready, you know? There's maybe three songs like that in the history of the band. But for the most part, we'll start with a handful of riffs until some sort of rough structure is there. Then we'll start adding counter-lines and melodies and things. Then, really late in the process, I'll start writing words and sort of roughing them into the song. It takes us about a month of serious work to get a song together, because we're all stubborn and have this strange writing process.There's no truth there, the way it's spoken about. The way arguments are contextualized and framed, it's clear that it's the cable news networks that are running the show. They have a vested interest in continuing specific narratives and they'll just spin things however they want to.See the full content of this document
Extract
Lost Politics
The members of Montréal's Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & TraLa-La Band hold passionate social and political beliefs, reflected by an equally passionate international fan base. However, their music itself is rarely explicitly political, which leads to inev...
See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
