1) Your band name always makes me think of
Smashing Pumpkins. Was that
intentional?
To be honest, I have
never been a big fan of Smashing Pumpkins. When choosing name for a project I
was trying to find the most suitable one, which would completely reflect the
music mood. Endless Melancholy may sound a bit pathetic, but it does fit the
music well.
2)
Your music is
actually the first ambient music I heard that didn’t bore me. Was this also done
on purpose?
I guess, no one of music
producers have ever had a goal to bore listeners. This is all the matter of
one’s taste. Different people like different music. Someone may get bored of
hardcore etc. :)
3)
You are from
Poland, which I know primarily because I have Polish roots and my grandparents
never miss a Lawrence Welk show. Do you feel like everyone in Poland somehow
listens to polka?I
am from Ukraine :) Marek (Lights Dim) is
from Krakow, Poland. Thus Lights Dim & Endless Melancholy is an
international collaboration. On our release we worked sending each other
recordings via internet.
4)
Your music is
described as ambient. What does that mean to you?
Basically, it is not ambient at all. It is strongly influenced by
ambient, it contains elements of ambient, but it has never been a good example
of what ambient genre is. If you want to know what ambient is, you may have a
listen to works of Brian Eno, John Cage etc. Regarding Endless Melancholy, some
call this genre ”modern classical”, but in my opinion it has not really much in
common with classical music. Classical compositions are way more complex and
diverse. I prefer to use the definition “modern composition” or “contemporary
instrumental”.
5)
What would you say
are some of the top bands outside of yourself and Lights Dim that people who
want to discover ambient music should listen to right away?
Top influences to
Endless Melancholy are: Ólafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm, Goldmund, Fabrizio
Paterlini, Dustin O'Halloran, Antonymes, A Winged Victory For The Sullen. Most
of them produce piano driven cinematic music. I wouldn’t call them ambient
musicians, yet some of them have tracks sounding close to this genre. As for
modern ambient producers, I love 36, Saåad, EUS, Black Swan… All highly
recommended.
6) At first, I had a hard time listening to
ambient music without being bored because mainly I was listening to the wrong
bands, but then Preserved Sound changed that all for me. Do you feel like a
lot of people do make boring music and call it ambient or can some ambient music
just be boring while others can’t?
Again, this question is based on a little bit wrong interpretation of
genre. Endless Melancholy is not ambient, it is just modern instrumental music,
and probably that’s why it is more understandable to a wider audience. It has
simple and common composition structures, similar to what people used to call
music. Real ambient music is not boring - it’s just different, uncommon. For
some people it may sound like a repetitive, static wall of sound with no
composition structure at all, but this impression is wrong. Good ambient is
always based on a deep understanding of sound and most ambient producers evolve
their compositions with a rich variety of ways. Hearing this or not is a deal of
a listener :)
7) Final thoughts, questions, shout outs, etc.??
Stay sane and respect each other!
Maybe, then world will become a better place.
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