REWOLFINGER – Far Away
(CD-EP, Konkord)
I clearly imagine it to have
been like this:
- Hey, another round of
drinks? Five beers? What do you want?
- An Aperol Shpritz.
- And then I said to him,
dude, if you don’t pay me back my hundred euros, I’ll just take your old
guiter.
- Saw Crippled Black Phoenix
the other day, man, they were dark. Creeped me out.
- Five beers and an Aperol
Shpritz.
- I don’t think we have
that.
- Oh, then another mineral
water, mildly sparkling and a lime juice syrup.
- Listen everybody, this guy
here wants to go on with the interview. Some discipline.
- Call! Me! Now!
- And it turned out it was a
really old guitar with great vintage sound.
- Where’s my beer.
- Think you drank it.
- Okay, well then. Why did you
name your last album “This is how we got lost”?
- You drank it.
- It isn’t called that. It
is, wait, what is our album called exactly?
- What was that question?
- Who played support? Crippled
Back Phoenix is hard to come by, right?
- Because of the song.
Sherlock.
- What kind of strings do you
use on it?
- But, ehrm, there is no song
of that name on there.
- Okay, then I’ll drink this
one.
- Yes, but on the internet
anything is available somewhere.
- Are you sure? I am pretty
sure, there is a song of that name on there.
- We decided on it
collectively because of the name.
- Call our promo guy. No wait,
I’ll do it myself?
- Yeah, that damn internet.
Good sides, bad sides.
- Is there anything good
coming up soon? I’d like to see a great metal band some time again.
- Just regular ones.
- Now, the title, isn’t it
meant metaphorically? Probably…
- Hold on, I’m getting to
the depth of this.
- Does it have problems with
the wiring?
- No, no, dude, seriously, you
have no taste at all.
- What did he say about
meta-what? Fuck?
- What time is it exactly?
- Hello? Hello? Hi there, yes,
I just wanna check – is there a song called “How we lost our way” on
the album or not?
- No, it works pretty well.
There is a slight buzz all the time, but I rather like that.
- Inspite of it all, I say,
inspite of it all.
- If anybody is willing or
able to pay for shots I’ll have one.
- Why? Well, what? No, as I
wrote in the promotional sheet, the title is meant metaphorically, with
connotations of “Lost Highway”.
- You are one damn fucker.
- Seriously, that shouldn’t
be true. Any good record takes its title from a track on the album.
- He says there isn’t.
- Probably because of the
amplifier. I can have a look at that and fix it.
- Says it is because of
“Lost Highway” something or other.
- I hope he means Hank
Williams and not David Lynch.
- Not necessary, I said I like
it that way.
- I saw Pulp Fiction again the
other day, and it is still a cool movie.
- Next question?
- Damn, that bugs me.
- Hey, can anybody tell me
where the waiter with our beers is?
- You were saying?
- I thought it was a metaphor
for all kinds of things.
- I didn’t know you play the
trumpet.
- I think you already said
that.
- Man, that bugs me. Every
good record has its title from a track on the album.
- I met my ex again last week
and we had a long talk. Maybe she’ll be moving back in with me.
- Well, I have a song called
“How we lost our way”.
- Really? What was that?
- I have the idea of doing a
record where every listener can make his own record cover.
- Well, it isn’t really
called that, but it has a nice possibility to add a violin.
- Pretty corny.
- Not everyone likes to grab
some pencils and draw. Most people would just leave a blank, I guess.
- Sounds like a damn country
lyric to me.
- Play it to me.
- Maybe add stickers, that
limits the possibilities but it would also help people do it.
- I have one, too, with that
line in there.
- There is a lot you don’t
know about me.
- What I really find most
disturbing is the way some things just happen and then everybody is trying
to put a theory behind that, even when it is just coincidence or even a
stupid fuck-up.
- I think, I’ll have to be
going. This was a very interesting interview, thank you.
- Yes, we should do that.
Sounds cool to me.
- Okay, thank you. Write
something good about us.
- I like your song. Now listen
to mine.
- Hey we could use a trumpet
in this one.
- Who was that guy that just
left?
- Some journalist. I think he
wasn’t sure about knowing who Hank Wiliams is.
- Beer’s here.
- Scared him away, didn’t
you.
- That is a pretty nice song.
- Me too.
- Mumbled something about The
Decemberists.
- Oh, forget about him. I
don’t like music journalists anyway.
- Damn parasites. Getting
everything for free.
- Taking the promos and
ripping them to the internet and then selling them to second hand stores.
- This is a cool collection of
songs we have there.
- I’ll call our label guy.
He oughta release that on top of the album.
- Ask him about the individual
covers, too.
Epilogue:
- I like your new EP very much
and the concept of taking it a step further from the first album. First you
lost your way and now you are “Far Away”. But again, there is no song of
that name on the album.
- Damn.
