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"Dusk and Void Became Alive" invites one to dream, while enjoying intelligent, romantic, and touching
Darkwave...
Die Verbannten
Kinder Evas
Interviewer: Jezus & Suzej
Answered by: Richard L. (Vocals, Keyboards)
Richard Lederer also known as Protector, began this band in 1993 that after a productive discography and of a long time, he finally presents us her new album called "Dusk and Void Became Alive", reason for which I decided to contact with him for more details. Here the interview.
Hello Richard, present us to Die Verbannten Kinder
Evas.
The music of DVKE is slow and melancholic and consists only on orchestral
keyboard sounds, as well as a
female singer and my own vocals (in a clear style). the music is mainly polyphonic and consists on many
different layers and tunes combined together to allow the listener to dive deep
into the athmospheres of the music. the music is not meant to dance or bang you head to it, and needs time
for the listener to fully discover it. the songs vary from very modest
instruments (sometimes only piano and a single voice) to very bombastic arrangements (full strings, full horns, kettle
drums, polyphonic female and vocal arrangement together etc).
After nearly seven years your new album CD is available, You speak us about
it, Why did you delay so much time?
The problem where only the various singers I was working with in the last 3
years, otherwise the album could have been released 3 years earlier. first I tried to work
with he former
singer "Tania" who sang on the last album "In darkness let me dwell", but after a while
I noticed that due
to her passive psychological state she did not practice enough for the new songs and therefore was not able
to even sing the most simple tunes of the new songs. So I searched for a new singer and found
Sinem (a girl
from Turkey with a good voice for DVKE). I sent her the instrumental versions of the songs and she sung the
tunes I also sent her and sent them back via internet so that I could make a rough demo mix just to check how
the final result will sound.
First everything was perfect and I was sure that in a few weeks the new CD will
be out, but then she went into the studio and the guy there had such a weired taste in female vocals that
he told her not to sing so
loud and rather have this kind of fragile little girl voice style that you can
find everywhere, that the
result was a pure desaster. I did not decide to work with a girl so far from
austria that sings like one
0815 girl in vienna. So I told her to record again, but after this disaster her
motivation faded and faded
so that week by week she delayed the final recording and finally after 18 months
I gave up waiting and worked
for Summoning to use the time that was passing. During that period without
intention I got to know Christina, and after a short time it was clear that she will
sing. She flew to Vienna and only after a few
days the recording was finished.
Which are the differences between "In Darkness Let Me Dwell" and the new DVKE
sound in "Dusk and Void Became
Alive"?
The main difference is the new voice of Christina, which is much higher, and
with more expression, and with
a far greater pitch range. therefore I could create far more 2 vocal tunes for
her as she was able to sing
the deep and the high voices as well. also the instruments are much more
polyphonic again, so the new songs
have a greater orchestral feeling.
The new CD is more female vocal orientated, uhmm Christina has a very
varied classic voice and of different vocal ranges, the new singer is very talented. How did you meet
her?
I was chatting with a Summoning fan from Turkey and he told me about a girl
that
sings very well and likes DVKE, so I added her to my list and she showed me a link to samples with her
voice that impressed me very much.
 The same as
Summoning, the new album of DVKD was released by Napalm
Records. Are you very happy with this label? Did you receive offers of other labels?
Well being on a metal label with a dark wave band like DVKE has advantages
and disadvantages. The advantage is that the label can spread DVKE better by
mentioning Summoning, and making people try this kind of music that normally
never would listen to it. but the disadvantage is that the CD is mainly
discussed and reviewed in metal zines, but although the ratings are quite
good I notice this distance and lack of understanding the reviewers have
concerning this kind of music. So I often read the the reviewers are lacking
changes in the songs and consider it as monotonous just cause they are not
used to listen to pure keyboard and vocal music instead of guitar music. If
you ask any non metal fan for example how he perceives metal music generally
you can be 100% sure that he will consider metal music as pure monotone,
everything just a matter of distance to a music scene;-)
Which are the ideas, feelings and emotions that you try to express in
"Dusk
and Void Became Alive"?
It is always about melancholy and darkness. Always there is this feeling about a
world that is already dead
and gone. Everything is focused on the tunes and rhythms and their rather
tricky combination. Ii like songs
that you have to listen more often in order to get all details of it, that
is what
DVKE is about.
"Moon Muse" is a heavy song, as heavy as Summoning song. You speak us about
this song...
Yes you are right. I also always said it is the most Summoning styled one;
simply because of the mass usage
of horn ensembles at the beginning. It reminds me on a kind of king walking
slowly threw a huge opened
gate:-) but actually only this beginning is in that bombastic way, as soon as
the female vocals start it
becomes much more melancholic (with strings etc) and in the DVKE way.
I think that you are a fanatic of the keyboards and the trumpets. Is my
statement certain? What other instruments are of your pleasure?
Well all tunes are done by the keyboards, but for sure I have favourite sounds.
Certainly horns and
trumpets, but I am also a big fan of oboe-sounds (as you can hear for example in
"Virtues Cloak"). All
instruments have different purpose. Horns represent an epic bombasitc mood
where as oboes are better for
very melancholic ahmospheres.
I read that you are a fan of Tori Amos. Is truth? What do you like of this
artist?
I must confess that I don't really follow her albums since a long time, but the
first 2 ones are really
important albums for me. Actually a songs like "Winter" has far more Summoning
or DVKE spirit inside that
most people who are not into her music would think. I think she has a great way
using her piano and her voice, I even saw her live some years ago in Vienna.
 What can you tell me about ICE AGES? Uhmmm Are you motivated by current
dark electro/EBM music?
Right now I am working with full power on the new songs. I already fixed the new
sound and a complete song
and work for the second one. I love the new sound as now I have cool software
synthetisers such as "reaktor
5" and thanks to technology such as frequency- and ring - modulation I have the
sound much more under control
than ever before. So the new sounds will be harsher and more croaky and combine
better with the distorted
rhythm sound than on the last album.
Actually since many years I'm very very disapointed about the EBM scene. EBM
started with its own identity
and was for me the darkest music that existed, but since some years 99% of all
EBM band just copy the
styles of modern trendy commercial o mtv techno songs and I think that adding a
harsh distorted voice to it
turns this kind of music to underground. I think EBM sould stay real dark, but
right now only a few band
head into this direction. The last very cool album I bought was from
Acylum
called "Your Pain".
With your varied bands and projects, I think that you are a very busy man
with the music, but tell me, What other activities you have (job,
hobbies, etc.)? And the other members of DVKE?
Apart from my full time job as a programmer, my music and a private live
there is not much time left. Time has become a very rare thing for me the
last years. The only thing I do in addition is playing oriental drums, for
more activities I am definitely lacking time. Christina is studyng in Athens
besides her singing.
Last words...
Thanks for the interviews
check my page www.dvke.info
you can even find samples of the new songs in the MP3 section there.
Official
Website: www.dvke.info
E-mail: richard@iceages.info
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