When their music starts, the moment seems to freeze. With Controlling Crowds, Archive have released a new bombastic album. Reason enough for us to talk to singer Pollard Berrier.

For your 6th studio record you disappeared for a long time. Now you are back and want to Control Crowds? What can the audience expect?

Well, we only disappeared for one year and a half, but we did spend two and a half years making Controlling Crowds. We don’t have any desire to Control Crowds because this society in which we are living has already set that up for us. Throughout the ages and in the present, the issue of control and control on a mass scale has dominated our politics, our personalities, religion, social structures and the affect has had an effect on all of our lives in some way or another. Controlling Crowds is simply our created fantasy world of the past present and future. We have written it from an observant and reflective perspective, as to say, it’s not necessarily meant to mean anything in particular, other than it being our own reflection and interpretations with past, current and future events in the world we live in.

How would you perform your album on stage if there shouldn’t be any limits and boundaries?

There is no limit to the possibilities as to how we might perform Controlling Crowds on stage, but there is the initial anfängliche Bedenken concern of funding and sponsorship to build the show the way we could limitlessly and creatively see it happening, or the way we would like it to be performed. We are in the midst of developing the show for a planned autumn tour later this year. Regardless of any details yet to be seen, it will still be an amazing experience.

The new album is a complete artwork, the songs are very closely cohere, consort with each other. Imagine: If you could make a music video to the hole album (okay, it could be a movie at all J ) – what would be the storyline? The storyline of Control Crowds? How would the video looks like? (colours, elements, ..?)

We had originally planned to make a film with the whole album, but the idea has not yet borne into fruition. The company, Hello Charlie, developed the video for “Bullets,” which is intended to be a small part of one large story, with hopefully more pieces to come. But if there are any great filmmakers out there who want to give it a try on their own, be our guest.

In your band history you´ve worked wih a lot of musicians, producers and so on – and you are in a good relationship to BirdPen for example. But if you would have the free choice – with whom would you work together in the future at all costs? And why?

We have always talked about working with other big producers, but it would really be a case of none of us feeling like we are sacrificing too much in the process. We all saw what happened with Take My Head, and repeating any such process is totally out of the question. Archive is a developed sound, but with other influences always coming and going, the possibilities to work with anyone we feel we have a similar understanding about music with are indeed intriguing and we would hear anyone out or approach anyone we might want to work with.

Which was the most haunting (happy, sad, whatever) moment for you with Archive?

A moment in Archive time that sticks out for me was when we played the Zenith arena, in Paris. It was nice to look around on stage, in the audience, at the sides of the stage and see everyone so inside of the performance and locked into the evening.

(2009)

Ella 2009-07-27 18:43:35 mehr mehr mehr davon!!! die band is einfach nu der knaller............... ***love*** Antworten 0   0

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