Q&A With The Night Terrors Of 1927
The Night Terrors Of 1927 is Blake Sennett and Jarrod Gorbel, but they’d rather you judge the music as a new entity, separate from past musical endeavors. The band just put our their new, debut, EP ‘Guilty Pleas.’ Here are few questions with Jarrod Gorbel that give a peak behind the music.
Night Terrors was a little bit of a mystery band at the start, was this on purpose?
Initially, the mystery of Night Terrors of 1927 was consciously done. People’s natural reaction to new music is always to draw a comparison or similarity, it’s just how people help themselves to better understand what they are hearing. If you give someone a direct association right off the bat then you’re sort of deflecting their instinctual reaction. Long winded answer, but basically we just wanted to see if anyone would like the music for what it is rather then who is making it. Plus, when you think of Iron Maiden, you think of Eddie - not Bruce Dickinson in his green chain mail pants. Artwork is such a cooler representation rather then a cheesy press photo.
How did the collaboration start? Was forming a new band part of the goal or a result of writing songs together?
The Collaberation began when I (Jarrod) relocated from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 2012. Blake had produced my solo record in 2009 so initially I had just called him to attempt writing some songs. Forming the band was not part of the plan at all. It just sort of happened. We went on a trip to Todos Santos in Mexico with an acoustic guitar and a laptop. By the end of the trip, the band was conceptualized.
What is this first EP about for you guys, lyrically?
The thread throughout our EP lyrically is darkness, the past, dreams - these sorts of things. Acceptance of past mistakes and what these crucial dark moments did to help shape what is now. “Must of got lost, as good as it was, hope it didn’t cost us our soul”.
What role does consumer level technology and software play in your music? How is it better (or possibly worse) for you to write songs today verses 10 years ago?
“Consumer Technology” plays a huge part in our music and its ability to reach the world. We put a song online and a few blogs wrote about it, and then we were “a band”. We hadn’t played any shows yet or even built a live band. Obviously we had to do all these things after there was an expectation built - as opposed to 10 years ago when you had to record a full length and then hit the road for a few years before anyone gave a s*** about you.
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