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noctaluca
genre rock
home town Cincinnati
home on the web
www.noctaluca.com
www.myspace.com/noctaluca
past material
Towering the Sum (2006)
Still the Wicked Rest (2008)
noctaluca unplugged (2009)
current project
currently we're writing new material and hope to release something in the Spring
or Summer of 2010.
places where music is available for purchases
www.noctaluca.com, itunes, rhapsody, imeem, amazon, and pretty much most of the
major digital distribution networks.
Interview questions
this is jason ludwig, I'll be answering the following questions...
How did you get your start in music?
Donovan (noctaluca bassist) taught me how to play guitar when I was 19. I've
been writing music ever since. I had a short solo career before I decided that i
wanted to form a rock band because I needed a heavier outlet for those kinds of
songs.
who are your biggest musical influences
I float from one obsession to another. Jeff Buckley, Soundgarden, Radiohead,
Beck, those are the obvious ones, but less known are my current obsessions like
ones with Andrew Bird, Nina Simone, The Brazilian Girls, Bob Seger and Devandra
Banhardt.
What is your biggest inspiration when creating music?
A quiet place, and a state of fluid sub consciousness where I can let the music
seep from me. I've caught myself drooling a few times in these states. Let me
emphasize that this involves no drug use. It's simply a state of mind that I've
just learned to tap into, and it allows for the best kind of ideas and writing
to take center. The other side of that coin is always exploring new music and
creating zero boundaries in terms of the genres or artists i listen to. I find
elements worth taking in even the most mundane pop song.
Could you give us the details of your current project.
I would have to kill you. Suffice it to say that I hope we take new risks.
That's one thing I've always appreciated about Radiohead. They never looked
back.
What is the next goal you would like to achieve with your
music?
to worship both extremes of modern day recording and writing. you have lo-fi,
and you have heavily produced. I want to try both extremes. they each have their
merits and there are songs we're writing that in my opinion need to be sorted
out by these two recording standards. there is a tendency to polish a demo when
sometimes the demo, the ephemera, is actually the best and most final version of
that song. but i've also always loved over-the-top recordings: spacehog's Chines
Album, Rufus Wainwright's Want One, Firetheft's debut album, all of those are
thick, heavily produced albums with a lot going on, and they sound terrific.
We've in the past taken this road more often than not, and I want to continue to
expand on it.
final four (
When the zombies take over the world where will you be?
Standing on the capitol steps, holding a baseball bat in my left hand with a
sticker on it that reads: Don't blame me, I voted for Ron Paul.
Jedi, Ninja, vampire, were-wolf, pirate, fairy or Spartan?
Jedi.
What one piece of art, be it music, book, film or picture,
do you think people must experience before they die?
I love this question. I was just telling my girlfriend this morning that I think
it should be mandatory viewing that every child in the world watch the looney
tunes cartoon series. I grew up on it every Saturday morning. I hear they don't
show them anymore because they're too violent? are you kidding me? aside from
that though, as the craft of film scoring goes, i think Danny Elfman's theme to
Edward Scissorhands is one the finest works of the twentieth century. I have
listened to it a couple hundred times over the years and i still get chills and
hear new things. I firmly believe the score is the emotional crux of that film
and without it, you would feel little sympathy for Edward.
Give one fact that most people would not believe about
you?
I'm an ordained minister.
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