INTERVIEW WITH ruadebaixo

Thoughts on "The Furthest Shelter", 2 Years later:  Nowadays I would change many things in the disk, but I find that that’s natural and something that all artists have to deal with; constant dissatisfaction of their own work and the strive for future perfection.

On your musical background:  I had piano lessons from about the age of 10 or 11. I wasn’t that keen on them and spend much of my free time trying to play songs that my parents used to have on the stereo at home.  I particularly  remember a lot of Neil Diamond & Abba  (laughs). 

On Songwriting:  My songs are simple and I don’t try to think about their direction too much when I write them.  I just sit at the piano and wait to see what I can come up with.

On Music Piracy:  I remember the position Metallica took a few years ago [the famous Napster episode] and I totally agreed with them.  The truth is, they did that not because they were losing out on revenue (but, of course they were) but because they could see that musicians at the lower end of the scale were being exploited. When you’re a musician or band starting out every penny counts and finding the music you worked so hard on being passed around for free on the internet is hard to take. There is a serious danger that some really talented people say “what’s the point trying to make a living from this”. That effects everyone. Musicians can’t make a living and people don’t get the chance to hear great new music.

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