The Far Distance Band Podcast Blue On Blue

Having bands in for band interviews is one of the nicest things about the podcast we have established. And this month we can present our first band interview with an established band that has released records and is touring regularly.

The Danish band Ring Them Bells is a band with their roots in indie rock music from the 90’s, but has developed over the years into something more nuanced. The band has references to Madrugada, U2 and Iggy Pop and is hovering in a space between punk, atmospheric rock, indie rock and pop music.

They just released their third studio album and we invited the lead singer and song writer of the band, Johannes Nidam, for a talk about how the album came about, the creative processes, how they work in the band, studio recordings and marketing, promotion and concerts.

It became a very nice conversation and enlightening for guys like Anders, Thomas and I that never came so far with Blue On Blue. This is great content and insights for any upcoming band to get an idea of how todays music industry works at the lower tiers of the system. Hint: no one is paying you a private jet!

Summer is here and The Far Distance Band Podcast will having a break until August. When we are back we are ready to share new Blue On Blue music with you and interesting band interviews.

We were supposed to have another band interview, but that crashed and then we decided to take a talk about Anders and his sample music he has been making over the last 25-30 years.  Anders takes us back to how he as a teenager started experimenting with cassette recorders to make sampled music through to the days of his first sampler to make more professional sounding electronic sample music back in the early 1990’s.

It is a wonderful conversation where Anders opens up the world of sampled music, how it works and how he is making his sampled music creatively.

Anybody with interest in sampled music will find this episode great with lots of insigths on how to make sampled music and how to find creative inspiration in the process of creating electronic music.

This summer Niels had the time to dig deep into Soundcloud to screen music and reach out to possible new guests for our Band Interview segment. He stumpled upon the Finnish band Sorot. Atmospheric instrumental music with very strong melodic base. He reached out to guy behind this one-man-band, Samuli Turunen, and he accepted the invitation to have a talk about his music.

It became a nice talk about how Samuli creates his music and how he works with his music idea seeds. But first and foremost we talked about his main inspiration: The whether. How the changing seasons influences his music and how he expresses the season characteristics in his music.

As an easter egg: one of us in the recording falls asleep during the recording – find out who!

We made a new song and it is time to have a talk about it after a handful of band interviews the last months.

We discovered a Talk Talk song from the 1984-album It’s My Life. It’s You being the last track on side B. The song intriqued me, Niels, and we ended up doing a cover version of the song. Whoever knows the song will understand we made a quite different kind of art work out of the wonderful piece of music when listening to our version

Anders and I here have a talk about the original song and the creative process we went through to end up with our own interpretation of the song.

The Far Distance Band podcast is back. The release frequency is now settled at one episode per month and episodes will be released in the first week every month.

In November we released the first half of a band interview with EOAN. Niels has recently got in contact with a very old acquaintance from his teen years that also makes music. Of course, we invited him in for a talk about his band. 

Morten is equal to the one-man-band EOAN. The style is melodic, atmospheric and with references to the 80’s. Being a one-man-band is something Niels also did for a handful of years. So Morten and Niels have a talk about the music and how to work as a one-man-band.

In this second episode we dig into EOANs music and how Morten creatively and practically is working with developing music as a one-man-band. 

The episode has reflections and insights on how to work creatively and how to shape musical landscapes when you work alone with music.

First a big excuse for the long break!

This is a part time initiative and this summer it has simply not been possible to record any podcasts for the show. Frequency will also scale down as we continue, but we are aiming at releasing one episode pr month.

It is time for another band interview in The Far Distance Band Podcast. Niels has recently got in contact with a very old acquaintance from his teen years that also makes music. Of course, we invited him in for a talk about his band. 

Morten is equal to the one-man-band EOAN. The style is melodic, atmospheric and with references to the 80’s.

Being a one-man-band is something Niels also did for a handful of years. So Morten and Niels have a talk about the music and how to work as a one-man-band. But it also become a wonderful talk about self-confidence and golden days of teen-past.

The episode offers insights into how it is working as a one man band and how to work creatively when it is you and yourself creating music.