LITHUANIA

Interview with Egle Jaksyte the famous singer in Lithuania

 

 

 

 

 

Q1. What does the music mean to you?

I cannot imagine my life without music. Music is my life, actually. Without music

I would not be who I am now.

Q2. In your opinion, which song is your best song?

Each song that I sing is a good song since I do not sing anything that I do not like. Although,

there is one song which I actually wrote myself, and which is quite popular these days and it is called

‘Flying’. This one is my favorite since I could feel that everybody likes it.

Q3. What was the most difficult situation during the concert?

Sometimes the stages are unsuitable for concerts but otherwise I did not have any embarrassing

moments so far.

Q4. What is your wish for young rising artists?

Have the purpose in life and go after it. Do not wander around; if you will concentrate in one thing

you will achieve the maximum. Therefore, I wish everybody to reach their maximum and be themselves.

Q5. If you could change one thing in life, what would it be?

Since I am not planning to change my life, I wouldn’t change anything. Q6. What is your greatest

accomplishment?I have the chance to do what I really love. It’s been almost five years I am on stage

and I am still hanging there, and it is the greatest thing in life that ever happened to me.

 

 

 

 

Catalonia(INS Ronda, Lleida)

 

 

INTERVIEW WITH TERÀPIA DE SHOCK – Martorell, October 5, 2013

 

1. What are the three basic rules to succeed?

-Rehearsing, rehearsing, rehearsing. What happened to us was that we didn't

know how to play when we started playing. We had a guitar, we learned to

play together, and... Do we have music studies? No, zero. So what do we do?

We practice and practice every day, and we don't know how to play with other

people but we do together. And the songs we play are the ones we have practiced

the most.

2. Who is the composer?

All of us. Everyone has his job in the group and we have combined our lives:

our personal life, the group one... -But what Massa has said before about not

knowing how to play explains everything. When we got a guitar and we had already

got the group, I didn't know how to play and had never gone to any guitar class.

I have learned everything I know with the group. We didn't know how to play,

but we learned by creating a band. -He couldn’t play and he taught me! It was

incredible. -But we began like this, and I think that makes it special: we aren't

four musicians that join together and play a score, but we play things that are

ours, from our coming together, from our tastes, our understanding... We could be

better musicians but we wouldn’t be able to play like we do, because it's this

combination what matters. If I try to play one of our songs with anyone else,

it doesn't sound ours. It must be the four of us or it isn't Teràpia.

3.How do you compose the songs?

Well, one of us can say: hey, I have a riff! And all together we discover its pitch and these things,and we find it a meaning that connects us. But we know each other so well that we understand each other easily. Then, the best of the process is that everyone contributes and gives his opinion, we argue for a while, and we end up with a song done by the four of us. That's a band, or then it would be a solo singer and some musicians playing together.

4.What do you write first, the lyrics or the music?

Comenius Project: Music, vehicle of cultural identityINS Ronda (Lleida)2-It depends on the song: it can be a riff, some lyrics, or nothing. What is cool about the lyrics is that when you want to write a strophe you already know what you want to say.

5.What do you think you would be doing if you weren't in the band?

-In jail! -No, I think we would be studying a degree or something like that. -The band changed our life. In fact, I wanted to be engineer, but I gave up studying.

6. Were you studying when you formed the group?

-Yes. But we have to continue our life as if the group didn’t exist, because we can't make a living onmusic. We don't earn enough money with the group and our music, we do it basically because we like it. You can say what you want, but Teràpia de Shock doesn't earn a penny to play! Then there's the name, the filthy managers that steal the money... But we don't earn anything. Then, you have a dilemma because you have to continue your own life but you have to combine it with something that makes you spend two or three nights a week. You have a concert and have to play in Camp Nou in front of 90000 people but the next day at eight o'clock you have to be studying. - You have to like and enjoy it. We have learned through the years that the important thing is to have fun and make people have fun.

7.And enjoy the moment, right?

Yes, of course. We, for example, could go to a concert, play, and go back home. We could be paid, but we don't really want to. We only want to do a good concert, because what we like is playing. -And in the world of music the agents, record companies and these ..., when they can, they use you and leave you nothing.

8.What do you listen to in spotify? Have you ever listened to any of your own songs?

Never. -Well, I have done it a few times because I haven’t got any of our CDs. It's cool, there is the front cover too...

9.What do you listen to, then?

I listen to progressive jazz from the thirties! -No, in the thirties there wasn't progressive jazz. Well, it depends, there is so much music that when you begin you can't listen to it all. -Music is a feeling and every moment has its own song. It's your life soundtrack. When you are feeling blue, you feel like listening to a slow song, a song which makes you think. When you are happy, you listen to a song that makes you remember someone or something you like. The feeling that music gives is very beautiful.

10.If you had a family, and kids and all of this..?

No, no, no, no, no!

11.Would it affect the group?

I don't know, the only ones who have a girlfriend are Gerard and Parés, and it hasn’t been bad up to now... When our biological watch awakes, we'll see. Things might change, but I don't think so. -Luckily, we can think that we still have time to have fun. We are young.

12.Do you want to say something to the Lithuanian or the Czechs?

-Of course! Invite us to play and we will come! But we all think the same: this project is a great initiative, not only because of music, but to travel to other countries. We all like travelling, and I'm sure that it will be a great experience for everyone. You all will learn with it, and if it works it will be done every year. I hope you're lucky and you have fun with it. If there had been something like this when I was your age, I’m sure I would have participated.

13.And something in English?

Oh yes! baby. -Something like: “Life without music is no life, so enjoy life as if it was music”. -”Be music, my friend” -We should have said something else. -Well, come to Catalonia and enjoy the Catalan music!

 

 

 

Naples

 

Interview with Italian singer “Intervista Sal Da Vinci”

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NpSbomJck0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Luhacovice

 

How long have you devoted yourself to music?

I intesively have been into music for about two years. Since I wrote my first lyrics in 8th class at primary school, music muse started to circulate in my veins and my heart started beating in the rythm of Rapp.

How often do you train?

In fact, I train all the time. I take every minute of composing new lyrics and every hour behind microphone in studio as training.

What was your biggest success?

I think my biggest success was a concert in Golem (club in Zlín), where we played with group called Defuckto and Slovakian star Radikál. You know, when I looked down from stage to full dance floor and when I jumped here – it was the greatest feeling what I ever had.

Where would you like to get, what is your highest goal?

I don´t want be on top scene. I do it because it´s my life and I enjoy it. But it will be nice to play with rappers whose posters decorated my bedroom. My present goal is to record a track with my idols which are mainly from Slovakian scene (Separ, Strapo, Momo). But I can only dream about it.

What have you learnt from music, is there anything that music has given to you or taken from you?

I haven´t lost anything. It has given me the most beautiful experiences in my life when I and my band give concerts and record albums. Music incited me to my lifestyle. Music learnt me “be yourself ”…

Do you remember any sad or happy moments, which happend to you?

Happy moments were especially after each successful concert. Some moments were so amazing that I don´t remember them. We had lots of funny moments when we recorded album in studio. I might find some sad moments but I left them behind and go on.