PipemanRadio Interviews ILLUMISHADE

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0:51 This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures of pipe Man W four C Y Radio. And I'm here with our next guest, who I have to totally publicly apologized too, because we're supposed to talk last week and I'm in Costa Rica right now, and I got screwed up with the time zones. I'm usually on Eastern Time, but here it's it's Central Time, and we're on like Teko time here, which to explain that Teko time means everybody takes their time and there is no like time. And I came in like an our hour late or something like that because of the time zone. So I'm gonna publicly apologize to you guys right off the bat, because I never do that. Almost three thousand interviews, I think that's like only the second time I've ever done that. Crap. But must be too much surfing and monkeys. I don't know, right, Yeah, we know that we sounds familiar, you know, so fine. I brought you guys on because you guys have some badass new music coming out. I I love it and listen.

2:01 I don't interview bands if I don't like their music, because I don't get pressed people that do that, because how can you be like pumped and promote music that you don't like and sound real? But you guys are badass. So I'll formally welcome the show. So welcome Aluma Shade. How are you well? Thanks for that great intro. It's nice to be here. Like your glasses by the way, thanks man. But yeah, if you're in Costa Rica, you better you better wear your shades right, no doubt and listen. I live in Florida most of the year. Like I live in Florida part of year, and then I travel the rest of the year outside the US to get away from all the crazies when it's not festival season.

2:51 Right, So during festival season, I'm going on tour doing coverage at radio festivals, at music festivals all over the US, UK and Europe. But I mentioned this because in Florida, the sun is brutal. It's brutally hot, and I should be used to that. And the first couple of days I was in Costa Rica, I was stupid overdid it when on like a five hour hike in the sun and then went for surfing for three hours and I got sun poisoning, some poisoning even, yes, yes, was not fun. Oh yeah, the sun is brutal here. But the sunsets are freaking amazing, you know, They're like, don't I've traveled all over world. I don't know. I don't think I've seen a better sunset anywhere.

3:43 But you know, no better, no better way to enjoy your new album but sitting on the beach at the sunset with the earbuds in listening to Another Side of You, which is coming out very soon now. Yeah, so tell us a little bit about the album. We have the album covered behind me, which I love album art, like man, kids are missing out nowadays because album arts some of the coolest crap. And I love how it didn't even happen on purpose, but I'm purposely like in the middle with I had like I have the wings, So I like that. Tell us about the album, all right, yeah, all right, So, first of all, thank you for having us as well from my side, and I love the background looks like you have two wings, that's right, indeed, Yeah, so another side of you. It's like a compilation of the songs that we wrote throughout the past two three years. I would say it started out with a few songs that we just wrote out in the blue, if you can say like that, without a vision of having an actual full length album. And then by the end when we started negotiating with Napalm signing, the vision got more clear and the goal to actually release a full length album. And then we yeah, in last summer kind of finished everything that

5:15 was missing, let's say, and went to the studio and now it's coming out in within the week. So it's it's crazy. I know, that's wild. Right, time goes quick, doesn't it? Like every year it seems to go faster, Like I came and came from beliebor Or in February. February. Yeah, absolutely, So I tell us a little bit about like I was watching the video for cloud Reader, which that's a badass video, badass song. Tell us more about that song because that's the newest single, right it is. Yeah, Well, it's definitely a very approachable song in a way that it's it's pretty poppy in a way, right, Yeah, you got the catchy chorus. Still there's like very intricate stuff going on if you you know there to listen closely, which for me makes it one of my favorites. Maybe it's my favorite of the day. I mean that stuff changes right as you sometimes a song anymore and then you begin to love it again. I guess it's one of those songs that came to be in a very typical illuminitiate manner, where you know, Fabby had that verse, you had more, of course, but the verse part with that, the piano and the and the vocal melody, that just struck me, and I

6:45 just I knew that we have to do something with that. And then I just worked out the like an arrangement and took parts and changed parts, so it came about very naturally. I have to say, it's I really like this song. I can't. I mean, I usually don't say that about a lot of songs that I personally was involved in. But it's hard, right, It's hard to like, Yeah, your your own worst critic anyway, So it's like even me, I'll do interviews and like after the interviewed, they're like, oh my god, that was the best interview ever. And I'm like thinking, in my head, I sucked. We all, Yeah, I guess we all. We all do, right, we think the same, we have the same patterns there. But this song, I can honestly say, I still like it. I like to perform in life, even though it's kind of like a bitch to play. Also, I guess it's a it's a song that is trying to be uplifting, telling about you know, life in all its different stages, without trying to be prea chief, you know what I mean. Yeah, because we definitely don't want to do that. But yeah, I guess it's our uplifting positive hymn of this record kind of see, And I love that And that's more real anyway, because when you're preachy, it's not real. And I'm very much about positive stuff. But you can't force it, like you can tell if somebody's

8:16 forced it or not, just like with musicianship. You watch bands up on stage and you can tell if they're just going through the motions or they're just freaking loving what they're doing and they're in a zone. And that's the bands I like the ones that are loving what they're doing in a zone, right, I have to say too. Okay, something caught my attention because it was funny because I was saying in the beginning of the interview that you know, I travel on the off season. So last year I spent two months in the Netherlands because I love the Netherlands, and the apartment I rented was in Amstelvin and I was like, oh man, this year, if it was last year, I could have gone to your show because I didn't even know that there were shows in that town. Like I walked the whole town and I was like, I didn't even know there were shows and I saw that, like, wow, I wonder where that was. So So, how has it been on the road so far, and how are people take accepting your new music? Well, I think we can say it was such a cool tour. It was our first one, so we didn't really know what to expect. I think many things are learning by doing and with it

9:46 comes with experience. But I think we prepared really well. Shout outs to the guys with all the life equipment. Everybody prepared and we had a great team. We had a really cool like mini nightliner. Yeah, it was so good. We had a great crew with our sound engineer merch Lady. Everything it was I don't know, it just felt so good. The lane was very welcoming, very supportive. The crowds as well. I would say, I don't know, it was just really cool. And talking about cloud Reader, I was actually amazed how well it is perceived life, Like you see the smile on the faces of the people, and just it has to drive as well. I was, I think a little bit skeptical, probably the most skeptical person in the band about Cloud Reader And why is that?

10:43 What were you skeptical about? Yeah, I mean I understand that it's like the chorus is catchy, the length, everything is perfect for a single. Like thinking in these kind of terms, I was just I don't know. I had my doubts if it is a little bit too bright in but I think this is it's good. It's good. I'm happy we did it. I'm happy. Especially Filmas was like really standing up for this song and I'm happy that it went the way it went. Now nice And speaking of shows coming up at March, you have a couple album release shows, so let's talk about that. Yeah, yeah, we do. It's two shows in Switzerland, so one is in the French part, one in the German part, like hometown show in Zurk. And you ever bringing three other great bands, So we bring our good friends from Ad Infinitum. We've played together before.

11:50 We supported them on their album release show back in twenty one, I think, so try Yeah, so that's gonna be great. Then we have Lire, which is the new project from Michelina Malish who was is a former Herdy Guarder player in eighteen. We're bringing her along also, that's a super cool project to check out. And then we got voiced Ruin. I think they're from the French part right from Switch Off Switcher. Yeah, Switzerland. So yeah, it should be like a like a mini festival. I love it. That sounds like a fun time to May and and then okay, so I get back to States in April because then I have to go on tour for festivals in the US in May, and then I have festivals in the UK in June and in August, and then I won in the US in July. But you guys are going to be in North America in April.

13:00 Yeah, as bad ass, you'll be all over the US Canada. That's pretty cool tour. Have you guys played in the US or Canada before? Not with Illuminiate, Jonas and me, we were two times with Elvetti over there, and I always always love these tours, So I'm super curious when we will come with Illuminiate joining Corporate Cladian Visions of Atlantis. So that's going to be something We're planning everything. It's many things to think about and just can't wait because I mean the Americans or Canadians, I mean the passion for music and the energy during the concerts and just really looking forward to that.

13:50 See I love hearing that because over in the States we all talk about Europe and that's the place where the passion for the music is. So the bottom line is the passion is everywhere, you know, and I mean and I also feel good now that I'm interviewing you because now I've done the hat trick because both the other bands that you're touring with in North America I've already interviewed, So now I've completed the trio for the tour. So tell everybody how to hit you guys up on social media on the web, how they can pre order the album. Everything you want to know about promoting your merch and your albums and all that stuff. Yeah, well, if you really want to do as a favor, you should pre order the album now or the vinyl. Actually, I mean it, maybe by the time this interview goes out, the album is out, because we'll get it out quicker than that. Okay, okay, so let's pre order. I want them all the pre order. They can't listen to my show unless say pre order.

15:05 I mean that supports us for sure. I mean we've come up with a very reasonable idea to put out a double vinyl in twenty twenty four. Yeah, well that's brave. Yeah. Put in the end, we're all just music lovers and music nerds, and we know that the metal scene is still there's people who are like minded. So yeah, be counting you out there. Well, listen, I'm one of those because I miss the days of when, like listen, in the eighties, we used to love it when somebody came out with double album that was like the most killer thing. It was like you had to run out and get it because it was a double album. Nowadays, people to get through one song sometimes as an effort and I think we need I think it's changing now. I think it's going back to because of the resurgence of vinyl people actually listening to albums and I love it. Yeah, yeah, I agree, or I mean I hope so as well. But having said that, if you are into Spotify and the streaming services, of course you can find us on all of the all of those of course, I mean yeah, camp as well. And we also do have an American band store our own, so there we will even I

16:38 don't know we we we will have the album as well. Actually you can even preorderate there, but we didn't push it that much yet. Yes, yes, absolutely, as much as I know. It should be available on Amazon and stuff as well at some point. Wow. Nice something like that. So yeah, and I buy your on Instagram and so on Facebook, everywhere everywhere. We lost you for a second there, Yeah, you dropped off for a second. But you're back. Good, Black, I'm back. Good. How about TikTok? You guys got TikTok? We do, We tried. What what's the craziest TikTok that you did? Is there one?

17:36 No? Not not really, We're just reposting. See see now, when you do this North American tour, you're just gonna have to like do tiktoks in every city, right, Okay, that's good, thanks for them. See there you go. You could it could be the TikTok Tour of North America. Right, yeah, let's do that. I need to grow, right, that's right, that's right. Any final words you want to give our listeners that we haven't touched on yet that you want them to know about your band and your music. M that's the trick question right there.

18:22 Well, I'll tell you what I think the final words are is they have to go out and pre order and buy another side of you, or else they have to go on another show to because they can't listen to my show. So right, right, seriously, everybody check it out. Check out the video for a cloud reader. You're gonna love it. Okay. It's badass, and that's coming from as all my listeners know, an old school metal head that it is kind of poppy, but it's cool. It's a cool kind of poppy. It's like it's something that sticks in your head.

19:03 That's what I got from it. So everybody check it out and thanks you guys for making such badass music and thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe many thanks. Pleasure, pleasure, pleasure is all mine. We'll see you, uh in the States maybe right, Yeah, let's hope. So are you gonna be playing a festivals? Not in the States? No bummer, you're not back in the States right then in April. I'll be back in the States in April, except I don't think you're I'm gonna be in Florida. I don't think you're going to be in Florida, but you're in I was. You're gonna be starting off in uh reading Pa and then go on to New York City as we call it, Like I'm born in New York.

19:49 We call it the city. Like anybody in the United States, if you say the city, they know what city you're talking about. There's like and if there's anybody, it's like woop city, Like shut up, dude, there's only one city. So I live in Florida. I drive by by Abbey, which is a cool place. But I'm like, they call that a city. That's not a city because you can drive by it and you missed it, you know, But uh, oh, where are you guys playing in New York? By the way, do you know maybe Grammar I think, do you know? I okay, yeah, and then and then after New York you go to Boston and then Montreal. Montreal is one of my favorite cities in the world. Oh yeah, that's always also the people. Yeah, show will be great for sure, I'm pretty sure.

20:38 Oh yeah, I love Montreal. So you guys will be in Reading, PA, New York City, Boston, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Pontiac, Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Minneapolis, Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Denver, Lincoln, Nebraska, Joliet, Illinois. There's a lot of badass cities in that tour, like there's those are like those are like the major cities to go to, except like you know, Lincoln, Nebraska, but you got to play there. Yeah the grammarcy I quickly checked. Yeah it is right nice, Yeah, it's yeah. Well you guys are badass and uh man, you don't wait to get to North America and everybody, make sure to get the new album because you will love it.

21:45 Yes, thank you guys. Yeah, even old school metal heads like it. As you prove there, it is Thank you for listening to the adventures of Plateland. I'm W four CUI Radio m