D/B 11+3 Interview with Myele of Electric Wire Hustle | New Waters EP and live in Berlin

Posted on | July 5, 2010 | No Comments

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This time with Myele of Electric Wire Hustle from Wellington/New Zealand. Each artist is asked 11 set questions and to contribute 3 “facts” which can be any statement from them on absolutely anything: their own views on politics, religion, the environment, sport…or just something they read in the paper or saw on TV.

FACTS:

1: Quality is more important than style
2: Music is easy. The life that comes with it can be a mission though.
3: The Flat White rules but when in Europe a double shot espresso macchiato is how I roll.

QUESTIONS:

1. What is the biggest inspiration for your music?
The more I keep on with music, the more I realize that inspiration can come from anywhere. From other music you like, a spider walking around your bedroom, a lover, politics, roast beef, anything. Keeping an open mind is the best way to be when it comes to making any kind of art, I think.

2. How and when did you get into making music?
Everybody in the band has had a musical upbringing with our parents being involved in music, so it wasn’t really a matter of getting into it. It was just a part of life. For me personally, My father is a Congolese drummer, guitarist, singer and band leader, so he would have me playing gigs with him and sitting in at his lessons since I can remember. However I didn’t really take music seriously until I was 16

3. What are your 5 favourite albums of all time?
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
Trinity Roots – Home Land and Sea
Common – Like Water For Chocolate
Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
Michael Jackson – Off The Wall

4. What do you associate with Berlin?
I’ve been staying here in Berlin since early June and will be here till at least the end of July. It’s a great hybrid of the old and the new. A very grand, very tragic history but an incredibly promising future, artistically and otherwise. Bratwurst. Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Bohannon. The Park Inn. Techno

5. What’s your favourite place in your town?
Fidels cafe on Cuba St. Wellington. I would say it just about has the best espresso in the world, and has been a central meeting place for me and my friends for years.

6. If there was no music in the world, what would you do instead?
Snowboarding, journalism or philosophy

7. What was the last record you bought?
Debussy: Piano Favourites. Played by François-Joël Thiollier.

8. Who would you most like to collaborate with?
Mos Def, Jimi Hendrix, Brad Meldhau. It was pretty cool to have collaborated with Georgia Anne Muldrow, Steve Spacek, and Stacy Epps though :)

9. What was your best gig (as performer or spectator)?
Our first show in Warsaw Poland was pretty amazing, just because it was such a wild card, who-knows-anything-about-this-place kind of gig. We had no idea what to expect and it was a super amped, super packed club who responded to everything. It was pretty exciting for us to be all the way out in Eastern Europe rocking out to these cats.

10. How important is technology to your creative process?
It’s important I guess, but not as important as the idea and the intention behind whatever it is that’s coming out. It doesn’t really matter how you achieve a sound as long as you’re really meaning and believing whatever that sound is. Whether it’s just your natural voice or the latest Korg synth. You just use whatever you have/need to get the sound that’s right for the music. Just let the music tell you what to do. That’s it.

11. Do you have siblings and are they proud or jealous of you?
I have a little toddler sister. She’s too young to really feel proud or jealous of me, but I hope I can make music good enough to keep my family proud of me.

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Developing their own sound and twist on modern hip hop, psychedelic and soul, New Zealand’s Electric Wire Hustle has forged a fresh sound that challenges genre boundaries and preconceptions. The music of EWH reaches forward while referencing key points of music’s past. Thick drums and percussion layered with synth lines, hints of Fender Rhodes and nylon stringed guitars have your neck snapping while your ear cranes to the evocative vocals of Mara TK.

Since forming in 2007 the trio of – Mara TK, Taay Ninh and Myele Manzanza – have experienced an outstanding response to their music. Their strong live shows have seen them support the likes of UK soul singer Alice Russell, Japan’s DJ Krush, Grooveman Spot and U.S. psychedlic soul outfit SA-RA Creative Partners.

Electric Wire Hustle Electronic Press Kit 2010. Filmed and Edited by Vibol Moeung. Live footage by Hayley Dingwall. Foxtree Studio Productions 2010

EWH have also had the pleasure of collaborating with U.S. recording artists Georgia Anne Muldrow, Atlanta based Stacy Epps, Mara’s dad; NZ blues legend Billy TK and UK future Soul exponent Steve Spacek who all feature on their debut album to be released worldwide through BBE Records in July 2010.

www.myspace.com/electricwirehustle | www.electricwirehustle.com | http://www.bbemusic.com
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