Ach ja sorry, das Interview hast du ja schon in deinem ersten Post verlinkt, aber gelesen hast du es offenbar nicht. Gleich die zweite Frage:
You appear to be preparing a special comeback with the release of a 7” on Duplicate Records which will basically only contain re-recordings of two older tracks. I always thought that, as an artist, going through material from the vault was like admitting to some sort of a lack of inspiration regarding your present-day creativity. Was this an easier way to get back on track after all these years, in order to get a grasp of what Fleurety once has been and therefore should be nowadays?
Hm. We had to find another label to release this 7″, because of all the usual reasons. Fleurety is cursed with label complications, we’ve been since 1993, so well. We actually made a deal with our very first record label Aesthetic Death Records, who released our A Darker Shade of Evil 7″ EP in 1994 and co-released Min Tid Skal Komme with Misanthropy Records in 1995. This label is also releasing the vinyl version of Min Tid Skal Komme this autumn. We might be talking November. This version will feature the A Darker Shade of Evil EP and our very first demo Black Snow that we released in 1993. So let’s see what happens and when it happens.
Anyway, when it comes to your question about „going through material from the vault was like admitting to some sort of a lack of inspiration regarding your present-day creativity“, I agree. But I don’t think that kind of thinking applies to Fleurety. If we were an active band, like Darkthrone or whatever, it would be an entirely different situation. But for a lot of years (1998-2005) we weren’t really an active band, so re-recording old material is more like a way to get back on track, some kind of way to reawaken the dead. But as I said: Fleurety got lost, I guess in some kind of fog of experimentation, where the members of the band kinda lost sight of each other.
So I think it is better to keep things clear, and fuck all that experimental shit. I make experimental music all day, so I don’t really need Fleurety to fulfill that function. We’re never going to sound like your usual metal band anyway, no matter how hard we try. So it’s more important to keep the band alive, I think, than being all visionary and shit. I mean, it’s cool to be visionary, but we need to keep this band a social unit as well, that brings people together. We’ve been doing this as two people all these years, and we need to keep doing this as at least two people. Otherwise it wouldn’t be Fleurety.
Auf Fleuretys MySpace-Seite gibt es weitere Informationen bezüglich der EP, der Blog-Eintrag datiert allerdings auf den 5. Jänner 2008 – mit der Veröffentlichung wird es also hoffentlich nicht mehr allzu lange dauern, obwohl Svein ja im Zuge des Interviews erklärt, dass die Band schon immer ein sehr kompliziertes Verhältnis zu seinen Labels hatte.
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