In lieu of a hyped, extended non-sensical biography or history of Chicago's Shrimp Boat, here is an interview conducted via trans-Atlantic mail between Quentin Legrand of Hyacinth Magazine, France and Shrimp Boat's Ian Schneller. 1. Your music is difficult to describe because it is very rich. Where do all these influences, this wealth, come from?By osmosis we absorb as we hear and cannot help but include into our repertoire the sounds and devices of other music. It is not our intention to create a cryptic or elusive musical form, but perhaps this is an incidental side effect of trying to remain objective throughout our creative process. To us it is more important to respond naturally to the world around us than to pigeon hole ourselves into an accepted format. Ours, hopefully, is the format of objectivity.
2. Your music makes me think about a feast in a village. Do you play for marriages, barbecues or other kind of feasts?We like to play for any event. Village feasts are among our favorites...They are the essence of true celebration, which is perhaps the most compelling of all musical motives.
3. What about your new album? It is more melodic, more pop as the Small Wonder EP? What is the musical evolution of the band?Correct. Pop melody is occasionally a focus, sometimes obsessively so. On DUENDE and CAVALE it is our prevalent vocation. There is something so beautiful about the impact of a pop song on a modern culture. The phenomenon of an enduring ephemera is quite the opposite of traditionally evolving folklore. Much like a species that eat their young, our culture now will grovel towards the impulsive at any cost. The opportunity to try and inject some semblance of timelessness into that which is inherently fleeting is irresistible.
As to the evolution of the band musically, it is radial as opposed to linear. I choose to think that we collect as we go, expanding outward as opposed to actually changing verbatim, supplanting one thing for another and thus leaving things behind. Loss is painful
4. I read that during your gigs you improvise a lot. Why not on an album? Is it right sometimes you played 4 hours? It is crazy!Why not on an album? Absolutely. Many of the songs contained on the "studio" albums are "improvised" quite off the "cuff" in one unprecedented rendition. Given the expense of time in the studio a more calculated approach is often warranted. Creativity-I am not bashful.
Four hours spent playing at gigs is not unusual for us.. It is perhaps crazy. Tribal celebration, when it may occur must necessarily embody such stamina. The selected portion of our repertoire on a given evening may include some 40 or 50 songs. We are driven as long as people continue their dervish.
5. Could you talk about Chicago? What kind of music can we hear here? Are people interested by your music?Chicago. I will show you Chicago. Come to our house on Skid Row. We shall hear many urban noise bands and then I will show you the beautiful industrial remnants which once made this a very interesting place. Particularly the drawbridges crossing the Chicago River and the old factories where the world's finest guitars were once made. Yes, many people do seem to be interested in our music, they come and dance with abandon.
6. Today, urban noise bands seem to have more success than rustic pop folk bands. Why according to you? Are you not disappointed by that?The momentum of that which is conveniently definable will always take superficial precedence over various forms of isolated passion. It is sad that the singular may not be more celebrated, but disparate efforts, if serious, will always leech into the foundations of the collective and reap their influence regardless of public predilection. A designation such as "rustic pop-folk" is as daunting a classification to me as "urban noise" simply because it seems so specifically limiting, but I suppose such designations must be drawn just as an arrow may try to hit a moving target.
7. Something to add...For the french people who are going to read your interview...I hope that we may visit your land soon and bring our music with us. If you can dance, and if you smile when you dance, I will leave an enormous aluminum electric guitar stabbed head first, as an ostrich, into the ground as an antithetical testimony to our own grand feast. Liberty
Spouting only the facts, "Shrimp Boat are just four musicians who've stumbled upon something special, seemingly quite by accident, and have already placed themselves in a league that very few ever attain. Don't miss the Boat." - CMJ. This band began with a love for the freedom of jazz, the highest enthusiasm for a groove, and a healthy appreciation for the beauty of songs. Over the years their singular swing evolved into a stronger and wider hybrid; the fruits of this evolution being especially enjoyed by the loose-limbed members of their Chicago audience. Shrimp Boat: swingin-ass dance band on a bed of melody. Alright then, a little history...
Fazendo um caminho através deste histórico grupo, são um felizardo em ter esta caixa de 4 CDs - abrange todo os albums da banda + um disco bônus de faixas de todos os períodos -
Line-up on Cavale:
Sam Prekop - Vocals, Guitar
Ian Schneller - Guitar, Vocals
Eric Claridge - Bass
Joe Vajarsky - Sax
Brad Wood - Drums, Sax
David Kroll - Bass, Sax
Line-up on Duende:
DAVID KROLL - Bass, Banjo, Saxophone
SAM PREKOP - Vocals, Guitar
IAN SCHNELLER - Guitar, Vocals, Trumpet, Drums
BRAD WOOD - Drums, Saxophone
Aclamado pela critica ,2006 foi o ano (já o merecia) do icon indie singer/songwriter/ Daniel Johnston, com o lançamento em 31 de Março do filme documentario «The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Sony Pictures Classics) Tambem em Março no Texas a obra do songwriter foi incluída na bienal de Nova York e exposta no Whitney Museum. Enquanto na Clementine Gallery, em Nova Iorque,com a sua própria curadoria Johnston exibiu a retrospectiva intitulada «The Story of an Artist: Daniel Johnston ». Nessa noite Johnston assistia em sua honra e homenagem a um concerto em Londres no Barbican Hall, que incluiu também os escoceses Teenage Fanclub, o paraplégico singer/songwriterVic Chesnutt, Jason Pierce dos Spiritualized, o folky James Yorkston, e o lider dos Giant Sand- Howe Gelb. Daniel Johnston é um indivíduo que foi dotado de notável talento e criatividade,e isso manifestou-se na sua arte, nos seus filmes caseiros,e na sua música. Não esquecendo que é uma pessoa muito doente, sofria de perturbações mentais, depressão, delírios,e paranóia.
Youth, 
Yo La Tengo, 
Butthole
Surfers, Half Japanese, e Nirvana.
A cidade de Austin mantém o lema "Keep Austin Weird" tem quase 200 salas de música ao vivo, e o que dizem é tão boa como qualquer outra cidade musicalmente falando (ou seja, Brooklyn, Seattle, etc) para uma banda emergir. Esta situa-se em Austin ,chamam-se Electric Touch e têm uma paixão por instrumentos elétricos - com uma guitarra eléctrica, baixo, e teclado, e a única coisa que falta é um electric drum kit. Felizmente para a qualidade do som elétrico de versus orgânico, têm algum interesse em os ouvir.
The Luyas de Montreal são formados por membros dos, S.S. Cardiacs, The Arcade Fire, Bell Orchestre, Miracle Fortress e Torngat. Eles estão apenas começando, mas em breve vão ouvir falar deles,e de certeza vão ter uma grande audiência .
Os Peel são uma banda de Austin e fazem uma pop para o séc.XXI , com a marca dos Pavement dos Aples in Stereo, e com o divertimento dos Meat Puppets.
How much do we love love love Aimee Mann. A resposta "muita" é uma subavaliação. O seu novo álbum «#%&*! Smilers » sai na próxima terça-feira 3 de Junho e é mais um clássico Aimee Mann.
Comemoração do 45 aniversário com um Duplo-7 . Compilação de quatro gravações ao vivo dos arquivos KALX Radio,edição limitada só , 500 exemplares em vinil colorido. Contém uma gravação nunca-antes-editado ao vivo dos Talking Heads jam" Stay Hungry ", capturou a fita na UC Berkeley campus universitario em 1978, no mesmo ano apareceu na canção « More Songs About Buildings and Food».Gravações no estúdio da KALX por Mark Gardener (dos ingleses Ride) «Vapor Trail »( 3/28/2003 KALX Studios). Dengue Fever - "Shave Your Beard" ( 10/06/2005 KALX Studios).E ainda os Supersystem - "Defcon" (5/12/2005 KALX Studios)
