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HMTV Canada: Hi Helalyn Flowers How are you? The design and wealth of information at your main web is awesome. How did you come up with your band name Helalyn Flowers and how long have you known each other?
Helalyn Flowers: It’s Max who came out with that name. It
obsessed him for some days like a mantra until he proposed it to N0emi as the
band s name. We just split up our previous band The Claw and were searching for
a name able to fully reflect our true spirit.
Helalyn is an archaic English term which stands for hidden zone. A sort
of B-zone that after vulgarly became hell. It’s arid and desolated and flowers
(seen as vital source) can’t grow on them. It’s something absurd but we are
absurd! We are against conventional life, we know no rules and we strongly
believe in our energy! We are alien to and in this world. So, we are the
flowers that grow on the ground they wouldn’t.
HMTV Canada: When did you form your band? What inspired you
to make music together and who are your current band members?
Helalyn Flowers: As
told before, we split up our previous band in 2004 because we were terribly
tired of all those musical cowards and hobbyists who used to play with us. So,
we decided to continue as a duo since our synergy is absolute, as well as our
will to create something never seen or heard before. Our reciprocal esteem and awareness
of our capacities and talents was the only true input to the band s starting.
We two are and will be the only core and motor of Helalyn Flowers, depicting of
other musicians who accompany us on stage!
HMTV Canada: Tell us about your unique style of music your
major influences? How has your music evolved or changed since you first began
playing? Who writes your songs?
Helalyn Flowers: What you listen is the summa of all our
influences and likes. It’s like a kind of filter if you want. When we began Helalyn Flowers, we were so
much influenced by soundtracks like Queen Of The Damned, Spawn, Resident Evil
and others, great albums like Mechanical Animals, Untouchables and Ultra
plus Bjork, Miranda Sex Garden and other fantastic early 90s Alternative
stuff. You know, we are true music-lovers and listen to a very big variety of
genres. It doesn’t care the style but how much we like it. The earlier
influences have been increased and not replaced at all! All Helalyn Flowers s
songs are written by both us. Generally Max starts with a riff or with a rough
draft of arrangement and together we see what works and what doesn’t and what
we want to add or delete. Then N0emi
adds lyrics and vocals, but often it happens that we start from a N0emi s vocal
part to arrange the whole track. There are no rules in this process!
HMTV Canada: What can you tell us about your instruments
brand are you subject to brand loyalty or will you play whatever s available?
What kind of recording environment do you have?
Helalyn Flowers: Since we aren’t sponsored yet by any brand,
we won’t name our brands, ah-ah!
HMTV Canada: Where have you performed? What is your favorite
and least favorite venues? Do you have any upcoming shows?
Helalyn Flowers: We played our last show in a Fest in Italy
and it was a shame. Unable engineers and really bad organization. Continuous
technical problems even during the show, until in the middle of the fourth
track we leave the stage. But our performance was great and we tried to
maintain our professionalism high despite of the technical problems. Unfortunately,
this kind of things happen too much times in Italy, a country in which everyone
is an improvised and rogue! We wait for the albums coming out to deal with a
foreign booking agency for Europe. Our upcoming shows are all in Italy until
next January.
HMTV Canada: Do you have a record label? Are you a member of
any organizations? Can you tell us about your latest CD release, anything from
messages to inspirations, your biggest challenge as a band.
Helalyn Flowers: Our debut-album A Voluntary Coincidence
will be out on November 9, via Alfa-Matrix. This album is pretty different from
what we did in the past and at the same time it holds each component of our
sound that is actually known to the public. It includes 11 tracks (also E-Race
Generation and Voices, which are the only two already edited tracks, even if
re-recorded and re-mastered this time) and the official title is A Voluntary
Coincidence. Also, a limited-edition version will be out. It will be a box
including gadgets to be defined plus a bonus disc with remixes. The opening
track is Eye for a Day, the harder song of the album together with DGTal Blood
. You can find metal guitars, mixed with hard electronics beats and alienating
vocals. In this song frames of daily life are seen under the viewpoint of an
eye itself, without being filtered by the human mind, seeing things in an
absolutely direct and uncorrupted way.
DGTal Blood is a song dedicated to all the ones who never believed in me
and would stop my passions. Nothing and no-one can stop your will if you really
want. In songs like I’m human, defective, My girlfriend insanity, Tide Line
and Silent Conversation, synth-pop
influences are combined with rock guitars and a very pop approach for the
vocals. I’m Human, defective is a
dialogue of a human life, speaking about its mistakes, defects and lacks, which
suggests us to see the human race like a neglected experiment. My Girlfriend insanity is a song that I feel
very intimate. Many times, it happens that no-one can understand your state of
mind, neither yourself I feel insanity like something so visceral, hidden and
penetrating That’s the only thing, which totally knows yourself. For this, I
feel Her my girlfriend. Silent
Conversation is a song which describes a dialogue with my inner self, and Tide
Line speaks about a very hard period I lived, like I was the onlooker of my own
drowning. A Sweet and Deep Bomb In My
Heart is the song, which more represents Helalyn Flowers sound. It’s full of
odd orchestrations and a warm atmosphere that we really love! Here guitars
change a lot sound, from hard-rock to industrial, and vocals are popper and
infectious. This song is a reflection on life, corruption and hypocrisy. It
speaks about the will to disappear and wake up in a brand-new world without
religions, politics and lies. Alice In
My Chamber is together with E Race Generation one of the more
electro-influenced but with a punk approach which gives to the song freshness
and peculiarity. In this case, I used a popular icon, Alice , to represent fantastic world, where
everything can happen. Mine is a provocation, I defied Alice to come in my
secret chamber to try and find things impossible to find neither in her fairy
tale! Yes, I described a part of my mind that makes me afraid, impossible to
stop, impossible to hold at bay...
E-Race Generation and Voices are already popular in the clubs worldwide.
In E-Race Generation (For E, I mean the electronic. I called electronic race
the new generation, which day-by-day becomes addicted to the fake, the
artificial and feelingless things) I speak about a woman who works as business
agent of a new pill which contains different feelings and short fragments of life.
It’s the ideal for people that are not enough brave to risk living their own
life.
HMTV Canada: What are some of the highlights of Helalyn
Flowers your goals where you hope to be in 5 years with your band your ultimate
direction and how your fans are currently reacting to your music?
Helalyn Flowers: Our goal is continuing to make the only
music we love and want to listen to, that is ours! We want to be recognized as
an universal band, because our music is universal. We are beyond genres, scenes
and lifestyles. We are ourselves. We don t even care to be diverse, we are
evidence. Our fans welcome this and we are very happy and pleased to collect
every day fans from all over the world who are truly devoted to Helalyn Flowers
and who are not just the many Myspace-gorgeous-hot-stunning-phenomenon. Where we hope to be in 5 years? If people
will let us become rich, we will be fat, depressed, viced and alcohol/drugs-addicted,
so maybe in some clinic? Ah-ah, f**k Rock n Roll attitude!
HMTV Canada: Do you have any remixes or are working on any? Compilation
experiences good or bad ones?
Helalyn Flowers: Max already remixed UK act Unter Nulls This
Is Your End that has been published on the successful 4CD Box F**k The
Mainstream Vol.1, in which we appear with E-Race Generation too. His remix is
very different than the original one that was vey in the Harsh-EBM/Industrial
style. He took the only clean female vocal part to give life to a new song over
again. It came out an energic mix of classical instruments like piano, harp,
violins and viola and an electro drum-ground. It was well welcomed by both band
and label, even if it’s not oonz-oonz at all. Less provocatory than expected!
Actually, we are not working on any remixes and neither we are interested to!
HMTV Canada: What do you think of the current
Gothic/EBM/Industrial/ Noise/ Synthpop/ Metal music scene today? Are you
affiliated with any dark underground scenes like Vampire Freaks?
Helalyn Flowers: We don’t like scenes. We don’t care of
them. We are simply interested to play our music and to reach more people as
possible. Underground is just an index of fame and nothing else. There is too
much philosophy, idealism and rules in the underground scenes. That is really
stupid. Vampire Freaks is another useful to show us off and thanks to them we
got in contact with Alfa-Matrix and signed with them!
HMTV Canada: From your experience is there a way bands interact
with each other or does it depend on something? An Example of this Question:
There are bands that are just starting out, bigger bands will try hard to
promote their friends and there are bands that are cool with cross promoting
each other in spite of all the pressure.
Do you have any friends that are doing something really exciting in the
music scene that you think people should be aware of?
Helalyn Flowers: Nowadays people think that the Myspace s
Top 8 exchange is enough. Well, we don’t. The term help has a strong value for
us. We are always ready to help our most intimate friends who play to
emerge. Cooperation between bands is
something almost non-existing here in Italy. There is a lot of envy and
avidity.
HMTV Canada: How do you like our music site at Hollywood
Music TV? What advice do you have for people who want to form their own bands?
Helalyn Flowers: First of all, please verify how much you
believe in music. If you are music-hobbyists or have other goals in life (all
respectable!) just do it for fun and to fulfill your free-time. But don’t
expect heaven for this. If you have the fire inside play the music you want to
listen and that you are not able to find around. Be your own fave band. Don’t
care about what people think of you, just go straight on your way. Avoid
covers. The common credence of initially playing covers to reach a higher
ability on your instrument, so that you are able then to write your own songs
is pure crap!!! Be free.
HMTV Canada: There is a kind of ancient connection vibe to
singer, songwriters, something that ties the bands to write about their
personal experiences’ inspirations, worst experiences while performing or travelling,
do you ever collaborate on these experiences in your music?
Helalyn Flowers: I
don’t use talking about my personal experiences in our songs, even if daily
life is a big inspiration source. But I use losing in my mind and talking about
histories and visions I live in my virtual world. It’s something abstract that is
strictly connected to my personal experiences, but not explicitly. Most of HF
lyrics refer to states of hallucination, feelings and visualizations that
determined objects or elements may live. Like in Eye For A Day, for example,
(included in our forthcoming debut-album), where frames of daily life are seen
under the viewpoint of an eye itself, without being filtered by the human mind,
seeing things in an absolutely direct and uncorrupted way. Or in I’m Human,
defective that it is a dialogue of a
human life, speaking about its mistakes, defects and lacks which suggest us to
see the human race like an experiment, maybe still incomplete?
HMTV Canada: Is there anyone special you would like to
acknowledge, and any last words?
Helalyn Flowers: We did that in our album’s credits, thanks
and dedications. Don’t believe in the rules of music scenes, go beyond and you will
be the new gods. Be yourself!
HMTV Canada: Helalyn Flowers, thank you for taking the time
to complete HMTV s Canada s Online Ezine Interview. -You Rock.
Helalyn Flowers: Thank you for this pleasant conversation
and for the warm support! We wish you all the best in life. Love& Respect-Max N0emi_Helalyn Flowers.
