The dead hand almost need no introduction, being a alternative admittedly, over the years, has built a distinguished career in terms of longevity and quality music, which added a new album, "by my watch is time to kill."
The new album "by my watch is time to kill" has been controversial because of the launch video. But then it's time to kill what?
Adolfo Luxúria Caniba: This question should have been done before the controversy. The album title is a line from a realistic Portuguese poet, José Antonio Forte, who lived in Lisbon on 40 and 50 but is Santarém. It is a very strong sentence he employs twice in two different poems. The second time you use it is the way of love poems and found fit to use it. "In my clock is time to kill" is this connection to António José Strong and crease that was diverted using a phrase. It has everything to do with the narrative, with history and fiction that is the entire disk, is a character of modern times, the lone unreality who suddenly realize that their welfare is concerned and finally notices that do not living alone in the world and that other lonely, the other individual, are also called into question. There is a kind of solidarity between solitary, which has a growing, a kind of collective consciousness, which turns out to be a narrative story and once again provides individual solutions. In the background is the substance, is the personality of the characters I tried to find blame for the degradation of this way of life and give them a purpose. This killing is fisício say, over a situation.
It is also about an increasingly lonely society, because it speaks of the lonely brothers?
ALC: Exactly. It is a particular type of order civizacional shall we say, a type of economy, interpersonal relationships, a commodified relationship and spends a lot of the image rather than the colloquial, goes through mediation and not by direct, in the background is that I search this character. I want to end, kill this type of situation, the life you have.
In 1998, Charles Mason, also spoke "to stop the clock and go to the revolution" and now in 2014 we returned to the same theme. If we take this thread there is a certain incongruity.
ALC: "The stop the clock" is a different song of "the hours to kill," although both refer clocks and time. "The stop the clock" is a kind of escape from time, which is a theme that is always present in the songs of the dead hand, this anguish of always running away, we are unable to change our present, our daily lives in order to have a more fulfilled life, so that the time is always us to flee, moving and we can not change, then "stop the clock" in this sense of the stop time to change things, because time not in this to give time. It is a cry of distress, stop the clock! Here "it is time to kill" has a different meaning, it's time to do something.
This 13th disc, with a randomly connected number was on purpose or not? Or just had more material for a cd in work?
ALC: I did not know it was the 13th, or I am sure, because we have a lot of records that depend on the way we counted. If we include the studio albums this is not the thirteenth, if we count with the original disks is also able to not be the same, so it was not in our accounts, these recenseações made by media things vary and is difficult to know which disk is.
The "Mutant S21" was considered one of the best albums made in Portugal in the 90s, this is also your best work? What defines as a band?
ALC: It's one of our great records actually, that brought us to an underground level and difficult survival to another, to be more comfortable in terms of career and we felt like doing, without having the hassle of finding eco, or visibility . So it's a very important album for us, within the rock genre was the first time we did something with that splendor and so was considered such a remarkable record of 90 years, but do not think it our best work. Later we discographic work that I believe not being better and are different and I am remembering for example, "For a long time this latrine air became unbreathable", which is a fabulous drive, is our best conceptual work and many people consider our best album. I am also remind me of the "spring of debris" which is a concept without issue and without disc, is a work with loose songs and funcinou very well and a lot of people also consider to be our best. Basically, there are many good records of the dead hand later to "Mutants S21" and even earlier, I now remember the "fluffy hearts" which is very different, much more with guitars. But in fact this has become the most popular, the fault of "Budapest", the theme extracted from this album, but by far was not the album that sold more was the 27 of the top sales.
Considered as narrators of decay and this is another chapter?
ALC: I think it is reductive, we also reported the decline. But we are not so alone, We wonder to ourselves and our relationship as individuals, Adolfo, Michael, Raphael, social beings in this relationship with the world we live in. This question for us is also used to each other and that's what we do. In narration, we put ourselves in this situation, a decadent world, but it serves mainly to ask ourselves, think about what we want is a better society, is not to decide whether it is perfect or not, we do not give answers, we want to raise questions and questions and so we look for in each of these answers and when we say we spoke of our group, but also people who hear dead hand and like our music, to feel what being Portuguese, be social in a modern world, in a capitalist universe .
At concerts we see all kinds of people, from the generation that came with you from the beginning to the young. That your message is timeless because it affects several Portuguese heights?
ALC: It's a constant that we see very much welcomed and we actually arrived a few people rationally, but who arrived usually stay with us, or we are not a fashion phenomenon, whom he met in the eighties is roughly with us, the they met in the 90s and are also still those who heard us in 2000 also permanacem and so on, until we were picking up several generations over the years. It is a constant of the concerts we see people our age from 50 to twenty years old, so it turns out to be cross. It is clear that minorities are between generations that accumulate, it is interesting, is not a palpable phenomenon in other rock formations or not.
