An awe-inspiring fusion of progressive metal and a string ensemble that we promise will expand your musical horizons. Read our discussion with Behind Closed Doors below!
Describe your sound in 3 words
Energetic, eerie, menacing
Tell us a few things about caged in helices. What is the story behind it?
The album developed over the course of a couple of years and the compositions are the essence of what I experienced and contemplated about in my life in these years.
That is a tricky question though: While I don’t want to be the guy who says “listen for yourself, make up your own mind” I also do not want to be too specific. A slender ridge.
The song titles are carefully chosen and reflect the story plot of the song. One example: The opener “the anti will” is about losing a loved one and witnessing that strong will for life, which we
all embody, slowly getting inverted.
Artists and people that have influenced you?
Gloria Coates! She was the world’s greatest female symphonist (she wrote 17) who mastered the art of the glissandi. Her music is otherworldly! I was fortunate enough to have known
her personally and it is with great sadness that I have to write that she only passed away recently, on August 19th. Without Gloria I wouldn’t write for string quartet the way I do.
I also have to state that I love Dimitri Shostakovich’s 15 string quartets, they are just captivating.
Besides music, I love cinema and the fine arts! I am a big fan of Ingmar Bergman and I also love the work of Northern Renaissance artist Albrecht Duerer a lot.
If the music of behind closed doors, which has a cinematic vibe indeed, was a film, which film would that be?
That’s a great question! May I cheat a bit and conjure up a mixture of Bergman/Kubrick and Tarkovsky? “The Persona of a Shining Stalker” – if that doesn’t count I vote for
“The Turin Horse’ by Bela Tar.
Favourite riff you wish you had composed yourselves?
The last bit of “strings pulled at random” by Meshuggah! It has everything, power, groove and vibe!
If Johann Sebastian Bach were alive today, what kind of music would he compose?
Another great question! I love Bach and I play his music on a daily basis on guitar! It really grounds me and his Cello Suites are a boundless well of fantastic music and wisdom.
Well, in the tail end of his life Bach and his polyphony was already outdated. “The melody” as the focal point in a musical piece became modern. I for one do love Bach’s polyphony and if he was alive today, I hope he would be stubborn enough to do his thing like he did back then. Though I wonder what he and Aphex Twin could come up with …
If you could change anything about the music industry, what would it be?
I feel quite often it’s not musical substance and artistic authenticity but economic selling points if bands/musicians get a chancet: Looks. Show. Length of a song. Scandal probability.
Clothes. Brands. I am all in for these things as long as the artist has a vibe and something to say. That may be also more of a social issue than a purely music industrial one. If I could change
one thing I would try to make money distribution among artists more fair.
What isn’t a crime but should be?
Copy/Paste in a recording session. Thou shalt play every single note!
Thank you!
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