Let’s start with one of those evergreens:
How/when/where/why? Which band do you come from and where do you want to “go”
with this combo? And, above all, wtf does it mean Otehi?
Here we are!! “Otehi” Project born in March 2011 in one of
the many rehearsal studios in Rome. We come from Punk, Metal and psychedelic
experimentation.
First approach among us was fulminating and immediately
projected into Stoner and Jam Desert Rock bass and lysergic tones. We gave a
name to the project: Otehi. We loved the idea of using a name with a message, a
heavy sound, a visionary and ancient word and that could fit with a negative
and hallucinated imaginary. For this reason we crashed into the Sioux people,
Lakota language.
Otehi literally can be translated into:”hard times”, but
pronouncing it had a much more spiritual worth. It was a dark age, a collective
people period, a shamanic vision of evil.
First reviews of Noisy Spirit that circulate on the web were
all very positive (fairly).
Therefore, this shows that it is enough to do a good job
with passion or it is necessary to be
reccomended? The album is very powerful and at the same time
"persuasive" (if I pass the word) and with a very DIY approach; fists
and caresses (caresses from a hand of a stoned, but still caresses are) coexist
very well in your sound ... Do you want to tell us about the planning/realization
of Noisy Spirit?
We worked hard in the rehearsal room during the fifth month
before Noisy Spirit. We wanted an album that contained part of the job, and we
were able to obtain a suite that recalls an unconcept album.
The recording step was a full immersion of seven days in a
summer session among the sun of the Valle d'Itria and the mixer and amplifiers
of the study that we assembled for the '' ritual”. The self production in this
case played a key role.
The sound of Noisy Spirit is very energetic. You can
perceive the movement that has a direct drive, mixed then in a studio. Starting
from Monolith & Monolith to Desert Rider the sound alternates between a
dirty sound wall and “liquid” parts.
We loved this result and, even if the production is not
among the best, we thought to send it anyway in the blog Stoner comunity that
follow this genre. The opinion outside the band is important and self-promotion
on the Web is essential for a self-produced project. It was very interesting
that a cool band like us found space on the sites where good music it is
advertised.
All of this can only due to a strong passion for their own
work, both for the blogger and for the bands.
What are your main influences, not only speaking about
music, and what is the imaginary in which the Otehi range? And, above all, what
is the imaginary that you want to build! What do your lyrics talk about?
We follow and live deeply the heavy rock and the psychedelic
old trends world, but also the contemporary sound experiments. We would like to
make the Otehi a unique conceptual work, an overview of music, image and
psychoacoustics research. We come from the theater, from the illustration, the
painting, we work with images every day. We tend to give a show that goes to a
ritual sound, as happened every time a sacred rite in ancient populations was
celebrated. It was the sound that dictates the timing of movement in the
representation. we strongly believe in Animists people. Some of us follow (as
an object of study) Taoism and Shamanism.
Research of the vacuum and ''know thyself'', but also the
natural/animal world that fascinates us, that wild kingdom that nowadays
scaries the man.
Here! All of this, returned to high volumes, as may be those
of the heavy Psych. “Noisy Spirit” is about a meeting between the man and his
spirit guide who is lying on the ground tired of driving it towards the path,
assigning it to remain in the dark. A really Otehi situation!
Situation that is repeated in “Savage Land”, where a shaman
covers you with earth or in “Monolith & Monolith” where there is no hope;
feeling, sadness, our life, visions… all enclosed into a monolith that is the
body we inhabit.
Instead, “Desert Rider” carries the hope of a journey that
can be faced even alone, you just need to really open your sensory perception.
How a city like Rome affects your music/lifes? Is it an
Armed Robbery Rome?
Rome is an ancient city, an antiquity which can still be
seen between the asphalt and smog, but it is also the cradle of the Vatican and
the Government that continue to imprison the whole Italy.
With the only music you can not beat this system, and for
this reason among the streets there is a fight with cobblestones against those
who are obstructing the people's voice.
We live and work there, but as soon as we can, we run away
to other places to get positive inspirations for our music.
How are you in the capital/national/worldwide scene? But, it
still makes sense to talk about the scene or should we say how are you with
those who follow the same music you do/listen?
Rome offers so many bands Stoner / Doom, and you can talk
for sure about the scene, bands that we followed and that we are following, but
our inclusion in the capital is still low. Many bands are linked together and
mainly for this you can talk about the scene, which was built and that will
expand (hopefully) year after year. Many clubs host live Stoner / Doom / Heavy
Psych events, and is easy to see always the same'' fanatics''.
We aim to play little in “our” town, we believe in live
events, uniques, well built, although sometimes we encounter many difficulties
with the Roman Club.
Lately it seems that the doom / stoner (with the black
metal) is the kind that more is renewing the metal through experimentation,
flirting with other genres (sometimes a tad risky, but nothing ventured,
nothing gained) and anything else ...What do you think? Do you feel more
conservative or more forward-looking?
We believe that with the Stoner/Doom we really could reach
high levels of Heavy Rock experimantations breaking away from the classic sound
and adding elements of any type, you can see in each band a different sound,
each of them with its own character.
It’s possible to do much more with this genre that arrives
to strike anyone, psychedelic bass tones lovers and slow and heavy atmoshpere
fanatics. We will follow this wide path that gives us the chance to play in any
medium that stimulates listening, while for the black metal, except for few
things, it’s better to remember north european classics!!!
Are there already future projects in the Otehi dockyard?
This EP stimulated us a lot. It’s coming a videoclip, and
we are already building the full-lenght, and we have really a great desire to
record Split Albums with Stoner-bands all over the world…if the would like
to!!!
That’s all folks!!! The closure is yours and thank you so
much for your availability!!!
Fellowship with Cosmic Swamp records was a honour for us.
COSMIC SWAMP STORE
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