JJ Kozcan of The Obelisk recently conducted an interview with OM ’s Al Cisneros. Cisneros, fresh back in California from a few days spent in Austin, TX, following the last of the five shows on Shrinebuilder’s run, confirmed that writing has already begun for a fifth Om record and a second Shrinebuilder, that Shrinebuilder will play the 2010 Scion Rock Fest & Roadburn and that the legendary trio Sleep, in which he was vocalist and bassist with Matt Pike (High on Fire) on guitar and Chris Hakius on drums, will indeed be playing in the US September of next year. An excerpt from the chat follows below.
The Obelisk: Now that you’ve had a little time to process the record and had the chance to get a reaction live, how do you feel about that material? Are there changes sound-wise you’d want to make going forward?
Al Cisneros: We’re already working on new songs, we all are. The unit starts to define its momentum and its own feel becomes more clarified. It starts to intensify itself. That’s happened through the shows. Of course, every band, when you get off the road, you know your record better than you did going in, even though you knew it going in completely and when you recorded it. Every band ever, after playing the album live enough times, goes, “Man, why couldn’t we have recorded it now? There’s this part and now we play this part this way?” Even if you tour on songs, then go to a studio, after that studio recording and you go tour again, you still have that. It’s just that way. The songs never stop growing, ever.”
Continue Reading: The Obelisk – Shrinebuilder Interview
(Very special thanks to JJ Kozcan for his kind permission)
Tags: al cisneros, JJ Kozcan, om, shrinebuilder, sleep, The Obelisk
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