The Sleeping Shaman: An Interview With Dave W From Psychedelic Warlords White Hills

Lee Edwards of  The Sleeping Shaman recently conducted an interview with Dave W from Psychedelic Warlords White Hills. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

LE: You’re currently working on your new album, can you tell us a little bit about this, where it’s being recorded, who’s engineering it and will Thrill Jockey be handling the release again?

Dave W: “The album is done and is being manufactured as we speak. Thrill Jockey will be releasing it on March 20, 2012. It is titled “Frying On This Rock”. We recorded it with Martin Bisi in Brooklyn. Martin has been recording bands in NYC for some 30 years now. He’s worked with the SWANS, Sonic Youth, Brian Eno, Bill Laswell, Lydia Lunch, John Zorn, Herbie Hancock and the list goes on and on. Working with Martin was great. He really knows how to capture a band. We look forward to working with him again in the future.”

LE: Roadburn Records are also releasing your live set from when you played the annual Roadburn Festival in 2011, firstly it must have been a great honour to be asked to play the event in the 1st place and how did the idea of releasing your set come about, also on reflection, are you happy with the bands performance and the sound which was captured?

Dave W: “It is always a great honour to be asked to play Roadburn. We love that festival and hope to be asked to play again! The idea came up before the festival. Roadburn asked us if it was something that we would consider and we jumped at the opportunity. Fans have been bugging us for a live album for sometime now and we thought this could be a perfect way to do one. Roadburn always does a great job at recording each band that plays the festival, so the quality of the recording was not an issue at all for me. I think we played well and it is true to form for our performance that day. What you hear is how it happened, no cover ups of those little glitches.”

LE: You also played Supersonic earlier this year, a set I was lucky enough to catch which I have to say, completely blew me away, but how did it go for you, and what are your thoughts on the festival as a whole?

Dave W: “Supersonic was a blast! We were exhausted as the night before we played in Maastricht, Holland and left after that show to make it to Birmingham in time. However, we were all excited and, in my opinion, gave one hell of a performance that night. Supersonic, like Roadburn, is a tight ship the promoters are true fans of the music and that shows. Artists are treated well and for all that can happen at these events both run extremely well and seamless.”

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