Questions with Richard Maranda
by mosriteluv from 2007

What type of âm nhạc is your favorite?

I've just recently expanded my choice listening pleasures and it depends on time of ngày and my mood. New Order's latest album in the morning Pole (German Dub) at night when I'm falling asleep. College radio during the day. Classic jazz in the evenings. My yêu thích âm nhạc is quality âm nhạc whatever the genre.

Who are your yêu thích singers & groups?

Cocteau Twins, Lange (trance producer), U2 (older the better) Bono has turned into a tosser, The Cure, Sven Vath Richie Hawtin Techno DJs and producers, Lush,...

QUESTIONS & các câu trả lời WITH KRISTY THIRSK
by Tara

Are there any evolutionary patterns in your songwriting?

It's different every time. Sometimes it starts with a đàn ghi ta, guitar riff...sometimes piano, sometimes vocal idea...even banging a beat on a potted plant.

You are one of the best songwriters of all-time. Your lyrics fascinate me & my sister Erin Kelly. I've noticed re-curing words & themes in your lyrics. An example of this being the word "indifference" which appears in the Rose Chronicles "Undertow", Delerium's "Heaven's Earth" & "Indifference" off of "Souvenirs". Is this intentional...

Questions & các câu trả lời with Rose Chronicles Guitarist Richard Maranda Part 2
by mosriteluv

Blood Red" from the "Happily Ever After" CD has a Twin Peakish feel with its twangy guitar. Was it intentional to envoke that feel, a kind of '50s, '60ish quality?

I can't say that it was intentional to envoke a retro quality but have been influenced bởi some bands from the 80s and 90s who were influenced bởi the 60's -- and I do like David Lynch's stuff. He seems to have almost invented a new emotion hoặc perhaps a new blend of emotions...

Have bạn ever seen the John Cusack 2003 film "Identity" & if so...

Interview with Rose Chronicles' bassist Judd Cochrane

What is your all-time favourite Rose Chronicles song & which is your least favourite?

Musically speaking, fav is probably Voice in Jail hoặc Awaiting Eternity. In those moments the writing, performing and recording was firing on all cylinders. Lyrically - not too sure, as a young guy I didn't connect well with K's lyrics. Maybe Lovely Psycho. Which was originally called Sundays are Red, I believe.

Live favourites changed every day. I always liked Forgotten though the rest of the band didn't.

Least yêu thích had to be Krayon. I had nothing to...