I LOVE MAKONNEN: PARACHUTES INTERVIEW!!!!!!!!!

PARACHUTES INTERVIEW!!!!!!!!!
Friday, January 2, 2009

PARACHUTES IS A BAND FROM REYKJAVIK,ICELAND.I LOVE THERE MUSIC,ITS SO HEALING AND EASY TO LISTEN TO.I ALWAYS IMAGINE THAT IM SOMEWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD WHEN I LISTEN TO THEIR SONGS.I LOVE THIS BAND AND YOU SHOULD TO.THEY ARE CURRENTLY SIGEND TO MOSS STORIES.CHECK THEM OUT.
MEMBERS
Alex, Scott, Þórdís, Tinna, Bibbi, Kári, Brendan, Aaron, & Gunni

10 QUESTIONS WITH ALEX OF PARACHUTES

1.HOW DID YOU GUYS COME UP WITH THE NAME PARACHUTES?
P-We are called Parachutes because when Scott was really young he and his grandmother would walk through fields and pick dandelion weeds. She always called the seeds of the dandelion flower "parachutes".

2.HOW DID YOU GUYS MEET?
P-Scott and I met in Boston. He was studying at an art school and I was studying music. We just met through a friend of a friend and started playing guitar together and recording in 2003.

3.WHO ARE SOME OF YOUR MUSICAL INFLUENCES?
P- I can't speak for Scott, but I don't listen to very much music. I do have a small red radio in my kitchen and I love listen to really really old music. I like the really rough sound quality of very early recordings...

4.WHEN IS THE LAST TIME YOU WENT TO A CONCERT AS A FAN?, AND WHO WAS THE PERFORMER?
P-I just recently saw Sigur Rós in concert, just after we finished touring with them. Maybe that doesn't count, but it was really amazing!

5.WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SONG YOU CREATED?
P-no answer

6. IF YOU WERE HEADLINERS OF A TOUR,WHO WOULD YOU WANT TO BE
THE OPENING ACT,IF YOU COULD PICK ANY ARTIST EVER?
P-Maybe Washington Phillips. Unfortunitly he is dead now, but he was an amazing folk/ blues musician.

7.WHAT BANDS DO YOU THINK ARE COOL,CURRENTLY?
P-I like the music my friends are making. Some of those bands are: Seabear, Sin Fang Bous, Dygn, Fanfarlo, Vio/Mire, Psykids Army.

8. IF YOU COULD PERFORM WITH ANY MUSICIAN LIVING OR DEAD,WHO WOULD IT BE?
P-It would be amazing to perform with a boy choir from a few centuries ago... Except, I would prefer playing an instrument, not singing...

9.WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR 2009?
P-Parachutes is going to lay low for at least the first part of 2009, but I will be working on a lot of things... I will be finishing my first album with my boyfriend in March, I hope to finish a new picture book, publish a dog book I made with a group of friends over this past year, and continue to exhibit my artwork.

10.HOW DO YOU WANT TO BE REMEMBERED 50 YEARS FROM NOW?
P-I hope to remembered as a very good chef of raw vegan food!

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