Line Up:
Valerio On Bass\Vocal
Mauro On Guitar
Michelangelo On Drums
Well,Friends Of Aristocracy!
We speak again of our newsroom, where in a little while, we will have, in all its emotions, the interview 141 of the Aristocracy.We spoke today with the Italian band Sator and this band shows us their fourth album entitled Cleansing Ritual. Let's start this interview now, first we must thank the band for answering our questions and the French website Core And Co. After a song, let's start our interview.
A1:Talking about the composition work in Cleansing Ritual?
Sator:The songs were born mainly from gathering riffs and ideas and then developing them jamming in our rehearsal room.We haven't creative limits, or at least we try not to and almost the entire record is a natural consequence of our moods.
A2:Why is there a shamanic vibe to this album?
Sator:It just came this way, it was not intended. It clearly reflects all the energy we chanelled in the making of the songs and in the recording.
A3:Does the first song have a pandemic context underneath it?
Sator:Actually no, in "Ancient disease" we're talking about religion as the most ancient and long-lived social plague.
A4:-Why can we say that this album is less raw?
Sator:Because, we have included many more psych parts in our songs and "Murder by music" is the perfect example. However we have kept our "sludge touch" with songs like "Solaris" which is one of the heaviest songs written by Sator. We'll always be lovers of 70's psychedelia and quiet parts that make our songs dynamic and explosive.
A5:Why the band have this name?
Sator:Sator in Latin means sower, father, and it creates the word Saturn,the Roman divinity. The myth of Sator devouring his sons gave us the idea for the name of the band, imagining it as a symbol of our society that devours itself for its greed.
A6:Some literature or film inspire the band?
Sator:We are huge movie/books fanatics, so yeah there's definitively an influence. In fact, you can hear a lot of novie samples in the album. Sometimes taken for their meaning, sometime taken out of context to fit our "vision". We love especially 70s/80s horror/scifi movies. As well as all the work of writers such as HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen... they are very important for us and certainly an inspiration for the writing of the lyrics and music.
A7:Translated into my language, the album name means cleaning ritual. What do you want to clean in this album?
Sator:We clean ourserlves from all the forms of "evil" we had during the making of the album: all the anxiety, nervous breakdowns, loss, solitude, depression etc, that we have experienced in the first outbreak of the pandemia. We immersed ourselves in the band and that kept us alive.
A8:What´s the idea behind artwork´s album?
Sator:When we came up with the title of the album, our gutarist Mauro showed us this collage he made some time before, and we all 3 thought it was perfect for the cover. It has a "ritualistic" feeling, but it also seems like the people pictured are dancing. It fits with both title and music, doom and groovy at the same time.
A9:What would the 2022 Sator say about the 2013 Sator?
Sator:Don't waste time & invest in a van!
A10:The new album is conceptual?
Sator:The themes of death and religion are the core of the lyrics of "Cleansing ritual". So yeah, we could probably say it is a concept album.
A11:How band arrive to Argonauta Records?
Sator:We went to a concert organized by Gero with some very cool Argonauta bands and we gave him our first record. He was very interested in our music so some time later he called us back and we met. After a couple of beers we had a deal, that is still going strong.
A12:How is Sator different from your previous bands?
Sator:We used to play in hardcore bands,so now we are waaaay more slow and heavy.
A13:It´s more easy or more pratical stay in powertrio band?
Sator:It's both easy and practical. We fit in a simple car when going out on tour, it's easier to plan rehearsals or gigs.We are happy to be just 3 people, and we think that adding another element would change the perfect cohesion we achieved in thses years.
A14:Can we say that this album is Sator's most psychic? Yes or No? Justify your answer!
Sator:Definitively! We think we developed further the psychedelic aspect of our music: again, listen to "Murder by music", it's totally a trippy song inspired by a trippy movie.
A15:How was doing an split job with Evil Cosby?
Sator:They asked us to join a split tape and all went smooth! They are great guys.
A16:The band feel differences between Scorching Sunlight and now in Cleansing Ritual?
Sator:"Scorching Sunlight" was born with the idea of composing a long track, a sort of suite, with a recurring theme and many different passages in between. In the B side of the tape insted we improvised some ideas thet were later developed in the recording studio. So we had a totally different approach than the usual. With "Cleansing Ritual," we went back to the more common "rock songs" oriented album, though always with our own approach: a mix of groovy doom, sludge heavyness and extreme psychedelia.
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