The Aristocracy proudly arrives at its Sixteenth Interview with the French Band Ogezor. The Band mixes metal with a cinematic structure. The band presents us with their second album entitled as Distortion Process.The band have this formation:F-2301 on voice,Keytar on machines and K-74 on bass.F-2301 answer our questions.Let's go to one of their songs so that you can follow the interview in all your emotions. Just remembering that the world of video games also influences this band.
A1:Talking about the composition work in Distortion Process?
F-2301:The composition workflow for me is always the same. It always starts with a “story”. I visualise a story in my mind, something from the OG•EZ•OR universe I want to talk about. It could be a character, some relevant place or technology or just a succession of feelings. Then, I work on a bunch of interesting sounds related to what I want to show and I add it to my standard set. Once everything is ready,I start to compose the song and it is then very fast. Sometime, I also modify few thing after testing the song in live.
A2:How the band create your own universe?
F-2301:I am a big fan of physics and science fiction.It was natural to me to create a real background story to OG•EZ•OR.It is moreover the right time to say that OG•EZ•OR is not just a musical band, but also a project that explore different artistic fields.That is why I create a video game that present the main story of OG•EZ•OR universe and some references my brother and I we love. The upcoming video clip and the related e-book will be a new step in the presentation of the story.Right now,I am working on a short movie and a board game that will allow people to go deeper in the universe.
A3:How the band mix the cyber and electro in the sound of band?
F-2301:OG•EZ•OR is a complex band in the sense that we propose many different music styles in the same album. I would say that our music is based on metal and electro,but you can also find airy or acoustic atmosphere and event polar jazz.So, it would be very difficult to do so if I was not able to produce everything in my own studio.It gives me the time to explore difficulties to go outside of the overrun grounds and to go back we I am in a dead end.
A4:What´s the idea behind artwork´s album?
F-2301:For now,the album artwork has not yet been revealed.The single artwork is only the back. However, I can say that it will show an important element of OG•EZ•OR story as well as F-2031 and K-74. Stay tuned ;)
A5:Why the band have this name?
F-2031:An important thing in the OG•EZ•OR universe is that I create some kind of dialect. Long story short, we, the entropians, are members of “the green light” defending the universe cycles against the last expansion” also called the legion. OG•EZ•OR is the way we write “the green light” in our language.
A6:Some literature or film inspire the band?
F-2031:There are so many good works in our world, that it is hard to select few. Personally, I would say Blade Runner, Interstellar and the INCAL saga. I am really a big fan of the Meta Baron character and I am more that excited about the upcoming movie.My brother particularly likes “The ice people” from Barjavel and the Planet of the Apes saga.
A7:How is OG.EZ.OR different from your previous bands?
F-2031:As said before,OG•EZ•OR is more than a music band and explore a lot of different media with a given story.Therefore, this is something I have never done before.Moreover, science fiction is such a wide area that the possibilities are infinite and this is a great motivation on this project.
A8:Do you think this album is savage?
F-2031:I am not sure to understand the question!
A9:Why this album is conceptual?
F-2031:This album is conceptual in a way that it develop a lot of different aspect of the OG•EZ•OR background story. Even if we have few lyrics, if you play, see or read the different chapter we released, you will understand what is behind and the path traced by this album.
A10:Is the songs have black humor?
F-2031:To be honest,OG•EZ•OR is not dealing with humor at all for the moment in the music.
A11:The band feel differences between Mind Machine and now in Distortion Process?
F-2031:I would say that the new album is completely different from the first one. At least half of the songs have been composed specifically to be “powerful” in live show. I also pushed the slider much further on metal, electro or industrials aspects of our songs. But we still keep this great musical diversity that make OG•EZ•OR a hybrid project between a band and cinematic music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLSi-UwtZ9Q
A12:Do you still thing we have a machine in our minds?
F-2031:Our brain is certainly the best machine we can imagine.More seriously,the “mind machine” is actually the technology used by EZ an I.A. android to revive the entropians after each universe cycle.
A13:Before music,what the bands loves to doing?
F-2031:K-74 is a huge video game player of any kind,so this is one of his best activity. Personally I would say that I love to sleep in order to reload my creativity.
A14:is the men an experiment going wrong?
F-2031:That is a very interesting question.Unfortunately, it will be very long to answer to it clearly. So to make it simple, I would say that being a human is an amazing experiment and it is up to each of us to make our own assessment at the end of whether we succeed or we failed to do what we were made to do.
A15:Although I love the idea of the band making an ebook.Without a doubt,this ebook has a father. I would like to know who this father is and why such a brilliant idea?
F-2031:In fact,I am the big fan of comic strip.I have plenty of it.Originally I wanted to do one with our universe, but it is a bit too soon question of resources,so I replaced it with an e-book presenting a lot elements from the OG•EZ•OR background.Maybe in the coming months or years I will go back to the original idea.
A16:Based on the songs of album and your own opinion,is it better to think the human being as agony than an animal for health?
F-2031: I am not sure to understand the question.
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