Entrevista a Hola Ghost desde Dinamarca

El próximo 29 de mayo estaremos viviendo uno de los conciertos más underground de Guadalajara. Esto significa dos cosas solamente, fiesta total y Mexican Death Surf con Hola Ghost. Aquí pueden ver la información del concierto

Previo a su presentación en nuestra ciudad tuvimos la oportunidad de platicar con ellos acerca de su influencia y querer por el folclor mexicano, la planeación de su nuevo disco, el proceso creativo para armar su Setlist en cada concierto y la pregunta incómoda sobre Donald Trump con sus políticas migratorias. Te invitamos a leerla.

Thank you to Hola Ghost for the interview, we know that you gonna make an unforgettable show in Guadalajara

1. Why Mexico? Why did you choose the Mexican folklore to make your music? Is for some ex-girlfiend, our culture, our beer?

My brother (Kristian Sandorff Drums) our new drum machine and I, used to tour a lot with psychobilly legends Nekromantix in USA and especially on the US West Coast centered around our base in LA. WE had lots of support bands with band members of Mexican descents – Apart from being some of the nicest people I have met around the world, there is a special tone to how they play psychobilly. I have heard psychobilly bands from all over the world, but that Mexican descent made these guys sound special. I was fascinated with the sound, and wanted to imply that in my music. So I started to look into the Mexican and Spanish way to play and compose music. And since I have always liked and been inspired by Ennio Moricones work for the spaghetti westerns, it was easy to combine this with fascination of the Spanish and Mexican music.

I have been on holidays in Mexico, travelling around the Yucatan area for 10 days, and I like the colors, the friendliness we met, the easiness and the fact that the stress modern man seem to face in Europe, is somehow taken a bit less serious and leaned back there. And then the traditional Mexican music, both old folk music and not least the mariachi music, has some European roots in it and but also something which is very non- European. This makes it familiar and strange at the same time. That is also fascinating; knowing something and recognize it, and then not knowing it after all – a way to learn something new, also about my own culture, reflected in a foreign culture. It would be fantastic if we could bring that experience back to people in Mexico listening to our music and attending our concerts there.

2. We have a lot of talent Mariachis in Guadalajara. Would you be prepared to play a song with some of them? Describe us how do you imagine that moment?

Since the band took a turn towards Mexican influenced music, we have had a dream of a Mexican mariachi band playing one or more of our songs. WE would love to hear that, and it would be fantastic to play with a real mariachi band…

3. You have lived many experiences about the Mexican culture. Can you describe our country with only 3 words in Spanish and explain why did you select those words? Some funny, scary or troubled moment?
   

   I don’t speak Spanish at all, the Spanish words that occurs in our music, are translated with help of friends. But the three English words would be: 1. warm hearted 2. alive and vital 3. proud and beautiful

4. We think that every moment of a music band is a creative time. About the moment when you choose the songs of your Concert’s Set list? How is that creative process to select the best songs for a specific show like in Guadalajara? And can you share us 3 songs that will be included on Guadalajara’s Setlist?
   

   To be honest we often play the same set list for quite a while; We work out a running order of songs that we are happy with, and that has a good dynamic curve through an hour, which is usually what we play, and then after a show if is not optimal, we will change it a bit. But James Brown put it a lot better and simpler: Put your best song last, put your second best song first, put your third best song second last etc. Then you have your set… And it is not that far from how I have been working for almost 35 years as a musician. There is also matters of songs that can slide directly from one to another without breaks, the importance of matching wich key the song is played in etc…

5. Talking about your old and new albums, share with us some of your plans to release a new material and the last one
   

   We released the mini album “Chupacabra” in 2014, which was the first album with our current drum machine “Ghost Brother”, and we are currently working on new material. Two friends here in Denmark are skilled comic book drawer and author, and they are working on a comic book called “Hellbent” – it is about two a side show freak circus who get butchered at a wedding, and come back from the dead with super powers for revenge – we are drawn into the comic book as wedding band ion the beginning, and as ghosts coming back from the dead for revenge with the rest of the freaks. We are going to make the sound track for the comic book, and we are currently composing for a release sometimes this or next year.

6. We support our “paisanos” (Mexican people who lived on United States) and all the Latin-American people who have an “American dream” on US. About that, what do you think about the Donald Trump’s immigration reform migratory policies like to build a “big wall” across Mexico and US and deport more than 11 million people who live in that country?
   

   We usually don’t mix politics and music, but with this we will make an exception; I think Donald Trump is the symptom of a very sad trend in international politics in the so called democratic countries. Keeping people scared, makes them easier to control, and that is exactly what politicians try to do; control the masses. That is because most politicians are controlled themselves by the ultra few filthy rich and the interests of maximum profit – the ones with the real powers. Donald Trump is based on hate and real negative emotions. You can not control free and strong people with that. But poor and scared people are easily controlled with negative rhetorics. Trump is a fraud, and his followers are sad people, who are scared of the way the world keeps turning. WE are heading for a globalized world, like it or not, and thinking that that can be reversed with walls and hatred is very naïve.

   But enough of that! We are so very thrilled and exited to go to Mexico for the first time, and hope it will be a fun an interesting experience for both us and the audience

Tenemos 2 cortesías sencillas para las primeras personas que contesten lo siguiente en nuestro caja de comentarios de Facebook que aparece aquí abajo:

1. Nombre completo
2. ¿Qué es lo que más te gusta de Hola Ghost?
3. Menciona algo de lo que te sientes orgulloso de ser mexicano
4. ¿Qué estado de la República Mexicana visitó Hola Ghost en una de sus vacaciones?
5. Un saludo a Donald Trump

¡A darle!

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