Pixism: Untitled Mladost – BBC News in Serbian
Black Francis, Frontmen Saved Pixyz, is not someone you would think that in the children’s TV channel could read the goodnight stories.
During a crazy influential career, the band, his often abstract song contained a multitude of references to biblical violence, mutilation, incest, torture and death.
« Cut-out eyeballs » and,, lustful goats « are not traditional images for young children to help asleep.
Fortunately, he did not recite his poems when he appeared on the Sibibis channel last month.
The book he chose, however, had some kind of pixie of taste.
The name of the book is Was once a young zombie who swallowed the worm.
« I usually don’t do things like that, but I enjoyed it, » says this 59-year-old.
« My girlfriend insisted on it, so I read and, you know, I have five children, so I’m able to read good night stories for good night. »
It’s hard to imagine a pixyus appear on children’s television at any other time their career.
Abrasive guitars and intertwined harmonies in songs such as Debaser, Monkey Gone to Heaven and Where is my mind They were a signpost for the future of the alternative deadline in the late 1980s.
After all, they pointed out virtually everyone as inspiration, from Nirvana to the composition of Rejdiohed, to James Blant. (« They would have anger to hear that, didn’t he? » He said recently).
And just when artists that inspired to approach the mainstream music, the band fell apart – but despite their absence, their reputations were increasing and higher.
The British Music Weekly NME is 1989. Their album Doolittle (Taken for $ 40,000 in the basement of a hair salon) declared the second best album of all time.
Twelve years later, this album recorded a figure of 300,000 sound carriers only in the UK and thus bear the second platinum plate, three decades from their creation.
Until that moment, the band re-gathered and started another life, this time, together with the composition of Perl Jam at the stadium tour by Australia.
« Our audience became more and more numerous over time, » Francis said.
Hence and appearing on the Sibibis channel.
The pixote was founded in 1986, when Francis (the real name Charles Tompson’s fourth) gave up studying and persuaded the roommate, Guitarist Joii Santjaga to do the same thing.
After publishing ads in the local newspaper, Kim Dil came, and through her and drummer Dave Lovering.
The exciting demo has brought them a contract with the British Discographary House 4ad.
The independent music printing quickly loved them, and one journalist described their sound as « wild and shocking ».
But the secret of their success, says Francis, lay in simplicity.
He describes what he looked when the pixis was the main star of the evenings at the Redding Festival for the first time, in 1990. years.
Before them, the band was performing whose performance was looking, as if they were in Las Vegas. «
« They also had lighting and confetti and balloons, » Francis recalls.
« There was a variety of fazons on stage. »
« Her manager asked our Banks Czech Manager: ‘What did you prepare for your performance?' »
« And he replied: ’25 good songs’. »
« I was very proud to answer him because it was literally all we had.
« We didn’t have dance points, we didn’t have balloons, we literally had our music. »
Naive energy
And in their music there was that conflict that moved from a terrifying pan and what the band called « dusty songs » – folk ballads with admixtures of Kantry Music.
Lovering said it was a new album « more traditional » than the band’s plates before.
Francis says the seed for this album was sown during his solo career in the 1990s.
« Now I’m going to say something I’ve never mentioned so far in interviews, » he says.
« When the pixis fell apart, I started to move from the so-called Anderground music.
« I even made a few plates in Nashville.
« And when we gathered again, producers, managers and all those who were behind the scene, were quite silent and a little worried that Charles had not overtrained in ‘some Kantry’.
« I think I put it all aside all this, but I didn’t notice that the results were something special.
« So I started putting it all in a mix of songs on the album.
« And I think everyone around me, consciously or unconsciously, relaxed and allowed me to do it. »
Francis says it is unreasonable to expect the band in the fifties again to catch the spirit of time and saliva, youthful anger.
« It was getting harder to do such things, because when you’re young, you’re a little naive.
« Even when the song is thin, everything can be compensated for this youthful energy.
« But what happens in the meantime is that you become a better guitarist, a better composer and then that energy disappears.
« It’s very hard to match that.
« It’s much easier to dive in that damn energy.
« And it may not be what people want to hear, but you know what? You can’t be 19 years old.
« And the more you try, you sound more silly ».
One of his new songs refutes this theory.
Oyster Beds is a song consisting of two minutes of twisted, energetic riffs with, first listening, Frensis’ verses that sound surreal, as ever before: « musketeer with its two deer / rural houses in the dadasphere ».
He, in fact, wrote this song in his studio, and verses are,, a long list of things I painted in the last few years. «
« I was in the fashion that I needed some verses, and since it was a punk song, I didn’t think special about the message I’m sending. »
What does it get from painting, which music doesn’t give him?
« Relief I’m alone, » he says laughing.
« I’m not saying that a gig with other people is bad, because it provides you with society, but sometimes it is hard.
« With painting, I realized, I got a chance to debate alone with myself, to fight in my own head and the opportunity to don’t have to justify anyone. »
Francis continues to describe the entire process in a fun way.
« If the brushes run the main word, I say ‘Don’t neglect the narrative’.
« But then the monologue in my head continues as follows, ‘I don’t care about the narrative, now only a big brush is important, and the big brush is quickly quicker to the canvas’.
« Then I think, ‘All right, you’ve already ruined the picture now, it’s time to think about what this image is at all. I have to let it figuratively overcome some time, to somehow introduce some order in all that chaos’.
« And so it becomes an argument for different elements of that picture.
« It’s all the product of the art school of Braws Francis and I can enjoy it.
« It’s all silly, crazy, all that happens in my head, but I am able to do it for hours.
« Maybe it’s crazy, but the best art comes from chaos – and that’s why they are, after all these years, pixys still so exciting ».
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