As promised, here we have our special interview with Pauli from DGTLnative! I would like to thank him for his great courtesy! Enjoy!
Hi guys! How are you? First of all thanks for this precious opportunity: ‘The Rasmus Out Of The Shadows’ is glad to interview you! Let’s start with the first question:
1-Can you explain the meaning of the name DGTLnative? This project is like a imaginative world inside the head of a child. A child of today , a digital native. (in wikipedia) A digital native is a person who was born during or after the general introduction of digital technologies and through interacting with digital technology from an early age, has a greater understanding of its concepts.
2- Yours is a Singaporean / Finnish band: would you like to introduce the members of the group? The conceptualization of this project has primarily been Pauli. the influences are both north European and south east Asian. This project does not have a constant members, but there has and will be collaborations with talented individuals. For example Chacha has been so nice to loan her magical voice to these songs, but at the moment she is just featuring the people in the "band" pictures are just a bunch of very talented friends, who been playing in the studio for the tracks.
Also making the videos and everything around this is lot of friends and family and now as a new edition we have the fans from facebook making this art with us! of what im very thankful.
3- Your music is really interesting and avant-garde, I especially fell in love with the song ‘Underwater’: can you tell us something about the real essence of your music? I will basically let the beat or piece of melody guide me first and then let the band follow the trail. I’m trying to capture different atmosphere for each individual song and also the videos. We don’t really have budget , so i try to do one thing well instead of many scenarios.
4- Three words to describe your music: It is journey
5- I noticed that in some songs there’s Pauli on background vocals, I must say that your voice is incredible; you wrote music but even lyrics: how much are lyrics more important than the music? The lyrics and the music are equal. In this project for music and lyrics i follow the Train of thought method. (The train of thought, stream of thought, chain of thought or trail of thought (Sarah Rickards) refers to the interconnection in the sequence of ideas expressed during a connected discourse or thought, as well as the sequence itself, especially in discussion how this sequence leads from one idea to another)
6- Are you going to release a full- length ? Any tour dates? Its been just so much fun to do it like its going on right now. Im not sure how we will release and what and since the fans have been really active doing the inspiring art together with us.... maybe i should ask the fans what and how they would like us to release? If everything goes as planned, the first EVER tour date will be announced very soon !
7- How much is important for a musician to reach its own style and identity? That is propably the most important thing for musician.
8- Which do you think are the commandments never to be forgotten for a professional guitarist? I dont mind being forgotten as a professional guitarist, but id love to be remembered as visionary, composer, producer, director and THEN a little bit of guitarrist haha!!!
9- Can you say ‘hi’ to your fans? Hi Fans! I'm overly happy that You have made it possible to create something interactive from this project , it feels really fresh! Lets continue and let me know more of Your ideas , so we can create somethig that has never been done before! Keep it DGTL, Pauli