Aendria



Style: Dark Metal Atmo
Featuring: Yanik [guitar, vocals, keyboards, programming]
Nature: Project
Since: 1997
Discography: The Saturnine Daughter [2000] and Jadis [2002]

interview with Yanik

Please give us a short introduction of yourself?
AENDRIA is a project since 1997. I’m Yanik, the ’one man band « and I play an original electro Dark metal!

So how glad are you to be interviewed by me?
If you would be close to me, I would kiss you passionately! Am I enough explicit? Seriously, it’s always a great pleasure to be interviewed!

What is the meaning of your project? Why did you start?What is your goal? You play alone. Has this a reason? Are you bossy or so? Did you ever played in a band? If not would you ever gonna play in a band?
AE is my outlet. A way of life. I’m feeling great when I play musik! I just want to make albums as long as possible. If I earn money with my musik, it’s fabulous but that’s not the most important. I’ve ten years of musik behind me and I want to continue. There’s no message through my lyrics and musik, just freedom and passion! I’ve played in a lot of bands, but for many reasons, I decided to walk alone and all is better in this way! Of course, there are numberous disadvantages but in a band too! so I made my choice! You’re right Twan, I’m bossy, when I decide to realise something, I do it passionately or I don’t do it! My ’ex-band brothers« will remember me a long time cause I’m obsessed by musik! I’ve always required an immense work to each musician I’ve played with!

Describe how you start writing a song? How do you begin? With what instrument?
I read a lot. I’m very interested by literature, History, and Art in a rule! I always find inspiration in the things but life also is not too bad! I write some ideas and let’s go! absolute free will! I compose with my guitar and the keyboards.

Where do you record? With what equipment?
A friend of mine has got a home studio. We worked in the same band in the past. The equipment is not really original, PC, mix board, v-drums midi... For my part, I work on a sequencer 32 tracks.

Do buy your software to record legal?
What a strange question guy! Do you will give my name to the police? Of course we work with softwares copied! Find a band that doesn’t do that and You will meet SAMAEL!!

What does the name Aendria mean? Think the projectname is important? What is your fav bandname? Even if you don't like their music?
ANDRIA is a lil’ town in south of Italy, I’ve just insert the ’e« to give an biblical influence! I think so. It reflects truely the band soul. Too many groups use ostentatious names! It’s too usual in my opinion! Often, it’s ridiculous! I like very much band names like THEATRE OF TRAGEDY / MOONSPELL and I ’m a great fan of their musik too!

You started in 1991, so why did you released the first CD in 2000?
I started in July 1997, and my first cd was out in January 2000! It was my first adventure alone! I wrote the concept, I took a long time to buy the equipment very expensive without forgetting the difficulties to use it! Then I played guitar and keyboards ad nauseam and finally it was the turn of the recording very very long. Many people don’t realize the dimension of such an ambition!

What did you do in that 9 years? Write many songs as possible? Learn to play the instruments?
TWAN! AENDRIA HAS BEEN CREATED IN JULY 1997! NOT IN 1991! So amigo it’s not necessary for me to answer to these questions right? (Then your bio picture was difficult to read! Twan) Did you follow musical training or everything DIY?
I’ve learned musik in the books. I took some lessons but nothing special! I gave lessons too but it’s not my vocation! In fact, I started to play bass guitar but fastly the six strings won! So I decided to stay at home during three years to learn my instrument. 3 years later , I was completely mad but I could play correctly with a drummer and a bass player!

What is the fun of playing an instrument?
I’m not able to explain how or why it’s fun to play musik! A kind of expression without words. Just sound.

Do you wanna push young people to learn to play and make music?
Yes of course! the most important is to do something. For example, throw your TV out of the window!

Do you smoke marijuana?
Oh yes man, I visited Amsterdam 5 years ago and it was chaotic!

Did you ever think of how your fans would look like, how old, male or female etc?
I don’t think I’ve got fans. If you like my musik, you ’re openminded and strange. That’s all I know! For the rest I hope you are not a stereotype! Male or female? I have to ask my wife!

Already had some weddingproposals of female fans?
Ha! Ha! You really want to know? Neither! In any case, I play musik to pick up girls!

Please choose between these things:
* sex or making music = making music
* sex or recording music = recording music
* sex or listening music = listening music
* sex or selling music = sex

Any plans for the future? Extend your musical genre? Other instruments?
I’m working on a mcd instead of an album as promised. I want to make an enormous album so I take the time to realize my goal. The mcd will be available in the middle of 2003, making simply the transition until 2004, when the second cd will be really Over! My musical evolution great progress. The coming mcd will be very different. I want to give unicity to each cd. It will be instrumental for this time with many theatrical samples, inspired by arabic musik, tech, classic musik of course and Metal!

What do you do when AC/DC asks you to do their support on their worldtour?
When do my plane take off?

Soldiers sleep with their gun, do you sleep with your guitar?
I’m not Jimi Hendrix! I don’t sleep with my guitar. Too hard to make love and not enough perverse!

After this intie do you mention me in the thanxlist with the next record?
I promise I’ll mention you in the next one Twan!

Any need to say something that I forgot to ask?
Your interview is different than others! Very long. Thanx for the interest. But Twan, no questions about sex? What’s happened?? (What about the question where you had to choose between your music and sex? Twan)

Last rites?
Be happy amigo. See ya!
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Interviewer: twansibon
Oct 9, 2002
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