When last we visited Voe and Scarlet of Angels of Liberty, they were in the midst of a touching Sonny & Cher/Gomez & Morticia moment. It seems we are to continue in that vain, and take up the gauntlet right where we left off.
(Laurie)
3. You mentioned strange occurrences in your personal lives that seem to be surrounding the new recordings. I am a firm believer in synchronicity, and I sense there may be connections. I have to admit, you have well peaked my curiosity there. Are these strange occurrences perhaps in that vein?
3. You mentioned strange occurrences in your personal lives that seem to be surrounding the new recordings. I am a firm believer in synchronicity, and I sense there may be connections. I have to admit, you have well peaked my curiosity there. Are these strange occurrences perhaps in that vein?
Scarlet :
"I think I'll let Sonny take this one!"
"I think I'll let Sonny take this one!"
Voe :
"Yes, oh my! Where to start! Well....Since finishing Pinnacle of the Draco I started to have alien contact experiences! They have huge humor. They revealed themselves as the secret instigators only after we'd finished Draco.
"Yes, oh my! Where to start! Well....Since finishing Pinnacle of the Draco I started to have alien contact experiences! They have huge humor. They revealed themselves as the secret instigators only after we'd finished Draco.
Last year, I started recovering memories of meeting tall beings and a silver craft with orange lights and a bluish white mist in an area of woodland where I'd been the year before. At first it surfaced as weird dreams about wolves. I was aware something really traumatic had happened because I'm familiar with PTS, and I was all over the place, but didn't have a full memory of the event. Its not the first time I've seen something, but this time it was unmistakable because it was the whole scenario with the craft, beings, and some medical procedure involving the infamous glowing needle which they stuck in my kidney."
Scarlet :
"I supose there could have been worse places! :D "
"I supose there could have been worse places! :D "
Voe:
"Quite! :D I had what I can only describe as a telepathic conversation that was staged within my consciousness. What happens is you get drawn in by their eyes which are full of stars and your mind is putty. Rather than being scared I was really curious about them. I thought they were really cool. During the experience I asked why I couldn't see them properly, to which they gave the answer by showing me impressions in my mind that they 'bend light so people either don't see, or they see what they expect to see'.
"Quite! :D I had what I can only describe as a telepathic conversation that was staged within my consciousness. What happens is you get drawn in by their eyes which are full of stars and your mind is putty. Rather than being scared I was really curious about them. I thought they were really cool. During the experience I asked why I couldn't see them properly, to which they gave the answer by showing me impressions in my mind that they 'bend light so people either don't see, or they see what they expect to see'.
Afterwards my response went from 'f**k I'm going nuts' to 'oh Christ, no, I don't want to talk about indigo children and star seeds 'cos I'm too embarrassed'. But its such a big thing its really hard not to talk about it. It helps even less if your 'cosmic buddies' are blamed for every evil in galactic history, and well..... its the cheap thin cloaks that kill me. I adore them, but I can see why they don't visit human shopping malls.
What's now become clear is that there's been an ongoing contact for a long time, hence my interest in the subject since a kid. Locals were ringing in the local radio station to report military jets chasing 'flying saucers' over the North East. I wasn't aware of that at the time, but I found out about it via above top secret and the David Icke site so that made me feel a little less silly.
I do have a sense of humor and it helps laugh about it. That's the way I deal with the experience, but it is very real and life changing. I'm amazed at other people telling their experiences because after telling a few 'friends' I didn't want to talk about it at all ever again. People think you are joking about it, or you've flipped your wig.
The UFO subject for me now has become the proverbial mash potato mountain but I don't give a sh*t about the debunkers who haven't had experience. The only thing they can teach me is about their own ignorance of the subject. I'm happy now I have an answer and I love these creatures. I'd much rather spend time with them than humans. They are kinder and better looking too.
The really mind blowing thing for me considering my love of bunnies is that the woodland it happened on is connected to an estate of a house where Lewis Carol was staying when he wrote Alice in Wonderland. Apparently Alice lived there. That's one hell of a rabbit hole! :D Id been having dreams about skiing/flying with bunnies and pets and id suggest to people having similar dreams they may be having screen memories. I'd wager there's about 50% of the world population having alien contact without their knowledge.
I'll be perfectly honest, I'm nowhere near any total understanding of what they want. They are indeed concerned with empathy. The other stuff is for songs cos melody carries the message better. But that's essentially what's been going on, I've been having contact with aliens! I've had to add it to my repertoire with dreams about dead people which is always a great ice breaker at parties!"
Scarlet :
"Parties?! What f***ing parties?"
"Parties?! What f***ing parties?"
Voe :
"I dress the bunnies in tuxedos. We talk politely of the 'grand satanic conspiracy'. Its quite a jovial affair."
"I dress the bunnies in tuxedos. We talk politely of the 'grand satanic conspiracy'. Its quite a jovial affair."
Scarlet :
"Jesus wept!"
"Jesus wept!"
Voe :
"The wee little mice in dinner for schmucks and that tiny invisible violin got to me."
"The wee little mice in dinner for schmucks and that tiny invisible violin got to me."
(Laurie)
4. I must ask, as I fully intend an article on the very authentic and genuine sound of Angels of Liberty, even though it is all synth music. How DO you get such an AMAZING sound without the use of more traditional instruments? As a bass player myself, the bass sound alone makes me want to cry in its genius!
4. I must ask, as I fully intend an article on the very authentic and genuine sound of Angels of Liberty, even though it is all synth music. How DO you get such an AMAZING sound without the use of more traditional instruments? As a bass player myself, the bass sound alone makes me want to cry in its genius!
Voe :
"Thank you, that's very kind. :) I have a real distaste for current synth based music as it feels soulless, unlike the 80s stuff which was full of emotion and soul. On the whole, real instruments like guitars drums and bass can be distorted/overdriven to give a raw power that doesn't translate very well when used on synths.
"Thank you, that's very kind. :) I have a real distaste for current synth based music as it feels soulless, unlike the 80s stuff which was full of emotion and soul. On the whole, real instruments like guitars drums and bass can be distorted/overdriven to give a raw power that doesn't translate very well when used on synths.
However every single aspect of our tracks are synthetic, there are no guitars only guitarish like sounds. I grew up playing guitars, but I damaged my left hand, so I had no choice but to find other ways of working. What amazes me is that we've been accepted generally in the area of guitar Goth even though we are essentially a synth band, and I feel we wouldn't fit in the electro side of the scene. Nothings ever very straightforward!"
Scarlet :
"What we decided was to make sure the sounds felt organic by having heavily distorted and compressed bass, and making the notes ring out a little longer so they don't sound like horrid staccato synth bass lines. The feel is important, and played organic music has a feel. Usually the guitar is forward, the bass is behind the drums it gives things a little more feel, and a bit of space which we need as we compress everything down to create a wall of sound. When it comes to drums I leave him to it for hours and go out shopping."
"What we decided was to make sure the sounds felt organic by having heavily distorted and compressed bass, and making the notes ring out a little longer so they don't sound like horrid staccato synth bass lines. The feel is important, and played organic music has a feel. Usually the guitar is forward, the bass is behind the drums it gives things a little more feel, and a bit of space which we need as we compress everything down to create a wall of sound. When it comes to drums I leave him to it for hours and go out shopping."
Voe:
"She never comes home with food just new shoes or a sari so I'm always bloody starving too.
How do we get it to feel that way? A lot of practice, patience, programming, and processing. Its harder and way more time consuming than just playing an instrument, so its something you'd have to be mad to want to try, or its forced on you by injury. Sometimes it can be painfully slow so i wouldn't recommend it cos its really a labor of love."
"She never comes home with food just new shoes or a sari so I'm always bloody starving too.
How do we get it to feel that way? A lot of practice, patience, programming, and processing. Its harder and way more time consuming than just playing an instrument, so its something you'd have to be mad to want to try, or its forced on you by injury. Sometimes it can be painfully slow so i wouldn't recommend it cos its really a labor of love."
(Laurie) Note: Well, it is good Voe has Echo Von Hammer (AoL's affectionately and aptly named drum machine) to help him out!
In our next "installment" of this interview, we will delve further into the workings of the authentic AoL sound, and then it is on to, um...other things...
Image Credit : Courtesy of Angels of Liberty, Logo Design : EoS Designs, © 2014.
Another personal favorite by AoL, "Mars and Minerva", from Pinnacle of the Draco...
interesting, thanks I enjoyed this
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