{"id":4674,"date":"2018-11-11T11:20:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T11:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/?p=4674"},"modified":"2018-11-11T16:21:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T16:21:04","slug":"interview-with-alternative-musician-eckhardt-and-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/2018\/11\/11\/interview-with-alternative-musician-eckhardt-and-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Alternative Musician Eckhardt And The House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
SCAD Radio\u2019s Content Director, Ian Dziura, sat down for an interview with Dutch alternative musician Eckhardt And The House.<\/em> You just released a new single, \u201cFuneral\u201d. The lyrics seem to point to dissatisfaction in current events ranging from nuclear war to obesity. Is this a track about the problems of the world?<\/strong> You read everything and see it on TV and the news, and there\u2019s almost not a moment to take time to think about it or do something. [It\u2019s] because we all go on with our lives\u2026 more like a ritual, like a funeral. [The song\u2019s] hard to balance so that it\u2019s not cynical or too heavy with the things you wanna tell with this kind of subject. Of these bad news things you sing about, a lot of it can relate to America\u2019s current political climate. Do you hear a lot about that kind of news in your home country of the Netherlands?<\/strong> Yeah, we here it, really a lot here. Every day, there\u2019s stuff in the newspapers about Trump, American news\u2026 It\u2019s like, 5 years later, we have the same problem here. So it\u2019s good to keep an eye on the United States to see what is coming. I imagine you can recognize all this stuff. Yes, I can.<\/strong> (Laughs) This track has a mix of dancy and poppy, but still an indie sound. How exactly would you describe your genre?<\/strong> It\u2019s disco- when I started the record with the first draft of these songs, I listened to avant-garde \u201880s New York dance. Talking Heads…B-52s, but 30 years later, you also use stuff from now. For me, [Funeral] is Talking Heads, but also LCD Soundsystem. I don\u2019t know what to call it exactly. You’re from the Netherlands, and one of the most famous musicians from there is Eddie Van Halen. Is he a heavy inspiration to you?<\/strong> Actually not. Funny thing about Van Halen is that we don\u2019t see him as a Dutch guy\u2026 Also, he\u2019s not really an inspiration for me, because I know the big hits, but I don\u2019t know them very well. Also, Captain Beefheart, Don Glen Vliet, is also a really Dutch name. He has some Dutch roots, so that\u2019s someone you can be proud of… That\u2019s always an inspiration for me, Captain Beefheart. You\u2019re a multi-instrumentalist, a producer, and a singer. Eckhardt and the House is basically your brainchild, correct? Like, do you have other people, or do you do it all?<\/strong> Yes, a lot of people play on this track, I play the most, but I work a lot with Gerry Arling, he\u2019s my producer, I would say. And he\u2019s playing most of the time the guitar and the bass parts. He used to be in a duo, Arling & Cameron. That\u2019s my main colleague for these tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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