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Interview YouFM part 1, 2, 3:
I: “Say the name of my baby” is the first part of a double A-Side from your new album that will be in stores soon, right?
S: Yes
I: Yes, I said it well! And the title of the album is “The Signal”
S: True!
I: What kind of signal do you want to send out?
S: It’s a signal from my inner self, from the inside of my body.
I: Aha?
S: It’s my heart that beats again.
I: So you have looked into yourself, and that’s what we hear?
S: Yes!
I: It has been quite a long break in between the end of the Guano Apes and your first solo album. So offcourse now we want to know, what have you done in between? Have you been in the studio the whole time, polishing your songs?
S: Polish is the right word for it, I had a lot to polish!
I: aha
S: yes
I: (something I don’t understand)
S: No, not at all! I allready had 5 harddisks full of songs. In the first year I moved to Berlin and I took some time to relax. And then I started to write songs, very slowly, far away from any kind of ‘music business’. Then I had the chance to work with a few interesting producers with who I have finished my songs. The result is a great diverse wonderful album!
I: It is indeed very diverse, because it goes from a heavy rocksound to an electro sound.
S: Yes, that’s because I wanted to break with clichés. In the past I was all about “revolution”, now I don’t belong to any kind of category and I don’t want to. Music has its own universe.
I: We can hear that, the album sounds different. In this interview on this radio station we can’t just pretend Guano Apes never existed, I hope you understand?
S: (joking) I’m going… ( I don’t really understand what she’s saying here, but she’s obviousely joking)
I: (laughing). So how is it now? Do you keep your distance from everything you have ever done with Guano Apes?
S: No, off course not! My god, it was 11… 12 years of my life?
I: 12 years in which you have seen many parts of the world.
S: absolutely! I’m proud of what we have accomplished together. But somehow if it doesn’t make you happy anymore and that was for me the case… It was everything around it, it was like some kind of air bubble…
I: I have dug a little in my memory to remember how it was, 4 years ago I think? Around 2004? I read what was written at that time, but there never was much clarity about how you broke up. Was there some kind of argument?
S: No, I just didn’t want to do it anymore. I just wanted to “live”, because I was always on the road ever since I got out of school. It was fun, I have loved it as much as the guys, but at some point we didn’t have the same point of view anymore.
I: Did you have a different view regarding music, or?
S: I didn’t want to be a money making machine anymore, and I had the feeling that was how I was being treated…
(parts I don’t understand)
S: They always wanted to do more and more and I said I just didn’t want to do it anymore. I needed to have a break and to just do nothing or just do something else…
I: Did they say take it easy?
S: No, they have responded the wrong way, they did the wrong things
I: (joking) Men tend to do that sometimes
S: They have given me too much testosterone and you just can’t do that to a woman! (laughing)
I: My god! Do you still keep in touch?
S: No, not really. I have talked to euhm, what was his name?
I: (laughing)
S: No, Henning! That was mean of me! (laughing). I have talked to Henning some years ago.
I: You’re not really best friends at the moment?
S: No, not really. It’s a bit sad the way we broke up. But, honestly, everything we have done together is really important to me. I still like the music. But personal things are important as well.
I: Now we can listen to what you’ve done together. We are playing a big hit of Guano Apes
S: (Still laughing) Open your heart!
I: Yes, Open Your Eyes @ YouFM Live with Sandra!
--(song)---
I: Ex-Guano Ape Sandra Nasic is sitting in front of me and she has released a solo album, but we’ll talk about that later. But first you are eating your lolly pop.
S: Chuppa Chup!
I: Right, but before you put it in your mouth one last question about Guano Apes. It’s allready in your mouth! (laughing). What is it that stays in your memory from your time with Guano Apes? Is it the travelling and being on the road and being important in the international music scene or?
S: Honestly, it’s the energy we had between band members on stage, that was really special. That was really good.
I: But we can notice that somehow it’s over for you?
S: That’s life.
I: Offcourse. But we’re also going to play some nice songs you have picked out for us like the next one from the Pixies. That was end of the 80’s/ beginning of the 90’s?
S: Yes, long before my time. It’s like wine, sometimes it gets better when it’s older! And that goes for me as well concerning my musical taste. I have started listening to the Pixies quite late in my life. Everyone who has seen Fight Club knows how wonderfully this music fits to the movie.
--(song)--
S: I wanted to hear a song from Frank Black as well, but you didn’t have it!
I: I’ll look for it in a minute!
S: ok!
I: What were you listening to when you were at school, let’s say, when you were between 10 and 15 years old?
S: Honestly, I like anything! I can listen to any kind of music. I have somehow listened to death metal, to Micheal Jackson, anything really. But the music that has had the most influence on me was grunge music, like for many people of my generation. Bands like Soundgarden and Nirvana, that’s when I started to listen to guitars.
I: And then at some time you started to sing. Guano Apes allready existed when you started singing with them, right?
S: Well yes, how shall I put it, yeah they existed but…
I: Officialy, they allready existed.
S: Yeah, that’s right.
(some parts I don’t understand)
I: Were they searching for you, or how did you find eachother?
S: Not really, in a little town like Göttingen (200 000 people live there) there aren’t that many musicians. When I was still in school I was looking for bands and I have listened with my sister at the door of their rehearsal room. I didn’t want to go in, I was just listening at the door. Sadly, I didn’t hear much that touched me in any way. My sister went to the bass player because he was in her class - am I talking too fast?
I: I can still understand! I don’t know, if you (the listeners) can’t follow, you can call us and then we rewind and let you hear it again!
S: Great, can you do that? That’s how we met and then we started jamming together and after a first rehearsal it was clear to me that they were very good musicians and that I liked the music. And they thought, great girl, great voice, we want her!
I: More about the new songs! We have heard the first song from “The Name of My Baby/Fever”. Why two songs at the same time?
S: (laughing) You’ll have to ask the record company! Honestly, I have written my songs, I gave my hard disk to the record company and told them that they could do whatever they wanted to do with it. I let them make the choice of the first single, because it didn’t really matter to me. And they decided it would be cool te release 2 songs at the same time, probably because they wanted to show that there are many styles on this album. And now there’s 2 songs on one single!
I: Yeah, but they both have a rock sound to it.
S: Yes, but they are different.
I: We have heard “The Name of My Baby” and now “Fever”.
--(song)--
I: You have heard “Fever” from the album “The Signal” from Sandra Nasic and I am very happy that you have joined us in the studio and we have received a lot of questions for you today. I received an e-mail from the Netherlands, from the persons behind sandranasicfans.com. Is that possible?
S: Yes, yes, there are many people in Europe that are listening to my songs.
I: You have had great success in the Netherlands, can you explain that?
S: Actually, we were quite known in Europe at the time and loads of european countries were part of it.
I: Open Your Eyes was a great hit in those countries, am I right?
S: Sure!
I: So here it goes: “Monday Sandra Nasic will be a guest in your show… “ blablabla and now the questions: On the album there is…
S: (panic) I can’t hear you anymore!
I: Oh, is it working again?
S: Where are you?
I: the headphone?
S: oh, now! (some parts I don’t get)
I: This person from the fanclub wants to know: “On the album there is a song called Mecasanova, also the favourite of the fans...
S: Oooohh....! (amazed)
I. ..what does the Yam Yam means and do you consider yourself as a casanova? .. Oh!”
(some parts I don't get)
S: Ooooh, they allready know so much! Well ‘jam jam’ (the way the dj pronounces it) is not correct, it was the title of the song and it was ‘Yam Yam’. When I was writing the song I have worked with the guitarist Patrik Berger from Sweden, he is a young guy from a punk group called “Killed By The Yakuza”. Please google for it! (Sandra is making a mistake here, it is actually Snuffed By The Yakuza :-) )
We had a funny little dj table for children from Fisherprice I think and we drank a little - as musicians do - and we were playing with the dj table - how is that character from the barrel called?
I: Oscar!
S: Yes! He goes yam yam yam yam. And I put the sample in it.
I: Actually, it’s the Cookie monster who goes “yam yam”.
S: Yeah, could be. I put the sample on the demo and later with the production it got removed again.
I: A dj turntable for children?
S: Exactly! It can do ‘weeewoooo’ and such for mixing and 'Eeeeh eeeek' - very funny. Can be really inspirating. And without that we would have never written “Yam Yam” a.k.a. “Mecasanova”.
I: And now the other part of the question: “Do you consider yourself as a casanova?”
S: (joking) Hmm Yah yah, maybe... the female.. female version of a casanova.. a little bit.
I: Casanovares or?
S: No it's Casanova. Can be female as well or?
I: Yeah but... most of the time when you talk about Casanova it's male.
S: Yeah but it can also be called for girls. And this morning I saw ‘Casanova’, bad movie, very bad, but a great song.
I: A female casanova and the song is called Mecasanova with ‘Yam Yam’ and now we have talked so much that we will listen to some music.
S: Ok And the lovely greatings to the Netherlands!
I: Yeah and there will come some more questions!
S: (Sandra yells!) --(song)--
TO BE CONTINUED
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