John - "Oh yes! They really need this. Xenoglossy was just us coming out of our shell. Too fast, too immature. But we had to come out that fast to show ourselves. Now it's us in the making on our way to perfection. Not really there yet, but with the next album, the end of this trilogy, it will sum up what Machinista is all about."

 

John - "The thing is that everything has come smoothly since we started. I'm just waiting for the setback. It has to come, right? And of course the music has developed, but we saw that during the end of the last album."

Richard - "I would say I am starting to find more and more what Machinista's music is all about,

but in the end it's an everlasting search. You're always try to go forward and find new elements within the music. Xenoglossy had a lot of synthpop-stuff. This time there will be a darker touch overall and also more guitar and acoustic elements."

 

John - "The personal meaning for me lays in all of the songs. More or less all of them are stories from my life and thoughts I have BUT spiced up a bit. Or a lot. [laughs]"

Richard - "I think 'Train', the last track, stands out a bit. A slow dark piece of drama that ends the record. On this one our live guitars 'Judas' plays out some great tunes that took the song to a new level. And like i said before some tracks will flirt with more acoustic elements. 'Train' does for sure!"

 

Richard - "Both me and John are big fans of David Lynch and Twin Peaks and because of the fact that this record will be slightly darker the meaning of 'Pain and sorrow' fits in perfect! IF you study John's lyrics you will find hints to Twin Peaks here and there. Our first record had a pretty unusual name as well so this was a perfect match for us."

John - "Not one rough moment for me. Might have been for Richard. [laughs] The thing is, what I sing about has been rough. Been through it and now I sing it. Big distance, thank God." 

Richard - "It's been a struggle with some songs since i can spend a lot of time just trying to find the perfect sounds for a song. Usually I do pretty simple demos and then John records vocals. After this i sometimes find out that the song has to have a completely new dress. But this is also the fun in creating music.The journey from a demo to a finished track."

 

Richard - "It's more or less VST synths I use nowadays. There are so many good ones out there like Omnisphere, Kontakt, Sylenth1, Predator, to mention a few. In the end all music has to go through the computer so it's very smooth to start there at once. There has been some guitars I have added here and there and also some sampled acoustic sound. And like I did mention before, our live guitarist 'Judas' plays guitar on the song 'Train'. But the short answer would be: A bunch of VST synthesizers."

Richard - "Yes! Our dear label AnalogueTrash Records have put up pre-orders at:

http://trashdigital.co.uk/album/garmonbozia-at0018"

Richard - "We just came home from 3 gigs in Germany. I wouldn't say this was to promote Garmonbozia, but we did play some of the new songs. At the moment we are trying to work out a couple of gigs in UK and we have some Swedish gigs in the pipeline. Also we will return to Germany later this year. So there will be a bunch of gigs after the release of Garmonbozia. We are pretty active on our Facebook-site so I recommend people to follow us there for the latest news. www.facebook.com/machinistamusic."

John - "I was thinking about when it's time for the next, could be in a year, could be two. But lyrics I can write every day if I wanted. So I wrote the first some days ago."   

Richard - "There will be some cool releases coming up. Xenoglossy will be re-released on vinyl and on a double Digpack-CD along with 'Xenoglossy - The Remixes'. Except that we are excited to receive feedback from 'Garmonbozia' and hopefully play a lot of live gigs."

 

John - "Cool thanks!"

 

Richard - "See ya out there!"