Vancouver, on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Watuth territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How, when and where did you start making music? Are you primarily a musician or a producer, or do something else?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
John and KC started jamming in the Spring of 2018, and we hooked up with Ethan. We had artist\/musician Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes and then Nikolai from KC\u2019s former band Late Spring on interim bass for a while, but eventually, we found the right fit with Sonya in late 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who would you consider some of your biggest influences when it comes to your \u201csound\u201d?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
KC \u2013 When I was first learning guitar, I bought my strat because it came with a whammy bar and I wanted to sound like Kevin Shields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ethan – I bought my telecaster because of the guitar player in Codeine. One of my biggest influences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
John – I\u2019ve always been excited by bands that experiment with different drum sounds over an entire album such as The Beatles, Deerhoof, Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead, where the drums don\u2019t always sound the same on every track or even every part of a song but offer tonal and timbre differences depending on the musical situation of the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Explain your creative process. Do you have a routine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
KC \u2013 it\u2019s pretty collaborative. I usually come to the group with a guitar riff or a skeleton of a song, and we jam it out and build upon it as a group. The lyrics mostly come out of the vibe of the music; the tonal qualities translate into words over time, like certain sounds from the mouth just sound good over the music, mixed with whatever\u2019s happening or stuff we\u2019re thinking about at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is your \u201cstudio\u201d setup?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
KC \u2013 We have a jam space, we\u2019ve made it pretty good for the small box of a room it is. John built some shelving for our amps, etc., and equipped the room with a good PA and microphones. We padded it up with some carpet to dampen the sound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
John – I decided since we were going to record the album ourselves in the jam space and I have other projects I play in that I wanted to record in higher fidelity, it would be worth investing money in some good studio preamps, DA converters, drum mics, DI Boxes, reference monitors etc. This includes UAD Apollo X8, Audient 880, Earthworks Drum Mics, and Genelec 8030d Monitors. All of this gear allows for very transparent recordings which makes it easier when treating and mixing the audio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
What is your process when working with other people? How is collaboration different in the studio vs working remotely? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
KC \u2013 We\u2019ve figured out an organic way of bringing ideas together over the last 2 albums. It\u2019s best to let things happen organically, and give everyone the space to bring in their own musical styles\/influences. What I love about K Nurse is that we each have a pretty distinct palette from each other, but it comes together through jamming. See our Spotify playlist<\/a>, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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