Interview with Wombscape.

Greetings to the readers of my channel and other music lovers. Do you remember there was a post about a small teaser of the upcoming post? Therefore, I wish you a pleasant reading. I hope that you will like the new format, and I will continue to try to develop it, and reveal the Japanese underground music scene here in Ukraine. I would like to encourage people to get acquainted with this culture not only from my words, thoughts and feelings, but also from the musicians themselves. Well, as mentioned above, I wish you a pleasant reading and hope that you will learn something new!

1. Interviewer: So a good place to start would be by getting to know your band better, can you give us a background of yourself? What are your and your bandmates' names and ages? Could you tell us about your music?

Wombscape:
Vocal: Ryo (Age: Unborn)
Guitar: Shohei (Age: Unborn)
Drums: Hiro (Age: Unborn)

2. Interviewer: Music. When and how did you decide to get started making music? Where did the name Wombscape come from?

Ryo: In 2008, we started our activity to create music for emotional expression and scape picturization.
The name wombscape comes from "landscape in womb" / "landscape painting in womb"

3. Interviewer: Were there any other members except you three? Were there frequent personnel changes, and any disputes within the team?

Ryo: There were so many former members with several reason to leave.

4. Interviewer: What musicians have inspired you? Could we find out other music bands' influence on Wombscape?

Hiro: Each member has their own music roots, but Converge is a common band between us all time including past members.

5. Interviewer: Tell us about the concept of the band? What do you hope people take from it?

Ryo: In the beginning, the concept was to express the world within me. But since 2015 I have been expressing external matters. Since we experienced member changes many times, our expression has also changed. At the time we formed wombscape, it was a double-guitar. Then it went single, now we are a baseless trio. Now we cut down unnecessary notes as much as possible to adjust to the current formation. We don't really hope listeners to feel specific things out of our songs as we focus more on how/what we do.

6. Interviewer: Do you have any other activities besides music? What do you do in your spare time?

Hiro: We mostly spend our time on music. But we love drinking:)

7. Interviewer: Do you remember your first concert? How it was?

Ryo: I don't remember it as it was 10+ years ago.

8. Interviewer: You've released your new album FORCED LABOUR SONGS — tell us more about it. What about the music video for the song KUROGANE: it seems to me that it has visual references to Tetsuo: The Iron Man (鉄男, Tetsuo), is that correct?

Hiro: This is an album where human beings started to lose their emotions and work like slaves or even machines. The title Forced Labour Songs implies that normally "Labour Song'' is something you sing to boost your morale, but by being forced to do that, they even cannot realise it is bad or they even feel they are happy with that desperate situation. We express it with a rage or hatred at the beginning of the album but eventually we feel hopeless about the situation of that world. Kurogane was not intended to resemble Tetsuo but as the song gets completed, it started to come to our mind including the video director.

9. Interviewer: Which album do you consider to be the most successful and completed?

Ryo: We shouldn't rank them. We'll let listners decide.

10. Interviewer: What do you think of the Japanese music in 2022? Can you single out bands that try to bring something new and unusual to the music industry?

Hiro: I feel, after the covid, only serious musicians keep their momentum. So I feel the music scene is screened out in a good way and bad way. Maybe Tochu-Kaso is a good one to listen to.

11. Interviewer: What does the nearest future look like for Wombscape?

Hiro: We got a new guitarist. Hopefully we can have a tour with him and create new songs or albums.

12. Interviewer: What song or album would you advise new listeners to get acquainted with?

Ryo: "New world specimen" is a good album to start with as it is the most neutral one.

13. Interviewer: Do you have plans for concerts in Europe? Do you want to perform somewhere outside of Japan?

Hiro: We haven't had a specific plan but we have been discussing a European tour these years. If there's a time for us all to spend a week or more, we always want to have a tour.

14. Interviewer: Bass player. As I understand, your bass player has left you recently. Did you have any misunderstandings? Are you looking for a new musician?

Ryo: We might announce about it officially, but not now.

15. Interviewer: Have you thought about new genres in your future albums/songs? Which ones do you want to try?

Ryo: No. Because we don't think about genre when we create songs.

16. Interviewer: Would you like to say anything to our readers and your future listeners?

Hiro: Listen to our songs anyway. If you get some feelings regardless it's positive or negative, that's our pleasure.

Interviewer: I am very grateful for your answers. I hope that we will be able to talk again in the future, and together we will rejoice in the success of your work. I tend to be as unique as you are! Good luck!

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