It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all. Arto Lindsay Read Quote
We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn’t hear it. Arto Lindsay Read Quote
We recorded that trio and it’s out on the Knitting Factory label. I’ve got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I’ll hopefully finish some time before next summer. Arto Lindsay Read Quote
We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you’d absorb them in memory rather than when you’re actually hearing them. Arto Lindsay Read Quote
Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn’t think I’d do another one. Arto Lindsay Read Quote
The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me. Arto Lindsay Read Quote
It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place. Arto Lindsay Read Quote
We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play. Arto Lindsay Read Quote
I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close. Arto Lindsay Read Quote
