1. „Past Changing Fast“ has pretty interesting and hard to describe atmosphere. I can listen to it over and over again totally enticed by music but I still can’t describe what exactly I’m feeling. Under which frame-of-mind did you compose and record album? Could you describe what kind of moods are evident in the recording, if any?

We are very pleased that our music is enigmatic and fascinating for you, in fact it is impossible to define only one state of mind because it develops instinctively triggering off an unforeseeable succession of moods and feelings. For us making music means dropping into a delirious and ecstatic dimension that links us together, so an invisible path of dialogue is opened which enables us to communicate with music, we express our emotions, and it makes us reflect and evolve in a lunatic and unforeseeable way.

2. I feel a certain lack of ending and ambiguity forcing me to play the album again. I usually forget that I’m listening to music and having fun while I get absorbed by it.

We are often acused of playing for our own egoistic pleasure closed in an ivory tower without caring about the listener’s comprehension,of course we play for our own gratification but it is even more gratifying when people understand our music. Our music is aimed at bringing the listener into a nearly oneiric dimension, the unforeseeable, the intensity and the lunacy should not be considered intellectually but through perception which is free from the filters of shared and codified musical culture ( a nice entry, a gran finale, a refrain).
Kailash’s aim is to have an impact on the listener’s perception: bewilderment, ambiguity, to be absorbed by our music amd to want to hear it again......is exactly what should happen.

3. Despite of heavy guitar sound the overall mood is quite relaxed which is not very common in metal music. Personally I understand this album as the unique piece of music meaning that it tries to grasp something delicate using “raw” tools. I can easily imagine that this album will be enjoyed both by fans of progressive metal and rock. Do you think that this album represents a moment when rock fan finds something elegant in metal while a metalhead gets thrilled to find out that even with rough sounding it is possible to create something different from bestial thrashing? Have you managed to address someone with your music? For example fans outside of metal scene?

As we are influenced by classical music composing dynamically and intensely comes naturally to us. So distorsion and double drums are not used because they are typically metal but they are used to increase the intensity and make the piece „explode“. For this reason we have become popular with a public who are not strictly metal fans and like electronic, ambient, progressive pop, classical music and rock and share this approach with us.


4. The album is purely instrumental. Do you find playing without singing more fitting? Or you’re counting on vocals for the future releases again?

We don’t exclude the possibilty of using our voices in the future, the difficulty being to insert it perfectly into the dialectics between the melody and the rythm as if it were a third instrument, besides words as a shared and codified cultural element must be „ listened to with intellect“ and so they inhibit the mechanism of free perception which inspires Kailash.

5. People usually classify music according to vocals without taking the actual music in account. From one point of view it was a brilliant idea to record instrumental album since it hardly falls into an exact genre which would harm the music because people are full of prejudices…

An ambient fan could find it difficult to get used to pieces with scream, leaving out the vocals has made us easily enjoyable. The listener expects singing and this is a prejudice. A expectation which creates disapointment. We actually just act naturally, planning would disaapoint some people anyway. It is hard to define our genre even for us and we are tired of racking our brains over it.

6. About the nicely stylized artwork – Was your intention to create something visually appealing and evoking a certain atmosphere like this (which it does)? Is there even some kind of story behind it?

We are very inspired by the visual territories of art: painting, photography and cinema which are fundamental when tackling something like music. Our pieces proceed through images our rather through a succession of sensations which are translated into images. About the artwork (by Trifar www.diramazioni.it), we can offer an explanation. Water is like a man's soul: it is restless and it does not have any sediment, it has no beginning and no end. It has as much calm, gravity and abyssal depth as it has restlessness and mobility. Water is the visual element we have chosen for the cover-art. It fully represents the mood of our music which is unpredictable and in continualmovement.

7. How is your music accepted in your country? Does Italy favour “progressive” bands?

Italy does not provide economical aid for music and does not acknowledge that the musician plays a cultural role so all the musicians are busy struggling to emerge and survive in a sick mainstream recording system, music only exists underground but nobody is willing to support, listen and invest in new projects, nobody has any money, nobody wants to take risks, nobody gets anywhere. For this reason Kailash are appreciated by few in Italy ( but it is a „mute“ appreciation witout practical consequences), but we get good feedback from Europe above all from Russia and from the USA too.


8. Can you name some other bands besides Ved Buens Ende which has inspired you? Do you consider VBE to be somehow innovative band or just a classic one that already lost it’s unique status?

Despite the cover of VBE we can not recognize that them are our guide band , our inspiration are classical composers like Mahler, shostackovich, Bartok, etc. and bands like Don Caballero, Jeff Buckley, Cynic (Focus), Atheist, Soft Machine, Beatles.

9. Do you currently enjoy an artistic break or can we expect new material soon?

Right now Kailash has taken a break because we are working on two projects Hastur (www.myspace.com/hasturofficial) and Vinterfresa (www.myspace.com/vinterfresa) and also on a third project which does not concern metal and doesn’t have a definite name but it will even include some vocals.

10. Thank you very much for the interview!!!

Thanks to you. It was a pleasure to answer your questions!!