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Euphemia | Matt Connarton Unleashed
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Speaker 8: That is Aorta baby. The band is Euphemia and we've
Speaker 8: got a couple members of the band here with us
Speaker 8: live and studio. We're gonna be talking with them in
Speaker 8: just a moment. But I love that song. As I
Speaker 8: like to say, if that doesn't get you move in,
Speaker 8: check your pulse, you might be dead, because that is
Speaker 8: really really catchy. I love that and looking forward to
Speaker 8: talking with them. And if you are listening live on Saturday,
Speaker 8: today is October twenty five, twenty twenty five. This is
Speaker 8: Matt Connorton Unleashed and we have entered our number three
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Speaker 8: contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera. But right
Speaker 8: now we have Gina and Brian here from the band.
Speaker 8: Am a welcome, Hello, wonderful to have you here. I've
Speaker 8: been looking forward to this because I really love sent
Speaker 8: me a bunch of songs and I love all of them.
Speaker 8: Thank you. Just catchy as hell, so so good. So
Speaker 8: what do you each do in the band? I mean, Gina,
Speaker 8: I assume that's you singing.
Speaker 9: That's me singing, and I'm the songwriter as well. Okay,
Speaker 9: I didn't write that song. Oh that's the only song
Speaker 9: on the album. I did not write. That was by
Speaker 9: my late great father Kit Brown. Oh okay, musician as well.
Speaker 8: Oh wow, okay, okay. And what do you do in
Speaker 8: the band, Brian?
Speaker 10: I play guitar and sing backup vocals.
Speaker 8: Excellent, excellent? And who else is who's not with you today?
Speaker 8: I assume are you a four piece? You're a five piece? Okay?
Speaker 9: Sometimes a six piece?
Speaker 8: Oh wow?
Speaker 9: So we have Josh Dover on drums, Brian who let
Speaker 9: on guitar as well, and Ryan Monario.
Speaker 8: On bass okay yep. And then who's the sixth person?
Speaker 9: So sometimes we have my best friend Ellen who comes
Speaker 9: and sings background vocals with us to kind of fill
Speaker 9: it out a little bit.
Speaker 8: Oh very good, very good, And we should mention too.
Speaker 8: So you came to us through Vice's Inc. Yes, Jagger
Speaker 8: recommended you, and you know, we love Vice's inc. Absolutely,
Speaker 8: they're so sweet. Yeah. So you're from you're from Portland
Speaker 8: as well?
Speaker 9: Portland?
Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, great scene there. There's always a
Speaker 8: lot going on there. It's been that way forever too.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, it's a great music scene and there's a
Speaker 9: lot of rock and roll and punk and just music
Speaker 9: people aren't really tapped into in other parts of me
Speaker 9: and that you wouldn't really know about unless you're in Portland,
Speaker 9: and it's really special.
Speaker 8: It's true. Yeah, yeah, very true. So where's the name
Speaker 8: come from? Euphemia?
Speaker 9: Euphemia is the name of my great grandmother on my
Speaker 9: dad's side. Yeah, okay, I never met her, but I
Speaker 9: always thought it was such a cool name. And yeah,
Speaker 9: I know it's kind of like ambiguous and people are like,
Speaker 9: what does that mean?
Speaker 10: Is it?
Speaker 9: Is it like euphemia like feminism? And I'm like, no,
Speaker 9: it's just just a woman's name.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I was, and I wasn't sure. You know,
Speaker 8: we'll pull back the curtain and tell the listeners. I
Speaker 8: had to ask you before because I was sure, you know,
Speaker 8: because I've been talking about it, you know, leading up
Speaker 8: to today. But I wasn't sure if I was saying
Speaker 8: it right or yeah, and I was not saying it right.
Speaker 8: I assumed it was, so I was saying it wrong totally.
Speaker 8: Does it ever get misspelled like on posters or anything
Speaker 8: like that, for.
Speaker 9: We usually have to make the posters.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, just as well. Right, Yeah, I can see.
Speaker 8: So how long has the band been around? Has a
Speaker 8: band been around a while? Because you've got a lot
Speaker 8: of music.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean we've been a band since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, we just joined Instagram in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 9: so a lot of Okay, we've only been around for
Speaker 9: like a year. But no, we've been around since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, probably not the same line up all the time.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't think.
Speaker 9: Myself, Brian and my husband Josh, who's our drummer, we've
Speaker 9: all been in the band since twenty thirteen, but we've
Speaker 9: a little bit of change up with our bass player
Speaker 9: and other guitar player.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, But but so the three of you have
Speaker 8: been the core, like the kind of the nucleus of it. Yeah.
Speaker 8: How do you describe your sound because you're not you know,
Speaker 8: it's not conventional, you know, it's not. It's not metal,
Speaker 8: it's not punk.
Speaker 10: It's not I mean what I mean you describe us?
Speaker 9: I think about the song and.
Speaker 8: Everyone always says it's this question. But yeah, but yeah
Speaker 8: for someone who's never heard you.
Speaker 9: For me, I just describe it as rock and roll.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Like I'm a big fan of all different sorts
Speaker 9: of music. But for me, it just sounds like pure
Speaker 9: rock and roll, yeah, with the punk undertones to it.
Speaker 9: But yeah, for me, it's just rock and roll.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: And the songs are the length of punk songs. Yeah,
Speaker 8: they are a lot of them have short that's the
Speaker 8: longest one. So A Order Baby is three point fifty nine.
Speaker 8: But I think of everything you said, that's the uh?
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 8: Is that a full album?
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 8: Yep? These are all part of okay.
Speaker 9: Ye it's the Yeah. We put our our self titled
Speaker 9: album in April of twenty twenty four and ten songs
Speaker 9: on it. It's twenty five minutes long. Yeah, yeah, all killer,
Speaker 9: no filler.
Speaker 8: Oh that's funny. Yeah, it's only twenty five minutes. But yeah,
Speaker 8: that makes sense giving the uh yeah, yeah, Now what
Speaker 8: is so is that? By the I mean, do you
Speaker 8: just prefer short songs, or there was somebody who was it.
Speaker 8: There was somebody who said, uh, they just it's like
Speaker 8: that expression, Well, there's that expression, don't BORI us get
Speaker 8: to the chorus. But there's there was somebody else I
Speaker 8: can't remember who it was, what band, I'm drawing a
Speaker 8: blank now, who said it's really important to you know,
Speaker 8: if you want to hook somebody into the song you've got,
Speaker 8: you've at least got to get to that first chorus
Speaker 8: fairly quickly, and so that ends up making for a
Speaker 8: short song. But I mean, is that something you set
Speaker 8: out to do or does that just happen organically when
Speaker 8: you're writing these?
Speaker 9: It kind of just happens organically. I'm just, you know,
Speaker 9: usually alone in my room writing these, and I say
Speaker 9: what I need to say. Yeah, try to at least
Speaker 9: get through a couple verses and choruses and then a
Speaker 9: turn around usually, but it's usually just like does it
Speaker 9: need it or not?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, If I've said what I needed to say and
Speaker 9: it's sounding good, I kind of just leave it there
Speaker 9: and yeah, I'll take it to practice and show the guys.
Speaker 9: And they're really good at arranging them with me and
Speaker 9: kind of like editing with me saying we need a
Speaker 9: little bit more or less or this part isn't working,
Speaker 9: so we kind of like all work it out together.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, is a orda baby? Is that the longest
Speaker 8: song you've ever recorded as a band?
Speaker 9: I think so today?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Now no, so this is so this is from
Speaker 8: a full length album. Do you have other like what
Speaker 8: else have you recorded? Because obviously you know you've been
Speaker 8: around for so I'm not going to math that's twelve years, right, yeah,
Speaker 8: twenty thirteen. Yeah, so I assume you've probably recorded quite
Speaker 8: a bit over the year as well.
Speaker 9: We haven't. We recorded this album in twenty nineteen, Yeah,
Speaker 9: and it took me almost five years to get it
Speaker 9: out because it was like a lot of things happened
Speaker 9: when we recorded it. I was pregnant with my daughter
Speaker 9: when I recorded it, and then COVID happened in twenty twenty,
Speaker 9: so we weren't able to go into the studio and
Speaker 9: mix it. Yeah, and then my dad passed away in
Speaker 9: twenty twenty one, So it was like this series of
Speaker 9: circumstances where I couldn't think about touching it, you know
Speaker 9: what I mean, Like mixing it and we weren't quite
Speaker 9: happy with the mix right away, so it was we
Speaker 9: just kind of put it on the backshelf for a while,
Speaker 9: and then we finally put it in Gears in October
Speaker 9: of twenty twenty three, got it out by April of
Speaker 9: twenty twenty four.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So yeah, that's really all we have recorded for a
Speaker 9: full length and we have a single called Blah Blah
Speaker 9: Blah that we released in July of this year, which
Speaker 9: is only like a minute and a half.
Speaker 8: Oh really yeah yeah, yeah, so we have.
Speaker 9: That full length album in that single, and hopefully we'll
Speaker 9: be back in the studio this winter. Oh Reward our
Speaker 9: second album.
Speaker 8: Oh excellent, excellent. Yeah. Yeah, I was talking with in
Speaker 8: the first hour we had the band Rivia, who were
Speaker 8: in the UK. They joined us via WhatsApp, and I
Speaker 8: was telling them about how in this where we are,
Speaker 8: at least in the Northeast here in the US, a
Speaker 8: lot of bands kind of take winter to record because yeah,
Speaker 8: that's the worst time to go out and play shows winter.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, nobody wants to come out. There's parking bands.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's fun. Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Did your father get to hear a orda baby?
Speaker 4: He did?
Speaker 9: He actually played lead guitar on it, No kidding, him
Speaker 9: playing lead guitar and background vocals with me.
Speaker 8: That's so cool.
Speaker 9: He came in the studio, he was well enough to
Speaker 9: do that. We really just wanted to do it as
Speaker 9: a tribute to him because he wasn't well at the time.
Speaker 9: And yeah, he laid down like the meanest guitar solo
Speaker 9: I think on that record. Yeah, no events to you, Brian,
Speaker 9: You're so amazing too. But oh my gosh, that every
Speaker 9: time I hear it, it just gives.
Speaker 8: Me chills take no kidding, really yeah, wow, so good.
Speaker 9: He was just the best, and and he got to
Speaker 9: hear it before he passed as a mix as well.
Speaker 8: So oh that's great. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 7: Is that.
Speaker 8: So obviously? You know growing up with your dad who
Speaker 8: is a musician, Is that what? What why you became
Speaker 8: a musician?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I started out playing farfeza organ in his band they
Speaker 9: were called the Pontiffs, when I was fourteen years old,
Speaker 9: no kidding. Yeah, so I joined his band in nineteen
Speaker 9: ninety eight and that was kind of like my introduction
Speaker 9: to the music wow Portland. Outside of always hearing music
Speaker 9: in my house and growing up playing I played classical
Speaker 9: violin growing up. Okay, yeah, I've always like having a
Speaker 9: dad who is basically a encyclopedia of knowledge for music
Speaker 9: was really helpful to like introduce me to all different
Speaker 9: genres and writers and styles and no doubt.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah that's school. Yeah yeah. What about you, Brian,
Speaker 8: did you grow up in a musical family or.
Speaker 10: Kind of My mom kind of met my dad by
Speaker 10: playing guitar on an air force base. Oh no kidding,
Speaker 10: and then I kind of got my musical talent from her,
Speaker 10: but she used to play guitar at home sometimes. Oh
Speaker 10: but it wasn't until like high school that I started playing,
Speaker 10: like learning guitar and figuring out what I wanted to
Speaker 10: do with music and stuff.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, oh excellent. Did did you play in bands
Speaker 8: prior to Euphemia or yeah?
Speaker 10: A few local bands in Portland. I've been playing, wow
Speaker 10: since like two thousand and one. Okay, really here and
Speaker 10: there bands the fall kind of dissolved at this point,
Speaker 10: but yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah. What's what's the scene like in there currently?
Speaker 8: In terms of venues? Are there a lot of places
Speaker 8: to play original music?
Speaker 9: There are a few places to play.
Speaker 8: Because I feel like just my impression is just from
Speaker 8: like talking to bands like Vices think for example, that
Speaker 8: does not. Unfortunately, right now there's not as many original
Speaker 8: places to play as there used to be true everywhere,
Speaker 8: but yeah.
Speaker 9: You're right, you're right there, there's a few. There's always
Speaker 9: a couple of staples that we play at that the
Speaker 9: owners are always great. We're so grateful they let us
Speaker 9: play there because it's very hard to to ask for
Speaker 9: gigs around por if you're not established. Yeah, but bands
Speaker 9: that are up and coming, how do you get established
Speaker 9: if no one will let you.
Speaker 8: Play, right, exactly. Yeah, that's always the it's.
Speaker 9: Kind of a catch twenty two. So we're really grateful
Speaker 9: that we kind of have a little bit of notoriety now.
Speaker 9: So it's nice. Hard to get gigs and people are
Speaker 9: asking us to play, So it's that's good. That's really nice.
Speaker 8: Yeahah, yeah, I mean it's kind of like the way
Speaker 8: I've always thought of it is, you know, it's like
Speaker 8: just trying to get over that hump of when you
Speaker 8: get to the point where people are asking you to play,
Speaker 8: you know, and you still got to you still got
Speaker 8: to do the work of getting you know, in a
Speaker 8: new places and stuff. But once you but once you
Speaker 8: get over that hump where you know not not every
Speaker 8: show is one that you're begging for, but you're people
Speaker 8: are actually coming to you saying, hey, can you you
Speaker 8: know you want to play this?
Speaker 9: That's the speech.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah exactly. I think we should play
Speaker 8: another track from the album what uh what should we
Speaker 8: play next? Let's play Magic Magic? I like that one.
Speaker 8: I like that one. That one clocks in at a
Speaker 8: minute forty six. Great song though. I like all these
Speaker 8: I was listening to them yesterday and just just so
Speaker 8: all all so good. Absolutely, if you're just joining us,
Speaker 8: we have Gina and Brian from the band Euphemeia here
Speaker 8: with us in studio, and let's check this out. This
Speaker 8: is called magic.
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Speaker 1: Got it is not.
Speaker 4: Well I look into your song, you won't know what
Speaker 4: to see this whistle and go to that because it
Speaker 4: is not too got me is magic.
Speaker 3: It is matt It is magic. It is magic, got
Speaker 3: it it is magic.
Speaker 4: Got wow, it is magic. It is mantic got me.
Speaker 8: That is uh that song and so short. I wasn't
Speaker 8: ready for atten no, but I was in a good
Speaker 8: way though. I mean I was getting lost in it.
Speaker 8: It's so good, it's so catchy. Thank you absolutely. That
Speaker 8: is called Magic and the band is Euphemia and we
Speaker 8: have a Gina and Brian from the band Euphemia here
Speaker 8: with us in studio. And now where did you record these?
Speaker 8: You might have mentioned it. I can't remember it. There's
Speaker 8: so many great studios around. Where did you do the album?
Speaker 9: We did it with a person named Scott Weber at
Speaker 9: Pigcat Studios, Okay, and it's over by the Riverside area
Speaker 9: of Portland, Okay.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And how did you come to work work with him?
Speaker 8: Because there's so many You know, what's funny is, if
Speaker 8: you go back ten years or even twenty years, a
Speaker 8: lot of people were predicting the end of the recording studio,
Speaker 8: you know what I mean, because you can record at
Speaker 8: home now and there's so many different ways to record
Speaker 8: and the technology. It's amazing what you can do, you know,
Speaker 8: on your own as far as recording now. But recording
Speaker 8: studios are still thriving and there's a lot of them.
Speaker 8: I know in the Portland area there must be a ton.
Speaker 8: So how did you come to work with what was
Speaker 8: his name again, Scott Webers? Got Weber. How did you
Speaker 8: come to work with him?
Speaker 9: I let Brian take the lead because he's friends with him.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, perfect.
Speaker 10: We were in a band together called four Player co Op. Okay, Tim,
Speaker 10: his brother was in the band with us for a
Speaker 10: long time, and then eventually Scott joined and we used
Speaker 10: to rehearse in that studio that they recorded. So yeah,
Speaker 10: when we came time to record, I was like, hey,
Speaker 10: I know a guy, so yeah, oh that's cool. Yeah,
Speaker 10: because you know, I mean situations where it you know,
Speaker 10: it ends up. You know, I know a guy that
Speaker 10: doesn't always work out great, but in this case it
Speaker 10: certainly did it because the album sounds fantastic.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he was great, and we recorded it in like
Speaker 9: two and a half days. It was like a Friday
Speaker 9: through a Sunday.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we went back in to do like I was
Speaker 9: sick at the time when we recorded, so yeah, I
Speaker 9: had to go back in and do vocals like at
Speaker 9: a different time for most of them. Yeah, Aora we
Speaker 9: did on the first day and we kept it one take.
Speaker 8: Oh wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 9: But yeah, no, it is like he's super efficient with everything. Yeah,
Speaker 9: and it just it took me a long time with
Speaker 9: the mixing because I'm.
Speaker 8: Just really picky, but really yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9: But yeah, no, he was amazing and we can't wait
Speaker 9: to work with him again.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: He also plays drums for East End Redemption and records
Speaker 9: them at his studio too, and they're fantastic.
Speaker 8: Oh okay yeah, okay yeah yeah. And then what's the
Speaker 8: live situation? Like we talked about venues, but I mean
Speaker 8: how like are you playing out a lot in Portland?
Speaker 8: Do you get out of that area?
Speaker 9: But we have been Yeah, we we've been getting out
Speaker 9: of Portland more this year. I would say good. We
Speaker 9: played in Dover for Vices fast for advices, ain't put on?
Speaker 8: Yep?
Speaker 9: And we played or else do we play? We played
Speaker 9: in Lewiston at their Arts center that they live there.
Speaker 9: That was really cool.
Speaker 8: Yeah. And Boston good good, yeah, yep, excellent. Yeah. I
Speaker 8: would think with your sound, I mean there's there's a
Speaker 8: lot of that would open up a lot of opportunities
Speaker 8: because it's very you know, it's accessible, you know, it's yeah. Oh.
Speaker 8: Mike Hill from Charlie shill Is in The Chatterman says
Speaker 8: we love original music on the Hill. Have you played
Speaker 8: Charlie Shill. We have not Yeah, we Jenny and I
Speaker 8: have not been there, but we hear about it constantly.
Speaker 8: Apparently it's a pretty amazing venue. So and and I
Speaker 8: think I think we're gonna get Mike on the show
Speaker 8: soon too, because someone else was suggesting we get we
Speaker 8: get Mike on from Charlie Hill. But are there are
Speaker 8: there other bands in the I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 8: Do you play with Vices Inc? On a Sometimes bands
Speaker 8: kind of team up, you know, it happens organically. You
Speaker 8: just end up playing a lot of shows. Do you
Speaker 8: play a lot of shows with Vice's Inc. Or a lot?
Speaker 9: We've played a couple and yeah, we try. We used
Speaker 9: to play with kind of the same bands all the time,
Speaker 9: and now I kind of made it a rule like
Speaker 9: the past two years, like I wanted to just play
Speaker 9: with a different band on every bill, like different like
Speaker 9: different lineups, just because you get to see a different show,
Speaker 9: make different connections, you know, just see what else is
Speaker 9: out there exactly, and you know, it's just it's fun
Speaker 9: for the audience to hear a different lineup too.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Oh, we have our favorites for sure, but.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Well let's all let's play another track.
Speaker 8: What should we play? I wanted to do wop?
Speaker 9: Yeah, Bryan is a great solo in that.
Speaker 8: All right, very good if you're just joining us. We
Speaker 8: have two members of Euphemia are here with us live
Speaker 8: in studio, and we're gonna play another studio track.
Speaker 9: What's the album called again, it's self titled.
Speaker 8: Oh, it's self titled. That's right, yes, just Euphemia, very good.
Speaker 8: And this is called do wop song.
Speaker 4: Oh, just something that full of song.
Speaker 12: That it's a word about getting a close.
Speaker 4: They bring it down, No day bring me down. No
Speaker 4: day will bring it down.
Speaker 1: No day, don't know never.
Speaker 4: Just something.
Speaker 12: Some then too, we're bun get in.
Speaker 8: That is called do wop song. The band is Euphemia,
Speaker 8: and we've got two members of Euphemia here with us
Speaker 8: in studio. We have Gina and Brian is here and
Speaker 8: uh yeah, she was right. That is a great solo.
Speaker 10: Brian, Oh, okay.
Speaker 9: Every time.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, it's you know, it's it's just very melodic
Speaker 8: and it's you know, you're not like shredding or anything.
Speaker 8: You're just playing a really good it's just really yeah,
Speaker 8: it's just beautiful. Is that I'm curious about your influences
Speaker 8: as a guitar player.
Speaker 10: I kind of grew up playing Green Day. I grew
Speaker 10: up in the nineties, so like, yeah, that was a
Speaker 10: big proponent for me. Yeah, saying like I want to
Speaker 10: do that. Yeah, but I also kind of used to
Speaker 10: jam on like Metallica songs and stuff like that when
Speaker 10: I was a kid.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, she seemed probably shred if you want to
Speaker 8: right a little bit. But on a song like that,
Speaker 8: I mean, what you did is just so perfect, you know,
Speaker 8: because a lot of people, you know, guitar players, they
Speaker 8: like to show off, but you're just doing it's a
Speaker 8: pretty straightforward melody. But it's so it's just so perfect.
Speaker 10: Well, thank you. Yeah, yeah, I try. I try and
Speaker 10: write for the song.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I try not to do too much, like I guess,
Speaker 10: like canodling.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 10: I don't. I don't like to show off too much,
Speaker 10: I guess.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, no, it works, It definitely works. I'm curious
Speaker 8: to gena about you like your influences as a singer.
Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, they're all over the place. When I
Speaker 9: was very little, I loved Mariah Carey. She's my girl.
Speaker 9: That got me started. Yeah, and then Joan jet I
Speaker 9: had to James John Lennon, my little Ackerman from The Descendants,
Speaker 9: Paul Westerberg. I really love that rasp they have, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 9: so yeah, I have like a very wide range of
Speaker 9: people I like.
Speaker 8: Right right, no doubt.
Speaker 12: So what are they?
Speaker 8: I mean, are you thinking about the are you thinking
Speaker 8: about the next album already? Or what's done of the future.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have.
Speaker 9: I'm almost done writing the album. There's maybe like two
Speaker 9: more songs I need to write for it, but we've
Speaker 9: been in the process of working out the songs this
Speaker 9: past year. We play a few of them live, a
Speaker 9: few new songs live. So yeah, we're hoping like midwinter
Speaker 9: to go in and record hopefully, Okay, we'll.
Speaker 8: Be done with it and then similar similar vibe or
Speaker 8: similar vibe.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I would say the songs are pretty much the same
Speaker 9: in terms of length subject. It's a little different because
Speaker 9: with the Euphemia songs, those were written over a period
Speaker 9: of my life, ranging from like twenty one to thirty
Speaker 9: four and now I'm forty one. So this next album
Speaker 9: is all from the past couple of years. Okay, you know,
Speaker 9: so it's it's a lot more. Uh, I don't want
Speaker 9: to say mature, because I'm not like a pretentious person.
Speaker 9: But you know, theme wise, there's been a lot more
Speaker 9: complexities of my life over the past few years than
Speaker 9: there have previously.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, you probably started a family and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 8: all that kind of thing. So yeah, now that makes sense. Yeah,
Speaker 8: you know, and it's important to evolve. I mean, if
Speaker 8: you don't, if you don't evolve, you get bored. Right,
Speaker 8: If you get bored, then you're not doing anything very
Speaker 8: much of value, if you're just you know, rehashing the
Speaker 8: same the same territory.
Speaker 9: Yeah, right, And I think on this one we're going
Speaker 9: to do a little bit more instrumentation to Like I've
Speaker 9: been talking with this incredibly talented woman who plays violin
Speaker 9: named me. She's awesome, and she asked if we'd want
Speaker 9: to collaborate. Ever, so I've been kind of writing in
Speaker 9: terms of thinking about that and having her in the studio,
Speaker 9: and I kind of want to bring my far Visa
Speaker 9: organ back and play on that.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, a.
Speaker 9: Couple of tracks, So yeah, tell what kind of organ
Speaker 9: is it. It's a far Feza organ.
Speaker 8: So what I've heard the term, but I don't know,
Speaker 8: like what what makes an organ a far visa organ.
Speaker 9: So it basically it's run by like a panel of flutes. Okay,
Speaker 9: a certain sound and the more flutes you put out
Speaker 9: is like a This kind of sounds like a swell.
Speaker 9: Think about those sixties garage organs, like in question Mark
Speaker 9: and the Mysterians, or like a great band from Boston,
Speaker 9: the Lyars, Like how they use that sound. It's like
Speaker 9: if it's from nineteen sixty nine. So it's like a
Speaker 9: very old school sounding.
Speaker 8: Is it like the kind they using churches?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 9: No, No, it's like a it's like a keyboard, but
Speaker 9: it has like legs that you put on and stand up.
Speaker 9: They're really heavy. They're like oha as much as I do.
Speaker 9: But yeah, and it's it just looks like a keyboard.
Speaker 9: But it's just like sounds like it has like a
Speaker 9: I don't know how to describe it, like a like
Speaker 9: a trill on it. Okay, like yeah, okay, yeah, okay,
Speaker 9: sixties garage down vibra.
Speaker 8: Interesting okay, Okay, Yeah, I'm curious. I'd heard the term
Speaker 8: far visa. Yeah, I've heard that before, but I wasn't
Speaker 8: sure what that was exactly. Yeah, to play the organ
Speaker 8: a little bit when I was a kid too, so
Speaker 8: I was curious about that. I didn't keep up with that.
Speaker 8: But no, very good. So you're gonna kind of introduce
Speaker 8: that more into the.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it'd be cool to put that on something or
Speaker 9: like some kind of rock and roll piano of some sort. Yeah,
Speaker 9: it's like, yeah, it's I can't sing and play at
Speaker 9: the same time and not as coordinated as my band bids.
Speaker 8: Well you think you can, but you probably, I'm sure
Speaker 8: you could learn.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so I could easily do that in the studio,
Speaker 9: though I don't have to do that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, but if you But then if you do that,
Speaker 8: will it be important to you to be able to
Speaker 8: replicate that live or or.
Speaker 9: Not necessarily it be a different experience.
Speaker 8: But yeah, yeah, which is cool, you know, because a
Speaker 8: lot of people they want to It's like, oh, anything
Speaker 8: we do in the studio, we have to be able
Speaker 8: to replicate live exactly. And my attitude about that has
Speaker 8: always been, why if if you can't replicate it live,
Speaker 8: so then an element is missing, then live you just
Speaker 8: have a more kind of a raw, stripped down sound.
Speaker 8: What's wrong with that? Sometimes that's sometimes that's better, you
Speaker 8: know what I mean. That's how I've always felt about it,
Speaker 8: but but a lot of people are. They're very particular
Speaker 8: about well, we have to be able to sound exactly
Speaker 8: like we did on the record.
Speaker 9: It's like they're two different experiences in my mind.
Speaker 8: Exactly, yeah, exactly. Well, let's let's play another Oh yeah,
Speaker 8: we have time, let's play another one. Of course we
Speaker 8: have time. They're so short, we'll probably have time to
Speaker 8: get a couple more. But I would like to play
Speaker 8: another track from the album. But yeah, I'll let you
Speaker 8: both pick. What what should we go with next?
Speaker 9: How about love Love?
Speaker 8: Okay?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Anything we should know about this one before we play
Speaker 8: it or not?
Speaker 9: Really, it's a I think it's like mutually our favorite song.
Speaker 10: It's one of the most fun ones I think.
Speaker 8: So yeah, yeah, yes, all right, cool, let's give this
Speaker 8: a spend. If you're just joining us. We have two
Speaker 8: members of Euphemia here with us in studio, and this
Speaker 8: is a track from their self titled album, and this
Speaker 8: is called love.
Speaker 6: Wow, So clum to get you there, I'll rap there.
Speaker 6: I'm just w with chef dun wrap.
Speaker 1: From this time.
Speaker 4: I'm oh, I'm.
Speaker 1: Promis hold it in my heart?
Speaker 4: Oh tell, And I'm calling the whole day had at
Speaker 4: my heart. Wow, to wane to get you be there.
Speaker 1: I knew about that. I knew a good stuff.
Speaker 5: Oh, wal try, I'm telling you you dull and you
Speaker 5: so says, how'll do a good stuff.
Speaker 4: I don't tell no, I'll be.
Speaker 1: John Dope and I'm gonnass the whole.
Speaker 4: Tair of my heart.
Speaker 12: I don't tell no, I'm be.
Speaker 4: John Dope and I probably the whole tair of my heart.
Speaker 4: I don't know, honey doing that? Promise to hold dead
Speaker 4: to my heart? Oh no, honey, don no hold dead
Speaker 4: in my heart?
Speaker 12: Will I promise to hold dead in my heart?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 8: That is fantastic that it's called love. The band is Euphemia.
Speaker 8: We have Gina and Bram from the band here with
Speaker 8: us in studio. And yeah, Gina, you were saying off
Speaker 8: air while that was playing, you kind of wanted it
Speaker 8: to have like you wanted the drums and the guitar
Speaker 8: to go together and go kind of give it a
Speaker 8: little bit of a Zeppelin vibe.
Speaker 9: Yeah, like that stomp you feel.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Yeah, I think that one's my favorite. Actually, that's
Speaker 8: that's that's really good. That's really good. Yeah, is here
Speaker 8: with us live? I learned how to say it and
Speaker 8: I'm stumbling on it now. But they are here with
Speaker 8: us live in studio. And have you made any videos
Speaker 8: for for any of these songs.
Speaker 9: Or we haven't purposely made any videos?
Speaker 4: We want to.
Speaker 9: One of our friends made a video of us from
Speaker 9: a show we did at a festival. Yeah, kind of
Speaker 9: put it together for us. He's like a professional videographer
Speaker 9: and kind of just surprised us with one. So there
Speaker 9: is one out there's a song rock show. Okay, but
Speaker 9: we haven't like intentionally made any yet. We want to. Yeah,
Speaker 9: it'll be working with him.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, excellent. Actually, have you have you done multiple
Speaker 8: festivals or what? What's uh?
Speaker 9: We've done three?
Speaker 8: You've done three? Yeah that's great. No, I say all
Speaker 8: the time. Festivals are the best opportunity because you not
Speaker 8: only does it get you in front of fans, potential
Speaker 8: new fans who might not be familiar with you, but
Speaker 8: the but also it gets you in front of industry people.
Speaker 8: You know, you meet people at the networking opportunities at
Speaker 8: a festival are unparalleled. Yeah yeah, so yeah, that's great. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 8: what what what festivals have you done?
Speaker 9: We did Gold Rocks, which was a festival that USM
Speaker 9: and Maine put on. Okay, summer, end of the summer,
Speaker 9: and then we did Wild PUNEs Festival this year and
Speaker 9: we did vices in Festival.
Speaker 8: Oh Vices Yeah, yeah, yea, oh fantastic, Yeah good good.
Speaker 8: Did you meet like Vices Fest? Did you meet a
Speaker 8: lot of bands there who who you were not already
Speaker 8: familiar with?
Speaker 9: Or yeah, I don't think we knew any of the bands, Okay,
Speaker 9: for maybe we knew Troll and we knew Vices, and
Speaker 9: we knew Plague Dad, but yeah, and a couple of
Speaker 9: our other friends on other days that played there. But
Speaker 9: other than that, we didn't know any of the other bands.
Speaker 8: So that must have been cool. Yeah, we had you know,
Speaker 8: Vices inc. Obviously they've been on a few times. But
Speaker 8: we had Jagger on. I did. There's a separate podcast
Speaker 8: version of the show that we do sometimes if like
Speaker 8: I did one with Jagger where it was just he
Speaker 8: and I on the podcast version because it was a
Speaker 8: situation where we didn't have any room to get him
Speaker 8: on on this version. We were booked up, but it
Speaker 8: was right before vices Fest, so we did the podcast
Speaker 8: just like almost like an emergency podcast, like a last
Speaker 8: minute think about vices Fest, and it was just all
Speaker 8: about vices Fest. And I told him, I said, it
Speaker 8: amazes me. I think I said this to him too
Speaker 8: the night Jenny and I saw them at Bad Burger
Speaker 8: recently a few weeks ago. It just to put on
Speaker 8: a festival like that, and and to be able to
Speaker 8: do that without getting, you know, just almost on the
Speaker 8: verge of a nervous breakdown, because that's a lot of uh,
Speaker 8: you know, I used to I don't really do it anymore.
Speaker 8: I used to promote live shows, you know, and even
Speaker 8: just doing a night somewhere with with you know, three
Speaker 8: or four bands can be challenging in some ways, you know.
Speaker 8: So to do Vices fast, I mean that's a huge
Speaker 8: undertaking when you look at the lineup. Yeah, of bands
Speaker 8: on that over three days. And man, I mean he
Speaker 8: handles it well obviously, because you know, he told me,
Speaker 8: because I said to him, I said, how do you
Speaker 8: do that without losing your mind?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 8: And yeah, you know, but apparently he's very organized and
Speaker 8: he knows what he's doing. So I commend him. But
Speaker 8: that's more than I would want to take on its undertaking.
Speaker 9: I wouldn't want to do it either I'm usually in
Speaker 9: charge of booking our shows yep, or being a part
Speaker 9: of it in some way, and that's always Yeah, for
Speaker 9: the most part, it's okay, but it can be a headache.
Speaker 9: So I can't imagine dealing with like thirty bands oh
Speaker 9: yeah for three days and you know, but they ran
Speaker 9: a very tight ship, yeah while we were there, and
Speaker 9: everything was organized and shared equipment, so that made it easier.
Speaker 8: So everything I've heard has been overwhelmingly positive. It sounds
Speaker 8: like like nothing, nothing major went wrong, you know, and
Speaker 8: just everything went pretty smooth from what I hear and
Speaker 8: from what he's told me. And that's so that's great.
Speaker 8: I'm just kind of in awe of that. And I
Speaker 8: know he's doing another one next year, so it just
Speaker 8: keeps going.
Speaker 9: Tops to him. Yeah, yeah, cool dude.
Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, Yeah, And we love Vices inc. You
Speaker 8: kind of you remind me your vocals. You remind me
Speaker 8: a little bit of Eleanor Oh really, I think so, yeah,
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, like you're distinguishable, but but kind of,
Speaker 8: I don't know, kind of the vibe on some of
Speaker 8: these songs, the way you sing it kind of reminds
Speaker 8: me of her a little bit.
Speaker 9: Oh, wow, thank you. I mean she's got a great voice,
Speaker 9: so I'll take that.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, oh yeah, no, you both do. Absolutely. What
Speaker 8: should people know? We have time, we'll sneak in one
Speaker 8: more track at the end, but what should people know
Speaker 8: about where to find you online? Like, where's the best
Speaker 8: place to go to keep up with everything that Euphemia
Speaker 8: is doing.
Speaker 9: We have an Instagram okay at Euphemia Underscore band okay,
Speaker 9: and then other than that, we're on all the streaming
Speaker 9: services audibly except for our one video, yeah yeah on YouTube.
Speaker 9: But yeah, we're on all the streaming services Apple, Spotify.
Speaker 8: Yeah, excellent, excellent. Yeah, well, we're going to uh in
Speaker 8: a moment, we're going to play one more track. I'll
Speaker 8: give you a moment though to think about, think about
Speaker 8: what you want to play to end the show, because
Speaker 8: we got to talk about just quickly too, Jenny, did
Speaker 8: you want to mention before we run out of time?
Speaker 8: John Oliver?
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, check out John Oliver.
Speaker 8: This weekend.
Speaker 11: You might see somebody you know that's right on Sunday night.
Speaker 11: It will be on their main channel, but it will
Speaker 11: be loaded up on a YouTube.
Speaker 8: On Monday, okay, Yeah, they put it on YouTube the
Speaker 8: next day. Yeah, so keep it out for that and
Speaker 8: you want to plug your website maybe, I guess so only.
Speaker 11: Kidding, No, I hope you guys do check out John Oliver.
Speaker 11: It's going to be fun to be on the show,
Speaker 11: and then you can check me out and all the
Speaker 11: good trouble I get up to at Jencoffee dot com.
Speaker 8: J E N N C O F f U I
Speaker 8: dot com. Yes, yes, And of course if you want
Speaker 8: to know more about me and everything I'm up to,
Speaker 8: you can go to my website Matt dot com. And
Speaker 8: if you missed any part of today's show, it'll be
Speaker 8: up in just a little bit at Matt Connorton dot com.
Speaker 8: And of course w MNH Radio dot org and uh
Speaker 8: what would uh oh? And I do want to thank
Speaker 8: everybody who joined us too, of course Rivia in the
Speaker 8: first hour, and in the second hour we had Kevin
Speaker 8: Kerstad also known as k t k so and wonderful
Speaker 8: to finish out the show with the both of you, Uh,
Speaker 8: Gina and Brian from Euphemia. So grateful that you were
Speaker 8: able to and it's it was a little bit of
Speaker 8: a hall so I appreciate you making the drive. It's
Speaker 8: our pleasure, absolutely no, it's wonderful to have you here.
Speaker 8: And uh what should we uh what should we play
Speaker 8: to close out?
Speaker 9: Let's play where my rock and Roll.
Speaker 8: Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's all encompassing about kind of what we're about.
Speaker 8: So okay, all right, very good. So we will close
Speaker 8: out with this. This is called where my rock and
Speaker 8: Roll and the band is. Euphemia Rockey rolls.
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Speaker 13: my shelf? Bad is where rock bound those head it
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Speaker 1: No, I'll just sw up hot in time my right
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Speaker 1: The way roun.
Speaker 4: Every day evers
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