Stylish Nonsense - Interview

I asked my favorite band, Stylish Nonsense (members: June & Pok, their soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/stylishnonsense) after their concert they gave in Berlin. Pok antworted me.

photo@Stylish Nonsense

Lajhi: Your music is at once elemental and futuristic. How are your tracks born?

Stylish Nonsense: they were borned at the moment while we were doing live performance in concert, big or small show...

Lajhi: How do you record them and reproduce them at concerts?

Stylish Nonsense: we recorded direct to our ears and reproduce in next few second, and re reproduce on next show. we practise like this

Lajhi: I felt it was partially a jam, like you took the original theme and set it free.

Stylish Nonsense: we have old tracks like our original them and composition when we were sit in front of computer or spend time with instruments, arranged-composed them together that was we did in our first era (1994-2007) we play some of those tracks in our present live sometime and set them free

Lajhi: Does this music come from your hearts? (please confirm!)

Stylish Nonsense: yes, direct from heart of loving music

Lajhi: You live in Thailand. How are your lives there? Can I hear you play somewhere when I'm there? in Bangkok?

Stylish Nonsense: we were borned Thailand and study and grow up like other kid in Bangkok. We have some music talent until we met each other in university (1994) and started writing song together then we know music is what we’re love and always excite. at first start not so many chance to play at all. but these day we play few times per month for friends event, in different venue in bangkok, need to check by month or week because bangkok events always last minute planing. our favourite place to play in bangkok is 'The Overstay’ because it so freedom.

Lajhi: Do you have favorite musicians? Who inspires you? (not only musicians)

Stylish Nonsense: if musician, June like Herby Hancock, Pok like George Harrison, if not only musical John Lennon also inspired to pok

Lajhi: To me your band seems like the true meaning of "band". I witnessed strong mutual trust, respect and attention when you played. How did you find each other? What motivates you?

Stylish Nonsense: we were study at engineering faculty, there’s no other friends who interested in and addicted in music, there’s some of music talent friends but not same style, then we have no choice to formed band together. we don’t want to be 2 members band from first start but it had to be...

we’re in the band together from student time, to office work routine time, to married and have children time, to hard time, poor or little poor or health situation, then we have to stop spend time for making music together and stop talking each other that was wasting more time to create music and deal with life. but we still keep only performing live without talking each other seriously, from 2008 to now, we met only at show without talking, all the booking was only email or text message that pok sent to june with no reply at all that very risk to miss appointment that only happen few times for the whole happen. i think we’re so trust in music, we need no any word for each other it’s 8 years already i can’t believe too but it happen for real. This made me never disappoint in music we play. our relationship is stylish nonsense music that enough. and stylish nonsense way help us deal with life :)

we love and enjoy to play with other great musician too if they like, because we play together so long then we can go further easier than any combination we tried.

Lajhi: The West German band "CAN" played psychedelic rock music in the 70's. Your singing reminded me of the same elemental powers I feel when I hear CAN. Here is one song from them. What do you think? CAN: Vitamin C

Stylish Nonsense: I love CAN i knew their songs for few years, my singing just influenced by The Charlatans and Nirvana that i was listen to their songs when i was student, it can’t help that i still think about try to write song and melody that i was like when teenage time.

Lajhi: I mentioned this to you when I came up to you after the concert. This did not bother you, on the contrary, you were interested. This association can be amusing sometimes... but some people hate it. Not you, so I will give another comparison

Stylish Nonsense: comparison is the way to communicate thing to thing, i understand, we all maybe have same experience but different environment different time, i have no negative or positive when comparison :)

Lajhi: One of my flatmates records music in his room. It is very interesting and original and experimental. Your music also reminded me of this kind of freedom. There is no sense of competition. How do you do this? In Europe the pressure is really strong: career, social expectations, you have to show others and yourself that you are cool and successful. Otherwise people will crush you. Does this exist where you live? If yes, how can you turn off the pressure? How do you manage to slow down to the speed of sound?

Stylish Nonsense: i don’t think music is problem or competition but people. i don’t expect in music, music make me don’t expect to. that why we stop too much discuss, when we hear the sound when pok play and june play. it tell us everything we want to know. i think your friend found this too.

Lajhi: I went home after your concert filled with life. Your music filled me with loads of positive energy. Is there something you'd like to express to people in another form-- in words?

Stylish Nonsense: we've ever say the word that 'music can cure every sickness' :)

Lajhi: Your music was released by panda records, this is an own release if I am not mistaken. Do you work with other musicians' recordings, releases, distribution? Do you support other musicians and if yes, who are they?

Stylish Nonsense: panda records is bangkok based music label that pok run for support other thai indie bands, stylish nonsense was produced or remixed some tracks for many thai major and indie acts in past. the recently produced by pok is ‘Hariguem Zaboy’ ‘Monomania' 'Abstraction XL’ ‘Summer Dress’

Lajhi: Thank You for your antworts!