Interview: Los Angeles Based Musician/Filmmaker KS Talks About His New Album "The Dancing Cavaliers"
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“Every album has a concept or a theme in my case. This time I just wanted to put out an album of songs, period. No concept, just songs.”
Congratulations on the completion and release of your new album "The Dancing Cavaliers"; what inspired the title and how long did it take to complete?
The title is kind of an inside film joke. In the movie "Singing in the Rain", the main characters are making a movie that is a complete disaster, everything is going wrong and fast, their movie is called "The Fighting Cavaliers", at the very end, out of desperation they decide to change the movie, which is a serious drama, into a musical by just adding a few dance numbers, which is funny, and they call it "The Dancing Cavaliers”. I just thought it would be funny to call my album that.
The inspiration for the record was really just doing something to keep myself busy, to keep creating during a really tough year for a lot of us in the business, plus it had been two years since the previous album so....I had to create:)
Of all the 14 songs on the album, why did you decide to film a music video for "Boludo"?
A friend heard the album and really liked that track, to be honest I was going to use another one (the track "Danse"), but since he's a musician and because I trust his instincts I went for "Boludo".
Were there any songs that you decided not to include on the album? If so, how come they did not make the cut?
Yeah, like I said before, I have around 20 tracks that didn't make it, I just got impatient and didn't work on those, I had to release this album first. Plus those tracks were more guitar oriented, they didn't fit the style of this one. But next album...yeah, hoping to have the new music out mid 2023. To me it is not about money, as there isn't much money in the record business, it is not what it used to be.
To me it is about having fun creating something and putting it out there. I already had my fun making it, I'm fine, if someone else likes it and gets pleasure out of it, then that is all gravy, a plus, to me.
Tell us about your creative process for this new album overall, and how would you say it differs musically from your last project?
Every album has a concept or a theme in my case. This time I just wanted to put out an album of songs, period. No concept, just songs. I really can't sing so I used a computerized voice generator to sing my words and color the songs here and there. Because those voice generators are not perfect and sometimes you can't really understand what he or she are saying, lol, I decided to be bad/naughty, and add a few "provocative" curse words here and there to see if anybody would catch them. Cos, this is my kind of humor.
With the year coming to a close, what are some of your biggest goals as a creative in 2023?
Professionally, I am set to make a couple of films early in the year, I also want this album to reach a wider audience, and I have about 20 songs left over from this current album that didn't make the cut, they were not finished, so I would like to work on them, and release another album midway 2023.
This one will definitely be different, more acoustic, lots of guitars, I think I will get off the electronics for that one.
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