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Interview with Atlanta band Cinetrope at Strange Days 2010 + Videos
I’ve seen Cinetrope a few times now and each time is better than the last. We had the pleasure of asking them a few questions at the Strange Days Music and Arts Festival 2010….
Cinetrope, as said in the interview, play what they called dream pop; I would agree with their affirmation. Sharron has a really beautiful voice that truly does add a real dream effect to the sounds. The band plays iced down dance pop often with what I would call tropical elements sprinkled throughout. A lot of it is pretty chill but I could definitely go to more of their shows and suggest you make it out. They are a great live band and when they’re not being chill they’re laying down grooves that can get a crowd moving. Here is a video from Strange Days and a few questions we didn’t get on camera….
B: What are some of your goals as a band?
The dream we be to just make a living out of it. We don’t want to be rock stars but the idea of being a go to band for soundtracks would be wonderful. A tour of Europe would be ideal as we think we would have a pretty good reception to our sound over there.
B: Describe a Cinetrope show? What experience above all others do you hope fans take away from the show?
A Cinetrope show is usually pretty silly as none of us take ourselves too seriously. We encourage the crowd to dance and have fun and to hopefully sing along if they know any of the words. We hope to begin incorporating the visuals on screen as we did for the release show in the future.
If our fans take anything home with them we hope it would be them humming one of our songs. We hope they will have a movie play out in their heads when they listen to us. We would like it to stick to them like gum and they will want to listen to it again and again.
B: Tell us about your writing process.
A typical Cinetrope writing session consists anything ranging from a guitar riff that gets developed with the rest of the band or just a small jam session where a melody gets developed on top of it. The mood of the music typically determines where the lyrics will take us.
B: What local bands would you recommend to your fans and fans of local music?
If you are into progressive rock influenced by King Crimson you would like the new Nerd Parade. Sorry No Ferrari are a very cool instrumental band. Can Can is a great high energy live show and of course our friends Feeding Fingers are wonderfully brooding.
B: How do you advertise your shows?
Mostly online through our many sites or Facebook invitations, we have even used our fan sign up and sent them an Evite about our shows. We are going to try beatlanta for the next show. 😉
B: Any closing statements or thoughts?
We’d just like to say we hope to catch you at a show this summer and that you might even like us enough to take home a cd or even think to download us. We plan on unveiling many new songs this summer and will strive to make you love us or at least like us a little bit.
