{"id":3869,"date":"2019-03-29T12:10:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T11:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2022-10-18T20:57:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T18:57:34","slug":"interview-blaine-l-reininger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/en\/interview-blaine-l-reininger\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Blaine L. Reininger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><u>Photo credit: Philippe Cornet<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>One morning, after going out, drinking with a friend and listening to <i>Half Mute<\/i> I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the music of the record. I had listened to it a few times before, but until then I did not dig it. Since that day, the feeling has grown stronger and Tuxedomoon has become one of my favorite bands. That\u2019s why, it\u00b4s been a real pleasure to interview Blaine L. Reininger, voice and violin of the group and author also of a long discography under his name, full of interesting albums. He will play a set of Tuxedomoon\u2019s classics, every day at the W-Festival, some of this concert will be at the VIP Stage and the rest at the Olivier Daout Stage.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014You met Steven Brown in 1976\/77 in art school in the electronic music class, right? And after, you made some shows together, how were these first concerts? How did you manage to bring to stage your ideas of multimedia performance back in the day?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Steven<\/b> and I met in the electronic music lab of San Francisco City College. In the early days, we used improvised rear projection screens with slide projectors and Super 8 film projectors for our multimedia shows. We were joined later by performance artist Bruce Geduldig who took over the multimedia and performance art part of <b>Tuxedomoon<\/b> until his death in 2015.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4662 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/R-507771-1265990932.jpeg-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/R-507771-1265990932.jpeg-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/R-507771-1265990932.jpeg-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/R-507771-1265990932.jpeg-585x585.jpg 585w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/R-507771-1265990932.jpeg.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u2014The band&#8217;s first release was <em>Joeboy\u2026(Joeboy the electric ghost)\/Pinheads on the move<\/em>, right? How was this single <\/b><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">recorded?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> <\/b><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\">We were assisted at the beginning by video artist and electronic wizard, <strong>Tom Tadlock<\/strong>. We recorded with his gear, on a 4-Track Teac reel to reel machine, using found object percussion and a Polymoog polyphonic synthesizer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014What were your influences, the music you were listening at the moment?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Like everyone, we were swept up by <b>Bowie<\/b>\u2019s Berlin period albums,<b> Eno<\/b>\u2019s work and the excitement of the New York and London punk and new wave scenes. <b>Ultravox<\/b> was an early influence and we later worked together with their personnel in England.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>\u2014During these days you were using the equipment of the theater group Angels of Light<\/b> <b>and had a close relation with them, right?<\/b><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Steven<\/strong> was a full-fledged member or the troupe before I met him. We worked in their rehearsal space and recorded on their equipment, yes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014What\u2019s the story about &#8220;No Tears&#8221; being recorded thanks to a guy that had a car accident?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Paul Zahl maintains that someone key in the recording studio had a car accident so that he had to replace him in the mixing. This is apocryphal, though.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014Was Nervous Guy one of the first songs you wrote on your own for the band? How were the other\u00a0\u201cgroup\u201d songs made?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\">I was involved in the composition of all the songs. The first song I wrote for <b>Tuxedomoon <\/b>was \u201cPinheads on the Move\u201d we always composed together in our rehearsal jam sessions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014You recorded <em>Half Mute<\/em> with Peter Principle, which was funded by The Residents. We<\/b> <b>are also big fans of them, did they have any influence on the album or helped the band in<\/b> <b>any way in the creation?<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4667 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/R-3676548-1508726724-9525.jpeg-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/R-3676548-1508726724-9525.jpeg-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/R-3676548-1508726724-9525.jpeg-585x574.jpg 585w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/R-3676548-1508726724-9525.jpeg.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\">In 1979, we signed to <b>The Residents<\/b>\u2019 Label, \u201cRalph Records.\u201d Though our first project for them <em>Scream With a View<\/em> was recorded in their studio, Half Mute was recorded with a different engineer at a studio recommended by them called \u201cAudios Amigos.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014I can hear a bit of tango in your music, for example in the first song of <em>Desire,<\/em> what do<\/b> <b>you think?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\">I guess that \u201cJinx\u201d is kind of tango. It\u2019s hard to say. We always just followed our ideas to their logical conclusion.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014Why did you choose to move to Europe?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\">I don\u2019t think we ever really intended to stay in Europe as long as we did, in my case the rest of my life. We just went for the next project, the next situation. After we did our European tour and recorded Desire, the next situation was a residency at an artists\u2019 commune in Rotterdam. The next thing we knew, we were in Brussels. We just went from gig to gig.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4671 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/d8cdd9f0-5e4c-0130-31a2-005056942d16-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/d8cdd9f0-5e4c-0130-31a2-005056942d16-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/d8cdd9f0-5e4c-0130-31a2-005056942d16-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/d8cdd9f0-5e4c-0130-31a2-005056942d16-585x585.jpg 585w, https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/d8cdd9f0-5e4c-0130-31a2-005056942d16.jpg 699w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u2014<em>Desire<\/em> was recorded in Europe. Did you find any difference between recording in the<\/b> <b style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">States and in the Old continent?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s2\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Europe was more ready for the kind of thing we were doing, better set up for electronic music. The Krautrock bands had already cleared the way for our sort. <i>Desire<\/i> was recorded in England, I\u2019m not sure how European England was or is.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014What could you tell us about making music for a ballet of Maurice B\u00e9jart? What can<\/b> <b style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">you tell us about <em>Divine<\/em>?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014Maurice Bejart had already used some of our music, and that of the Residents in a ballet. When <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Steven<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> went down to Brussels in the summer of 1981, looking for a situation for us, Bejart expressed an interest in doing a whole ballet with us. We were installed in a studio in Brussels, with the backing of Crepuscule. We were also able to use early sampling and looping thanks to the facilities of Dan Lacksman of <\/span><b style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Telex<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014You worked with two cult label Les Disques Du Cr\u00e9puscule and Crammed Disc. How<\/b> <b style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">was working with them in the eighties?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s2\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Those two labels were the twin pillars of the Brussels alternative scene of the early 80s, together with Play it Again Sam, which became the biggest distributor in Europe. We used to rehearse upstairs in Play it Again Sam\u2019s warehouse. Les Disques du Cr\u00e9puscule provided us with studio time, places to live, opportunities.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014Before you left the band, Tuxedomoon had a streak of really good releases, <em>Time to Lose<\/em>, <em>Suite en Sous Sol<\/em> y <em>Short Stories: The cage<\/em>, later released together in an album in 1986. Do you think it was the most creative moment of the band?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3890 alignright\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #333333; float: right; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: 300px; letter-spacing: normal; max-width: 603.62px; orphans: 2; outline: #72777c solid 1px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 8px 0px 8px 16px;\" src=\"http:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tuxedomoon4-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><span class=\"s2\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Tuxedomoon<\/strong> was always busy, always creative. This period was certainly productive, thanks to our nearly endless studio time, provided by Michel Duval at Les Disques du Cr\u00e9puscule.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014<em>Broken Fingers<\/em> was your first record released in 1982, the name of the album came from an accident, right? A couple of songs had been played before by your side project The Peccadilloes. What can you tell us of this project?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\">I started writing and recording the songs on <em>Broken Fingers<\/em> while <strong>Tuxedomoon<\/strong> was still resident in Rotterdam in 1981, before the accident that resulted in four fingers on my right hand being broken.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The Peccadilloes were a side band that I formed to play at San Francisco\u2019s Mabuhay Gardens on a semi-incognito basis. <strong>The Peccadilloes<\/strong> were formed as a reaction to the seriousness that had overtaken<strong> Tuxedomoon<\/strong> at the time. It was to be fun. We played songs like the disco version of the Marlboro theme and &#8220;Beef Jerky&#8221; by <strong>John Lennon<\/strong>. The band was composed of me, <strong>Peter Principle<\/strong> on bass, Michael Belfer of<strong> Sleepers<\/strong> on guitar and our manager at the time, Adrian Craig operating the rhythm machine. We had foam cacti onstage and we wore cowboy hats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014You worked on two Durutti Column\u2019s albums, we are also fans of their music. What can you tell us of this experience?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\">I had a good time recording in Manchester at the height of the Factory Records scene. We recorded at 10 cc\u2019s famous studio, Strawberry Studios. I was also privileged to meet and hang out with factory records founder, Tony Wilson.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3896 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tuxedomoon5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>\u2014<em>Night Air<\/em> was published 1984 after you left Tuxedomoon, but some of the members of the band played there, so you always had a good relation with them I guess. Was it easier to write songs for your own project and not for the band?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\">At one point, I had decided I wanted to write and produce music that was more like pop or rock than the other members of <strong>Tuxedomoon<\/strong> wanted to do. I had at least one member of <strong>Tuxedomoon<\/strong> on all of my solo albums. We never really stopped working together. I now look upon the years of my solo career as more of a leave of absence from <strong>Tuxedomoon<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014You were back with Tuxedomoon 4 years later and finally released Ghost Sonata, one of the band\u2019s most ambitious projects. You experienced a lot of problems with the performance of GS, right?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014The night of the first performance of <em>Ghost Sonata<\/em>, someone threw a jar of mayonnaise onto the stage. People had come to see a band perform and didn\u2019t know what to make of what we presented. Actually, the release of the <em>Ghost Sonata<\/em> music didn\u2019t come until much later. Our friend James Nice of Les Temps Modernes records said that he saw the <em>Ghost Sonata<\/em> as the same kind of \u201clost project\u201d as the <strong>Beach Boys\u2019<\/strong> <em>Smile<\/em> and he encouraged and made possible the finishing of the <em>Ghost Sonata<\/em> album in 1991.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>\u2014You said that you wanted to be more famous and make music less avant-garde, so your last albums released in the 80s, <em>Byzantium<\/em> and <em>Book of Secrets<\/em>, followed this direction. How do you see them now?<\/b><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\">I love all of my music. I listen to my old records often and continue to perform some of those songs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014From <em>Croatian Variations<\/em>, made with Steven Brown, you go back to more classical music and you will continue in this direction in other releases like <em>Radio Moscow.<\/em> Do you enjoy more this kind of music?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The \u201cclassical\u201d mode of operation in our work is just another path we like to follow. A lot of times, the music dictates the direction.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014I was surprised when I heard a remix of No Tears by DJ Hell. He also toured with you,<\/b> <b>how did this connection was born?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u2014<b>Steven<\/b> met <b>DJ Hell<\/b> when he was involved in organizing a Mexico City version of Berlin\u2019s \u201cLove Parade.\u201d <b>DJ Hell<\/b> told Steven that he often used and sampled our records for his mixes and so a further collaboration was born. We had a very enjoyable tour together in 2000 and he came over to Cagli, Italy to contribute some beats to our album <i>Cabin in the Sky<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014Tuxedomoon recorded two peculiar soundtracks, one for a non-existent movie, <em>Bardo<\/em><\/b> <b><em>Hotel Soundtrack<\/em> and the other for an erotic movie, <em>Pink Narcissus<\/em>. What can you tell us<\/b> <b>of both experiences? Where does a name like &#8220;Toreador del Amor&#8221; comes from?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The Bardo Hotel was a documentary film we began when we were in residence in Amsterdam\u2019s Illuseum in 2005 and included music we had begun while working in San Francisco earlier that year. The film was never finished. <em>Pink Narcissus<\/em> was a soundtrack commissioned in 2011 by the annual L\u2019Etrange film festival in Paris where they invite different groups to play along with a screening of a cult film. &#8220;Toreador del Amor&#8221; describes on scene in the film.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3900 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tuxedomoon7.jpg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/>\u2014In <em>Vapour Trails<\/em> there is this song that I really like, &#8220;Muchos Colores&#8221;, with the\u00a0Subcomandate Marcos\u2019 poem. Where did the band get the idea for this? And what about the soundtrack<\/b> <b>for<em> Blue Velvet Revisited<\/em>? You made the music for this documentary before it was made, right?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Steven Brown<\/b> wrote the lyrics for &#8220;Muchos Colores&#8221;. He is an activist in Mexican and Latin American politics. <em>The Blue Velvet Revisited<\/em> soundtrack was proposed to us by Erik Stein and his group <strong>Cult With No Name<\/strong>. They had been speaking with the director of the film, Peter Braatz. Braatz had been on the set of Blue Velvet, filming in Super 8 and had sat on the footage for 30 years. When he finally was able to edit and release his footage with the blessing of David Lynch, he approached Erik Stein and asked him if he could include <b>Tuxedomoon<\/b>. <b>John Foxx<\/b> also contributed to the score.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014How is you acting career going?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\">My acting career continues, to my amazement. I was in 3 films recently and a stage production of \u201cThe Master and Margarita.\u201d I played the devil. I am also now performing in an avant-garde opera called \u201cThe Cave\u201d after Plato.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014Working on your first movie was kind of a step for you to start recording your first<\/b> <b>soundtrack, Manic Man, right?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Actually, my first film score was for a film by the same director called &#8220;Radio Moscow\u201d my second with that director, Nicholas Triandafyllidis. \u201cThe Overcoat\u201d from which the <em>Manic Man<\/em> music comes was a telefilm by him, my third.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014Can you advance anything of your concert at W-Festival? 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