1. Tell me about the beginnings of VILKDUJA?

VILKDUJA: Hallo! Long time ago it was some kind of a "place" for various personal experiments. On this foundation rised some other projects (I will tell about it later). Some time ago (about year 2000) I made self-releases mc/CDr with a hand made cover - „Prieblanda. Ir Žemes arbata" ("Dusk and the Tea of Earth"). After that there was a period of silent adolescence without any ambitions. But somehow it come out that the cd "Vakar Duona" was published, and this is for Now.


2. You are creating very original and interesting music. I think about the one like a mixture of various musical genres: from psychodelic sounds, new wave to post industrial. Where are the roots of your sounds?

V.: I couldn't precisely tell about it - really I haven’t wondered about it. Certainly, there are all these songs in me of other bands which I was under the influence. The genres you had listed are familiar with Vilkduja, like there are many other things. It happened unconsciously, but it has an interact. Postindustrial loop smells of rust, trip hop horizons and cosiness of intoxicationg decadence:)


3. I think that a big virtue/advantage of Vilkduja's creation is, that you are using Lithuanian language. Could you tell me what are your lyrics about and do you treat the ones the same like music?

V.: Hmm... and how to explain, what are my lyrics about. Maybe that cats sing because of fish or, gifts and demons fly in the world. How to make it clear? I think that the word/verbal communication isn't precise. Therefore I try to help with the tools I have (words) to open more than the words really mean. Maybe it sounds too ambitious, but it is some kind of an alchemy. The words and the music are the same equality.


4. Your debut album is "covered" by various beautiful drawnings. This cover is ideal with Vilkduja's music. Who made it?

V.: I made it, I sometimes draw, but I spend more time making music:) I had a lot of drawnings, but that the digipack looks so great, responds Ugh. He made a design. Big "Thanks" to him for that. Visualisation of Something.



5. When I listen to songs from "Vakar Duona" I have a feeling that from one side these songs are very melancholic and from the other they are very narcotic, hallucinogennic. Certainly these aren’t opposit. Do you want to "tell" something by your music. Do you want to it to evoke some kind of states?

V.: For me the music is some kind of an altered state, which anybody can paint on his own. I want to "see" music as a magic. So, once there was a magic, within. In these sounds, this real atavism lives. You feel it especially when the music was made honestly. This is the moment when the present stops and it becomes itself.


6. "Vakar Duona" ("Yesterday's bread") is the title of your debut album. This title intrigues me. Very much. Why did you name it like that?

V.: "Vakar Duona" – the situation is identical to the situation, which I said in the second question. It could be good to translate it like a "Yesterday's Bread". What assosciations evoke the bread? For me very... close. And yesterday?


7. Tell me about your gigs. I saw the fragment on web and they were very impressive.

V.: Thank you for your nice words. It is an advantage that someone likes Vilkduja's live. The rule of Vilkduja's gigs is the same - honesty... if we can be like that. Also the people I play live with - it happens that you can play with some and with others not... It just happens, that’s all. Because the roots of such things exist beyond the rationalization.






8. VILKDUJA played on the Lithuanian Festival - Kunigunda this year. Could you say some more about this festival. How was your concert ? Which interesting bands did you see?

V.: I can say that I felt great when I was playing! We felt some kind of drive, this poetic "intoxication" we reminded before. - I know this festival - Kunigunda from the first edition. Of course, only subjectively: this year the best was Naevus. Among the less known bands I can tell about Vihr from Lituania/Russia. They play something like a trans ritual noise. It was nice to see something I was interested in, in the past - Tiamat (but I have some warnings, but I dont want to talk about them). There were also some projects with a potential. Simply, I like the atmosphere of this festival. One minus after that, is hard to come back to "normal" life/reality.


9. You have also another project - OORCHACH. This is something different from VILKDUJA – you create different soundlandscapes in it. Tell me more about it.

V.: Some time ago (long time ago) OORCHACH and VILKDUJA were the same, but after some time two "elements" started to lead their own lives. In this situation I had to concentrate on them separately. If we called VILKDUJA – a rite of poetic, OORCHACH is a ritual of horizons, here lurk atavisms, archaic dreams and strange feelings. OORCHACH's sounds are more repetitive, more gloomy - tytan heaven and endless ritaul. The next cd is out available. Other projects - a group named LAUXNA LAUKSNA where I play with another guy. We can see what will happen with it for some time. today, the band's plans are very dim.



10. Finishing with VILKDUJA. What's new with the Lithuanian "underground"

V.: Various things:) I know some interesing projects (look at my myspce's profile). They are interesting because they aren't standard, what is pervasive.on the other hand, not everyone can be unique. It's also nice to "see" the people who are playing for a long time, and they haven’t stopped playing good music. I enjoy it. The negative aspects are always - there is no escape from them.


11. I know that some years ago you created a zine. Could you tell me something more about that?

V.: Oh, it was really long time ago... there were two issues of them:) This zine was made for ritual, strange music, ambient and someting similar other creations.


12. In Polish post industrial "scene" I can notice much interest in the extreme nationalism. It's sad for me. Can you also notice it in Lithania?

V.: In Lithuania this "scene" is so small. Therefore I can not tell more about tendencies, but about the ideas of a concrete person, I know for a long time. Each of them has different ideas to this question, but it doesn’t spoil our communication.


13. I couldn't have asked you about that. How did you learn Polish so well?

V.: Ha... in Vilnus there was a small shop where I bought Polish comics and magazines - "Fenix" and "Nowa Fantastyka". I tried to read them and after some time I "saw" that I can read in Polish. I didn’t lose those skills. Some time ago I was studying in Poznan for a few months - it was good for me. So this is the story... Is it good? But I can better write and understand than I talk.


14. What are your plans for the future?

V.: Play / make music




15. Do you want to say something at the end of this interview?

V.: Maybe... Night is for free – that’s why we are full of it. We have a day in a trophy. Thank you for your interest. I wish you beautiful nights and the mysteries smelled with bread.



Michał Majcher


info:

www.myspace.com/vilkduja
www.myspace.com/oorchach



foto:

PO_Gran – by beniTTo
NIKASVILKDUJA foto – by Nikas D.