A chat with tiago from The Outs Of Outland!

"Yesterday I talked with Tiago (The singer from the outs of outland!) about the Maybe Pleasing EP ...

These are some of the things he said to me:

Tiago: "Well... we recorded the EP in a studio called Rock Together in São Paulo"


Adrián: what was crossing your mind when you get to sao paulo to record?

T: "Well..it was amazing to know we were going to finally record something with very good quality.We had one week to record so we needed do it all kinda fast.
First day was drums, second day: bass, third day: the rest of the bass and acoustic guitar, fourth: electric guitar, fifth : voice, tambourine and harmonica.
In fact less than a whole week. (lol)

It was monday to friday. So ye...it was amazing perhaps I was worried"

A: Like i told you it would be, lol...

T: "Yees. But it was a good feeling while recording...the problem was when we recorded the bass...we didn't have time to record the bass in one day so we had to record the other day
so I got worried. But it all went well "

A: But the songs we're done before the sessions or during them? I'm guessing dennis had the music already...

T: "Oh yes..we already made those songs before going to São Paulo
We had around 15 songs to show people and choose 4.
Long Sweet Lullaby is the newest of the EP. It was made in december/january, Melodies by Dennis and lyrics by me and Gabriel(bass player).
Sing right now is kinda old... Little Man was made some months after sing right now. Forgot when we made Bright new Rainy day (lol). Sing Right now melody was made by me and Dennis, Lyrics by me. Bright New Rainy day melody was made by Dennis and lyrics by me, Dennis and Gabriel. Little Man melody was made by me and dennis too, lyrics by me."

A: And why did you guys choose those songs?

T: " lol..it was a hard decision...
We were with the idea of making something related to Oasis. Cause we have a big relation with the Oasis public. So Long sweet Lullaby came in, apart from being a good song in my opinion.
Little Man and Sing Right Now were chosen because they are different songs, Little Man for having a blues style, and Sing right now for having a mix of blues and funk which makes the song very charachteristic."

A: Very eclectic...

T: "lol...we don't care so much about the lyrics, so I don't think they are top quality but I can say they fit the songs. Oh yee ... Bright New Rainy day was chosen because every record needs a calm song, so the EP wouldn't get boring. You can listen to it and not get tired easily."

A: Yeh i know that by my own hand ...

T: "lol! yes..."

A: Or in this case ... ear (lol)

T: "lol, yee, some people from my family asked 'are there 3 songs in there?'
lol, soo... it's like there are less than what they heard.
The idea of the EP is making people not tired of it."

A: Is there any plans to record other songs soon?

T: "Hmmm..we want..lol...but we have to know how...we'll try to record some songs in a friend's house... But we don't know if it will be in good quality.
Now that we started recording in a good quality studio we need to do things well from now.
We're trying to get public enough to get some shows... so we can probably record in a good studio."

A: I know it's hard sometimes to get somewhere to play
because they're all like 'you better play like this or do this or that'
and it's annoying most times, and frustrating...

T: " lol... ye.. .there's always the bad comments... but I guess there are more good comments than bad comments. It's always better playing in small places when not famous..
oh...plus we don't have good instruments to play in live.
(lol)"

A: ...A friend have just bought a Gibson Les Paul and he doesn't use it at all.
And my sister's boyfriend has a telecaster, and he doesn't use it either
oh the irony!
haha...

T: "...lool , Whyyyy?? tell him to give us! we're needing it! "

A: lol... I need them too, it makes me freak out that this kind of things happen.

T: "lol..yeeees!!! Those who need don't get!
that's horrible! "

A: Yeeh!

T: "We'll put an account to people put money in our myspace
those who think we deserve can send us money
so we can get the things we need to play
lol, but as we're not a famous band I think we won't get so much"

A: lol... well ... Who knows?

T: "lol, yeee, who knows?"

The rest of the talk is just a typical MSN talk. lol.


-Adrian M.