![]() So if you never met her, how does that whole process work?įor Rituals, the first video she did, she just ran with it and I sent her some stuff that I liked. But there was a great turnout and so I guess Sara was there and then she just wrote to us and we decided to work together. It was very strange that we were allowed to do that and we were the only band, so that was also weird. We played this wild show outside in Bologna on a Sunday evening in a beautiful park. She just had really cool work, and I liked it and we’re always looking for people to collaborate with. Sara saw us play in Italy, in Bologna, and she just DM’d us on Instagram. How did you hook up with Sara Dresti who produced a couple of videos? I can see how people just get stuck or how they just let money shape their life. The song Disease is pretty blatantly about living within capitalism and sort of coming to terms with that, and understanding that I didn’t have any financial security. The song disease, is that written specifically about this? Y’all just work your jobs every day? You don’t, like, spend all your free time writing the album and then playing shows for 15 people?” And I was just like, “Yeah, that’s what I want to do, but…” There’s a very good tweet that I read during the pandemic from an artist named Devin, and I’ll butcher his project name, which is Minca, I believe. The sort of mundane existence of just going to work and coming home, and that’s your life, without touring, without having something to throw all the money that you don’t have into and just hoping that it works out. How do you come to terms with that personally? The whole punk theme is anti-establishment. It’s difficult to make a lot of money being a musician, of course, but it’s hard to balance your artistic life with that 9 to 5 like you said. I know quite a few musicians that just scrape by. I would wake up around 6:30 and have a shower, then I would go downstairs into my basement studio and work on music for probably an hour and a half to two hours before having to log into a remote job. So I spent a lot of time writing this record at about 7:00 in the morning by myself, which is also the first time I ever did anything like that. I started for the first time ever making a livable wage and was able to afford things, but also had to work 9 to 5. ![]() I had sold my shares in the business that I owned for the last seven years, which is a bar, and then I started a new job. The new album was written during a time when your life really shifted, didn’t it?Ī big chunk of it was written during the pandemic, but also I was sober for a year and a bit then. He’s talented at hearing sounds and coming up with the right tones and everything. I should say also that when we made this record that Seth’s first child was 2 weeks old and he showed up every day just exhausted and would say, “Let’s just do this.”, but still it was just amazing. He’s starting to get known for this really amazing blown out sound that he can produce through some compressors and some gear that he has and we took full advantage of that. Seth as a genius, and he has truly golden ears. One of my questions was how Seth helped shape the album. I was like, we should take 2 weeks to make this record and he says, “If this record isn’t done in 5 days, I’m not doing it.” I was like, “Oh, okay.”, and so we were done in four and a half. We did a lot of individual tracking of the drums, sort of just hitting one drum at a time to make it sound as clear and crisp as possible and as big as possible and Seth works very fast, which I’ve never done. Seth has a very different approach than we’ve ever worked with before. And we went to Providence, Rhode Island, to track it with Seth Manchester, who has a studio called Machines with Magnets, who has worked on a bunch of great records by artist like Lightning Bolt and The Body and Big Brave. We for the first time ever, we made a record with a new base player and which was a fill-in bass player named Drew Riekman who plays in a band called Blessed, and he sort of co-wrote the songs with my drummer Dan and I. ![]() The recording process for the new record was totally different than anything we’ve ever done. What was the recording process like for that album and how did you approach it? Your new album, Wrong Dream dropped on April 28th. The band brings their signature abrasive sound to the stage at Meteor Windsor on Monday, May 8, 2023, showcasing tracks from their latest album “Wrong Dream.”We talked with frontman and guitarist David Schellenberg. Hailing from the frigid prairies of Winnipeg, Tunic has been making waves in the underground music scene with their visceral live performances and unrelenting sonic assault.
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