DREAMAKER
It's
arare thing meeting with women that are so much into metal and so devoted
to what they are doing. Elisa has proven throughout the years her love
for heavy metal through various bands and it was about time to form a band
of her, where she could make her own musical vision come true. You can
read below what she told us about the band and Dreamaker's music...
1.HELLO ELISA! HOW ARE YOU? I'VE NOTICED
MANY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE SOUND OF DREAMAKER AND DARK MOOR, BUT I THINK
SINCE YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS BAND, YOU SHOULD SPEAK...
Hi Nick, I'm fine thank you...
Well, I think that in this first album there are two or three songs that
can remind the sound of Dark Moor but I can tell you that we do aggressive,
melodic and direct music… I think that we are offering a new way for the
future in the Heavy Metal, people is bored to listen always to the same
kind of riffs, the same vocal lines… we are offering something new and
something different.
2.I'VE ALSO NOTICED A CONTRADICTION
BETWEEN THE BAND'S NAME AND YOUR LYRICS. MOST OF THE TIMES DREAMS ARE GOOD
AND GIVE HOPE TO HUMANS, BUT YOUR LYRICS ARE DARKER AND SOMETIMES PESIMISTIC.
WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT?
When you dream you can see beautiful
or bad dreams. I think that in my lyrics I reflect myself and the sadness
that sometimes there is inside of me (all lyrics speaks of my life). All
the things of our lives always are not pretty. Simply I explain in my lyrics
the life that I am living at those moments, nothing else.
3.ELISA, I WANT TO TAKE YOU BACK IN
TIME, EVEN BEFORE DARK MOOR, WHEN YOU WERE IN A BAND CALLED SABATAN. WHAT
DO YOU REMEMBER FORM THOSE TIMES AND WHY DID YOU LEAVE THAT BAND? ARE YOU
STILL INTERESTED IN IT AND SUPPORTIVE? WHICH WAS THE FIRST BAND YOU STARTED
YOUR CAREER WITH?
The first metal band was Necrópolis.
I was only twelve years old when I sang in a heavy metal concert. I will
never forget this day, never! I was so nervous... I remember that the guitar
player has broken a cord and I had to speak to people until he changed
it... It was my first concert! What I say? W hat I do? Then I sang a song
of Janis Joplin "Mercedes Benz" without music... I have learned very much
since then... Well, I sang in Necrópolis, Five Cross and Sabatan
(in this band 8 years!!!). With this band I obtained to a site in the metal
sceme in my country because I was a woman and I sang in English. We were
able to be the supporting act of great Spanish groups and everything was
perfect until one of the guitarists wanted to make the things his way and
without counting on anybody so I decided to leave the band and to look
for another group. Now we are friends and I sing with them whenever they
remain without singer and they have some concert. We are friends and I
help them whenever I can.
4.WHICH WAS THE REASON THAT MADE YOU,
ALBERT MAROTO AND JORGE SAEZ LEAVE DARK MOOR? WAS IT DUE TO MUSICAL DISAGREEMENTS?
We wanted to do a more powerful
music, more aggressive and direct and it wasn't possible with Dark
Moor, so we decided to do another band where we were able to do it... DREAMAKER!!!
5.I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT YOUR VOCALS
PERFECTLY MATCH TO THE MUSIC OF DREAMAKER, WHICH IS MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD
HEAVY METAL THAN DARK MOOR'S SYMPHONIC STYLE. DO YOU AGREE AND WHY?
I agree with you. I'm a metal singer
and my voice is too strong for a woman and this is really good for me because
I love to sing metal and this kind of music needs a powerful voice (in
my opinion). I feel better singing the songs of Dreamaker because I can
sing agressive, melodic, sweet, with power... my voice acquires more registries,
more kind of voices. Dreamaker is a very pleasant group for a singer.
6.THE COVER ARTWORK OF YOUR DEBUT CD
WAS MADE BY NIKLAS SUNDIN, WHO IS MOSTLY KNOWN CAUSE OF HIS BAND DARK TRANWQUILLITY.
HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO COOPERATE WITH HIM AND HOW IS THE ARTWORK RELATED
TO YOUR MUSIC AND LYRICS? DON'T YOU THINK THAT YOUR ARTWORK HAS SOME SIMILARITIES
WITH IN FLAMES' "REROOT TO REMAIN" ARTWORK MADE BY THE SAME ARTIST?
The cover has been drawn by Niklas
who has worked for In Flames or Arch Enemy. The drawing and the title
is because it reflects what we feel in this moment like a human device,
prepared for everything... All the works of Niklas have their personal
style so it's normal that there are drawings that look like but he
is never thinking of making them look similar.
7.YOU WILL HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TO BE
ON TOUR WITH FALCONER AND DOOMSWORD, WHICH ARE 2 GREAT BANDS THAT I PERSONALLY
LIKE A LOT. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT IT? HAVE YOU LISTENED TO THE LATEST WORKS
OF BOTH OF THEM AND IF YES WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THEM?
We are very happy to play with
Falconer and Doomsword. It is a privilege! Falconer and Dark Moor played
together in a festival in Spain and we already know each other. I
haven’t yet listened to their last albums...
8.YOU ARE A WOMAN AND NOT BAD LOOKING
AT ALL. WHY DID YOU SELECT TO BE IN A METAL BAND AND NOT A POP GROUP AND
EARN MORE MONEY EASIER? WHY, DO YOU THINK, THE MAJORITY OF WOMEN DOESN'T
LISTEN TO HEAVY METAL?
Ever since I was 5 years old and
I sang in the choir of the school I wanted to sing heavy metal because
I watched in the television to Rob Halford and I wanted to be like him.
The pop world has never attracted me. I will never be rich as Madonna but
I am a singer of heavy metal and that is always inside my heart, for me
heavy metal is freedom.... Day by day there are more women who listen to
this kind of music and go to the concerts and I feel very proud of which
every time we are more women within this world... Up metal women!!!
9.A CONTINUATION OF THE PREVIOUS QUESTION
IS THAT ALTHOUGH THERE ARE NOT MANY WOMEN IN METAL, THERE ARE SOME LADIES
WHO SING IN METAL BANDS. WHICH OF THEM DO YOU ADMIRE AND YOU THINK INFLUENCED
YOU THE MOST?
The woman that I admire is Doro
Pesch, she is the woman more fighter and more heavy than I have known!
I wanted to be like her, not to sound like her but because of her
history... She continues singing and making cds, she is the metal queen
.
10.EXCEPT FOR DREAMAKER YOU ALSO SANG
IN ANOTHER BAND. WHICH WAS IT? WAS IT JUST A GUEST APPEARANCE OR ARE YOU
A FULL TIME MEMBER THERE TOO?
I sang in a French band called
Fairyland but it was only a guest appearance.
11.IN "HUMAN DEVICE" SOME FAMOUS MUSICIANS
ALSO PARTICIPATE. WHO ARE THEY AND HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO MAKE THEM COOPERATE
WITH YOU?
We wanted to make some guttural
voices and choirs so we spoke with Nino (Thunderstone) about this. He called
the bassplayer of the death metal band Impaled Nazarene (Ark666) who sang
in the song Welcome to my Hell with Jorge Saez (the Dreamaker's drummer).
The choirs of "Human Device" are done by Albert, Pasi Rantanen (Thunderstone),
Robin Wickman (Lovestone) and me.
12.IF YOUR MUSIC WERE AN EMOTION, WHAT
WOULD IT BE? IF IT WERE A PAINTING, WHAT WOULD IT SHOW?
Emotion: mixture of aggressiveness
and sweetness.
Painting: an expressionism painting,
where the feelings leave inside outwards.
13.WHICH IS, ACCORDING TO YOU, THE
BEST AND WHICH THE WORST PART IN YOUR MUSIC? WHICH IS YOUR TRADEMARK?
You cannot say to a mother to say
bad things for her son and "Human Device" is my first son. I like to do
music without thinking of a certain style, to do what you want and like,
that is the best thing that our music has. Two of my favorite songs are
Alone Again and Nigthmares Factory but I love all the songs!!!
14.WHICH WORDS DO YOU THINK COULD BEST
DESCRIBE "HUMAN DEVICE" AND YOUR MUSIC IN GENERAL?
Metal done from the heart and without
censorships.
15.THANK YOU! IS THERE ANYTHING MORE
YOU'D LIKE TO ADD? LEAVE YOUR MESSAGE...
I hope to sing someday in your
country, you'll never forget our concert ;-) Many kisses, your
friend... Elisa!
www.dreamaker.net
Nick “William_Kidd”
Parastatidis
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