• Infinity Minus One - Moving Forward While Looking Behind
• Infinity Minus One - They Don't Do Normal

• Kairo: Finishing "Tales From the Mobius Strip". Getting our drummer, Libor, an Artist Visa so he can finally stay here. Getting Kelly Conlon in our band.
• Kevin: The most important recent moment would have to be changing from a four-piece to a five-piece with the addition of our new full-time bassist, Kelly Conlon. The most memorable moment for me would be when we first put the demo of "At the Doorway of Existence" up on MP3.com and it skyrocketed up the charts in just a matter of days. That's what told me that this was no longer a hobby but something that I needed to start taking seriously.
• Denis: For me, it was discovering and then joining Infinity Minus One. I knew that this was "the band" for me.,

2.INFINITY MINUS ONE. STRANGE NAME, ISN'T IT? HOW DID YOU CHOOSE IT? ARE YOU INTO MATHS OR IS THERE SOME SORT OF SYMBOLISM IN YOUR NAME?

• Kevin: It's complex, but doesn't really make any sense.  Just like us :) Actually, all of the other names we came up with were already taken.  When we finally decided on Infinity Minus One we did a trademark search and saw that it was free, then we snagged it up.

3.HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR MUSICAL STYLE? YOU PLAY A KIND OF MUSIC DIFFICULT TO BE IDENTIFIED AND LABELED. SO, GIVE US YOUR OWN DESCRIPTION. COULD YOU NAME SOME OF YOUR MOST BELOVED ALBUMS.

• Kairo: Well the main underlying theme is rock, hard rock or metal with subdivisions of those styles and we like all types of rock and metal. Our musical style had a mind of it's own and we don't want to be limited to a certain label because we don't want to make people think that we're one thing because we're really a bunch of musical styles. But being called a Progressive Rock or a Progressive Metal band is fine with me for now.
• Kevin: We are all fans of different types of music and we try to bring in what we like form all of these styles and try to make them fit into someth8ing new. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. There is a lot of trial and error in trying to get our sound and we're always looking for something new. It's a lot of work but we like to think that the end result is worth the effort.
• Denis: As far as favorite albums go, mine would be: Journey - "Escape"; Dream Theater-"Images and Words" and "Awake"; TOOL-"Aenima" and "Lateralus"; Fates Warning-"No Exit","Perfect Symmetry" and "A Pleasant Shade of Grey"; Pain of Salvation-"The Perfect Element Pt. 1" and "Remedy Lane"; Queensryche-"Rage For Order" and "Operation:Mindcrime";Linkin Park-"Hybrid Theory";System of a Down-"Toxicity";Mudvayne-"L.D. 50";Disturbed-"The Sickness" and "Believe";Porcupine Tree-"In Absentia" - and that's just a mere few. :)

4.YOU WERE ALL STUDENTS IN THE BERKLEE MUSIC ACADEMY. WERE YOU SEARCHING ON PURPOSE BAND MEMBERS FROM THERE OR WAS IT JUST LUCK? JUST HAPPENED?

• Kairo: Actually, one of my plans in going to Berklee was to find people to start a really kick ass band. Luckily, I met Libor who then introduced me to Kevin.
• Kevin: The main reason we all went there was to get better at what we do which we all knew was important for the type of music we wanted to create. However, it was always apparent that it would be easier to find like-minded musicians at Berklee than at just about any other place in the world.

5.WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO ANSWER TO THOSE WHO SAY THAT MUSIC IS A SENTIMENT AND NOT JUST TECHNICAL PLAYING THUS IT DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH MUSICAL ACADEMIES AND THAT YOU DON'T LEARN THERE TO PLAY MUSIC?

• Kairo: Music can be learned two different ways: form a theoretical standpoint, hence going to music school or having a music teacher to teach you theory. Or just pluck away and just play what you hear in your head and what you fell in your heart. Either way is cool. There has been many great musicians and bands that have written amazing songs that have no theoretical training and those who have theoretical training. But the biggest misconception about studying music is that the rules take way your creativity or the heart and soul of music...whatever. The key is to look at these pieces and eras of music in the way that theory is just analyzing the music in a certain form so if you want to play something like it, this is what you probably do. But you don't have to.
• Kevin: Music education is a very misunderstood concept in the music industry. A good analogy is to grammar. All the grammar classes in the world won't turn a bad storyteller into a good story teller. It will just lead to really well-written bad stories. But even though a good story teller who doesn't know any grammar can still tell good stories, learning grammar will make the delivery of the stories that much better.
• Denis: The funny thing is that the more I train and develop my voice and my abilities to use it more effectively and in different ways, the more expressive, confident and emotional I can be with it. SO training has really brought my voice out and to fruition and I can now express myself in ways that I would never have been able to without training my instrument.

6.DO YOU PREFER TO LISTEN TO A BAND THAT OFFERS SENTIMENTS AND DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE A GOOD MUSIC KNOWLEDGE OR LISTEN TO A BAND THAT HAS GREAT MUSICIANS? WHAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO YOU? THE FEELING OR THE TECHNICAL PLAYING?

• Kairo: If it sounds good, it sounds good. Musical tastes are subjective. I prefer all types of musicians, what really matters is the final output of the music and not what it took to get there. Kevin: Personally, I think the sentiment is more important but I need to hear at least some of both. I'm a big fan of Bob Dylan's songs, but I can't listen to him play them. I just can't get into it. But  when anybody else plays his songs, (which almost everybody does), then I think it's great! My favorite type of music is always going to have both.
• Denis: I listen to different type of music for different things. When I listen to Dream Theater, I am hearing the precision, the perfect execution in playing, James' classically-trained voice soaring above the music. When I listen to Korn, i am digging the whole vibe, the heaviness, the groove, the anger and angst. So I listen to everything but for different reasons and looking for different things in the music.

7.HOW MANY RELEASES DO YOU HAVE? TELL US SOME THINGS ON YOUR CD "TALES FROM THE MOBIUS STRIP" (PRODUCTION, MUSIC, WHERE WAS IT RECORDED, HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU, ETC.). ARE YOU STILL SATISFIED WITH IT OR IS THERE ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO CHANGE?

• Kairo: We have two releases: Demo 1.0 and now "Tales From the Mobius Strip". It took about a year to finish the whole thing. I am happy with TFtMS but there are always things we could of done better.
• Kevin: As far as recording goes, other than the mastering stage, the entire project was  self-produced. It was a large project to tackle and several times I was afraid that we'd gotten in over our heads but somehow we pulled it off. We'll never really be 100% satisfied with anything since there is always something that can be better, but every time I listen to "Tales...", I am amazed that we were able to do it. I am very happy with the final product. It was hard work but we learned a lot and our next release should be much easier to create and, hopefully, sound even better! Denis: I am always very self-critical so I hear things on the CD that I would like to go back and change so that I could do it better but that is what makes you continue to grow and strive to  become better at what you do.

8.WITH WHAT SUBJECTS ARE YOUR LYRICS DEALING WITH? WHAT INSPIRES YOU AND WHAT CAN TAKE AWAY THE INSPIRATION AWAY FROM YOU?

• Kairo: "Face to Face" deals with personal mistakes and things that have happened to me and, though, I am not happy with them, they are a part of me and they have shaped who i am. And it basically deals with moving on in life and leaving things and people behind you. "Architectural Martyr" reflects my ideals on the religious life that was thrown on me when I was younger. It's an angry song but that's alright.
• Kevin: Most of the lyrics I write tell stories. On this release, the only lyrics i did were for "At the Doorway of Existence". That song tells the story of somebody trying to come to grips with a  locked memory form the past. When he discovers the secret, he can't handle it and attempts suicide. On the edge between life and death, he decides he wants to live but it's too late.
• Denis: Although I did not write any lyrics for this release, I tend to write about my life, personal experiences, my personal ideologies, views of society and people in it and other things of that nature.

9.HOW ARE YOU PLANNING TO PROMOTE YOUR WORK? HAVE YOU DONE ANY LIVE SHOWS? YOUR MUSIC IS COMPLEX. IS IT EASY FOR YOU TO REPRODUCE IT LIVE?

• Denis: The good thing is that a few years ago I worked for an artists management company doing marketing, publicity, and public relations so I do have some contacts and experience in that field. So, we are promoting ourselves in various ways: online music download sites such as MP3.com and IUMA, Magazines both print and online, online mailing lists, BBSs, Boston-area street teams who are promoting us at area shows by big-name acts whose fans may like what we do via flyers and free promo CDs, putting our music on compilation discs, etc. Basically, we will do whatever it takes to make both music fans and the people in the music industry take notice of Infinity Minus One.
• Kevin: In terms of reproducing the music live, for a long time we had a really hard time finding a bass player who not only had the technical ability but the openmindedeness to really contribute to what we are doing. Now that we have Kelly in the band, we are hoping to take this live in the near future.

10.WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WEREN'T ABLE TO COMPOSE MUSIC?

• Kairo: I would be an ice hockey goal tender.
• Kevin: I would probably try to be a visual artist of some sort.
• Denis: I would be a professional vagrant. Haha! No, actually I would probably be a profiler for the serial killer division of the F.B.I.

11.WHICH IS THE BEST PART IN YOUR MUSIC AND IN THE BAND IN GENERAL AND WHICH THING DO YOU THINK YOU SHOULD CORRECT? WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU NEED IMPROVEMENT?

• Kairo: The best part is that we do whatever the hell we want musically and everybody else agrees. We have no boundaries so there's no pressure. All things can be improved but it will always come to a certain point where the music will just be different, not better.
• Kevin: I think the best part about us is the fact that we're always trying to improve ourselves. We're never "good enough" and we're always working to get better at what we can't yet do.

12.IF YOU HAD THE MONEY TO MAKE AN EXPENSIVE VIDEO CLIP, WHICH SONG OF YOURS WOULD YOU CHOOSE AND HOW DO YOU IMAGINE IT TO BE?

• Kairo: I would have "At the Doorway of Existence" be a big budget video. I would have it be a high budget Japanese animation style and Mamoru Oshii would direct it.
• Kevin: We're actually working on a few ideas right now for a video for "Face to Face". Hopefully we'll be able to start making it soon.

13.IF YOUR MUSIC WAS A PAINTING WHAT WOULD IT SHOW? IF IT WAS AN EMOTION WHAT WOULD IT BE?

• Kairo: If our music was a painting it would be a box with a question mark inside of it and at the bottom of the painting it would read "What the hell does Infinity Minus One mean?". If our music was an emotion, it would be some type of mental illness, probably some type of split personality disorder.
• Kevin: If it was a painting, it would probably look similar to the works of M. C. Escher. If it were an emotion, it would probably be confusion.

• Kairo: Why?
• Kevin: When do we get to the punchline? ;)
• Denis: Why the hell did you make the universe so damn big but thanks for doing so cuz without Infinity we'd have no band name. :)

15.IF TIME TRAVEL WAS POSSIBLE, WHICH HISTORICAL PERIOD WOULD YOU LIKE TO VISIT AND WHY? WHAT WOULD YOU MISS THE MOST FROM OUR TIME?

• Kairo: I'd go back in time to when Jesus Christ was around and I'd bring a video camera just so I could prove that the bible is full of it and that Jesus was just a Jewish gang leader.
• Kevin: If I could travel through time I'd definitely go to the future before going to the past.
• Denis: I would love to go back to 1900 so that I could hear the great Enrico Caruso sing live at his debut at La Scala in Rome in the role of Rodolfo in Toscanini's production of  Puccini's "La Boheme". I must tell you that I would miss the convenience and technology of today though.

16.WHAT PROLOGUE AND TITLE WOULD YOU LIKE THIS INTERVIEW TO HAVE?

• Kairo: Infinity Minus One - Moving Forward While Looking Behind
• Denis: Infinity Minus One - They Don't Do Normal

17.THANK YOU!HAVE I FORGOTTEN TO ASK YOU ANYTHING AND YOU'D LIKE TO MENTION?

• Nah, we've talked enough...
Nick  "William_Kidd"  Parastatidis