interview with IVEZA and ELEMENTS
What´s the name of your band? IVEZA and ELEMENTS
How was the band formed? Band was formed by uniting two projects... Marko and Predrag had project "Elements", Ivan had project "Iveza" and one day grows in IVEZA and ELEMENTS.
Where are all band members from? All band members are from Kragujevac - Serbia...
Who does what in the band? Ivan Ivezic - lead vocals,keyboards , Predrag Spasojevic - guitar,back vocals, Marko sujica - guitar,back vocals, Nikola Vasic - dj,keyboards,beat mashine...
What was the ambitions of the band when you started? Our ambitions are to make something new in music,sound,production...
Where was your first gig? Our first gig was in city of Krusevac (region central Serbia)
Where was the latest gig? Latest gig was in city of Nis (south Serbia)
Who writes your songs? We are all making our songs depending of our inspiration...
Who writes the music who writes lyrics? We are all writing our all music and we have a couple of friends who does the lyrics...
Who has the best since of humor in the band? Marko Sujica has the longest,bigest and most bizzare sense of humor...
What genre do you feel you are? We are electro modern rock band in live electronica style...
Why did you pick that particular style? From desire for something different we made our unique style...
What are your songs about? From love to life... address to the nation, warning about the survival of the planet ... social issue...
Do you write your own material or mainly covers? We write our own songs...
Have you made any albums? We are finishing our debi album and looking for record label,promoter,publisher...
Do you have any clips on YouTube? Yes,we have three official and one lyrics video... Two of our official videos made by David Lensing - winner of Berlin short film festival. And one and third made by Lorant Demeter - 3d mapping artist from Hungary...
How old are you? We are very young - we are all around 40.
What places will you be playing in in the imidate future? We are looking to find gigs in Europe for now but we will go wherever they want us...
Witch band is the best you´ve seen? Mike Patton,Testament, The cure , Prodigy, Biohazard,Faith no more. No...We dont play the same songs every time. We are unpredictable... We have plenty of mixes of our live electronica style...
What has been the best/most promising gig so far? Arsenal fest,Our domestic fest,Shumadija fest (the biggest festival in region)
Have you had any bigger tours from start to now? We dont have big tour for now ...
How big crowds do you usually play for? We was play in front of a couple of thousand people...
What are the plans for the rest of the year? Finding record label is our priority for this year,shooting two more vides and playing gigs as much as we can...
What are your goals with your music? Zelimo da upotpunimo svvoje zivote sa svim stvarima koje nosi muzika nosi...
Did you decide to go all in for the music? Lots of our time we give for music.
Is it easier to get your inspiration from older bands or from bands more modern? Inspiration we get from old to new bands.....from punks to deat metal....from classic music to new experimental music....
What are your sources of inspiration? Our sources are our family,friends,bands,artists from different types of art...
What's the first step when making a new song? First step is make maine harmony... After that all of members giv opinion,suggestion and we start practise ...
How do you feel about the downloading of music instead of buying albums? We think that soul of albums,cd-lp era is lost and we like so much old style... Downloding is necessary evil... but good is that all people from all over the world can have your own songs in they computers...
What would be your dreams for the band? PLay shows around the world,have big production company...
Besides your own music, what genres and bands do you listen to? We like many style and ganres of music... From old metal hard core punk bands to progresive rock,electronica,industrial,drumnbass,dubstep bands...
What would be your greatest fears for the future? Do not lose people interested in art,music... in general
When you are on stage, what do you fear most then? Tehnical problems... nothing special...
What songs and what years were they released? Since there is a band exist a short time .... we released a couple of singles last year but soon we plan to release our first album...
Have you been part of any other projects? Yes,of course... we collaborate with Hollywood actress and singer Jom Mack and their band Auradrone... Ivan make some songs and production for Stefani Scovolo u.s singer... then Sharica Soal - - New York new blues singer...
Have you been in any other bands? Marko and Pedja was play guitar in legendar dead metal band Dead Joker, Ivan was play guitar and singing in hardcore-metal new school band Thimble and legendar punk band KBO with whom he plays and further...
What do you work with outside of the band and the music? Ivan is proffesional firefighter... Marko is Hairdresser on international level ... Pedja has your computer firm... Nikola is also a hairdresser too..
What would you do if there was no music? Nothing... for sure... Maybe engage in charities, animal protection...
How important are your fans? Funs are very important... Funs and audience give to us positive energy... desire for further work... from fans all begins...
How often do you rehearse? When we have concerts rehearse twice a week ... Before the concert rehearse every day ...
Where do you rehearse? We rehearse in the studio of frontman from KBO - Sasa Vujic.
Name 2 of your own songs you like at the moment? "Ignore the sign" and "Prazan broj" ( it is song from band KBO....we makecover )
What do you feel is the best live band you've seen? The cure,Mike patton,Testament,Muse...
Do you have any webpages?
Yes,we have -
https://sr-rs.facebook.com/IvezaAndElemente
https://www.youtube.com/user/IvezaandElements
https://soundcloud.com/ivezaandelements
www.reverbnation.com/elementspezdja
https://twitter.com/iveza_elements
www.vevo.com/artist/iveza-and-elements
www.last.fm/music/Iveza+&+Elements
Any pearls of wisdom for all other bands out there?
To stay original and independent...
Describe your show, visually and musically Performance and art of future music...
What advice would you like to give other bands? Do not make compromise on songs with record labels, shange the arrangements of songs... not commercialized at all costs ...
What are the biggest obstacles for a band? Bigest obstacles for a band is that in our country not support artists,bands.... there is very hard situation for all artists in Serbia....
What is best/worst with playing the clubs? Tell us about upcomming gigs and why we should be at them?
How would you describe your sound in one sentence New school rock and roll electronica...
What is your favorite crappy instrument? It is one traditional instrument called "cesagije"- sounding like in horror movie...
Whats your Pre-show ritual? To be on some quiet place and koncentrate on show.