Animalsound
Music Now Artist/Band Spotlight Weekly Series




New Music Spotlight
May 2010 Edition

Published: May 5, 2010 9:00 AM EST
By: Isaac Davis Jr., MBA
(Juniorscave.com)

Animalsound creates a wonderful and interesting mixture of sounds that help showcases the band’s unique style of music. Fans of Experimental, Psychedelic, and Folk music will enjoy how Animalsound is able to use all of these genres in their music to create something that comes out sounding amazing and fun to listen to. Here is a new interview that our Webzine had with the band. We hope you enjoy reading this interview as much as we enjoying working with the band on it.

Isaac: I just listened to one of your songs from your CD. What was the inspiration for making your new album?

Animalsound: I wanted to make an album of music that was as real and close to me that I could make; an album of songs that I can instantly hear my soul and life in.

Isaac: Who were your influences?

Animalsound: Specifically...? quite a lot. from then till now? Lucky LaRue of the Family LaRue, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground, Mudhoney, The Clash, The Ramones, Hell's Kitchen, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Hank Williams Sr., The Black Angels, (Early) Rolling Stones, Townes Van Zandt, Soundgarden, Early Elvis Presley recordings from the Sun Session days, Heartless Bastards, Roger Miller, Harry Belafonte.....and that’s just the beginning...I'll stop there though.

Isaac: What do you consider to have been the highlight(s) and lowpoint(s) of your career to date?

Animalsound: Well! I hope it’s to come! In all honesty, I'm going to do this as long as I'm alive and I think my highlight will come at the end of my life when I cannot make music anymore and I'm forced to look back at all the music I've recorded and made and can see it in that perspective. I think that will be the highlight. You know looking back and saying this is what I am and this is what I did and these are all the places that I've done it. And to have met and played music with all these great people along the way.

Isaac: Brief history about your background plus the style of music you play.

Animalsound: I am from the central Arkansas area (Little Rock) and I grew up and lived there until I was 19. I grew up listening to music that was in my mother's record collection in the beginning which was a great collection of music and then it grew from what was on the local radio stations in the 80's and then I discovered Punk and could listen to nothing but Punk.

Then I discovered the blues and I (at the time) decided that all other music was shallow and un-fulfilling compared to the blues I heard in Son House, Leadbelly, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson..Etc.

I then made a transition back to the start and began writing songs the best I could which over time has become much more real and transparent to my life and the ups and downs of life in general. Hopefully! I call the genre Indie Experimental Psych Folk Rock.

Isaac: How easy is it to gets gigs for you as an artist? What is the live music scene like in your area?

Animalsound: It’s easy and impossible depending....I think generally if you've learned how to be easy to deal with for a venue then it’s easy but getting places to support original music is sometimes hard and the ones (venues) that do support originality are gems a lot of the time that many artists saturate so that can make it difficult as well. All in all, I've been very fortunate with live music and the venues I have dealt with. It's been a great experience. The scene's where I have lived are actually pretty good....sometimes you just have to scratch the surface a little.

Isaac: What do you think of the state of Indie music at the moment? Do you listen to radio much at all? Has the Internet helped music grow or hindered it in your opinion?

Animalsound: I think this time (the present) is the only time when some of the things that are going on can be going on...an indie band can host, sell and promote themselves thru the Internet in ways like never before so obviously that changes indie music. I rarely listen to regular radio just because most of the times it is very canned and programmed for a pop 40 type of music which I am not a fan of...I'm not knocking it or anyone who does listen to radio but it’s just not something I choose. I do sometimes listen to NPR or local indie stations I can find when traveling.

I think that the Internet has helped the music grow in a lot of ways but also I think before when all people had were record stores they had to get out and were exposed to things in a specific store that is a completely different animal than the Internet. So you had a local store where you went inside and the owners were fans of this or that and that was playing so you might get exposed to their tastes as well which could be good or bad. But at least I think there was a randomness to it that was nice.

Isaac: If you could create a fantasy band - what would be the line-up and why?

Animalsound: A fantasy band? Well, I guess to go with the spirit of that question and not choose musicians that I actually have met, respect and played with I will go all out. I guess I would like to get Ry Cooder and or Hubert Sumlin for lead guitar, Jack White to play Piano, Willie Dixon to play an upright Bass, Sune Rose Wagner and Sharon Foo on backup vocals and maybe Charlie Watts from the stones to play a snare and a high hat only.

Isaac: What CD's do you currently have available and where can they be purchased from?

Animalsound: "In the forests of the United States" first EP recorded in Corpus Christi, TX (7 Tracks Solo) "Loud Ghosts" 5 Song EP recorded in Corpus Christi, TX and Norfolk, VA"The Unknown" 10 Track LP recorded in Corpus Christi, TX and Norfolk, VA.

3 CD's are available currently on the Internet at iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, LALA, Zune, Amazon, Limewire, Nokia, Shockhound and the most recent one can be available in record stores thru a CDBaby Order.

Isaac: Where can fans access your music, videos, blogs, and anything else about you online?

Animalsound: The best spot for just audio is at www.theanimalsound.com ( to purchase music for cheap or free) or on MySpace at www.myspace.com/animalsound also on Facebook under "animal+sound". YouTube also.

Isaac: Message to your fans?

Animalsound: I APPRECIATE YOU! Thanks for listening and I will do my best to keep music fresh and coming for a long time!