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"My name is Sam Sanford and I'm in SOUND team. I guess if any of us could ask questions, we would probably want to get Brian Eno and ask him a lot of technical questions about specific songs and specific sounds on specific songs. How did you make this sound? Like for example on the song "Sky Saw" the first song on Another Green World, how did you make the sky saw sound?"

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"My name is Sam Sanford and I'm in SOUND team. 'Your Eyes Are Liars' is a song that started out as a recording that Bill made by himself in our studio, Big Orange. It underwent a lot of transformations during the process of arranging it for live performance. It was rerecorded to reflect those changes in the arrangement and the song you'll hear on the record is that. It's a recording of the live arrangement that we worked out based on the original recording. Which actually came out on a cassette we put out two years ago called Every Day Is A New Year."

SOUND team - Your Eyes Are Liars

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"My name is Sam Sanford and I'm in SOUND team. My favorite city to play in Austin, I guess I have to say, because the fans are great there and the clubs are great there. Other than Austin, my favorite city to play in is New York. New York City is great. People go out every night."

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"My name is Sam Sanford and I'm in SOUND team. The new record I'm into is the new TV on the Radio record. Even though I haven't heard it yet, I expect great things. I think their first record was one of the most amazing things to come out in the last ten years and I hear the new one is even better. I'm really excited about them."

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"My name is Sam Sanford and I'm in SOUND team. My friend's band is Science. Science [now Gulf of Mexico] is Joey Kaoehl, Gregory Tenenbeown, Bill Baird, and "Matty", Matthew. And they are a great band from Austin, Texas. Not like anything you've ever heard before."

Full IndieInterviews Interview with SOUND team's Bill Baird from early August 2005

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"Hi. This is Lenka from Decoder Ring. If I could ask any musician a question, it would be Bjork. And I think I just want to know why we can't just make a baby together? But I don't think I'd have the guts to ask it 'cause she'd probably slap me."
IndieInterviews: "And she's married and has babies, right?"
"I know. And I'm a girl so we can't have babies together but, you know, I just love her."

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"Hi. This is Lenka from Decoder Ring. "Somersault" is the theme song to the movie Somersault. And it's the reason why I joined up with Decoder Ring because they were an instrumental band before and they decided they needed female vocals for a song or two on the album. And it's about, I co-write the lyrics with the director of the film, and it's about the idea. It's kind of a truth idea about love. In that, if you can breathe in a person's air and their breath into you, you've got a little piece of them forever. In this girl's sentimental memory of the boy that's what she holds on to.

The movie is coming out in April in the States and the soundtrack Somersault is coming out in May. This film, it's an art house film, but it was a really successful film in Australia. The film and the album both won heaps of awards. It's was kind of a buzz film a couple of years ago. So, it will probably get an art house release over here, but you should look out for it because it's a gorgeous film"

Decoder Ring - "Somersault"

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"Hi. This is Lenka from Decoder Ring. My favorite city to play in is New York, of course. Because, I'm here right now and it's just been quite mind-blowing. And it's great to just be here, for a reason, to do gigs. And the gigs that we've done have been amazing and we've had lots of fans in the audience. It's the coolest city in the world. What more can you say?"

IndieInterviews: "You like playing there more than in Australia?"

"Well, playing in Australia it's a different thing because everyone knows our songs. And they kinda get really excited when they hear them and everyone dances. And also, we play to big festivals like 5,000 kids in the audience (often it's kids) having a great time. Sometimes it's in the day and it's a very different atmosphere. But I'm way more excited about New York right now because it's where I am and it's different, you know?"

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"Hi. This is Lenka from Decoder Ring. The new record I'm into is Cat Power - The Greatest. I have a lot of her albums and I really love her. Being on tour at the moment, I've been listening to it a lot because it's extremely soulful.  It's really nice to come home after a crazy night and just, sort of, be nourished."

Cat Power - The Greatest -

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"Hi. This is Lenka from Decoder Ring. My friend's band is Sia. She's an Australian artist that has a record out in America called Colour the Small One. And I'm actually right now having red wine with her. But, well, not right now. She's not sitting right next to me. She's in the bar. I'm in the foyer. Anyways. I love her because she's mad, spontaneous and wonderful. And the album is just gorgeous."

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