Speaker 1: Hello and good afternoon.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: Hey ero, this is Eric Macurtus.
Speaker 1: How you doing doing very well, sir man. God we
got we got to jump onto this song right away
because I want listeners to know perfectly how well this
song has been put together. You got to tell me
how you guys were able to get that authentic sound.
Speaker 2: The authentic sound, well, you know, it was recorded in
a certainly an authentic way with very loud, martially typed
amplifiers and almost playing in a room together, you know,
certainly is like a key to that as well.
Speaker 3: But I'm glad you liked the song.
Speaker 1: Well, it's got a vibe about it. And maybe that's
the key thing, is that everybody was in the room together.
And that's the reason why I keep going back to
that song. It's not like, you know, you go back
in there and drop a track here, put the drum
beat in there and things like that, where everybody was
there as one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The other thing I'd like to point it there too,
is that even though we're all there, you know, recording together,
laying down the drums and the bass, guitars and all that,
as soon as that part of the process was done,
our singer went back and sat with that basic instrument
track for a few days, and then he came back
with an entirely different vocal melody.
Speaker 3: Than we were scratch tracking with.
Speaker 2: So what you hear is like the result of him basically,
you know, having an epiphany, and that's how the song
turned out the way it did.
Speaker 1: Isn't that What makes music fun though, is that you
can keep going back. It has to go through different
forms of evolution.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and sometimes you'll you'll work an idea,
you know, to death, and unfortunately, like it doesn't make
its way to being either like a finished idea worthy
of being on an album. But for this one, it
really just it was the melody that Ryan Jones came
up with for the chorus that was kind of led
the way for the rest of the song.
Speaker 1: Wow, those guitar riffs, it's been a long time since
we've had great guitar riffs kicking things up, and then
here come the vocals. I mean, it's the exact words
that I put in my notes here is is that
I hear every corner of this song. In other words,
it's not it's not over compressed at all. Everything is present.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean talk about that opening riff. So
you know, I grew up in like the nineteen seventies
nineteen eighties guitar got rock era, and that riff is
for guitar players.
Speaker 3: It's a drop D with a flanger on it.
Speaker 2: So unchained is like an example of something that would
have like a similar type.
Speaker 3: Of effect of what we're doing there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, man, it's it's attention grabbing and it definitely
like carries the momentum throughout the rest of the song.
Speaker 1: How are fans reacting to it so far?
Speaker 3: Great?
Speaker 2: I mean, so we have the video came out at
the same time as the song release, and we've had
some really great feedback on just in general, like how
our videos are well put together or carry a message.
And you know, as we've been talking with other folks
like you know, what do you think of the song
or do the lyrics mean anything to you? And some
folks have came back with it it sounds like a
song of hope, which is definitely what our lyricist Ryan
was going for.
Speaker 1: So when when the song gains in popularity, does it
change in the position at a live performance? Does it
suddenly become a song that's no longer hidden in the
back by the other ones, or where's the standout part
of this song?
Speaker 2: Well, so the first time we'll be playing it live
actually will be in about two weeks, and so it's
definitely in the set list.
Speaker 3: It's definitely something we're going to call out. But I
would agree with you Ero that there's.
Speaker 2: An inherent pressure on the band to want to perform
something new to the best ability that you can, so
that not only does it feel like it's a part
of all the other songs that you've done before, but
it also has kind of that stand out moment. So yeah,
we have a hyper focus on performing that song to
the best.
Speaker 3: Of our abilities.
Speaker 1: How did you layer the song? Because I mean, the
thing is that there's so much going on inside this
song that it's like okay, and right away I'm going,
how are they going to do this live? Is this
going to be a difficult short? Does something you have
to be removed.
Speaker 3: From a layered standpoint?
Speaker 2: I mean, the guitars are are pretty stripped down, like yeah,
pretty much it's like me on the left or Ryan
on the right, so that that is highly achievable, But
there's not really like a whole lot of production outside
of Tim and Ar due to our producer, I think
just did an excellent job on the drum mix, and
for me, that is like the most apparent.
Speaker 3: Thing in the mix is that the vocals are you know,
in my face, and the.
Speaker 2: Drums some detailed and they have a lot of impact
to them without sounding overly compressed.
Speaker 1: I mean the guitars themselves. I was having flashbacks of
Vivian Campbell from def Leppard because now, just sitting there
listening to them, it's like, oh my god, yeah.
Speaker 2: That's kind of cool, man. I don't I wouldn't have gravitated.
I'm glad you said that. Yeah, you know, it really is.
Speaker 3: I think when I look at the song, it's like
it's it's.
Speaker 2: A cool mix of something that's rooted in a classic
rock field but has like a modern twist to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Now that kind of storytelling and that kind
of performance inside that song. Did you grow up listening
to sticks?
Speaker 3: Oh most certainly. Yeah, definitely, even like back to the
older stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And from a from a lyrical standpoint that the song
was the lyrics were written about our singer Ryan Jones,
his father passing last winter, and so a lot of
the drops he makes in there about Bluebird, which was
a nickname for his dad, and Winter takes my hand.
That kind of around the the idea of his dad
passing and leading on to like another chapter in life.
Speaker 3: And so she really, I think, writes.
Speaker 2: Lyrics in a beautiful way where it's kind of telling
you something, but it's not giving you the story verbatim.
Speaker 1: Dolly Parton would tell you that storytelling. That's that's that's
sharing your your village's news. And it gets over to
the next village.
Speaker 3: That was Dolly Parton.
Speaker 1: Yeah, please do not move. There's more with Eric Fraser
from Corvus Lare coming up next. Hey, thanks for coming
back to my conversation with Eric Fraser from Corvus Lare.
The album cover itself, how did you come up with this?
Because I could totally see the cover of feather Me
through as being a tattoo dude.
Speaker 3: Hm hm.
Speaker 2: The artist for the title work for the video is
somebody that we worked with before and her name.
Speaker 3: Is Avery Hawthorne.
Speaker 2: It's actually she starred in our video Blind and Broke
and she is the actress throughout the video. But she's
super talented artist, graphic artist, and I think with Ryan's direction,
I'm guessing that you know, obviously there's a feather in
the image, but it really is kind of I think, illustrating,
you know, life from beyond you know, down to the
present to you. When I saw that, it just reminded
me kind of like a da Vinci painting.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, feathers are so powerful. That's powerful medicine for me, man.
And when I see feathers and stuff, because I just
there's such a journey that a feather has to take
in order to reach our imaginations.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, in the video itself, like even there
was an interesting thing that happened as they were filming
those portions out in like Tahoe and the snow where
they were looking for, you know, feathers that they could
use in some of the shots, but one of them
just ended up landing near our singer and he kind
of took that as a sign from like, oh, this
was meant to be, and and it.
Speaker 3: Worked out really well.
Speaker 1: Wow that you just had to give me a flashback
to a story. I was up in Victoria, British Columbia,
and and we we go walking downtown and somebody was
sitting there and they were actually selling feathers from a
from a bald eagle and I'm going, ah, I'm not
going to getting trapped in that one, but but you
have to watch out for those things.
Speaker 4: Man, Oh yeah, certainly, Yeah, you're right, there's but I'm
glad that you're kind of picking up on the spiritual
nature and you know the other you know, kind of
connotations you can draw from from a from like a
feather reference.
Speaker 1: Well there, Well the other songs will they also include
that that kind of a journey spiritual touch?
Speaker 3: Interesting?
Speaker 2: Uh thought there, Like, we have ninety percent of the
album done and with all of uh, you know, Ryan's
lyrics and like kind of the subject matter he ticks on,
the all tend to be coming from a very personal place,
whether it's from you know, people in his life or
experiences that he's had.
Speaker 3: And I can only think of a handful of songs.
Speaker 2: That just might be something completely not related to Like,
for example, our song startist Man was written as an
homage to.
Speaker 3: David Bowie on his passing.
Speaker 2: But yeah, definitely personal lyrics and the songs are coming
from a deep and authentic place in Ryan's life.
Speaker 1: So now, when you do a project like this, first
of all, you know, growing up in the seventies, like
you said, and I did too, we had to wait
for the full album to even get a single. I
love the way that you guys are promoting this one
song at a time and the album is building as
you go along.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you think about people dropping music digitally
these days, I have so many friends that are, you know,
release music and you know, whether there is video support
or there isn't video support.
Speaker 3: If an album just comes out and it's in its.
Speaker 2: Completion, the likelihood that people are going to like dig
through all eight or ten tracks is pretty slim unless they're,
you know, a diehard fan. But the idea behind doing
the singles is that you're you're giving them a taste
and you're building a momentum and hopefully getting that interest
to want to dive deeper once the full release is ready.
Speaker 1: It's right down the middle when it comes to asking
singer songwriters about how they feel about a Spotify list,
because I always want listeners to put your songs on
that Spotify list so that others can tap into it.
And then musicians have told me, don't do that. Man,
They're not paying what they should be oh.
Speaker 2: Man, that that is the music creator's dilemma in terms of,
you know, the like is the streaming model, you know,
morally good for people who create the music, And you're
right er, I mean, unless you're pulling in numbers of
you know that in the millions of streams, it just
financially doesn't really make sense to independent artists, you know,
people that may not be working with a record label
or a larger record label. And I don't think even
our band doesn't necessarily crack the code when it comes
to like the right way to promote music on things
like artists playlists on Spotify.
Speaker 1: I just wish listeners could see you guys and the
askicking you guys are doing when it comes to promoting
your music. See a lot of people do they just
assume I wrote the song. Okay, I'm gonna go sing
the song we live happily ever after, they don't get
to see your grunt work. Dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And really the only way that you know you're
you're able to get the word out is if you
if you do the grunt work and you have a
social presence or hopefully you're getting to play out live
more and getting out of kind of the areas where
you normally play. So the focus for the band right
now is to finish these last few songs, get another,
perhaps another video done, and then in the meantime, you know,
trying to get a shows booked, hopefully in California and
outside of California.
Speaker 1: I'd love to see you here in the Carolina is
because we're starting to have a lot more festivals down here.
And man, it's this kind of rock that really would
ignite the Seveners.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, have you seen any good shows this year
so far?
Speaker 1: You know, I'll tell you that. The one thing that
I saw Stevie Nicks and that and it's just I'm
so mesmerized by her. And you know, the seventies guy
had a different version of Stevie Nicks, But now to
see her still performing and you still hear the passion,
it's just it's mind blowing to me.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I saw a video of Stevie definitely during
her Bella Donna solo days. Yeah, where she was performing
wild herd like with her backup singers while she's getting
her makeup done. And when you watch her singing like
you know, a cappella pretty much, you just realize what
a talent.
Speaker 3: You know she is and was and and I'm.
Speaker 2: Glad you you and Irison Potico on the TV next.
Speaker 1: Well, it's the several different layers of the performer. We
all think one way, but if we just open up.
That's why I always on iHeartRadio. I'll sit there and
I'll say, I know you love your old songs, but
find some new memories to go with those old songs.
Don't hang out in your past.
Speaker 3: Oh you know, I'm speaking of that.
Speaker 2: Like, one thing I'm excited to see and then listen
to is the new project from Dean Delio, the One
More Satellite Project. Have you heard their latest single called
Paper over the Cracks?
Speaker 1: No, but I'm going to since you suggested it.
Speaker 3: Check it out. It really is interesting. He's working with
a Bridgish singer and it's kind of on a Stone
Temple Pilot's five, but it's its own thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. See that's what's great about where music
is right now, because everybody likes all the music it's
in other words, we're not stuck in a genre right now.
It's wide open for everything to take place.
Speaker 2: Right yeah, And man, I'll just be happy if people
stay have a continued interesting guitar based.
Speaker 1: Rock yep yep yep. Where can people go to find
out more about you? And I know you've got some
schwag because people like to buy that stuff up.
Speaker 2: Well, you can go to our website corpuslore dot com
and that has the links to all of our streaming
locations and certainly all all of our social channels and
would love for your listeners to engage with us online.
Speaker 1: Excellent. Well, please come back to the show anytime in
the future. The door is always going to be open
for you.
Speaker 3: Eric, Eric. Awesome, man. I really enjoyed my time. But
if you thanks for taking time out of your day.
Speaker 1: To talk to me, you'd be brilliant today.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, buddy, talk to you soon.