<<Eye of the hunter>>, your first solo album, has like main topic the time…

Brendan: Yes, it is the recurrent theme of the album. The time that passes, the present condition and,
the projection of the time to come.

Newcomer : Makes it even to make an album is always a little tentative to stop the time
for an artist, to freeze it on a physical support…

Brendan : It is especially a question of relevance. Is it that that I make is at that the moment applicable ?
There are a lot of pieces that I keep for me because they are too much personal,
they only interest me. Even though I would like to share them, and even though I know that precisely that I want to make to them tell, I don't arrive there. There is one moment where pieces become
for me a temporal reference mark, a memory. Some things that I live must be
materialized by a shape of production.

Newcomer : You live in the ' Cavan County', a very remote corner of Ireland. The time must take place of a way all particular over there…

Brendan : People dedicate a lot more of time to others. They dedicate more time to conversations, to boars. They store all possible information on what happens
in the community. The info circulates very quickly. Everybody wants to know what happens at
the neighbor.

Newcomer : Your mother comes from the 'Cavan County'. Do you feel a member of this community?

Brendan : It is very difficult to integrate to this community because she endures a true division.
We live to the border of Ireland of the North. A lot of problems of the north finds again to the south: it is a way of microcosm of everything that tears Irishmen. The division between Catholic and Protestant is always very clear. In all villages, there are two butcher shops,
Two kiosks. You realize quickly that one is Catholic and the other Protestant.
Ireland is yet a Republic. I find this division very ridiculous. This separation was a surprise for me. As a tourist, one doesn't perceive of anything. In surface all seems smooth, but underneath, all is only bitterness and stroke of knife in the back. For me, to become one,
member of this community, it would come back to take part to a community that
don't work. And even though I wanted it, one would not let me make it. Every village, every region is very tribal. If you come from a village to 30.40 kilometers, one you call you a ' blowing',
to show that you don't come from here, that you have been brought in a way by wind.

Newcomer : How you organize yourself over there your days? Do you have a very strict diary of work?

Brendan : Before, I had a very free and blased attitude facing work. I had a small girl (Emma), who has
now two years and half. Till' then my way to work changed. Her habits are become mine. I thought to waste my free time after her birth but in fact,
It is very beneficial since I must rise at a certain hour of the morning.
I know that in the day I must be with her to certain moments. My days are better
organized. Now, I prefer to work the morning. I have a lot more energy.

Newcomer : you needed several years to write this album. Is this because in fact, do you need time to either write cos'you are too lazy in the writing?

Brendan : On eight songs, five of it had been written on a period of four years.
Words were written but arrangements were not fixed. I had written them quickly,
But as it was not complete, I had let them in plan. The three last were written on a period of five months, that is rather fast according to my standart!

Newcomer : The content of the album is personal, very intimate. You explore relations there with your father, The loss of one love… don't you are afraid to get too naked so much !

Newcomer : With a look to the work of the text, it seems to me that in Dead Can Dance, music was put in first plan where as in your personal work, you took care of the enhancement of texts…

Brendan : If you read words independently of music, you perceive that my texts are written in a hybrid shape between poetry and the prose. I could ever have written exclusively
to a shape or the other. When I was younger I had wrote a lot of poems but I never have
Been satisfied so much when I reread them. It was rather a surrogate of ' prozac ' to this time!
This hybrid shape is added to the lyricism of songs, that is charged thus of sense. I think that if I want to raise my texts to the rank of poetry, I must learn to reconcile the quality of the
Music and Words.

Newcomer : In ' Sloth ', you sing : 'I was dragging my feet, when i should have been flying'. Do you live with your regrets?

Brendan : In ' Sloth ', I express the need for me to lose all the baggage of the past. I sometimes have regrets on the past. Instead of to want to climb echelons, I would have the more patient being. I think that
broadly speaking, people carry too many regrets in them. Due ' I shoud to get married with this person, I should have accepted this work '. They accumulate what they think to be opportunities failures where as it is what constitutes the experience of life. They should clear themselves of these regrets,
to part with this weight, it 'll give them the impression, as I sing it in ' Sloth ' of
a fly away.

Newcomer : Your texts are full of a fairy or supernatural visions. Do you work from your dreams, either dreams you constantly, the wide open eyes?

Brendan : My process of creation is similar to the process of dream manufacture.
I work of a subliminal way while leaving from the instrument vibration. It stimulates the involvement of my voice and finally words form themselves. To this point, i must stop to take notes otherwise i forget the origin of that that I have just produced. I am in a semi-trance and if I want to be able to continue this piece later a little, it is necessary that I can take note of everything that I already made. It looks a lot like these mornings where you try since your wakening to remember your dream.

Translation by Musica eternal.
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