PipemanRadio Interviews FADING NEMESIS

0:00 Hi, you love done too? Yes, that's sure. I'm w for see why for you young whycout of America. It's time for the Adventures of pipe Man. I'll W four C why dot com face pomp Beach is number one Internet radio station. Here's your host, the pipe Man, so card show for give them every thanks so you definition of the sign and I do the same things every single second song and expect the shoots show. It's got the death glor wit to wait to finally like this is a pipe man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four C Y Radio. And I'm excited our next guest because she is a powerhouse with some great music and we're gonna check it out. So let's welcome to a show. Sarah Nas from Fading Nemesis.

1:11 How are you. I'm doing wellthy thank you for having me on today. Well, thanks for being here. And first thing I have to ask you right off the bat, did I say it all correctly? Because the worst thing radio people do is butcher people's names and band names. Well, I did give you grace because if you were to really say it like a Pakistani it would be funnah nod. But you've said it Sharana, which is great. Say look at that. I'm glad you said it, though. Say I go on tour and I do radio coverage at music festivals, and I always have the artists say it like, you can't do that on a phoner, but in person you can. And they always, First of all, then you know you're never gonna, you know, mess up their name.

2:00 But second of all, they always say it better, and so did you. You know what, Dean, Here's the thing. I grew up in Texas, so people call me Sarah, and if they didn't get it, I would say Sarah like Sarah Faucet. So I respond to anything and everything, So I'm good. You know what's funny about that. You may or may not like what I'm about to say. But when I was a kid, I was totally into Farah Faucet. I was totally into it, like she was in Charlie's Angels. I had the Pharahfaucet bathroom rug, the shag bathroom rug, and we had a dog, a b Sean, and I named it Sarah. Oh my goodness, you even had a dog named Sarah. You know, I actually love it because she is such an iconic human being. I mean, she is the iconic, quintessential American female from the seventies, so absolutely great. See look at that, there's the six degrees of separation between me and you right there. So I want to hear about your background because definitely you come from music. Like I don't think you could escape music if you wanted to, you know, that's right, Dean.

3:23 I grew up in a home where my mother used to always say that you sang before you spoke, forah, so I do remember being able to sing a melody prior to even ever being able to form words. And my dad was a setar player. It is a cetar player. But I so I grew up in a home where music was constantly. It was inundated. It was in the air every night when we went to sleep, Mama tuckasin and we could hear dad playing practicing in the background in the living room for two to three to four hours. So I fell asleep to my father playing setar, and then on a month slea bases. My parents would have music parties where we had greats like Robbie Shunker and you know many others who would come to these gatherings that my parents would host. So you know, I couldn't escape it, You're right. And then on the other end, Western music was constantly being piped into my reality because we grew up in a you know, a home where family was all over the world, UK, Canada, and we grew up going to English medium schools, and so there was Western music constantly coming into my ears. I grew up with Judas Priest, Iron Maiden on one side, and the other side was you know, Indian classical music. So it was brilliant. See I love that, and I love you know, like so you can take all those influences from your travels in the world and where you've lived and combine them all into your own unique

4:57 sound. Absolutely absolutely, you know it's the I mean, it's a diversity right. Many times I felt my whole life, I have felt like I haven't fit in just because you know, again, first of all, I will probably be the first female from Pakistan to ever you know, have any kind of accolades within the rock heavy rock genre. And so everywhere I went I always felt like I was ahead of my time. And now it feels like that the world is finally ready for the amount of diversity and the color that is inside of my experiences. So yeah, it definitely does color at all. It's true because you know, we go back to like the seventies and eighties, and you know, you couldn't blend genres much less, you know, music from different parts of the world into one song or one album.

5:57 And I love that we can do that nowadays because it's way. But you're an artist, you should express yourself, you know, absolutely, absolutely, And I think the listening ears ready for it too now. I think with the world becoming one technologically and through the Internet and through social media, I think, you know, I have cousins who still live in Pakistan, who live other parts of the world, and it's unbelievable how we are all in the same reality because of technology, you know, and so it's incredible. It's the right time there you go. So I was at this festival a couple of months ago where this dude played. He he's known for this song rich Men North of Richmond, and he was he was in a little pop up as we were evacuated, and then and then this comes across my desk. I'm like, oh cool, and I have to say, okay, hope he's not listening. Not the throwing shade, but I liked your version much better. Well, thank you, thank you. You know, it wasn't a competition when I wrote it. But what I realized that his is very very targeted. Sound is targeted it is. I don't think he ever met for it to become so mthemic and for people to take it on as a political song. I don't think he even knew that it was going to do what it did. Actually, but so many people were talking about

7:30 it, and my parents called me. I mean there, I grew up in Dallas. You know, they listen to Fox News, they do their night they routines, and my mom says, there's this guy named Oliver Anthony and she goes he was on such and such news broadcast. And I was like, you got it, a kidding made this guy's everywhere everywhere? My parents know about him before I do. So I listened to the track, and you know, and I realized, what was it about the song that caught so many people so quickly. I don't think it was just a political agenda. I think it was an actual It was their voice. It was almost like somebody had given each individual a voice wherever they were, whatever they were was exhausting them, whatever was weighing them down, they found a voice through that song. And so I thought, if this was my song, if I had written it, where would I take it? And what came out was what you heard? I love it and what kind of made you?

8:30 You know, there's millions of songs you could pick from. What made you pick this one? To reimagine your own rendition of it? I'm you know, Dana, I'm very fascinated by the human realm. I'm I'm a bit of a student when it comes to studying humanity. I've always been that way, ever since I was a child. I'd wander off into thoughts for hours at a time, just you know, contemplating humanity, plight and where they're headed, where we're headed, what we're doing. And so the fact that it caught fire like a wildfire fascinated me massively, and so I thought, you know, here's a wildfire that started on August ninth when the song was released by Oliver Anthony, and what could happen if I released it?

9:16 What would happen? You know? I wanted to actually join the wildfire and say and say, okay, those people that wouldn't listen to it because it's limited by a genre. What if it went into my genre, what would it do and what could it do? And could I bring the same depths out of it that people have felt through Oliver Anthony's And I think that tempted me very quickly, and that's why I chose to do it. I love it, and one thing I love about it too is okay so to me especially, I go in to all different countries and all over the US to these music festivals, do radio coverage, and there's one thing I find through doing all that is that no matter where I am in the world, there's one unifier where everybody's included, and that's a music festival. Yes, absolutely absolutely, Music is the universal language. Seriously, you get you could take people from fifteen different countries who you don't speak a look of the other person's language, but you turn on songs and they will absolutely feel like they've known each other and they can relate, so no doubt. And then even it always it's like amazing to me that you can go to another country and a person that doesn't speak any English at all will still know the words of a song. But it gets even better. I was with somebody I think it was like two days ago. Oh. I was with my brother and there

10:50 was live music and it was in different language, and I was singing it and he goes, do you know this song? And I'm like no, but I like it, and he's like, so, how do you know the words? I'm like, I don't know. I just do. That's something I do. Well. There's there's a band called Slaughter to Prevail their Russian, but you know, they do some songs in English, but then they just belt it out in Russian and I swear I can sing every word and I don't speak Russian, right, but it comes out. And then also, you know Lacuna Coil with Christina Saba. When she was first starting out, she didn't speak English very well, but all her songs were in English and you'd never know that she didn't speak English. So you know, I know, right, he think allows you to translate in a way that no other language can. It's so true. And you just mentioned two bands I absolutely love. But another example too is the Scorpions. They originally, oh I spoke German, and then even there was I remember in the eighties that apparently they were deaf too, like from playing so wild all the time and still could play great without even being able to hear himself. Yes, absolutely, so there you go. There you have it. And you know it is like to me, music is the biggest therapy for you, the artists, for me, the listener, and it is the one I think safe place in the world that all the bull crap that everybody's arguing about doesn't

12:22 even exist. Absolutely absolutely, I think it is definitely that that language that can create peace among the human spirit that nothing else ever can and will I don't believe. You know, it's about resonance, it's about a beat, it's about it's about so much more, and it climbs in it's so it's such a transparent space. So it definitely has no agenda attached to it. That's another big thing with music. No agenda's attached to music exactly. And and you know, I say, instead of having wars, we should solve it with a battle of the bands. And you're gonna love this. I get you ready for this. I've said this all along. I think we should get rid of American presidential elections and just have a wall of death, a wall of a wall of death, and the winner of the wall of death becomes president of the United States, we could start a petition. Let's do it. I know, right, listen, we couldn't be much worse off in that respect. No, I agree with that, So tell everybody how to connect to you on socials, on the web, check out all your music, buy your merch all that good stuff. Yes, well,

13:56 we again are just starting out. It's been a journey of coming back from me, coming back, you know, it's a resurrection time for me. So you can go to Fadingnemesis Official dot com is our website. You can engage with us there, merch stores there. We are just now bringing it all to life. A lot is happening creatively. Also on all the socials, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, just look up Fading Nemesis. You'll find us immediately, you know, just trying to absolutely connect with the people and can't can't tell enough to tell everybody and else how honored we are to be able to do this for them and with them. So well, we're honored to have your music because it is badass, and I think everybody needs to check it out. And then you even have you know, the the record set for release in spring in twenty twenty four, so definitely, people definitely have to connect so they can look out for that. Absolutely. I went to the record is set to release, we will announce it and then we're working out right now the tours and the festivals for summer of twenty twenty four.

15:07 We had the privilege of doing a couple of shows with Peyton Parrish just to test out the album, and the people responded amazingly well. From looking forward to going out on the road and taking the record out to the people live face to face. I love it. I can't wait, and thanks for all you do for us with your music, and thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man. Thank you so much Jean for having me. I really appreciate it. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin. I'm w for CUI Radio.