PipemanRadio Interviews Neolia

0:04 Hey, you love them too? Sure? From four C wow wyke up of America, It's time for the Adventures of Pipe Man on W four cy dot com list. Pomp Beach is number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the pipe Man, right out the same way. So I am jacking. I nevern't nary. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with our guests that has some killer music coming out. But I mean it's kind of exciting for me because they're over in Israel. I wish I was over in Israel right now, but I am going to and it's a real celebration tonight at the beach after this interview. So I don't know if that's like karma or if that's or what, but I have just done a pun of everything in that intro. So let's just welcome to his show. We all, Yeah,

1:34 how are you guys? WHOA We're helf overwhelmed, helf, you know, alerted to get this going out. We're working on publishing this new album and it's really exciting. I think it's exciting too. I think it's a perfect timing too. You know, it drops on May fifth, but this week was you know, the seventy five birthday of Israeli independence. So it's a perfect time. Nice that you know that. You know, my daughter, my daughter was just in Israel during the summer. She really Yeah. While I was at Hellfest doing radio coverage in Hell at hell Fest, my daughter was in Israel doing her birthright. Wow, you have enough to come back to come to to come to your birth right. That's right, that's right.

2:31 You know. She was telling me too, because she's like, oh, Dad, because I'm fifty six, She's like, they have stuff for like if you're over fifty, where you could go on these trips to Israel. And I do travel often anyway. Weirdest thing is like I'm the most Jewish in my whole family. I've never been to Israel. I don't know why. It's just and I've traveled a lot. So it is definitely time for sure. And she had the time of her life, like she'd like to live there. She came back wanting to move them. Well, you know, I hear a lot of I hear about a lot of a lot of people that feel that like need or urge or like um maybe hut bent As only we would say, is it like that certain like need to come to Israel and live here and be like a part of that like Jewish world and Jewish mentality. But I think that like in my in my perspective, like Judaism is not necessarily about being in Israel. I mean, it's it's about the connection with God and and all around it and God is I mean, if you are a believer, then I mean I think that you know, God is like all over and you don't necessarily have to be here, although it's a nice place to come and hang out in travel a little bit.

4:01 It's a small place so you don't get to trouble too much, but but it's still nice. It's still you know, still a cool place to hang out. It's so funny you should say that because it just goes to perspective, because you know, you are right. I agree with that. Like that, I think that's the whole basis of Judaism is like God is like anywhere that you are. You know, you don't need to be there. But it's interesting though. Okay, so I'm gonna fill you in a couple reasons why maybe Americans feel that way. Number One, when we're going to Hebrew School. It's hammered into our head that you know Israel. It's like that's part of being Jewish. Is you're part of Israel, and it's like we're we're it's like hammered in our head that we should be going back to the homeland. Like seriously, that's exactly how it's put. So that's like, that's like in our her brain. That's why I even said when I said before, because it's like, man, I've lived all these years and I still haven't been to the homeland. That's kind of how I'm thinking, you know. And then then there's the other part, which is not as positive. But believe it or not, a lot of the Israelis that I've known that live in the United States, they kind of it's interesting because they kind of like will look at somebody like me and it's like, well, you're not a real Jew because you're not from Israel, And that happens

5:33 quite often. It's interesting. But here's what I found out when my daughter went to Israel. The Israelis in Israel don't think that way. They don't think she's like a what you mean, like they see her like as a proper Jew or yeah, whatever, yeah, supposed to be. She was totally included and like it isn't like that at all. She thought that the people that she was around were like some of the nicest people that would it really I'll tell you something the experience, which is why I would say everybody in America or wherever it's done, does birthright because she came back and like she has a whole different thought process. I'm being Jewish and she's like feels like really attached now. And in fact, she just did which I don't think she wouldn't have done if she had she gone not gone to Israel.

6:34 She just held her first ever said her and did all on her own to our show. It was like two weeks ago, right after the Pessa really didn't know what things and she doesn't know us now, but maybe after this interview she will. Yeah, she definitely will have to make sure of it. That's yeah. I mean Jewish people, you kind of ache for other Jews like across the world to come and join them, because like this is like the this is like a united unity thing, you know. It's um it's a it's a like prayer and just religion in general. It's it's it's a matter of being being being together, just being a part of a bigger thing, a bigger thing exactly. So so I think they appreciate it, and each person that arrives here, they kind of feel like their energy and they feel like they're kind of there are they are able to form like a bigger community and a bigger energy feel like around it and like solder so even like like from a religious perspective, like the prayers are stronger this way,

8:05 and I'm just saying that, but I'm I mean and I feel it, but not necessarily as a religious person because I'm not like totally like on the other perspective, but I do like understand the energy thing and like the togetherness. Yes, that's why I'm all about right there, the unity. And I think that's the common denominator between that and metal because that's the feeling I get in a metal festival or a metal show too, is like unity, part of a family. It's like I think it's the same, me too, me too. I always I always like when I when I like a few years ago, I was I was kind of introduced like not um, not personally, but I was kind of introduced to uh, Simon sink Um and uh his philosophy do you know it? I don't chance, I don't you do if you don't ringing? No, it's not ringing a bell.

9:13 And so he had like this video on YouTube, like a lot of views and whatever um about like the power of why oh I know about that? All right? So so I started like like as a part of my own journey within Naolia, So I started to kind of rethink my my whole like why am I doing this? Why am I doing Like why did I choose something that myself when I was not even ten, maybe it was like eight or nine that I decided to start like playing music. Why did I Why did I do that? And why am I still like in you know, a few generate a few like many years later and I'm still doing this as a profession right now. And I like kind of took things, took my thoughts backwards and try to try to realize, like what was the motive behind us? What made me do this? And I understood that my oldest brother he told me, listen, you got to listen to these bands blah blah blah. And I saw their shows on MTV back then on the Headbanger's Ball and all that stuff, and I saw like the crowd, and I more than the music. I fell in love with the crowd with the energy that

10:46 they brought, you know, the smiles, the togetherness, and it clicked. That's why I'm doing this. It's not it's not necessarily about the music. It's about the people. Yes, everybody, I can totally totally see that. And you know what I dig too about your guys music. Okay, So if I tell people, because you know, I'm a metal head, and if I tell people like, oh yeah, I'm a metal head and I also like reggae, they look at me like I'm a weirdo, Like how do you like both of those? You know? And then here and I'm a thrash metal head on top of it. So here I'm listening to your music, which all our listeners should be doing. I'm like, man, that combines both parts of my world and both parts of my personality.

11:37 I love it. Oh yeah, that's that's very sweet. Tell us a little bit about that, and like how that all came together, that you guys blend these genres, which is what I love nowadays, because back in the old days, we had to be snobs and God forbid you listen to this if you were into this and I hated it and I thought it was stupid. And that's why I'm happy people and bands like you are not doing and you're bringing, you know, different viewpoints to the table, different sounds to the table to create your unique sound. Wow. Thank you. First of all, I would say that, I mean, in these days, you know, progressive music is not a curse. It's a it's not a swear to say that. And still I think that we're besides having lots of the genres, it's also kind of understanding that in this format, in this concept that we have, at least now we acknowledge that life as many parts in it, many places, one can visit, many emotions one can feel. And you know, maybe metal is more concentiated about anger or about you know, aggressiveness or whatever it might mean. But we're trying to kind of open it up and give space to a more kind of deeper a sense of kind of searching for what's beneath It's what's beneath them, you know,

13:13 what is the spirit that you're trying to communicate with through the music. Yeah, So we're trying to also kind of be mystical about those things as we are expressing ourselves, even if it's aggressively, even if it's like dancing and like making it happy as well and said and expressing the melancholic parts of life, and you know, just expressing whatever there is to express. Yeah, I love it. I would just like to add on a more musical part the musical sense. For me, I grew up as a some sort of a rocker metal head was like a combination. But I got to experience like different genres as I was growing up, but not only metal. And I can speak for myself and say that I never felt like I kind of fit it anywhere in any like specific genre. I didn't like just dive into like a specific genre and like knew all about it. I just kept strolling, like just taking walks and like taking journeys between genres. And I used to play. I used to play like a lot of stuff, like African stuff, Latin Georgian music, wow, like Moroccan music. So I had to

14:48 have like this experience that kind of fed me through the journey and made me kind of, you know, become more interested in in about everything. And so things came out like a certain way. You know, I love it. That's that's so cool because again going back to creating that you know, unique sound, I think that's where it comes from. Like I find a lot of bands today if they don't have that thought process like you do. You know, it's like they it's almost like they're just plugging in a formula to create metal, and that metal is never about that in the beginning, you know, like it shouldn't be a formula. It should be expression.

15:35 Definitely, definitely what sort of a form of expression. But I think people are more worried about success today and in their you know, successing their perspective and their yeah, and their way of thinking, you know, and get it. And I respect it. You know. I respect whoever wants to like put bread on his on his on his plate, I respect it. It's okay. You know, each person has his own, uh agenda to life and he has certain needs and it's you know, you get it.

16:22 Yeah, And uh you know, I love that you said before a journey because to go back to the punt I was making in the intro. Okay, so that song Karma, that that's what it felt like to me to watch that video and listen to that music like I was. It was like I was going on a journey and I love that. That to me, that's great music because you know, even though we're in that short attention span society that you know, it's like real quick songs, track track track mentality. I still think it in days that when I was younger, sitting on my balcony with headphones on, listening to a whole album and it was like going on a journey. It was it was escape from all the issues whatever I was dealing with at the time. Agreed, agreed it would be actually ideal, euphoric if a person would be exposed to this music. I would say then like in headphones in as a part of a journey, as a part of the process, as a part of an emotional state that the person is in. You know, if you if you need a moment for yourself, go aside, go to your balcony, put those headphones. You know this you you deserve it. No that, Yeah, this is how I

17:52 would wish to be exposed to this music if I wasn't so aware of it. Well, you know, it was cool about Karma is like it did remind me of like old school stuff in the sense of you never knew what to expect next. Like nowadays, a lot of songs like you listen to the first five seconds, you've pretty much listened to the whole song because they're designing it for those people that have the goldfish attention span. But man, I like, when like I was listened to, it's like you start off a certain win and again I'm like, oh, this is pretty cool. And then when it got to the thrash part, I was like, holy shit, I didn't expect that. Yeah, you know, we kinda we did grow up on thrash. I did like grow up on Metallica and Pintera and whatever. You know. Secultura definitely like, um, these guys definitely like influenced me and like a lot of other bands of course, But and and it's it's it's still in me. I love this energy. And but you know, we are we are our own entity, and we need to keep to maintain it this way, you know, because this is us and

19:25 we need to express ourselves. When I create music for other people, all create it for their needs. But when I create music for myself, it's going to be for myself from within myself, for myself, and I mean, obviously it needs to project afterwards to other people. I you know, it's it's a journey, and like Ben said, we are all like in the middle of some journey. We are all experience in life. We're all like, we're all in needs to search to evolve, and you know, I think it's important that when you make music as an artist, it should be for yourself, because what I've found is that the bands that really make an impact and are long lasting are those bands that are not making music for everybody else. Now it ends up that everybody else relates to it and ends up to be helpful for everybody else, but it was initially for the artists themselves. And I think that's because that's when your true expression comes out.

20:45 You can't truly express the proper way when you're expressing for other people's reasons. I think, you know beautifully said yes, well, thanks exactly, and I admit that, you know, it's it's it's it's really beautiful to know that these words are existing, especially in radio in the music industry. You know, we need to remember those these values that kind of brought us in here. Yeah, so it's been exciting for me to hear you saying that. Yeah, it's definitely it's the It's the only way it should be.

21:29 Let's call it what it is. When you're being real. It's just like me on the radio. I don't do loads of preparation because I'm not looking to read a script, you know. It's just I'm just being me. It's funny even too, when I do some of these festivals and I'm doing interviews and then I'm listening to other people's interviews, I'm like, man, as a metal head, that's boring the shit at me. I don't even know how the artists are still sitting there, you know, because when it comes to metal, especially like you have to have a passion. You can't be asking questions like you know, you're writing some like doctorate or something.

22:11 You know. It's like metalheads, no if you're into metal or not. Like and I just think, hey, you shouldn't even be interviewing a metal band unless you're into metal. That's my peopoint. Yeah, yeah, it sounds like it does sound like a script that like maybe a a record label would form you would create like this, this formula, you know, yep, like kind of soul is so so we truly, by the way, not by the way, like honestly, we truly appreciate like this interview with you, um dean, and like this is this is for us, like exactly on what we need and what we wanted to to like to achieve and be able to be part of. Well, that's cool because to me as an interviewer that those kind of words are like the best compliment because especially in this going along with the whole thing I just said about metal, because the way I look at it is press. For an artist, it's probably it can be the worst part of a job because like you're an artist, it's not supposed to be boring, and you don't want to have to answer the same stupid questions that nobody cares about, you know. And like I have friends that you know, are in like some big bands that like we'll talk

23:45 and they're like, yeah, when we were on tour, we wish just people would just ask us what kind of skin lotion we use on tour instead of asking us where we got our band name. You know. Yeah, it's very tricky, you know, to not slide into the you know, regular subjects and the stuff that is already being asked exactly. And I had this rule, if it's all, if it's already on Wikipedia, don't ask. Like there's so many that I hear that they do, Like it's almost like a Wikipedia interview, you know, you can totally tell that's where they did their research, you know, and that can backfire on you because how many times is Wikipedia wrong? Like one of my favorite things that I've listened to, Like you know that I listened to is I forget where it is?

24:44 But one of these people that's like a Wikipedia factor fiction thing, And you know, when they interview bands, they'll like ask them parts of Wikipedia if it's fact or fiction. And it's so funny to get the artists pers active on their Wikipedia. Yeah, with the shoe guys did it like many times they half of the time completely wrong exactly, And it's funny. I'll tell you what funny was. So one time I was interviewing Rob Zombie and at the time there was a bunch of rumors and other press people were saying me, make sure to ask about this where supposedly he was not allowed into his own gig at some club that because they didn't recognize him and they just thought he was some homeless guy, and so they wouldn't let him in the venue. And so we talked about it in the interview and he's like, oh, so that's how the story's going right now. He's like, yeah, know that never happened. Sounds like, but it could happen. Yeah, it's funny too, because before the interview, like, I'm not one of those type of interviewers. So before the interview, I said, hey, like, I know this isn't true, but this might be kind of funny to bring up. And I'm like, do you mind if we bring it up in the interview. He's like sure, you know, because that's the other thing too. We're here to all help each other. And I

26:18 can't stand some of these uh interviewers that want to get famous by shock jocking an artist, you know, and trying to do that crap. Like we're all family. We need to all help each other. You don't. You don't like that. That's uncool, you know, make it make it positive. If you got nothing positive to say, don't do the interview. That's my viewpoint. Well, uh, it's a it's a beautiful perspective, um, and I appreciate it. But yeah, you know, the world is uh is um, it's not always the way we we want to perceive it or we wish to you know, I don't need to explain it. Yeah, no, totally. But you know what's gonna happen. You know what's gonna happen to those people, Karma, That's what's gonna happen to those exactly.

27:18 We're gonna send them the song and they're gonna their lives, they're gonna are gonna change. That's right, that's right. So now, speaking of which, let's tell everybody how connect you guys on the socials, on the web, how they can check out Karma, how they can get the new album by drops, buy merch, all that great stuff. Yeah, Ben, go ahead, all right. Well, so first of all, a week from now, the fifth to the fifth, there's a new album coming up. You can hear it in Spotify or Apple Music or any kind of platform you use. There's music videos and live versions, live videos of us in Israel, mostly on YouTube, so you can definitely watch these two and our merch is on I think band camp from yeah, yeah, exactly so, by the album on band camp already in pre pre sale. Just wherever you look, you'll find us. Just right newly and and it's there videos on YouTube, all the rest is everywhere. Everywhere you look, you'll find it. Um obviously can reach us and like DMUs on on Instagram or whatever.

28:41 We're also on TikTok. Not very popular there, but you know, people get invited to really share their experience. I wonder how people perceive us and to hear also your you know, kind of reaction to Karma. It's it's wonderful. Really, Oh, I think it's just ingenious musical talent and uh, definitely everybody has to check out your music pre order in the album orn it. You know, they don't need to wait till Sinco Demyo. Did you realize that too when you're putting it out on the fifth that you're putting it out on Sinco Demyo. What see, there's a whole new spin to the marketing campaign now I get. I'm gonna have to discuss it with John, So yeah, there you go. You know what you need to do now is you need to like make some merch that uh that are somebreros.

29:44 Wow, you could do like a Neolia it's Sobrero for Sinco Demyo record release. It's amazing I'm going to check what what's going on? Just compliments also practical uh suggestions, Right, that's amazing. Yeah, I appreciate like to think about it too. You can start a whole new trend. It could be like people at your shows and somebreros with spikes on them, but but it also has like the the reggae colors in the sombrero. So final, guys, we're starting to rethink our whole like, um, yeah, I know a whole friend. Yeah whatever, all right, that's amazing.

30:37 There you go say, and then you can have Then you could have to keep odds that could go under the sombrero, like he goes some package deal sombrero and a keep package. Wow, I would love. I would love like keep out with n Onlia logo on it. It would be so funny. Oh god, you gotta do it. Like imagine everywhere you go in Israel, everybody's wearing one of those on shoppers. Well, and we thought that like beer openers are original, right, I love? So you guys got a final words for our listeners. Wow, so much have been said and at the point, um, enjoy really enjoy whatever we got to show you. Because we've been working on it a lot, and it's so nice to have the stage here with you. Pipeman. You're also invited very much to Israel, you and all your audience to visit us in one of the shows. We're doing lots of stuff, not yet with the Sombreros, but I have been a surprising already in some in some with some stuff. So yeah, we'll get a special some Burrow just for you if you show up.

32:04 Oh yeah, there you go. I'll take the keep up too, like I mean definitely like, um, just try to keep up with the with the music. We're gonna be releasing like a bunch of stuff on mostly on YouTube, but obviously we're gonna share it like all over. But we're gonna release some playthroughs with the guitars, with the vocals, bass, like drums, whatever. We're gonna just like keep on keep on putting out stuff and um like it's it. We're gonna remain busy for the for the next year at least with with just releases every month. So just stay tuned.

32:55 Just be there, be a part of it. Yes, be a part of it. That's the best words right there. And thanks for giving such great music to us, and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thank you pipe Man for allowing this, uh, this interview and giving us this special moment with you. We appreciate it truly well. Thank you. It was quite an adventure. It's talking to the beginning. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man. I'm W for CUI Radio.