The Obelisk Questionnaire: Frida Eurenius of Spiral Skies
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The Obelisk Questionnaire: Frida Eurenius of Spiral Skies
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How do you define what you do and how did you come to do it?
We play on other planets kinda rock and we write music together, all the five of us. Our intention is not to sound like any special genre – we just write and play what we like. That sometimes that is the hardest thing, to get five people to like the same stuff. But after the two albums and one EP I guess we manage it, and I would say our love for 70s hard rock and psychedelic music unites us all.
Describe your first musical memory.
Probably when I was around four, singing in a local radio station. We were interviewed about something and I took my chance to get my 15 minutes of fame, asking if I could sing a bit. And I could. A children’s song about a rabbit. Very Jefferson Airplane when I think about it…
Describe your best musical memory to date.
I have a lot of them but probably when we played the Sweden Rock Festival and got thousands of people singing along to “Labyrinth of the Mind.” But I must also admit that I loved being in the studio with Emil (our producer). He was really encouraging and we had so much fun.
How do you define success?
When it comes to Spiral Skies — for me it is if things are developing in the right way for us. More gigs, more opportunities, more listeners. The chance to do what we do but a bit more, how to say, comfortable. However, Success can also be that we still like to hang with each other after seven years, and that we all still think this is fun. But I must say I put a lot of hard work in Spiral Skies, so of course success is both wanted and necessarily for me — to be able to keep the fire up in the long run. It takes so much time and energy to really work with the band, and to create good stuff except for just writing music.
What is something you have seen that you wish you hadn’t?
Some nasty videos containing death and violence against animals that I saw as a youngster. Not good.
Describe something you haven’t created yet that you’d like to create.
My garden, haha. A wonderful Labyrinth in the garden where I can wander around and float into other atmospheres. Except for that, I want to release my own songs. One day, one day… any day now.
What do you believe is the most essential function of art?
Art is fundamental and it takes us somewhere else. Beyond what we see and experience in the “real world”. Art gives us a wonderful opportunity to explore what is not presented as fact to us.
Something non-musical that you’re looking forward to?
To spend the first spring in our new bought house. To plant trees, and vegetables in my green house. Hang around in the garden with my cat and a glass of Cava. And not be at work.
[Photo above by Morgan Tjärnström.]
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