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The Obelisk Questionnaire: Davide Chiari of The Lancasters

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How do you define what you do and how did you come to do it?

I am a producer who loves analog recording machines and their detailed and textured sound. This has become my job in 2014. The Lancasters’s idea came to me in 2018 before every band’s records but it definitely was the wet dream I’ve always been trying to bring to reality: the band which produces everything on tape making sessions in which the band itself produces during rehearsals.

Describe your first musical memory.

Me stealing my sister’s guitar – which she wasn’t playing at all – and trying to play it looking for weird but pleasant tunings.

Describe your best musical memory to date.

It was when I played for the first time facing a 2000 people audience in 2018.

When was a time when a firmly held belief was tested?

Definitely when I recorded the first time on tape and it seemed to work fine.

Where do you feel artistic progression leads?

It brings people to become either dumb or rich in new fictitious worlds you made come true by tunes you’ve been generating.

How do you define success?

I think of success everyday depicting it as the step you feel you made towards the right direction. To myself it is never definitive, you always must keep your thoughts focused on your actions, you confirm the shape of your art step by step, it is like the build-up of your inner self.

What is something you have seen that you wish you hadn’t?

WhatsApp tags and groups, Smartphones held above head for the entire concert, Right wing winning elections everywhere due to people’s fears.

Describe something you haven’t created yet that you’d like to create.

My dream is to build my own studio mixing desk.

What do you believe is the most essential function of art?

It is to become a vector of information through time, space and matter to express what nothing than a human’s conscience needs to share, like an example of either fantasy or reality protraction.

Something non-musical that you’re looking forward to?

I wish to build my country house farming and carving and cutting wood to make furniture, and of course my own branded mixing desk’s flanks and tops.

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The Lancasters, Standard Family Size (2023)