You have to diversify yourself if you’re working in the music business: Karcius’ Sylvain Auclair on their new album “Grey White Silver Yellow and Gold” and surviving the pandemic as a full-time musician. We also talk about the songwriting ping-pong game, embracing heaviness with age rather than growing softer and we also touch on the chances for new material from his other band, Heaven’s Cry.

Chapters:

01:00 Introducing Sylvain

02:20 The Karcius story so far

05:33 Grey White Silver Yellow and Gold - a Baroness discography Boxset?

06:50 The Ping-Pong Game: songwriting in Karcius

10:40 From The Fold to the new album: ramping up the heaviness

13:20 Getting heavier with age: discovering grit and false vocal chords

16:28 Writing vocal melodies for Karcius and Heaven’s Cry

20:10 Avoiding boxes and drawers: writing instinctively

25:15 Surviving the pandemic as a full-time musician

32:20 Concert plans with Karcius

36:48 Any news about Heaven’s Cry?

42:48 Playing the bass with a metal plectrum

🎵 Karcius is:

Sylvain Auclair (lead vocals, bass, percussion)

Thomas Brodeur (drums & percussion, programming & sound design)

Sebastien Cloutier (piano, B3, Mellotron, backing vocals)

Simon L’Espérance (guitars, synths, percussion, keyboards, loops programming)

💿 Discography:

Sphere (2004)

Kaleidoscope (2006)

Episodes (2008)

The First Day (2012)

The Fold (2018)

Live in France (2019)

Grey White Silver Yellow & Gold (2022)

✔️ Follow Karcius:

Website: https://karcius.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Karciusmusic

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karciusmusic/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/karciusmusic

Youtube: https://bit.ly/KarciusYouTube

Bandcamp: https://karcius.bandcamp.com/

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3MOQuN1

✔️ Follow Heaven’s Cry:

Website: https://www.heavenscry.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heavenscry

Twitter: https://twitter.com/heavenscryband

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/heavenscryband

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3MH5Zqe

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