The Jazz Butcher
The Jazz Butcher Press Jazz Butcher - April 11, 1990
Published: Alterock (Budapest, Hungary) April 11, 1990 Credit: ;; Source: saltyka.blogspot.com
Interview w/Conspirator: Pat Fish

Jazz Butcher

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Credit: David Whittemore

The Jazz Butcher's music includes dreaming psychedelia and folk music. To the question what they have to do with butchers:

Pat: "As much as to jazz, that means nothing."

There is a lot of humour in your songs. Aren't you affraid that the audience find you simple? Once a journalist wrote about you that you are either geniouses or idiots.

"Absolutely not, these songs are not humorous at all. I still get moved again and again when i come to a beautiful line in the lyrics. But these are very personal and they can arouse different feelings in different people. That's why we are playing pop music. It's good to feel happy and sad at the same time." Once a journalist wrote about you that you are either geniouses or idiots.

How would you describe your music in only one sentence? Once a journalist wrote about you that you are either geniouses or idiots.

"How could you describe Lou Reed and Tom waits in a sentence? The personality of these people guarantees quality. We don't compare well with them. But we are trying to follow in their footsteps. And back to your question, you have to decide what kind of music we are playing." Once a journalist wrote about you that you are either geniouses or idiots.

Once a journalist wrote about you that you are either geniouses or idiots.

"I remember, it's by Helen Mead, but my favourite quotation is from a Canadian magazine: "The Jazz Butcher is gazing at the world, showing it as it is. That's the reason why people think this band is crazy". However the situation is that we behave like little children in a toyshop. We are playing with something and running away to try something else. Because there is something new in every corner."