With The Machine, Jodymoon steps into a bold new sonic chapter. In this interview, the duo explores their shift toward electronic elements and the album’s reflections on technology, humanity, and change.
After the duo-tour we did for our previous album ‘Firestone’ we were thinking’ it would be nice again to have a drummer and bass player for the next project. So we started to write songs with this in mind and used Johan’s old drum machine to lay down some drum grooves. But as time went by we fell in love with these and kept the drum machine parts.
Well it’s hard to miss isn’t it? It’s all around, we all use the technology and it develops in a mind-boggling speed. The scariest thing to us is that not so long from now you won’t be able to tell if a video for example of a politician is real or fake. And of course in music there is a lot of AI generated stuff coming.
We started building songs around rhythm rather than chords — letting a beat or a repetitive synth pattern guide the melody. Folk songs usually start with storytelling; these ones started with motion. Once the rhythm was in place, the lyrics and harmonies flowed differently — simpler, more cyclical, like mantras. It taught us that repetition can be emotional too, not just mechanical. It’s that blend we were chasing — the city’s pulse meeting the forest’s heartbeat.
Technology is not necessarily cold; we like to think we blended it in a way it works really well with our voices and instruments.
Mainly by not overdoing it live. We control the loops and beats, they shoulnd’t control us. An album is a different medium than a live performance. We like it when you hear an artist improvise and move freely in the songs. So that’s what we try do do. Some songs already developped a bit different in the live set because it felt better that way in that situation.
All three of the above of course!
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