Regina band Indigo Joseph dare to be different, exploring many different styles of music which they will be bringing to Lethbridge with Go For the Eyes on Oct. 8 at the Slice.
They played the Owl Acoustic Lounge last year with Go For the Eyes, but will be at the Slice this time supporting their brand new CD, the aptly named “Collage.”
“ Go for the Eyes are good buddies of ours,” said drummer Eric Tessier adding they are excited to tour the country from Vancouver to Halifax in support of it.
“ It’s brand new. It was released, Sept. 12 and we’re crossing the country in two months.It’s a bilingual album. there are three French songs on it, so it is important to play them in Quebec. It’s important to play Western Canada two, but Alberta is so close to Saskatchewan that it feels like we could go there any time,” he continued.
He noted it is important to shake up their sound.
“ To quote one of my band members. We’re part of the ADD generation, so you will never hear the same song twice. If you really like a song, unfortunately you won’t ever hear it again. Conversely if you really hate a song, you won’t hear it again either, he said adding they basically wrote the new CD in the studio and had envisioned a double album, but trimmed it down from 22 songs to the 11 on the CD.
“We did a lot of pre-production.We wrote the songs in a different studio in a basement. We experimented a lot with them,” he said adding some came together quicker than others.
“ We didn’t choose the songs, they chose us,” he said.
“ ‘Others’ is probably the oldest song on the CD. We recorded it as a single at the end of 2013 and people expressed their love for it by voting for it, so we wanted to put it on an album. But songs have different lifespans. We’ll have an idea for a song that stays around for years before we build on it,” he said.
The band members are all multi-instrumentalists and aren’t afraid to switch instruments in the studio and definitely on stage.
“Etienne will step up from behind the keyboards and pick up a guitar. While Byrun plays guitar with more feel while Sean plays guitar more rhythmically. So it is for what the song needs.”
The animal masks from the ‘Others’ video also appear on stage.
“ It’s definitely the same giraffe mask. It‘s fun. It is also a subtle nod to the fact that we can play for any audiences from preschool-age kids to elderly people and retirement parties. The animal masks show we are an all inclusive band that includes everybody,” he continued.
They are excited to begin the tour and return to Lethbridge.
“ “We’ll play a lot of new material. It will be a high energy, fun show,” he said.
