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Richard Hobbs has a brief Q&A session with Steve Archer and Donna Lynch, who are both partners in the Angelfall Studios business and also founding members of the labels current bands Ego Likeness and The Trinity Project…. (September 2002) |
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1. How long has Angelfall studios been in operation and what were your original aspirations for it? SA: Angelfall Studios existed as my website for about five years before it came together as an actual business. The art gallery and café will be opening to the public on October 11th. The label has been around for a year.DL: The concept began as a record label only, but due to the grand visions and support from our other partner, Hollis, it quickly turned into a large multi-media project. 2. The Angelfall studios offer a record label, recording studio, art gallery and café…So with the running of this, plus your own bands Ego Likeness and The Trinity Project it’s a full time job for you, yes? SA: It’s our lives. We eat, sleep and breathe this thing. DL: I imagine it’s very similar to having kids. 3. All this under one roof must be a rather cost effective situation for your bands? SA: It’s nice after living as starving artists for years to finally have some room to explore many of the concepts we come up with. So far it’s been pretty convenient. 4. Are there plans to branch out even further? SA: Just wait… 5. What other bands have taken advantage of your recording studio facilities? DL: None yet. The studio, which is owned by Jerome Lintz, the drummer for Ego Likeness, is still under construction. Our own projects are still recorded at our home studio for the time being. 6. In what way do you tie in the artwork design to suit your album releases? SA: I guess when you reach the end of an album, the pictures in the music and words tell you where to go. It’s sometimes a happy accident. The art on The Trinity Project cover is just a still from some digital video footage I shot for our stage backdrops. While going through the tape I just happened upon that frame and was like, “that’s it…that’s the cover.” 7. There is a various artists compilation album soon to be released on the label, any news? SA: Yes, “Angelfall Studios Compilation Vol. I - Emotional Overdrive” is out and available through www.angelfallstudios.com . 8. Are you just concentrating on promoting your own material at the moment, or have any bands outside of the Angelfall business recently signed up to the label? SA: Mostly just our own material while we get things rolling. DL: In the meantime, we chose to do the compilation as a way to help promote some other great bands. 9. I see there is also the literature “In My Mouth” by Donna Lynch available through Angelfall… DL: Yes, it’s a collection of poems and short stories that I compiled over a number of years. I never wrote any of it with the book in mind, but there was a recurring theme of abuse that ran through all of the pieces, so it seemed proper to put them together. Portions of sales are donated to local domestic violence and sexual assault centres. 10. What are the preferred methods of promoting your work? SA: I love getting materials to DJ’s, clubs, and radio stations, and of course… interviews with cool zines. 11. And then there’s the distribution, what are your outlets? SA: Mostly on the web, though we’re looking into other means of distribution. 12. Am I correct in believing there is a close relationship between Angelfall Studios and Dancing Ferret Discs? SA: We get along with Patrick and Dancing Ferret very well, and like what he does. We aren’t directly involved with DF, but Patrick rocks and has been very supportive and helped to promote us. 13. What are the advantages and disadvantages of being based in Baltimore? SA: It’s cool because we are an easy drive to NYC, Philly, and DC, which makes performing in those cities pretty easy. DL: Baltimore is a bizarre place. I really love it here; the weirdness has it’s ups and downs, though. 14. So…would you say running Angelfall is comfortable or challenging work? SA: It’s definitely not easy, but nothing worth doing is. 15. Without Angelfall Studios…what would you be doing for a living now? SA: The same thing. It would just be much harder. DL: I’d still be selling Doc Martens and feeling surly and jaded. 16. Are there any important factors we’ve not mentioned? SA: We have mugs! DL: Yeah, you know you’re doing something right when you get to have coffee mugs with your logo on them. |