Q&A with Reptar
Athens-based indie rock and experimental dance band Reptar will make its second Milledgeville appearance Jan. 28, performing at Amici Italian Café.
Lauren Davidson, the Arts & Entertainment editor for The Colonnade, spoke with Ryan Engleberger, bassist for the band, to learn more about the group.
TELLALLYOURFRIENDSPR.COMQ: How would you explain your genre of music? Any certain artists or band that you guys are inspired by?
A: Our main goal is to try to keep people dancing, but our next biggest goal is to try and keep people wondering what they are going to be dancing to next. As a result, we try to draw on as many different influences as possible, be it other bands, technology, social studies or mathematic phenomena. Astronomy influences a lot of our music.The biggest influence of all, however, has been the different people that we have played shows with, talked about music with, been in bands with or drunkenly sung along with through the years growing up. Athens and Asheville have both provided the Reptar family with a lot of different musical perspectives, needs, feelings and faces.
Q: How many times have you played in Milledgeville. What venues?
A: We’ve played Milledgeville only once. It was at the Deep Roots Festival which was a great experience, but probably a somewhat unusual one since it’s a big outdoor stage festival type thing.
Q: What has been the biggest
accomplishment thus far for the band?
A: Playing Lollapalooza was undoubtedly a huge accomplishment for us. On top of that, and maybe even more significantly, we just finished recording our debut album which should come out in April. Having that in the final stages is certainly a huge thing for us.
Q: Who primarily writes the music for the band?
A: There is a wide range of variety for how songs come into being. Generally speaking, Graham will come to the band with a song that is anywhere from almost finished to barely begun. He then will have to either let go as we add all kinds of new things he wasn’t expecting to his little baby song idea or he will have to play defense to stop us from destroying the beautiful thing that he has created. Sometimes, we do get songs started by staring around at each other and working on a tiniest sliver of an idea we come up with in the moment and then have a song after a lot of practicing and tweaking and seeing what happens.
Q: Do you have any record label?
A: We are currently signed to Vagrant Records, and are releasing the EP on vinyl on our own Quality Faucet Records.
Posted by Lauren Davidson
on Jan 26 2012. Filed under Features.
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