Magic Dirt - Wild ride
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Magic Dirt would have to be one of Australia’s most hardworking bands. Just over a year after the release of their 5th studio album Snow White they are back in the studio recording and also appearing on letters around Australia. The Dwarf was lucky enough to get to speak to Magic Dirt frontwoman Adalita about these things and more.
The band are currently mixing and mastering an EP due for release this month “it’s a giveaway for the fans” she said. Then they'll be embarking on a short tour before they go back into the studio to record a mini-album due for release next year. Adalita describes the band's new material;
“It’s heavier, we went and played these new songs and stripped everything down, and wanting to get away from the pop stuff. The songs are getting so heavy that even I even get a little bit scared.”
In regards to using any new instruments?
“We have gone the other way and are just using drums, bass, vocals, for awhile there I was really trying to add stuff like piano and strings, extra percussion, I’m enjoying having it really raw and really stripped back. In the studio with this recording we’ve made it really raw and it just sounds better, its where our heads are at and we just don’t want to complicate things and just make it really simple,” says Adalita.
Magic Dirt also have a new release of a differently kind when they were one of the few bands featured on a new set of Australia Post stamps of Rock Posters.
“When we found out, we were just like what? We went to a signing in Melbourne at the Australia Post GPO and it was really great, full on stamp collectors were coming up with their envelopes with numbered series, it was full on. Magic Dirt sometimes just do these weird things, this is a once in a lifetime thing.”
While recording Adalita says she prefers to stay in complete silence due to so much going on in her head. With their own music then listening to music and bands but she has been out to see a few live Aussie acts.
“I’ve been out and seen some really great Australian live acts like red sun band, Love Outside Andromeda and Bit by Bats”
I asked her if the band uses their live shows to test their new material on audiences.
“We dump them on the unsuspecting crowd,” Adalita says.
The band like to challenge their audience and they like to utilize their live shows to try and better their own songs and this usually happens by seeing how the crowd reacts to them.
With the popularity of blogs and Myspace Adalita thinks it's important to have their own web presence for the fans. Adalita writes her own diary on the official Magic Dirt website.
"We did that from the very start, and that’s how the band has always liked it, when it was snail mail we’d reply to everyone” I can vouch for this as I wrote Magic Dirt a letter when I was 15 (I’m 25 now) and they wrote back to me and made my day. “It was fun just having people tell you all these great things, how they enjoy your music, how can you not write back”. They are also working on their myspace page.
