Much more than water
Three members with more than 70% of water are Who makes Anita shake! Or at least that’s what they say. This French band has just released a debut EP called Cinecittà along with a same titled video single that has been critically acclaimed. Now, Antoine, Clément and Amaury present the live video Oh I have been stupid in the Nau Nua Festival in which we can enjoy their dreamy atmospheres, their melodies dressed with synthesizers, guitars and echoes from the street. Who makes Anita shake! are an eternal question to be answered, an experience that embraces pop and electronic sounds in order to shake their minds and ours, of course. Magnificent pop songs like Charlie and Off the lights are just the beginning of something really special to come.
Who makes Anita Shake?
Why did you get inspired by Cinecittà?
Somehow, we had in our studio a postcard figuring the entrance of la città del cinema...and we have this habit of naming songs at an early stage of their development, by finding words hiding in the room we are in. A title has a great influence on the way an audience perceives a piece of music... in our case it may also participate in the construction of the music itself, although we never respond to an influence quite literally: for Cinecittà, we wanted sonic elements to float like bodies float in the sea, through a film, or among a crowd.
Could you tell us about your creation process of the songs?
We draw a lot of inspiration from everyday life. The beauty of playing music together resides in the sharing of our respective experiences through sound and through each other. The song we are presenting in our video for Nau Nua, Oh I have been stupid, illustrates our creative process quite well: Antoine had made for himself the mantra you hear in the song and used to keep on repeating it in loop when in streets and metros. The band became a channel through which to liberate and express this material further: Amaury extracted rhythms from the mantra (starting by placing drum kicks on the consonants as you will hear), Clément added more melodies on top and made a mattress of synthesizers for everyone to chill out. Fundamentally, we enjoy spending time together...the band has become for us something between an amazing house party and an outdoor group therapy.
What do you see turning off the lights?
You see better ! It is an opportunity to invent more places and stories and find out more about yourself, just like a radio piece.
What is it going to happen once Charlie arrives?
He said he would send us a postcard on that day, so hopefully we can start working on a new song. Oh, and the world will end !
How would you describe your sound?
Our music is an arrangement of notes played one after the other, and audaciously placed within a frequency spectrum luckily ranging from 20Hz to 20000Hz... sounds elusive ?
Yes, it does. Could you tell us how do you see your future?
Travelling ! Our main objective with this project is to take it 'all over the place'...The three of us do a variety of different things on the side: meeting new places and people, working across disciplines, is the best way to get inspired.
If you found an abandoned ship on the beach, what would you do with it?
We shall name it Anita and push it at sea to let waves and currents shake it. This would probably make us travel further... Or would it be stupid ?!
Definitely, not, it wouldn’t.
WHO MAKES ANITA SHAKE! VIDEOS here
An interview by Juan Carlos Romero
Who makes Anita shake! website www.whomakesanitashake.bandcamp.com
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