ShamRain, whose wonderful music is described as dark melancholic rock with ethereal elements, have been rather quiet and we wondered if there was any new music on the horizon.
Rain and I want to thank Kalle Pyyhtinen, ShamRain guitarist, for taking some time out of his busy schedule to answer our questions.
EB: It’s been a bit quiet as far as ShamRain goes, what have you been up to during this extended break?
KALLE: Actually we’ve been working quite long on new material; writing music and lyrics. Now we have around 15 new tracks almost ready, only Mika’s vocal tracks are still missing. Hopefully he can do them soon. We don’t want to hurry and make ‘ok’ material. We want it to satisfy us fully. So there hasn’t been any break actually.
During this time the other guys (Matti, Mikko and Janne) did also Hanging Garden debut album and Mika was busy with Entwine’s new album. I’ve worked with some other music projects (no names yet, but one post-punk/rock-project and synth based soundtrack-like project) and of course, designing stuff.
EB: With all of the outside projects and interests of the Sham members, what is the deciding factor to come back together and pick up where you left off? Is it just a matter of finally having your conflicting schedules coincide or is ShamRain more or less the project you all come back to as a break between other projects?
KALLE: In fact we never really leave off from ShamRain. It’s a process which continues all the time, even when it seems quiet to other people. We write songs all the time mainly for ShamRain and when we feel like it, then we write for other projects.
