Hi! Are you doing ?
Very good. Saw “and you will know us my the trail of dead” yesterday in Copenhagen. So f..... good live band !

Where are you from ?
Denmark (1-guitar) and Norway (3)

What about your city ?
3 from Haugesund, Norway and Per Guitar are from Copenhagen, Denmark. We have all been living in Copenhagen for a while.

Can you introduce your project and its band members in a few words?
Per Plambech Hansen - Guitar
Per Steinar Lie - Bass
Hanne Andersen - Key
Ørjan Holand – Drums

We all play a lot of different instruments, so we chance a lot in the studio and also sometimes live.

What was or is the general idea behind this project? When and this project has started? Where does the name "The Low Frequency In The Stereo" come from?
Per And Per Steinar who startet the band had the idea to try make music in a different way like normal song writing as we did in other bands. Here we wantet to jam the hole thing and also not have a normal song structure with vocal and stuff. We startet in Norway-Haugesund about winter 1999.

Do you feel that you belong to a musical scene?
We have never feelt like we belong to a special musical scene. People always ask if we come from the postrock scene, but no we more like a rockband. We are not shoegazer`s even though we maybe can sound like one sometimes. We like to see ourselves like a soulful instrumental rock band. We want people to understand what we are all about just by listening to us. Sometimes we smash our
guitars, and sometimes not. No we haven`t got so much money, so we try not to break so many guitars. The question was if we was part of a special musical scene. The answer is no.

Which moods do you like to spread most with your sound?
We play with our stomach and not with our brain. The songs are made there and then. It is a different feeling everytime, but we are trying to find a balance between balance and the feeling you can get if you are on a top of a sky high building. Sometimes it is pure pop music, sometimes we feel like just making a collage with noise. We try to be as honest we can be!

"Travelling Ants Got Eaten by Muskins" is the title of your second album. Could you describe its musical contents? And to what is it inspired? Is there a specific theme to the album?
The album are more straight and faster than the first album. We wanted to make music that was more rock and roll and also some tracks you could dance to. We did the record in Copenhagen in 10 days. So the album is inspired by the city and also some of you last tours.

Which are the past artists who have formed your musical culture ? While who are the ones you listen to and appreciate most nowadays.
We have been listening to a lot of old lo-fi stuff, Jazz from the 70`s with Pike and Kriegel. Not so much to the post-rock scene actually. We are more inspired by old stuff, which we put into a new dimension of how we think modern rock music should sound like. But the band have generally a very different taste in music. Some jazz some lo-fi and some likes alternative rock.

What was the most exciting experience during your work so far?
We haven`t seen our most exciting experience yet, we hope.
But there are of course many small things happening all the time during a tour period. Worst experience is being attacked by a naked finnish guy who played in Jimi Tenor`s band in a sauna after arguing what was the best band between Ac/Dc and bon jovi. He claimed that Bon Jovi was more rock roll. The idiot!

Do you hear the world as one big sound generator?
Yepp, the world is our stage. We have distribution almost everywhere now. Even the labels are small, people can reach us if they are interested. If you have problems reaching us, you can alway send us a mail at: band@lowfrequency.dk

What do you think about the actual indie / post-rock scene in your country?
Most of the bands nowadays are into retro stuff. We are one of the few bands who look to the future. In Copenhagen there is not like a post-rock scene, and we are not it to that kind of stuff anyway. Ofcause we all like old Mogwai, Slint, Codeine and so on. But there is not some much new stuff we hear or know for that matter.

Do you change the songs around live?
We sound more harder, direct and with more jamming on stage. We try to arrange all the songs so we can play them 4 people and not with 10 guitars like on some recordings haha.

Is there insight any future release, collaboration or parallel activities?
We have some side projects going on. Per, has litte jimmy reeves, together with the drummer in Kashmir, Per S and Ørjan has The Gin and Tonic Youth! and Hanne has recently started with a country band.

Is there anything else you would like to mention about your band?
We are at the time working on the new record. We have done about 5-6 new tracks. And at the sametime we have 3 songs in the danish film Nordkraft www.nordkraftfilmen.dk.
Our record is will come out i the US now.