You are from …
I live in New York, USA.

Would you trace your intentions for this project named Saxon Shore, from when you first began through your various efforts to where you are presently?
The bands I was in previously weren’t really bands per say. It was just kind of something that happened. Josh and I just started playing some songs together that I had been writing and we thought it sounded nice.

Are you able to give a definition to the music you compose? And how can you describe your sound overall?
It’s driven by a lot of texture and melodies. Lately we’ve been adding a lot of sampling and analog keyboards to the mix and have added those elements live as well.

‘Four Months of Darkness’ is your latest work. Could you describe it? Which are its musical contents? Which kind of atmosphere have you underlined most?
We recorded Four Months in about 2 days at, our friend, Jamey Bozeman’s studio down in Toccoa, GA on our fall tour of 2002. We wrote 3 of the songs in the studio and the other two were songs we had been playing on the road. We also did some additional tracking at home with electronic and keyboard elements which we sent back down to Georgia to add in the final mix.

How do you compose a song? Is there a main composer?
I tend to write the songs and then send them to the other band members over the internet since we live kind of far apart. Then they will send me their ideas and I piece things together until we have something that sounds like a song. It takes any pressure away from the writing process as we write better on our own. We might attempt some more group writing shortly.

Do you attach particular memories, ideas, and/or emotions to any or all of the songs you compose? Or, even when playing, do you ever find your songs taking you somewhere, perhaps unexpectedly?
It’s hard to say. There are times when we’re playing and it feels very intense, but a lot of that is due to circumstances of that day alone and what being on the road as an independent band with no tour support entails.

What is new in your life?
Getting ready to move after tour in April. Heading out of the country for a while and moving to the city. It’s a short lease so the options after that are open.

What’s your actual label? How was it been working with it?
Burnt Toast Vinyl has been paying our bills lately. It’s a nice system where you make what you earn. Any money that we receive directly from the label goes into recording, manufacturing, etc but we are still able to maintain control of what we do which is nice. We then give a portion of what we make to Burnt Toast from tour sales and it’s a 50/50 split after break even. We also control all publishing and such.

Favorite musicians of yesterday and today? Who do you relate best to?
Most recently I’ve been listening to M83, Low and Havergal. Favorite bands of past would be along the lines of New Order or Pink floyd.

How does your sound change and evolve in the future? What do you think about it? Do you have any ideas about new sounds or themes to experiment?
I think we’ve been good at naturally evolving our sound, but it’s nothing we’ve sat down and talked about. For example, with our latest EP “Luck Will Not Save Us From a Jackpot of Nothing” we didn’t have a drummer, so we just made an album without a live drummer rather than trying to force anything. We’re recording a full length this spring with Dave Fridmann and I think that will combine elements from our past recordings into one and define our live sounds a little more on tape/hard drive, whichever ends up being used.

Final comments…
Thanks for having us do this. Take Care.