Unsigned518 - Episode 192 - Zorbas Trio

[00:00:01] Speaker A: He was born on a Saturday in. [00:00:03] Speaker B: 73 he loves punk rock music fighting. [00:00:06] Speaker C: The 13 cabin in the dazzle Jazz rock now on the beat Guitar with a short wind Radio back. [00:00:15] Speaker A: His motherfucking envy scrolling look at motherfucker Cuz here. [00:00:21] Speaker B: He comes Andy Sculling wearing his orange. [00:00:26] Speaker C: Welcome to unsigned 518. I am here with Zorbus Trio. [00:00:31] Speaker A: Hello. [00:00:32] Speaker C: How's it going? [00:00:33] Speaker B: Good. [00:00:35] Speaker C: And you know, and I guess we'll just go around the room and have everybody introduce themselves and what you do in the band. [00:00:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:00:42] Speaker A: So I'm John Zorbas. I am the pianist and keyboardist and. [00:00:46] Speaker B: I am Calista and I play guitar and I sing. I am Demetra and I am the bassist and singer of the band. [00:00:56] Speaker C: And you know, we were like, we just met, what, you know, 10 minutes ago or so. But you had asked how I, you know, how I had heard of you, and I was like, oh, I saw you at the Eddies. And so I do, I guess, you know, before we roll into like the history of the band, I do kind of want to start there because that to me was one of those performance, you know, and on a night at the Eddies when there's so many great artists and like, everything is so cool, like, for something to stand out, like, that was really like, special moment. [00:01:30] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:01:30] Speaker C: And I'm, you know, being someone in, you know, I feel like I know every band in the 518 and I was like, I am not familiar with this band. And, you know, you guys came on and I was like, all right, you know, all right, this is good. And then by the end of it, I was like, wow. And everybody, like, in the row that I was with, like, people in front that I didn't know, you know, everybody around was like, they were all like, like mumbling. And it was just kind of like, where. Where did that come from? So, like, at that moment I was like, I want to get them on the show, obviously. [00:02:06] Speaker B: Well, thank you for. [00:02:07] Speaker C: And. And I guess it took a little bit, but, you know, here we are. [00:02:11] Speaker B: So happy to be here. [00:02:13] Speaker C: Yeah. So again, I just wanted to get that out of the way, how you came on my radar. It was in a, A very like, jaw dropping moment where I was like, yeah, so much. [00:02:22] Speaker A: Oh my God. That was a fun gig. [00:02:24] Speaker B: Yeah, that was. The feeling of being backstage is unreal. It's like the nerve. I feel like it's more nervous being backstage, like, and once you're on the stage, it's okay, I could do this. But before it's like what's going to happen? [00:02:42] Speaker A: What's going to happen? When we were backstage, we were listening to the. The comms in there. All right, Should I be talking here? [00:02:47] Speaker C: Yeah, going in here. [00:02:48] Speaker A: Okay. So when we were backstage, they said they would have someone come and get us. And we were up there and, like, they came, like, last minute. I'm like, are we supposed to go out? [00:02:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:02:58] Speaker A: All right, come with me. We were like, rushing down the stairs. When we got there, we went straight on the stage. Like, we didn't have any grace period. [00:03:04] Speaker B: We're like, yeah, all right. [00:03:05] Speaker A: Get up there. [00:03:05] Speaker C: There's no, like, standing in the wing. [00:03:09] Speaker B: Waiting and waiting and waiting. And then last minute, a guy came. Got to go again. [00:03:15] Speaker A: Are you guys arms training? Yes. Come on. [00:03:17] Speaker B: Yeah, we're like in a real rush there in my heart at that. Oh, my God. I can almost feel it right now thinking back. Yeah. And you couldn't see anything. It was like, all black except for, like, some guys. [00:03:28] Speaker A: It was. Yeah, the feeling was so awesome. [00:03:30] Speaker B: It was pretty cool. [00:03:31] Speaker C: Yeah. Did you get. Did you get any. Any time on that piano before going up there? [00:03:40] Speaker A: I played it for a few minutes before I got on, but when we got there, everyone was doing their sound check and I didn't really want to be, like, slamming on the. When they're trying to, like, get their sound together. [00:03:49] Speaker B: Right. Yeah. But, yeah, we do, like, sound check and everything, but it's a gorgeous, gorgeous place. I mean, the stage, mind blowing. [00:03:57] Speaker A: The acoustics in there were killer. [00:04:00] Speaker B: It was just a mind blowing, beautiful stage. Like, the whole thing was super surreal. For sure. [00:04:07] Speaker C: Yeah. That was really cool. So, you know, before. Well, I mean, I guess we just got into that. But I want to go back to before, I guess the Eddies, to like the. The kind of beginning and obviously, you know, being siblings, I'm assuming siblings. [00:04:24] Speaker B: Yes. [00:04:26] Speaker C: Maybe there was a cousin in there. I don't know. [00:04:28] Speaker A: Everybody assumes that we're not, though. [00:04:30] Speaker C: Oh, really? [00:04:31] Speaker A: When Klissa had blonde hair, they're like, you guys look nothing. We got our caricature done at the fair and the guy, he's like, how do you guys know each other? We're like, we're siblings. He's like, you guys look nothing. Like, we're like, what? [00:04:41] Speaker C: Really? [00:04:42] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm like, because I had a hair color. Yeah, I think it was because when you had blonde. [00:04:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I was. I've been dyeing my hair for 10 years, and I recently went back to natural color and I guess that was a throw off for a lot of people. Though maybe that's why a lot of the times I think John's the older one because maybe he's tallest. [00:05:01] Speaker A: They always assume, too. They always think I'm. [00:05:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm actually oldest. [00:05:04] Speaker A: They think I'm. [00:05:04] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:05:06] Speaker C: What is the. What is the age order? [00:05:08] Speaker B: I'm 25. I'm the oldest. She's the second. He's the last. [00:05:12] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm 19. I can be 20. November. [00:05:15] Speaker B: I'm 22 and 25. [00:05:18] Speaker C: So, you know, obviously, then being siblings and growing up in the same house, like, it's, you know, a lot of bands, it's like, oh, how did you guys meet? [00:05:29] Speaker A: Simple process. [00:05:32] Speaker B: The whole kind of like, story is we've been musicians our whole life, pretty much. I went to, like, kinder music when I was like, three and John started piano, and out of, like, 10. Yeah. And Demetra and I, we played violin for, like, many years. [00:05:51] Speaker A: Our parents always said that part of our. Because we're homeschooled, part of our thing is we have to learn one instrument. You know, pick one and learn it. And. Yeah, I went through a lot of different instruments. [00:06:04] Speaker B: He tried the trumpet. [00:06:05] Speaker A: The trumpet. [00:06:06] Speaker C: Violin is the hardest. Oh, my God. [00:06:08] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. [00:06:09] Speaker C: I always used to say, like, I'm a multitude play instrumentalist. I can play almost, you know, I could play a little bit of anything. And I'm like, except for the violin. I purchased a violin when I was, like, right around your age, you know, probably 22, 23. And I was like, you know, because I love the sound of strings. I'm like, I'm gonna learn how to play. Like, I was like, this is the hardest thing I've ever done. [00:06:32] Speaker B: It's like another voice. Yeah. [00:06:33] Speaker C: And like, you can't. Like, I. I'm like, I spent six months trying to, like, teach myself this thing, and I'm like, I don't. I never made a single pleasant noise out of it. [00:06:42] Speaker A: Like, it's the Closer and Demetra, they're actually getting pretty good at it. Especially close to. [00:06:47] Speaker B: But we hate. [00:06:49] Speaker A: Yeah, they. Demetra was just like, I just hated. Or they were an orchestra. [00:06:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:54] Speaker A: I remember going. And I remember when you guys were learning violin, you hated it so much. The mom's like, you want to learn my violin? I'm like, no. [00:07:04] Speaker B: Like, you have to have a bowl. This perfect bow hold. [00:07:07] Speaker A: Yeah. It's so uncomfortable. [00:07:08] Speaker C: And, like. And I didn't realize how much it depended on, like, the pressure from, like, so many different angles. You know, you got to be like a mathematician to Figure out like. Yeah, it was like, it was wild. Like I was like at that point. I'm an acoustic, I was an acoustic guitar player. I'm like strong, strong, strong, strong. And then I like get on the violin. I was like, oh, this is delicate. [00:07:33] Speaker A: I tried the violin a few times, but it's just, it's. It's really weird because it's also. You can't really see what you're doing right. You gotta like feel what you're doing. And like I tried to do a scale. Like I went up G major and I came back down. I was like an E flat. Where did I go wrong halfway through that. [00:07:50] Speaker B: But it is a gorgeous instrument. [00:07:53] Speaker C: Yeah, Yeah. I love like, I love it like Paganini. [00:07:56] Speaker B: It's nothing, it's just gorgeous. [00:07:58] Speaker C: But I was one of those kids that. Or kids, you know, like when I was younger, I love classical music and I still like love classical music and I. But I used to go to sleep to it every single night and I was like a long haired metalhead that would be like putting on my vpr, listen to my, listen to my classical music overnight. [00:08:18] Speaker B: Everything comes from classical and. [00:08:20] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, everything does come from. [00:08:23] Speaker A: And everything's just bits and pieces of like tons of classical music. [00:08:27] Speaker B: Yeah, like metal. [00:08:29] Speaker A: Tons of metal. It has a lot of influence from classical. Classical influence. Yeah. [00:08:34] Speaker B: But yeah, so he played piano and we stopped violin because we're like, enough of this. We don't really like it. She purposely untuned her violin before orchestra. Just. [00:08:45] Speaker A: I would take the whole time tuning. [00:08:46] Speaker B: It back so she wouldn't have to do the class. Yeah, I know. It was like, it took up a lot of time. [00:08:52] Speaker C: She went all. [00:08:53] Speaker B: I would hide it in the corner before it started and then just like bring it to the teacher and he'd be like, oh, okay. Do you ever tune your violin before? [00:09:03] Speaker C: It sounds like me with Little League. Like my parents, you know, tried to force sports on me and I was like, what? And I used to always be like, oh yeah, I don't feel good. [00:09:17] Speaker B: Bat. [00:09:17] Speaker C: And I'd be like, stomach. [00:09:21] Speaker B: So then later on in our like tweens, we picked up singing because we got really inspired by like Broadway and like Disney movies. Elana. And we wanted. [00:09:34] Speaker A: That's actually why you're. You dyed your hair blonde for a while. [00:09:36] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:09:37] Speaker A: She did them two princess parties as Elana. [00:09:41] Speaker B: And we wanted to sing too, for the children and everything. We really wanted to learn how to sing. Well, Broadway. Cuz Broadway is really hard. Yep. So we would sing along with the music On. On the movies as we watched it. And then like, maybe like a year later, my mom goes, you know, your brother plays piano. You two sing together. Why don't you do something together? And we're like, yeah, maybe we'll. Give us some thought. I don't know. [00:10:08] Speaker A: And then when I first started playing, like, accompanying you guys singing, I didn't know what I was doing. I was, like, playing the melody while you're singing. Can you drop the melody? Just let them sing it. Do backup. [00:10:19] Speaker C: I'm like, I don't know how. [00:10:21] Speaker B: Yeah. And so. Oh, yeah. You would play the piano. Yes. And it was like, why? [00:10:28] Speaker A: All right, all right. [00:10:30] Speaker B: It's fine, though. Yeah, we're still learning, so. Yeah, we eventually did that together, and we picked a song or two, like a jazz standard. Paper Moon was actually the first one. [00:10:42] Speaker A: Oh, my God. What we always say is that if I'm like, I have dementia when I'm older, that you put me at the piano, I'm gonna play Paper. [00:10:51] Speaker C: Oh, my God. [00:10:53] Speaker A: Song we played together. [00:10:54] Speaker B: It's, like, soldered in our brains. Yeah, we won't. We don't play that song much anymore, but when we decide to do it for fun and band practice, we know it. Yeah, it'll never. [00:11:07] Speaker A: I'll never forget it. Never forget those chords. [00:11:09] Speaker B: But, yeah, it eventually evolved. We were doing just vocals and piano for a while, and we did a gig or two like that. And then we wanted to spice things up and bring it up a level. So we were lucky because our parents are musicians, so music equipment lying around. We had guitars and basses laying around. And so our dad taught us a lot of our things that we know and my mom as well, and we learned from them, and it became what it is now, the band. We recently added the kick drum. [00:11:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I play kick drum while I'm playing the piano. [00:11:53] Speaker B: That was more recent. That was, like, for the Eddies, actually. [00:11:56] Speaker A: Yeah, I got it. [00:11:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:57] Speaker C: Do you do it digitally or do you have an actual kick drum? [00:12:01] Speaker A: Just because it's hard to bring around. [00:12:06] Speaker B: It has a few sounds, too, which is convenient. [00:12:09] Speaker A: Yeah. So I want to get, like, a bunch of them and be able to do, like, different percussion. [00:12:15] Speaker C: Yeah, I've seen a lot, like, bands that have, like, the sequencer that'll have, you know, like, you could put, like, little bass runs or, like, little aio, like, things in. That's all controlled. [00:12:29] Speaker A: I was looking, like drum machines, but I don't like the sound of them just because it doesn't feel like you're playing with the band there is. [00:12:37] Speaker C: And I've got. I've got one somewhere in this room and people will give me for it. My band gives me for it. But I swear by this thing, it was called the Beat, buddy. And it was. It's a. It's a pedal. It's like the size of a guitar pedal. It looks just like a guitar pedal. It's a drum machine. But all the sounds are an actual human drumming really that they like. You know, they had them hit the snare a billion times, had him hit the kick a billion times and created these beats that sound dope. Like they sound super real. And you can control the fills by. If you tap it once, like say there'll be like a verse, chorus, second verse. So like you hit it once and it'll run the verse. You tap it and hold it and it'll go into the chorus. You tap it and hold it again and it'll go back into the verse. [00:13:27] Speaker A: Is it just one button? [00:13:28] Speaker C: It's one. Yeah, it's just one pedal. It's a good. It's. It's a. I'll show you before you leave. But it's a guitar pedal and thing was dope. Like. And anytime you hit it, it'll do a fill. If you're on the first beat, it'll do a four beat fill. If you're on the second beat, it'll do a three beat if you're on the third beat. [00:13:47] Speaker A: They still make those. That's. [00:13:49] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, they still make. They're like. They're really, really sick. And I mean, performance wise, it may be, you know, not great to lean on that much, but as a practice tool, it was sick. Like it was because I play with the metronome. [00:14:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:03] Speaker C: And a metronome was boring. [00:14:06] Speaker A: I know. [00:14:07] Speaker C: I'm just like. I'm like, this is boring. So like I would use it as a metronome, but it would be nice, you know? Drums. [00:14:16] Speaker A: When I was what, 12 or 13, I got. Parents got me a metronome for Christmas and I was so excited after a week of using it, I hated it. [00:14:26] Speaker C: It's tough. They're like necessary, but they're annoying. I get. They are. But like. [00:14:31] Speaker B: And the tick kind of like stays in your brain after a while. [00:14:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Playing it back. [00:14:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:36] Speaker C: I was just gonna say, have you ever had those where you wake up at like 3 o' in the morning and you've got a metronome click in your head? [00:14:42] Speaker B: You're just like, that's what I have. Am I going crazy? [00:14:45] Speaker A: Really I would be doing exercises. And what's annoying about ours is it runs out of things so fast and I would have to wind it up every two things. [00:14:53] Speaker B: Like old fashioned metronome from Germany. [00:14:59] Speaker C: Yeah, we had. We had one where my guitarist used it for a track. For what? Something we were recording and it went out of whack. So he like sent the stem in and the producer was just like, what did you use for a metronome? And he was like, oh, it's one of those windup ones. And he's like, definitely not. And we like, just for fun, measured out, it was off like 17 beats per minute. Over a two and a half minute song. Like, it was like unbelievable. Oh, my God. Yeah, you're going to have to do that again. Do something digital. [00:15:35] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Yeah. You definitely do not want to be using one of those when you're recording. [00:15:39] Speaker C: No, they're fun to play with and practice with. [00:15:42] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:15:43] Speaker B: Yeah. That sounds brutal. [00:15:44] Speaker C: Yeah. So, all right, you know, we've got the band and you keep saying like, when you were 12. So, like the band has been around seven, eight years is what you're saying. [00:15:53] Speaker A: Well, we all did music separately during. During that time. And I've been playing piano since I was 10. You guys been playing like tons of instruments since you were even younger. But as a band, like with everything we have now, like all the bass and guitar and everything was probably 20, 20. 2019, you think? [00:16:16] Speaker B: Was it 20 or with the instruments? [00:16:18] Speaker A: Yeah, 2021. 2021. 2020. Yeah, yeah, 2020. I think that that's kind of when we started like getting really, you know, there's nothing to do during that time. [00:16:32] Speaker C: You know, Tell me about it. If I had to live stream myself doing an acoustic like this. [00:16:46] Speaker B: Yeah, 2019 is when we really, like. [00:16:49] Speaker A: Were first gay all together. Yeah. [00:16:51] Speaker B: With our vocals, which is Piano was like 2019. It was on and off. But like towards the end of 2020, we went really serious. We haven't really gone back since then. So now we do it as our main professional job and whatever. So. [00:17:09] Speaker A: But yeah, Calvin's on the couch with us. [00:17:12] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, every. Everybody knows Calvin. He's a. He's a ham. Like, he immediately jumped up and it's just like, yep, I'm hanging here with his. With his wounded nose. [00:17:26] Speaker B: Poor baby. [00:17:26] Speaker A: The squirrel attack. [00:17:27] Speaker C: We think it was a squirrel attack, but actually it probably wasn't a squirrel attack. It was probably just Calvin doing something stupid while chasing squirrels. [00:17:37] Speaker A: Yeah, this. [00:17:38] Speaker C: So I think we should hear a song. All Right. So what was the first song that we wanted to play? [00:17:44] Speaker A: So how about our latest release, the Halloween song? All right, so this. This one was probably the funnest to record. Yeah, it took about, like, three weeks, but this is actually one of the first songs I wrote, like, when I was, like, 17 or something like that. [00:18:04] Speaker B: Was it that really? [00:18:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:06] Speaker B: Interesting. I didn't even know that. [00:18:08] Speaker A: I made some updates to a lot of updates to things, but, yeah, this song. This song was really fun, too, but. Because when we're in the studio in our basement. I say studio. It's our basement. [00:18:19] Speaker C: I call this my studio all the time. I don't fault you for that, but it works. [00:18:26] Speaker A: But it was so fun adding, like, all. Because there's so many ideas for Halloween. You know, there's so many cool things that you could add. [00:18:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:35] Speaker A: And it was probably the funnest song to record so far. But, yeah, this one's called the Halloween song. [00:18:42] Speaker B: It'll get you in the festive spirit. Yeah. [00:18:45] Speaker C: I love it. [00:18:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:46] Speaker B: Spooky season. [00:18:47] Speaker C: All right, cool. Well, let's check out the Halloween song, and then we'll be right back to talk some more with the Zorbas Trio. [00:18:57] Speaker B: Sam. Down into the darkened room Something's here within the gloom Should I run or simply hide? Why can't I see what's inside? What's inside? I hear voices call to me I. [00:19:56] Speaker A: Believe here it's Halloween. [00:19:59] Speaker B: Shadows dance under the moon I think I hear them sing a tune and sing a tune what's inside that lo. I think I hear a witch's life make you freeze right in your tracks this life you have will not last Will not last Ghosts of walls run rapid here Hands feeling crushed with fear Screams are heard throughout the night All I see is such a fright such a fright Better head on you're missing all the fun. Halloween, Halloween I see that you make a. [00:22:33] Speaker A: All right. [00:22:33] Speaker C: That was the Halloween song Zorbas Trio. And, you know, before we get back into it, I do want to just ask, like, the Halloween. Halloween. Like, you know, you've got the. The jack O. Lantern hat. You know, you're wearing the. The pumpkin. The pumpkin pants. [00:22:47] Speaker B: You can tell we're big fans of. [00:22:49] Speaker C: Halloween, and I'm, like, you know, a huge fan of Halloween. Like, Halloween is my Christmas. Like, I've been this. The very second, like, the temperature drops below 70 for the first time, I'm like, pop. [00:23:01] Speaker B: Yep. [00:23:02] Speaker C: Spooky je. You know, like, thing. [00:23:04] Speaker A: I hate those right after Halloween. Like, November 1st. It's. [00:23:10] Speaker C: There's that Little. Yeah, yeah, it's Christmas. And it's like, it's too. It's too early because, like, it spoils. Like, whatever holiday cheer could come. [00:23:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:22] Speaker C: Like, leave it alone. Like, leave it alone for. Let me mourn, you know, Let me mourn for a little bit and be like, all right, you know, Halloween's gone for another season. [00:23:32] Speaker A: Everybody just forget. [00:23:33] Speaker C: And then slowly bring in some Christmas. And I'll be like, cool. But like, it's like November 1st. Everybody's like, boom, Christmas. [00:23:40] Speaker B: I'm like, I know. It's like, chill a little bit. [00:23:42] Speaker C: Halloween was just hours ago. Don't even think about it anymore. [00:23:46] Speaker A: You. All the stores, too. You go into, like, you know, Walmart taking all the Halloween stores. [00:23:54] Speaker B: It's like, why are you doing this to me? [00:23:55] Speaker A: Wish you a merry Christmas and all. [00:23:58] Speaker B: Winter just last forever. Yeah. [00:24:02] Speaker A: Anymore. [00:24:03] Speaker C: Yeah. No, no, but. But so, like, that. It was good to see that, you know, you, you. It's people that treat Halloween as seriously as I do, you know, it's not just someone that's going, ah, let's do a. Let's do a Halloween song. [00:24:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:17] Speaker C: Like, I. I feel the. Everything about the passion in. [00:24:20] Speaker B: It's definitely my favorite. [00:24:25] Speaker C: And the movie. And I don't know if you can see, but right above me is a movie screen. See that, that rolled up thing? So we cut. You know, this place is called the Dazzle Den. But what I do is I drop the movie screen down. I've got a rear projecting screen. And we call it the Dazzleplex. And we show horror movies, or I watch horror movies. I say we show. You know, I have ticketed events. I watch horror movies, like, with. With my friends in here. And, like, we hook the sound up to all the PA speakers. [00:24:58] Speaker A: So, like, another thing about just the weather is peak best weather, colors. Like, after Christmas, I wish it would just go back to being like, sweater weather. Yes, sweater. And get to summer again. I like the months after that. [00:25:12] Speaker C: It's like, oh, yeah, I don't know about summer. See, like, I look better in winter clothes. [00:25:17] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. [00:25:18] Speaker C: So, like, I really like when it starts getting cold, you know, I like fall weather. Yeah. I mean, this is perfect. [00:25:24] Speaker A: Everybody just kind of looks like a marshmallow, you know? Like. [00:25:27] Speaker C: Yeah. And I used to, like, you know, I grew up in Vermont, so, like, I used to ski and snowboard and, like, I used to love, like, winter shits, but, like, I don't do that anymore. So, like, now I'm just like, I gotta snow blow my stupid driveway and like, do homeowners. Yeah. [00:25:46] Speaker B: The shoveling. The shoveling is like the worst. [00:25:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:50] Speaker B: It's so tiring. [00:25:51] Speaker C: If I can give you any advice, don't buy anything. Just rent. Because like, when you rent, like your landlord just shows up and takes care of and you're like, hey, shovel my walkway, dude. Like, what the. I need. You know, I'm like. And they'll do it. And they have to, like, they have to come take care of it. [00:26:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:10] Speaker C: Nobody does that. When you. [00:26:11] Speaker A: When you own a house, that is definitely a perk. [00:26:14] Speaker C: Yeah, it's definitely a perk. [00:26:17] Speaker B: Our driveway is like, really? [00:26:20] Speaker A: We live in the country, so it's like really long. [00:26:22] Speaker B: Yep. [00:26:22] Speaker A: And when there's. [00:26:23] Speaker B: And we use hand shovels. [00:26:25] Speaker A: Yeah, we use handles. [00:26:26] Speaker B: We have a snowblower. But my dad is like, no. [00:26:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:32] Speaker B: You need to go and exercise. [00:26:34] Speaker C: You sound just like me. [00:26:37] Speaker A: Let's break your guys's back. [00:26:39] Speaker B: Yeah, let's break our backs instead. [00:26:40] Speaker C: And like, I have this teeny little driveway out here. And I went out and bought a snowblower the very first winter we were in that. And I'm like, like when I was a kid, like I said, we used to have to shovel this long ass. Cuz I grew up in the country too. Like this long ass driveway. And like, I was like, I'm not doing that. I don't care if my driveway is only 30ft long. I'm like, I'm getting. [00:27:02] Speaker B: Stay inside. [00:27:03] Speaker A: I get kind of, you know, Vietnam flashbacks. [00:27:08] Speaker B: Yes. [00:27:09] Speaker A: It's like, why are we here? Just to suffer. Yeah. [00:27:13] Speaker C: See, I told you we'd get sidetracked. [00:27:16] Speaker A: Talking about the snow. [00:27:17] Speaker C: Yeah. Which is coming. [00:27:19] Speaker A: It's coming. [00:27:20] Speaker C: Yeah. Now I gotta think about like, wood. Like, I gotta like, oh, yeah. That get wood delivered and stacked and shit. And like, firewood is the bane of my existence. And Calvin thinks when. Whenever we get wood dropped off, he thinks it's just a big pile of sticks for him. And like he just starts dragging them all over the yard. And I'm like, dude, what are you doing? [00:27:39] Speaker A: I. I'll be in my room. Then I'll hear like a. Like a really loud. I'm like, what the heck was that? I'll look in the living room. And Hugo just dropped a log on the. [00:27:47] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:27:48] Speaker C: That sounds. Yeah, he thinks. Dropped a log. Little alternate meeting. Yeah. [00:27:55] Speaker B: Not. Not the way you were thinking. Not that way. [00:28:01] Speaker C: All right, so Halloween song is not on the album. [00:28:06] Speaker A: No, A single. [00:28:08] Speaker C: But that's just a single, like, for the spooky season, which you love. [00:28:11] Speaker A: So much length album we released back in April. April what? 20 something? [00:28:16] Speaker B: April 12th. [00:28:17] Speaker A: April 12th. Okay. And that. That took a little while to accumulate. You know, all the songs. We have a bunch of material ready for the second album and even a third one. It's just, like, hard to. Because we write songs fairly fast. But it's hard because, like, we want to record everything. But I don't know if we have enough time to like. [00:28:38] Speaker B: Yeah, because we wanted more songs on our. [00:28:40] Speaker A: On our first album, but we wanted to get it out by the spring. [00:28:42] Speaker B: Yeah, we wanted it out because we only had the three songs out. Crown to Hope, Still, I Breathe and Sundays. And that was the only ones that were album. You know, we need an album out there because who's going to listen to us? We just have three songs. So, I mean, you know, so we added those three songs to our album. [00:29:04] Speaker A: Yeah, we want. There's so many more things we wanted to record for the first one, but it was like, crunch time because, you know, spring was coming up and you can't really record with us in the summer. It's hard to record because of gigs. [00:29:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:19] Speaker A: Like, winter gigs are. Aren't as fun, I. I think as the summer ones. We kind of cut down in the winter to focus on recording. [00:29:28] Speaker B: Yeah. Because when you Winter gigs, when you're focusing on. Yeah, when you're focused on gigs. [00:29:34] Speaker A: I don't want to play tons of Christmas. [00:29:36] Speaker C: And plus the unpredictability of it, you know, I mean, like, you could have a gig that you've been planning for for three months, then you get two feet of snow the day of, and you're like, cool, Nobody's gonna go out. Yeah, nobody's gonna go out. Like, they probably won't cancel the gig. The gig will still be there, and then you'll be playing for nobody. And, like, that's happened to me so many times. [00:29:57] Speaker A: We've done, like, this Christmas show and it was like, almost like three hours. Almost two hours. [00:30:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:03] Speaker A: And we've had to learn, like, every Christmas song imaginable. Oh, my God. Like, we're pulling songs from the 1700s. [00:30:10] Speaker B: And can I just say, the lyrics. The lyrics you have to memorize for Christmas songs are so annoying. [00:30:17] Speaker A: And, you know, the chords, the playing them are pretty difficult, too. [00:30:20] Speaker B: Yeah, it's all jazz because they. [00:30:23] Speaker A: You might not think it, but some of these, like, songs have really complicated progressions for. Because there's all, like, jazz standards. [00:30:30] Speaker C: Well, it was, like, written on a glockenspiel and. [00:30:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:39] Speaker B: But I do, though, want to See new Christmas music. Yeah. That's another thing I feel there's. They play the same song songs every single year, but I don't hear new ones that really stick to me or. [00:30:51] Speaker C: Like a new, like, contemporary Christmas song. Like, like, that's a good. That's just like a good song. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, nobody does that. Like, whenever anybody does a Christmas. And I'm guilty of it as well, because we did a Christmas song and we did Jingle Bar Rock. [00:31:05] Speaker A: But, like. [00:31:09] Speaker C: Nobody, Nobody, like, writes an original Christmas song. You just pull. Pull from what you got. But it would be pretty cool to like, have songs are actually good to listen to. [00:31:22] Speaker A: I really want to hear some, like, some classic Christmas songs. Like, new. New. New classic Christmas songs. Like, new. That feeling, that jazz you're feeling now, it's like warm. Just adding jingle bells to any song, it becomes a Christmas song. [00:31:36] Speaker C: And it like, any, like, Christmas, like, because my wife is like, basically what I am for Halloween. My wife is for Christmas. Like, oh, really? She is a nut. Like, in a good way. But, like, you know, like, she goes all in for Christmas and, like, you know, bakes cookies with Christmas music playing and everything. And, like, it's really beautiful. [00:31:58] Speaker A: I mean, it is. [00:31:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:58] Speaker A: I love Christmas. [00:31:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:00] Speaker A: It's like, hollow it. Halloween and Christmas, for me, they are in competition sometimes, but Halloween does, you know. [00:32:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:08] Speaker C: Yeah. Halloween wins for me every time. But Christmas would have a better shot if, like I said, if I would just have a little bit of like a morning period. Yeah, right. [00:32:15] Speaker B: Right. [00:32:15] Speaker C: Where I could just once. [00:32:17] Speaker B: But once December hits, you know, I'll be excited for Christmas. [00:32:20] Speaker A: Carries defrosted. [00:32:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:23] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:32:23] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:32:24] Speaker A: Yeah. But I would love to write a Christmas song. [00:32:27] Speaker B: Yeah. That's actually one of the reasons why we did the Halloween song because again, there's not a. A whole lot out there that I know of. [00:32:34] Speaker A: Yeah. There's not many Halloween. That's why we did it. [00:32:37] Speaker B: Yeah. We wanted maybe, you know, bring some more Halloween music out there because, you know, there's monster mash, there's Adam's family and stuff. [00:32:46] Speaker A: I'm sick of the monster mash. [00:32:48] Speaker B: Yeah. So I'm. We're like, let's do. [00:32:50] Speaker C: But I mean, it was a. It was a graveyard smash. [00:32:52] Speaker A: Yeah, it was. But recording, I mean, back on the topic of the album, recording in our studio, it's. It's really nice to record at your own house because you're not pressured to, like, get it done because, you know, you're on a pay studio and that stifles. [00:33:16] Speaker C: Creativity, you know. [00:33:17] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. Like, and to be creative. Sometimes it's hard when someone else is doing your sound. Like when we same with like gigs, your sound is always relies on the sound guy. It's like half of how good you're gonna sound that night. [00:33:31] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:32] Speaker A: So that's why I really wanted to invest in doing it ourselves. And I'm glad we did. [00:33:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:40] Speaker A: Because it's so much more better. [00:33:43] Speaker B: It's a lot more like. It's a lot more work and pressure, but it's not really. [00:33:48] Speaker A: I mean, I think you'd be more pressured if you're like trying to get it done at a studio. [00:33:53] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:54] Speaker A: Because you. You got to pay hourly and stuff. [00:33:56] Speaker B: That's true. [00:33:57] Speaker A: But yeah. Every song in the album was. Is just. I don't know. I don't have a favorite. I love all of them, I think. [00:34:07] Speaker B: Yeah. All. A lot of. A lot of people think it's a little strange just because each one is so different. There's not like. Like the same one like this. You know how you listen to album. It's like kind of like the same feeling. [00:34:19] Speaker A: People say that it's all them are really different, but they work together. [00:34:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:24] Speaker A: To end the album. [00:34:25] Speaker C: The cohesion. [00:34:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Because it's still us, you know. [00:34:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:28] Speaker A: Sound. But there's a lot of weird stuff on there. [00:34:31] Speaker B: There's a lot. It's kind of strange because it's very different each song. But that's just because we love so much music and different types of music that, you know, we love jazz. We love a classical, rock, jazz. So we wrote a jazz song. We wrote an old western sounding song which still I breathe. That one's among a big favorite among a lot of people, I think. Yeah. That one's the most viewed, I think. Yeah. [00:35:04] Speaker A: That was our first release and that was before I knew kind of what the hell I was doing with the recording, you know. But I figured it out towards the end. [00:35:13] Speaker B: Yeah, that one took the longest I breathe was the longest that that was took. I want to say like three months. [00:35:21] Speaker A: Was that that long? [00:35:22] Speaker B: Yeah, like two months maybe. Because we were still trying to learn how to work this program and I. [00:35:30] Speaker A: Was still learning about, you know, compression and. [00:35:33] Speaker C: Yeah. When you, when you're like recording, is it just the three of you that handle all the everything like the mic placement to this, you know. [00:35:43] Speaker B: Oh gosh, you should see our mic thing. [00:35:48] Speaker A: Okay. So the sound booth that we used for the whole first album was just a bunch of two by fours in a square. And then A bunch of smelly blankets. I don't know why they smell so terrible. [00:35:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:03] Speaker A: You guys go in there, you're like, I can't breathe. [00:36:05] Speaker B: I think we have like a screen. Old screen door. [00:36:08] Speaker A: Yeah, an old screen door. [00:36:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:09] Speaker A: To send it off, you know. [00:36:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:12] Speaker A: And then when we recorded the Halloween single, we. We took that thing down because it was kind of in the way. And we moved to the other corner of our basement. And then to record the Halloween single, we just. We got two. What is it, like a cabinet? [00:36:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like a little nook. [00:36:29] Speaker A: And then put a bunch of blankets on top of that. [00:36:31] Speaker B: That. [00:36:31] Speaker A: And it was so crazy claustrophobic in there. [00:36:35] Speaker B: I got a. My back hurt for two weeks after because I'm literally punched like that. I don't put more. [00:36:43] Speaker A: It put more emotion into the song. [00:36:44] Speaker B: Yeah, I think that's what actually helps in a way. [00:36:48] Speaker C: Well, I mean, you know that. I don't know if. You know the band Deftones. [00:36:52] Speaker A: Oh. [00:36:53] Speaker C: So like, in one of their songs, like, they had. It was supposed to be this, you know, trapped feeling. So they took the singer and put him in a box like, oh, my God. Teeny, teeny, teeny little box where he was like. You know, his knees were up by his cheeks and he was like in this little thing. And they like, closed him in with a microphone. [00:37:13] Speaker B: How do you say? [00:37:13] Speaker C: Basically like. Yeah, but it wasn't like singing. It was a part where he's basically like, freaking out and screaming and like, kind of like a let me out type of scream. Like when you realize what they actually did to get that, you're like, that's kind of fucked up. [00:37:34] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:37:35] Speaker C: So, yeah, it probably did help get, like, get something out of you. [00:37:39] Speaker A: I did some vocals. I'm not a singer, so. But I did like in the chorus of that song, you know, La la la la. I did some because we wanted to do sound like a bunch of people singing, right? [00:37:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:51] Speaker A: I did some weird voices. You. You probably can't hear it unless it's separated. I panned them all over the place, but when I had to go in there and do that, I was like, panicking almost. [00:38:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:01] Speaker A: Cluster can't breathe. Like another take. [00:38:05] Speaker B: Time to do another take. And we doubled it with weird voices of me. I made some weird voices. She made some weird voices. And it almost sounded like a. Like a Taurus of weird thing. [00:38:17] Speaker A: Someone creatures had a weird comment on it. [00:38:22] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. On Tick Tock. Right. [00:38:24] Speaker A: It was. I'm gonna try to find this as fast as possible. Hold up. [00:38:29] Speaker B: It was. [00:38:31] Speaker A: It's like if Bach and Danny Elfman had three babies and they composed a neo baroque fugue confused with the wailing souls of the damned. I don't know how you think of that. [00:38:41] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, that's good. You definitely gotta use. Use that as a pull quote. That's. Yeah. [00:38:48] Speaker B: People come up with some interesting comments sometimes. It's kind of cool, though. [00:38:52] Speaker A: I don't know how they. [00:38:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it's really cool. [00:38:55] Speaker A: But that was fun. That was fun to record. [00:38:58] Speaker C: So I think we should hear something from the album. So what do you. What do you got for us? [00:39:04] Speaker B: Don't Care. [00:39:04] Speaker A: You want to do Don't Care? [00:39:05] Speaker B: Don't Care. My favorite off the album, actually. [00:39:08] Speaker A: Yes. This one's Don't Care, this one jazzy. [00:39:10] Speaker B: And this one is from. When you hear it, you just don't care what people think. [00:39:19] Speaker A: I just don't care. [00:39:20] Speaker B: You just don't care. Don't care. I'm gonna do my own thing. [00:39:25] Speaker C: I fully understand because like I was saying, the first song that we ever recorded was called Don't Care. [00:39:29] Speaker B: That is so cool. [00:39:30] Speaker C: It's like the same. [00:39:31] Speaker B: That is awesome. Yeah. [00:39:32] Speaker C: What a funny coincidence. Totally. All right, well, let's check out Don't Care Zorbus Trio and then we'll be right back to wrap it up. [00:39:53] Speaker B: I don't really care. I don't really know. I don't really care. So just keep on walking by when my back is turn I got. I can feel your glare Just going to laugh it off. Cuz I don't really care. All you do is spy on me. Channels fill with lies through your mind's eyes. Fine, we'll save you time. Both your hands are full but it's not enough. Take everything I always had and make it yours. [00:40:40] Speaker C: Tina. [00:40:41] Speaker B: The truth try to outdo me but then no watching Cry as I climb up to the top that I don't. That I. Sam. I don't really care. I don't really care. I don't really know. I don't really care. So just keep on walking Keep on My back is turned I can feel your glare Just gonna laugh it off Because I don't really care. All you do is spy on Journals fill with lies through your mind's eye. Mind will save you time. Mine will save you time. You're running out of time. All you do is fire me. Journals filled with light through your mind's eye. VI Will savior. [00:42:26] Speaker C: All right, that was Don't Care Zorbus Trio. And I want to thank you so much for coming out. It was really cool, a really fun conversation. And before we go, like I do with all my guests, I want to give you a chance to say what I refer to as your gratitude. So we'll start with you. [00:42:41] Speaker A: I guess I just want to thank our parents because they support us through literally everything, Anything we want to do. [00:42:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:42:47] Speaker A: They help us. [00:42:48] Speaker B: Without them, I don't know where we'd be, honestly. [00:42:50] Speaker A: Yes. [00:42:51] Speaker B: And I want to thank Andy for letting us be on this show. [00:42:55] Speaker A: Thank Calvin for being so. [00:42:57] Speaker B: And Calvin for being so. Yeah. So freaking cute. Yes. Thank you for going on the couch with me. And I agree with these two. I'm just gonna say that. Pretty much. Yeah. [00:43:14] Speaker A: Listen to local music. [00:43:15] Speaker B: Yes. [00:43:16] Speaker C: And. [00:43:16] Speaker B: And keep listening to music because it's the best thing ever. [00:43:20] Speaker A: It'll heal. [00:43:20] Speaker B: Yes. It'll heal the world. [00:43:22] Speaker C: All right, so they are Zorba's trio. I am Andy scullin. This is unsigned 518. I'll see you on the road. Unsigned 518 is produced and hosted by me, Andy Scullin. New episodes are available every week wherever you stream podcasts. If you'd like to help support the show, please like and subscribe wherever you. Wherever you are listening. Or you could buy me a [email protected] unsigned 518. If you would like to advertise on the show, send me an email at unsigned518mail.com and to be a guest on the show, reach out to me through Instagram. Signed 518. Take care of one another and I'll see you next week. [00:44:06] Speaker B: Andy Scullin. [00:44:09] Speaker C: Andy Scullin.