Une interview (en anglais) de Joe Duplantier sur son implication au sein de Cavalera Conspiracy est dispo sur la [lien url=http://www.myspace.com/cavaleraconspiracy]page Myspace[/lien] du groupe ou dans la suite. L’occasion d’apprendre que Joe Duplantier n’était pas le premier choix des frangins.
[b]Interview w/ Joe Duplantier (EXCLUSIVE!) – October 9, 2007[/b]
During the 11th Annual D-Low Memorial Show on August 31st – the first live performance from Cavalera Conspiracy – the Soulfly Web team was able to sit down and conduct interviews with all the members of Cavalera Conspiracy to get the information on their unheard upcoming new album straight from their mouths. Except for a few small notes left on their website, Gojira’s axeman/vocalist Joe Duplantier has been relatively quiet about his contributions in his brand new band with Max and Igor Cavalera and Marc Rizzo. This interview is Joe’s first as the bassist for Cavalera Conspiracy, and it is available exclusively here at our MySpace as the third installment of Soulfly Web’s ongoing D-Low 2007 interview series. Enjoy!
[b]Soulfly Web:[/b] How did you get involved with Cavalera Conspiracy? [b]Joe Duplantier:[/b] They called our bass player [and said], « We need a bass player who can sing ». So, they asked him to do it; he couldn’t but he was very honored and very happy with his family.. Plus Gojira had a lot of touring, so he was exhausted, but since it was a personal reason I told him « HEY, I can do it! ». I grabbed my phone and called Gloria, and she said « yeah, that’s fine, and you could add backup vocals on the record and stuff ». So I jumped on the plane, and soon I was in L.A. recording for the album. [b]Soulfly Web:[/b] Did you get to write any lyrics for your parts in the album? [b]Joe Duplantier:[/b] I’m not very involved in the vocals. I’m just singing two parts. Max did the writing, so I just sent him some parts. And actually, I went to L.A. to record the basses and some guitars, but when I went back home to France, he sent me the files to add some vocals. [b]Soulfly Web:[/b] Would you say that your music that you’ve made with Gojira has similarities to Max and Igor’s stuff together, whether it’s lyrically or musically? [b]Joe Duplantier:[/b] Yes, definitely. I’m inspired by these guys. Max and Igor are the old Sepultura. Everyone that I know is shocked by this reunion and my experience. Everything they did was so inspiring. I remember the first Gojira show was 80% Sepultura covers; now I’m on stage with them. [b]Soulfly Web:[/b] With a first show like that, I’m assuming you never thought you’d be recording an album with them? [b]Joe Duplantier:[/b] Someone once told me that when I was younger that « one day, you’re going to be playing this with Igor »… and just now it’s hitting me… [b]Soulfly Web:[/b] For the Cavalera Conspiracy album, Max has said that he sent you guys some demos a month before you went to L.A. to give everyone a chance to think of the things that they personally want to do on it. How did the style that you’ve developed with Gojira translate that into some of the Cavalera Conspiracy’s music? What influences did you bring to the project that Max, Igor, or Marc Rizzo might not have? [b]Joe Duplantier:[/b] He sent me a CD with about 2 or 3 riffs for each song; just rough ideas and demos. He had this one song that was totally composed. It’s the first song we’re going to play tonight [at D-Low 2007] called « Inflikted », but was the only song really composed. For everything else, we had to build the whole thing. Marc, Max and I were working together on our parts even while we were recording. We’d write it in the morning, and we’d record it in the afternoon. I never did that before that recording session, but it was a good experience. Usually my band works on 10 songs or so, then rehearses and rehearses, then changes some things, then writes the lyrics, and then we go into the studio. On that project it was so spontaneous, and I never did that before. « Okay! It sounds great! Okay! Let’s record it! » and it was really, like that. I brought my energy and my input to some parts, though. There is one song that I composed with Max; I wrote the guitar riffs, and recorded guitars on that song. It’s a song that I was playing with my brother in Gojira, but I gave it to these guys and Max added some other riffs. So, on that song in particular I’m much more involved. [b]Soulfly Web:[/b] Live tonight at the D-Low Show, are you going to be playing just bass, or bass and guitars? [b]Joe Duplantier:[/b] Just bass. [b]Soulfly Web:[/b] Any tour dates coming up? What are your personal plans for the remainder of the year? [b]Joe Duplantier:[/b] Gojira has a tour coming with Behemoth, so I won’t go back home between the D-Low show and the Gojira tour. I’ll stay in New York; I booked a flight there to write lyrics for the next album from Gojira. So, I’ll have to stay alone and get inspired. It’s a place that I love. I’ll be there for one month alone, then the Gojira tour. We already started to write the next album, and we plan to record it sometime around March. After that another tour is coming for us, so I don’t know for Cavalera Conspiracy. I’m not sure I’ll do the whole first tour, and I’ll do my best to be present on some festivals, but I don’t know what’s going to happen yet.
