{"id":11606,"date":"2012-10-03T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=11606"},"modified":"2013-04-17T19:37:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T19:37:54","slug":"exclusive-romans-the-die-is-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2012\/10\/03\/exclusive-romans-the-die-is-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE:  ROMANS, &quot;The Die Is Cast&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video for The Die Is Cast arrived in our inbox with no explanation. No context. Nada. It&#039;s apparently part of a master plan from the enigmatic, faceless ROMANS, who &#8211; if this video is anything to go by &#8211; intends to provide music with the kind of stadium-filling bombast it desperately needs, complete with trippy Hunter S Thompson visuals. Pretty awesome, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c_aUnOpJBzw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>You&#039;re pretty mysterious. What can you tell us about ROMANS? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See my Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamromans\">@iamromans<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did ROMANS kick off and how did you arrive at your current sound?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By accident, which is how I believe the most successful discoveries are made. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you done anything in music before?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oodles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your sound is pretty balls-out rock&#039;n&#039;roll, to put it mildly. Is this a correct assessment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well I wouldn&#039;t say that my sound is. This track certainly has a rock element but it only features a single guitar line so &#8220;balls-out&#8221; is perhaps a slightly overzealous assessment. Unless of-course you&#039;re a eunuch, in which case, it&#039;s fairly apt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the other music group called Romans we could find is a &#8220;short-lived female Japanese pop unit pronounced &#039;Romance&#039;&#8221; (says Wikipedia) who released one single called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8zk6ewc-f1Q\">Sexy Night: Wasurerarenai Kare<\/a>&#8220;. Do you have anything in common with them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Only our mutual appreciation for irony and the ongoing litigation. <\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you feel about the current rock&#039;n&#039;roll music scene?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What kind of film would ROMANS soundtrack, if any?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anything, literally. Music itself has the power to change the emotion of any moving image. Put a Dvorak concerto on top of slapstick and suddenly it&#039;s art house. I love working with film.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#039;re sensing a Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas vibe with this video. How did you come up the idea?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Hawaiian shirt was perhaps a subconscious homage to Hunter. However the video itself is connected to the next videos that I will release in the coming months. <\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#039;s next for you? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keep checking the website and all will be revealed. <\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.IamRomans.com\">www.IamRomans.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words: Zing Tsjeng<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video for The Die Is Cast arrived in our inbox with no explanation. No context. Nada. 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