{"id":49193,"date":"2015-04-30T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=49193"},"modified":"2017-03-01T12:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T12:22:29","slug":"new-noise-cathedrals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2015\/04\/30\/new-noise-cathedrals\/","title":{"rendered":"New Noise: Cathedrals"},"content":{"rendered":"
We chat to dreamy duo Cathedrals, about their creative chemistry, future touring locations and the songs soundtracking their lives.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/youtu.be\/Tf2Gsj3F_U0<\/p>\n
Brodie Jenkins was the essence of folk, jazz and soul and Johnny Hwin was a master of electronic sound. Their wildly opposing lives somehow puzzled\u00a0together in San Francisco when the Cathedrals we’re born. Now they’re ready to release their debut EP with\u00a0National Anthem (CHVRCHES, Wet, HAIM) 8\u00a0June through National Anthem.\u00a0The duo are a great example of a musical merge. They have cleverly managed to layer pockets of soulful organic\u00a0vocals and electric gothic beats to create a entirely self written, titled and produced EP of\u00a0synth-pop sound.\u00a0Drawing inspiration from Swedish pop, nineties trip-hop and pitch-black trap, the duo have now unveiled a new sensual video for the first single ‘OOO AAA’.\u00a0Cathedrals chat to Wonderland<\/em> ahead of their UK EP release.<\/p>\n https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/wearecathedrals\/sets\/cathedrals-ep<\/p>\n How have your individual upbringings inspired your music tastes?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Johnny: I was really fortunate to grow up in a house full of music. We had a family piano that my older brothers played growing up and when I was 5 I began playing as well. Around that time, my middle brother was in the midst of university at UC Berkeley and was really into The Beatles and REM and U2 and was always playing records around the house. He bought me my first CD, Nirvana’s Nevermind, when I was 7 or 8 in 1992 which was when I began collecting CDs, a hobby that would last about 10 years.<\/p>\n Brodie: Music goes back far on my mom’s side of the family. My mom’s mom was a concert pianist, and she used to record tapes of herself playing jazz standards on the piano and send them to me – like DIY karaoke tapes. I had piles of her tapes that I would sing to, and she’s a big reason why I know so many classic jazz songs by heart. I would go listen to Ella, Billy and Sara and try to mimic their vocal nuances. It was kind of like the first vocal training I ever had.<\/p>\n My mom is a lovely singer, and she used to sing me lullabies as a kid, but they were really just pop and folk songs that she grew up with…Coat of Many Colors and When Irish Eyes are Smiling. One of my favorites was the Beatles’ “Rocky Raccoon” – my mom would sing it a cappella and really camped it up. It was a lullaby and a hilarious, epic saga all wrapped into one…I adored it. Of course later on, I got into everything the Beatles ever made.<\/p>\n My parents were constantly playing the same records all through my childhood, and every morning I’d listen to them while I ate my cereal before school – Miles Davis: Kind of Blue, Chet Baker: Chet, James Taylor: Sweet Baby James, Hall & Oates: The Abandoned Luncheonette, Rickie Lee Jones’ eponymous album, Al Green’s Greatest Hits…and lots more that I can’t think of right now. But it was a lot of jazz, a lot of folk and some other stuff mixed in. I just absorbed them all, and I still look to them for ideas and inspiration.\u00a0 Later on, my sister got me into Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, and a lot of R&B. My first boyfriend in high school was my\u00a0liaison\u00a0with classic rock – he got me this huge Led Zeppelin box set for my birthday one time, and for awhile it was all I played in the car. High school was also when I fell for Radiohead, the Pixies, Nirvana, Bjork…..that was my introduction to the 90’s.<\/p>\n