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| Maxime Taccardi |
Hello Maxime, welcome among
the pages of Sadik Underground Review webzine. K.F.R. is your Ritual/Dark
ambient/Depressive Black metal project, born to turn your paintings into music.
When did you decided (obviously if we can call it a necessity) to increase your
art, beginning with K.F.R.?
(Maxime): Hi, first of all, thanks a lot
for this interview and your support! I started the project back in 2006 without
a name yet. I wrote some of the songs back then, especially the ones featuring
in the upcomming split with Old Burial Temple. My goal with K.F.R is to
translate my paintings into sounds. Like if they were speaking. It is in a way,
some sort of a dark Gesamtkunstwerk, a total art dealing with synesthesia and
madness. It is for me a catharsis and i focus this project on my negativity and
let it grow by itself so it becomes independent of the creator. I record and
compose everything in trance, I let myself go deep in the darkest paths of my
mind and translate the visions I have. This is the same process when I paint,
the blood paintings I did can be seen as some tchat between my soul and the
other world, the wound being the door... Some parts are totally improvised and
assembled sometimes like the fold-ins of William S. Burooughs. I banned all
light from the recording, it is an ugly ritual, sick and intense in which every
note is an offering to death.
In your first album,
"ANTI" you engaged Déhà as drummer and made a featuring with
Meyhna’ch (Mütiilation) in your song "Anti". Can you explain us the
reasons of this choice?
(Maxime): They are part of K.F.R because they are good friends and i really respect
what they achieved in this scene. Meyhnach's visions are execptional, both
musically and visually (he is an amazing sculptor). Déhà also did the final mix
of the album, he knew exactly what I had in mind and he gave all his guts. He
also did the drums of the second album I'm working on. I am proud to have them
on that record.
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| K.F.R. - "ANTI" (2014) |
In the song "Let Me be
the Vomit Guiding your Mouth" (but also in Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal ) it seems
to hear also a feminine voice, both in scream and in a "ritualistic"
clean singing, who is? Is her your wife Kristine? I've thought this because
I've seen you and her in many photografic services (particularly the one made
by Haste Malaise Photography) but also in the short movie "AsHes".
(Maxime): I performed all vocals on
those tracks, from high screams to narratives voices. Maybe you are referring
to the arabic chants, those are samples of surats. My wife is in the video I
directed for "Let Me be the Vomit Guiding your Mouth", maybe she will
perform some vocals in the future, that could be really interesting.
When did your painting passion
rose up? And how did you start painting in this way?
(Maxime): I always had this in mind, I
still have some paintings I did when i was a kid. I always have been fascinated
with darkness. The world I paint reflect my vision of life, what I experienced
as a human being and also what is beyond. Those can be seen as the pages of a
diary, visions you can read and relate to.
This is a stupid question,
just a curiosity that I wanted to know: you also work in a school as an art
teacher, right -(correct me if it's wrong)-? Did your students seen any of
your artworks? Do they know that you work with blood? If they know it, what do
they think?
(Maxime): Yes I am but I never metion
anything about my art, some know I paint because they saw stuff on internet but
I never talk about that.
What do you think about "sick" musical projects such as Silencer, Diagnose: Lebensgefahr, Gulaggh, Stalaggh, Shining and many others of these scene? Do you think your project is connected to these ones? Personally I think it is...
(Maxime): Those projects are interesting because they deal with feelings I can relate to, madness is linked to those bands as it is to mine. I respect people's artistic visions when it's sincere and personal.
What are you going to do in your next release with K.F.R.?
(Maxime): Like I said earlier in this interview, a split with Old Burial Temple will be out soon on vinyl and tape, the K.F.R tracks on that split are very dark and personal, they have been written for the most part when my parents passed away. It deals with mourning, death and loss. I also have a tape coming soon of a recording called "Lunatic Meditation", it is something different musically, more like a movie soundtrack. I experimented a lot on that record to create something special but still linked to the rest. The second album "NEKRO" is nearly complete, it features Azgorh from Drowning the Light singing on one song and the intro of the album has been specifically composed and interpreted by Joseph Bishara, the man behind the music scores of Insidious I and II, The Conjuring, Dark skies etc... Déhà is also taking care of the drums. Here is a video shot for one of the songs:
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| Maxime Taccardi - "Desolation" (Click on the image for see more works) |
What do you think about "sick" musical projects such as Silencer, Diagnose: Lebensgefahr, Gulaggh, Stalaggh, Shining and many others of these scene? Do you think your project is connected to these ones? Personally I think it is...
(Maxime): Those projects are interesting because they deal with feelings I can relate to, madness is linked to those bands as it is to mine. I respect people's artistic visions when it's sincere and personal.
What are you going to do in your next release with K.F.R.?
(Maxime): Like I said earlier in this interview, a split with Old Burial Temple will be out soon on vinyl and tape, the K.F.R tracks on that split are very dark and personal, they have been written for the most part when my parents passed away. It deals with mourning, death and loss. I also have a tape coming soon of a recording called "Lunatic Meditation", it is something different musically, more like a movie soundtrack. I experimented a lot on that record to create something special but still linked to the rest. The second album "NEKRO" is nearly complete, it features Azgorh from Drowning the Light singing on one song and the intro of the album has been specifically composed and interpreted by Joseph Bishara, the man behind the music scores of Insidious I and II, The Conjuring, Dark skies etc... Déhà is also taking care of the drums. Here is a video shot for one of the songs:
Thank you for the time you
dedicate us for this interview, that is unfortunately our last one. I leave
here a little space for you to say all you consider more suitable. Goodbye by
Sadik Underground Review's editorial staff!
(Maxime): Thanks to you for giving me the
privilege to be the last project interviewed in your webzine.
Interview by -SADIK-
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