Interview with Kieran Brannon and Gabriel Gelle of Morsrot
By Mick Michaels
COSMICK VIEW: Hello, Kieran and Gabriel! Welcome to The Cosmick View. Thank you for taking some time out of your day to chat with me, it's greatly appreciated.
CV: What do you feel is
a real game changer for an artist or band when it comes to their career in the
modern music industry? Is it something they do, or say, or achieve…?
Kieran Brannon: Personally, I
think that playing live is still the best way to succeed. It serves to bring
joy to both the artist and listener. If the music is pure and not made to sell,
it will reach people on a spiritual level. Considering if it has no substance,
it'll be nothing more than a passing number 1 hit that everyone forgets about
in two years...I don't consider that success.
CV: Years ago, it was
said that video killed the radio star. Has social media killed what was left in
your opinion?
Gabriel Gellel: I wouldn't
necessarily say that, but I wouldn't say it exactly helped...it's a bit of a double-edged
sword in that sense. It gave opportunities to small artists who may not be
professionally recognized to be making good music but may be doing something
that would appeal to people subjectively and social media gives them a platform
to take that chance. But it’s also given those same people a lot of competition
and while some may look at it as being "the more the merrier," I feel
it's kept a lot of talented people under wraps.
CV: With the world now
being post-COVID, how have things changed for you as an artist? Has a new
music industry really emerged in its wake as many are saying? What are your
thoughts?
Gabriel: Where I am from, and I’m sure many other
places, it has left people wanting more in terms of live shows, so emerging
into the scene has gotten rid of a lot of snobbiness in the community because
people will go to any show, they can get tickets for just based on that fact
alone. I wouldn't say the music industry has taken a sharp turn but like many
other industries, it's left its impact as well. Working from home has given
people more time to listen to and maybe even write music. Fuck knows how many
riffs I've churned out just waiting to leave my home in quarantine. But from
where I'm standing the industry hasn't much shifted from where people left it.
CV: If you knew the
pandemic was coming, what would you have done differently as an artist to
prepare?
Gabriel: We hadn't formed as Morsrot at the time
but if we had, one thing we would have definitely double down on is social
media presence...realistically that's all we would have been left with in terms
of connection with people who are following our career as a band. Live shows
would be out the window but writing music and interactions with our fans can
still be there even if it is digitally. There's no real way you can prepare for
something like a pandemic, I can't think of anything that I would've changed
about my approach to it even if I had known...it doesn't really matter.
It is what it is, and you cross each bridge when you come to it.
Gabriel: I think it depends on the artist. Certain genres tend to have more artists that do put thought into how a song is going to be received by the public. I personally wouldn't do that, because I believe if you're writing what you want it can never be a waste of time or money, someone is bound to like it. As for musicians who create that ripple organically, I believe a realization like that comes with time and it can either go to your head or you can see it for what it is and appreciate it, which a lot of respected artists do. If you are truly making that impact, it's impossible to live in the dark even if you wanted to.
CV: Does music need to
be influential to be considered worth listening to in your opinion? Or can music
simply be just an enjoyable auditory experience devoid of substance?
Gabriel: Music was never made with the intention
of being influential or changing the world and bands that set out with that
intention focused on the wrong things in my opinion. Music has one sole purpose
and that is to spark emotion through self-expression, be it sadness, excitement,
or anger, it doesn't matter, one can never be better than the other. Even music
I don’t get anything out of or find entertaining I respect most of the time
because it’s doing what it was meant to do for someone else. You know some of
it is total shit but even then, it can get a smile out of me, so it serves some
purpose.
CV: What do you
consider “being relevant” is when discussing how artists and bands should
present themselves to the public? Does relevance translate into success in your
opinion? In addition, what do you feel an artist can do right now to stay
relevant?
Gabriel: Being "relevant" is just some
bullshit buzzword idiots use to insult other artists on social media. It's not
the point of music in my opinion. I couldn’t give less of a shit about how
“relevant” an artist is because it’s empty and artificial. If the music is
good, it's good. One musician can write the most insane piece of music and be
dead for 70 years and lose mainstream "relevance" and some guy
struggling to put words together can be "relevant" for 3 weeks and be
forgotten about. Can you guess who still gets praise? Write what you love, the
rest will come.
CV: As an artist, what
do you see as being your biggest lesson learned? And what type of impact has
that lesson had on you as a person and your career?
Gabriel: My biggest lesson learned through my
career would be my answer to the last question. I can’t stress enough how much
that shit means to me and music as a whole. I think we'd be better off if
people could look past all the bullshit that comes with being a career musician
and focus on what really matters.
CV: What’s next? What
can fans expect to see coming from you?
Gabriel: What's next is music and that will
always be my answer to that question. In whatever shape or form it comes in one
thing that will always be a constant from us is music we enjoy writing and playing.
CV: Thank you again Kieran and Gabriel for spending some time
talking and sharing with our readers. It was a pleasure. I wish you all the
best and continued success.
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