PSYCHE everything coming to an end. It’s about getting older, not belonging, watching the world dying, feeling cursed, and trying to find an acceptance of the situation in order to keep going. I don’t know if the lyrics are more special than the others, though. I think the title “Bloodcurse,” and “September Moon” are pretty cool, but my favourite lyrics are spread out over all the Psyche albums. I love my lyrics to “The Hiding Place” title song just as much as “The Outsider” or “The Saint Became A Lush.” In the early days, I was inspired by stories I was reading,and some social issues.Themiddle period ofmy lyrics became more personal experiences, and some romantic themes. Later there has been an addition to how humanity is dealing with technological advances, and the kind of world problems we are facing. Spirits of Lo c kdown was your last EP of n e w m a t e r i a l with five covers. Howdid you choose the songs? I have wanted to do “Cry Little Sister” for the last 20 years, and made a demo in 2006, but was never confident enough until I decided to once again have a special release for Halloween. Then because of COVID-19 and the lockdowns I thought it would be fun to just put together a few songs I have loved forever, and make a little digital EP to represent these moods. I have always wanted to make an electro punk version of “Living In The Real World” from Blondie, so I did that, and also wanted to do “Just One Kiss” from The Cure in the full 12” version as I absolutely love that song, and have it on my mind ever since I first heard it. I was fairly proud of it, so that song and “Security” by Men Without Hats became the streaming single while the other covers just stay exclusive to Bandcamp. “Security” is another one that I just felt fit exactly in our modern times of surveillance, hacking and also the fears that people had about lockdowns etc. What can you tell us of Psyche Enterprises? How is it going? You have also released some solo albums and your brother post-albums, any recommendations? It’s just a made-up label for my digital distribution to cover any work by Psyche-related creations. Just to have the family legacy in place. I’m not signing anyone. Two years ago, Artificial Dance released Galaxy, a compilation of tracks from your brother Stephen back catalogue. You were involved in the selection of songs. What can you please tell us about this release? It was quite popular among my electro-lover friends. Can we expect - 22 - 'We have worked and risked so much to make this tou happen, so pleeeeeease come get wild!!!' more reissues in the future? This album became possible because Artificial Dance chose a previously unreleased instrumental called “Infinity Sign”by my brother for their second compilation. After that it was their idea to make an album of Stephen’s work, and we compiled the choices together. I absolutely love this release as it also contains tracks that were previously only on CD or cassette as well as some cool choices from the label. I do Hope I’ll get an opportunity to make a follow up. When arewe going to have the long-promised newalbum? And the acoustic one? I think by the time I’m ready it may have to be a double album to cover these options,but I can only do this when I’m confident of the new songs and can’t wait to play them live. Sometimes life just happens, and I ended up just making singles, and small musical statements rather than a complete album. https://www.psyche-hq.de/ https://psyche.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Psyche/ François Zappa Read full interview on https://elgarajedefrank.es/en/interview-psyche/
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