JAKEB SMITH

Local quintet Cohagen Quaid play dreamy-yet-heavy, elongated art-rock. The band formed in 2006, with Daniel Newton at the helm. Their debut EP, Winter & Her Sunrise, was released in October last year, and the band have more recordings planned for release late this year. More pressingly however, Cohagen Quaid are endeavouring to get to Germany’s Emergenza festival – by winning its annual band competition. The Brisbane heats are being held at The Hi-Fi during July and August.

JAKEB SMITH: How do you blend influences into your own style?

DANIEL NEWTON: As a band we have so many different influences musically. It’s pretty much the standard for any band that you all stretch far and wide when it comes to the sounds you enjoy. A lot of the time it’s about blending in the work ethic of a band.

JS: What is Sun & Moon about?

DN: It’s essentially a love song for a dear friend who died and the complications that sort of loss can breed in a person.

JS: How do you make sure long songs don’t become tedious?

DN: It’s not something we think about. Music and its creation is a pretty magical process. The longer you do it the better you get at editing. I actually think our songs should be shorter and the new material reflects that. We never set out to be prog rock or anything. We just like our music to sound interesting and mean something. If that takes three minutes to communicate, then awesome, but if it ends up being 10 minutes, [that’s] even cooler. We don’t like to limit ourselves.

JS: What’s a “revolution of feelings”? Is it like that film, Equilibrium?

DN: In Cohagen Quaid we feel that the only honest revolution that is left is the revolution of peoples’ feelings. To have someone say you have changed him or her through your music is a revolution for me.

JS: What do you guys have planned for the rest of the year?

DN: Plenty of gigs and the release of our debut single.

COHAGEN QUAID play their Emergenza Heat at The Hi-Fi on Monday Jul 27. Their debut is planned for release in November. www.myspace.com/cohagenquaid

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