Interview with Maha Vajra, from Voidorchestra

So, your first two albums were symphonic orchestra. What moved you to compose electronic music? You know I was raised in a family where there was music everywhere Where some played music I play music in an orchestra when I was younger, in my teens So I lived that music very much I did listen to pretty much everything, like most people But that was my main thing And the singing of the choir So that’s what made me go into the music world that kind of music is the first one I produced at the professional level But eventually as electronic music evolves the sound of engineering behind it that just struck me right there And I just needed to do it So I’ve tried it with Divine World, now Naturealize is much more dubstep much more electronic And I love it. I just enjoy it But you still use the name Void Orchestra Yea, Void Orchestra, because there is no orchestra So Void Orchestra felt good still But seriously the Void part is ah you come back home your head is filled, you don’t know what’s what And you need to disconnect You need to empty your mind So the word Void really applies Just press play you disconnect Just forget about yourself You’re into the music And what’s with that weird name Maha VajRa Is it you’re real name? No, uhm, well yes it is my real name I’m French, so I was born Francois But in the years, Buddhist and Hindu spiritual path gave me a Sanskrit name that I liked it Maha VajRa means ‘big diamond’ I don’t wear the gold bling blings everywhere like the old time old school rappers But uh, you know, Big Diamond is my official name now And everyone calls me Maha, just Maha It means big guy or dude So what inspires you to compose music? I love it You love it. Everyone loves it You, those who dig that kind of music, they’re just going for the next They just want to feel the next tribal level, genetic level, animal movement freed from them, instead of stuck inside So it’s, it’s the sound of freedom It goes into your guts It’s really basic, pure, and that’s how you were created and that’s how you should live it And who does the vocals for the album? Uhm, the ladies want to stay anonymous. So I will respect that And the men’s voice is always mine But in Naturealize, the man’s voice doesn’t sound like yours It doesn’t indeed Uhm, I was a teen and I teased, I liked Michael Jackson a lot. Very creative And I imitated his voice for fun Instead of Michael Jackson’s Billy Jean, it was Jichael Mackson’s Billy Jean, uh Jelly Bean So it’s Jelly Bean, hup my love I disagree, but I feel them now So I just enjoy teasing and stuff And over the years I said, ‘Well, yea there’s something good in that voice’ And then you got Love in this world makes me feel alive Makes me want to Naturealize And then with a few filters you got the Naturealize voice. Right there You have a very great voice Thank you. It doesn’t look like it when I go with, you know, the iron ball voice Uh, I know you started singing opera. Would you sing some opera for us now? Like, unprepared now after 15 years Absolutely Of course Alright The neck thing I love that Uhm, when I first heard Naturealize, I loved the sound It was so wonderful. But then when I listened to Forgiveness it sounded mainstream and very basic And at some point during the song I just started to cry What’s, what’s going on with that? I agree, the simplest chords The very basic music, extremely mainstream Nothing apparently creative in the music itself I did it intentionally But in the few words there everyone has some regret at one point They want to say they’re sorry So you got these two characters, that girl and that man saying I’m sorry for something You know, the girls wants to come back home to her father It’s a story But there’s always something inside us that corresponds to that I’m sorry thing, that you just don’t dare And the main chorus is ‘Forgiveness, forgiveness.’ You just go into that idea of forgiveness of this And then ‘pop,’ everyone just… it strikes them Well everyone, most people that hear it for the first time unprepared are just taking it for a small so simple, basic song and then bam And you give that track for free? I do. Yep Why do you give so much for free? Well, I want to earn a decent living But before that I did it for fun So I was already giving my music Of course now it’s a very good marketing scheme I give something for free, they listen to everything else, buy the album But it started off as a desire for everyone to be happy and rejoice in whatever I can bring to the world Which is my music. So I do it That’s wonderful What are your plans for the future? Now that Naturealize is out of my production queue I’m going, just for fun, do a very hard dubstep noise album You know for the base-drop lovers who just want the next They want to feel the next ‘Gimme some of that base’ Haga doble clic para editar Thank you Maha It’s a pleasure �