Sonori-kaะ #9 // Desktop Error

Sonori-kaะ is a Bangkok-based music project that will cover the independent music scene gravitating around the Thai capital!! Armed of our camera and our passion for music we will tour the city to offer you every week new interviews, videos, and pictures … to culminate in the next months in the first Sonori-kaะ live event! Stay tuned!!! And don’t forget to visit our Projects page for more information!!

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Week 9

Issue number 9 of Sonori-kaะ is dedicated to one of the most famous rock-experimental band active in Thailand: Desktop Error. The band’s members – Aof (guitar), Lek (vocal/guitar), Tui (bass), Bird (guitar) and Meng (drums) – met in school. What brought them together was their common love for alternative rock from the ’90s: “We started playing covers at Lullabar. Then playing some much time together, it felt natural to start writing our own music.”

Sonori-kaะ: How was joining your label So::On Dry Flower – SODF (we spoke about the in one previous post)?

Desktop Error: “SODF is a small label that is looking for alternative and experimental music. We met in 2006. At that time we already had some songs written that we were playing at festivals and as soon as we joined the label we published our first EP. Our label, SODF, plays a big part in the definition of our sound. They understand the way we want to go, this is how ‘So::On’ label works. Koichi, our producer, is like a brother for us. He listens to what we write and then he guide us. He never interferes with our songwriting but he’s great in helping us fixing what doesn’t work, finalizing the song and giving us feedback so that we can come out with something that represents ourselves in the best possible way. We are really like a family.”

Sonori-kaะ: How would you describe yourself, your identity and your sound? What is Desktop Error all about?

Desktop Error: “Actually, I know that it may sound contradictive but it’s the imperfection, the irrationality. Each one of us has his own character and his own way of playing and creating a sound and what we do is to put all them together to try to create perfection.

Talking in terms of music genre we see ourselves as Thai Alternative Rock; but if we put it in another way, like what kind of rock band are we, I will have to say “experimental”. And this not only because we try to create new sounds, but because we try to offer something new, a different attitude and way of playing music in Thailand. We try to think differently from the mainstream Thai music, and also to offer something different from the other rock bands in Thailand. We know that we are not the kind of sold-out-records-artist. We do our best to make people wanting going back and listen to us again and again.”

Sonori-kaะ: How do you see your future? What would you like from it?

Desktop Error: “It’s hard to say where we will be in the future. Maybe we will experiment even more, doing things that we don’t dare to do now, creating sounds that are not perfect or pure. For sure we are not going to stop soon. We want to tour outside Thailand. But the best thing would be if in the future people would go back and listen to us, to our old albums, over and over. This would be absolutely awesome!!! And of course, we would like the mainstream music in Thailand to change, that also other genre of music could sale more.

Sonori-kaะ: At the end of 2011 you toured different club in Bangkok and Chiang Mai together with other bands from your label to promote Burning, a live film/documentary about the world famous Scottish band Mogwai. They played live for the first time in Thailand on December 2nd. How do you feel about big bands like this coming here? Do you think that it will help bringing more audiences to alternative rock and in general to independent music?

Desktop Error: “What SODF and Lullaby entertainment did, bringing Mogwai to Thailand, was absolutely great as they break the rules and brought here the artist that no one would expect to see live in this country. It’s been a wonderful gift for those who, like us, have been growing up listening to international music and of course we hope that more organizers in the future will have guts to bring other good bands to play here, to offer more choices to the youths.”

To listen more tunes from Desktop Error just visit they Myspace Page!

Thank you guys!!!

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