Stanley Christiaensen (The Immortal Samsara Travelers – guitar/flute/vocals/sitar)
SPB: How do you typically begin the composition process for a song?
Christiaensen: The composition process always starts from either existential questions like the evolution of the human species or historical visions like the Hadean Eon, Egyptian mythology. An atmosphere will spark the willingness to pick up an instrument and play. All the music for TIST is made purely on intuition and improvisation.
Sometimes an idea will be there beforehand to try something more Berlin school esque or do something in odd time, but generally the focus is to retain the spirit of primal instinct through a futuristic material existence. If we need to think about it too much beforehand it won’t work. Just like editing or theorizing over it too much when it’s done.
