Silver Lining

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INDELSPEEN was a band which toured in the Lyon region during the eighties. Formed by Nicolas Mourachko (guitars) and Pascal Indelicato (piano & keyboards), it featured Antoine Van Limburg (drums), Pierre Moissonnier (bass & vocals)... INDELSPEEN is dead now. But the two founders are still alive and kicking: with Thierry Sportouche (ANOXIE's lyricist), they formed SILVER LINING in 1998. Pascal Indelicato, the main composer, is specialised in symphonic orchestration; he wrote several works among which "Résurgence" which blends synths with classical music. He thus played several tracks for a symphonic orchestra live. He is a sound ingeneer and has a recording studio ("Music Labo"). He produced SILVER LINING's album there.
I got in touch with the band and Thierry Sportouche answered my questions.
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Silver Lining is a direct
continuation of your previous band Indelspeen, as far as I understand
your biography. To my knowledge has Indelspeen never officially
released an album. How much of Indelspeen's material has been carried
over to Silver Lining ? 

Well, not much. The main track
belonging to both bands is ‘October’.

Over to Silver Lining. Why did
you choose that name and which bands were you influenced by ?

There is a nice proverb in
English, ‘Every cloud has a silver lining’. We liked this poetic
and positive maxim much. Hence our name. The bands that influenced
us? Prog rock, Celtic music and classical generally for Pascal
(keyboards). Andy Latimer, Steve Hackett, Steve Luthaker, Alan
Holdsworth, Steve Rothery for Nicolas (guitars). Myself, mainly Fish
and Peter Gabriel.

How is it to run a band in
France these days ? 

In a country dominated by easy
listening music and rap, it’s very hard: there are no producers
(and medias) interested by quality music such as prog. There are just
a few prog concerts then and a small public. Hence we have a great
turnover in the musicians (drums and bass) who quickly feel tired by
the lack of concerts and productions. We are glad our first album
(released by Musea in 2004) sold well (more than 1,500 copies), I
mean on a prog point of view of course!

Over to your only album so
far. Please tell us more about your The Inner Dragon album from 2004 

Well, as you know, it is a
concept-album. It’s about self-development, communication,
tolerance and peace, in a fantasy background. A peaceful land has
been destroyed. A surviving imp (Florrow) looks for his family and
friends. They are all dead (‘Opaline’). In his quest for the
inner dragon who burnt his land (he travels through a desert (‘The
Desert Gates’) for instance), he soon discovers the beast looks
like… him. In fact, he is struggling against the violent pulsations
he has, we all have inside. He will succeed finally in rescuing his
friends. In a nutshell, this is the story of the blooming of the
adult coming out of the typical teenage depression, love failures
(‘Lovestalgia’) and communication breakdowns. This is a message
of tolerance and peace too: beyond the appearances, we’re all the
same.

Please also tell us more about
the Lyon Hearted DVD from 2006

It’s a home-made DVD, you know.
It reflects our concert in 2005 as guest to Ange, France’s most
famous prog band (together with Magma).

What
have you been up to since the release of your album and the DVD ?
Concerts at the Prog Nights in
Montreux (Switzerland), at the Progfarm festival in the Netherlands,
at the Tiana festival in Barcelona (Spain)... We opened for Pendragon
in Lyon too in 2008…

For those of us unknown with
your music; how would you describe you music and which bands would
you compare yourself with ? 

It’s definitely symphonic rock.
Many people find Kansas (maybe thanks to Annie, our magical violin
player), Camel and Marillion influences.

What is your plans for this
year and beyond ? 

We had a great concert in January
in Lyon on our own. And Nicolas and myself sang with Andy Sears
(Twelfth Night’s singer) at the Pendragon concert in Lyon on April.
We are now working on a second album and a video. We should play in
Italy soon. Nicolas has a side project too, a prog combo called Jam
Tempus.

To wrap up this interview, is
there anything you want to add to this interview ? 

Merci beaucoup and… keep on
proggin!

Thank you to Thierry for this interview

Their PA profile is here and their homepage's here

Edited by toroddfuglesteg - September 09 2011 at 07:15