This record was like ending a chapter in my life because when I made it I got it all out, said what I had to say, put it aside and now it’s over. I think it’s this way for everyone, no matter if they make happy or sad music - it’s just a matter of how they want to deal with their feelings. I just started putting them out and then all of a sudden someone asked me to make a record or a tape, so I did it.įor me, music is a really nice way to deal with personal topics. IH: I don’t think it’s about making it public, because none of my releases have been made with lyrics in them. Did you want to speak about these feelings openly and and these things you went through publicly? MB: Your album To You Who Broke My Heart is also a very personal story about a broken heart and trauma. Mine is more like a soundtrack of a movie or a theater piece.
For me noise is very musical: I see it more as a way of telling a story instead of just making a piece of music. IH: For me, the music is not so concrete - it does not have to be played in a certain way and there are no rules to it. MB: How come out of all kinds of music you think noise is the most personal one for you? It’s more when I’m stoned and I want to make something that’s not so personal. IH: I’ve been playing since a young age and I’ve made a lot of different music - sometimes I also produce trap beats and R&B but that’s not something I’m really public about. MB: Have you always made harsh noise-based music with distorted vocals? There’s no resistance to the system, there’s nothing political about it in any way. Everyone has a party - they fight, get their aggression out, and feel unified in whatever it is they’re against. I feel a great release after we play with the Empire Line and after I play myself, though The Empire Line is not personal in the same way at all because the Empire Line shows are more like the feeling of going to a punk show. Do you also feel this way about your performances as Iron Sight and as a part of The Empire Line? Mariana Berezovska: Punk is normally very connected to social resistance, but I also find hard core and harsh vocals emotionally purifying. We catch up with the Isak after his performance as Iron Sight at the CTM festival in January 2019 to discuss the secret language of distorted sound. Yet it appears that the harsh distortion of voice and instruments is a protective covering to the sensitive nature of the emotions his music translates – the trauma of a broken heart, obsession, mania and the destruction of memory.
Yet most often he appears on stage in the club settings as the vocalist of The Empire Line, a collaborative project of Jonas Rönnberg aka Varg, Posh Isolation’s Christian Stadgaard, and Hansen himself, radiating a restless, bristling energy. Among all of his projects, Isak feels most connected to Iron Sight, his solo noise act.
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