Can you give a brief introduction to Geomatic?
It all started in 1983 in Vilnius, Lithuania when we began experimenting with the synths, two tape recorders and a microphone. Year later we started a synth band with some other friends. Then one of us finished music college and the other one was trained as audio technician and gained his experience at the local clubs and gigs.
Geomatic exists since 1996, before that you were playing as a synth pop band, why the drastical change of music?
It isn’t that drastic of a change since it wasn’t “synth pop” music in its truest sense, but rather experiments with what we had to work with at the time – synths and tape recorders. Back then if we could have had means to afford those first incarnations of the samplers and a few ethnic instruments, we would have probably been doing what we are doing now.
Geomatic is still a pretty unknown name here, even though you are around for a long time, why is this, what are your thoughts about this?
Poor management? Crippled promotion? Bad Karma? Who knows. Seriously though, we spend so much time working in the studio that there’s none left to promote our work as we think it deserves to be promoted. On the other hand we always avoided being put into certain frames of style or group of bands flocking together, hence the ever present feeling of being an outsider. It doesn’t bother us in the slightest, for we crave for quality rather than quantity of the albums or “pop star” stardom for that matter. We do hope the rest will come, eventually.
You have released 2 albums so far and are now working on the third one, in what way will the 3rd album deviate from the other two, can you tell us something about the new album already?
The new album is almost finished and the next stage will be mixing and mastering, which will probably take from 2 to 3 months to complete. The difference with “Blue Beam” is neither big or noticeable, except for the theme and the sound itself is relatively harsher. The theme itself is based on a conspiracy theory (as well as Blue Beam was) of some well known government agency meddling into things ritualistic and esoteric in a field of space exploration activity.
