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Pervy Perkin - Of Echoes and Reflections:

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They came.

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Aks and Alex Macho Zapata. Majestic.

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Your band’s name is interesting – is there a particular meaning or origin behind it? Yes, there is actually. Alvaro and I are really interested in astronomy. One day I was reading some names of celestial bodies and 2482 Perkin came up. It is an asteroid from the main-belt of our solar system (a concentration of asteroids in the space between Mars and Jupiter). The name seemed interesting to me, I don’t know why, it really seemed a person’s name. So Alvaro and I created this character, a living asteroid who hated earth because it was envious and locked in the main belt, and who wanted to escape and crash against our planet. We called him Pervy Perkin. Earlier this year you released your debut full-length album titled Ink, which is comprised of 16 tracks and is one quite long sonic journey. What can you tell me about the creative process that informed the album? I think it was pretty much as many other bands do, once the composition time started we got together every day and jammed, threw ideas, riffs, and talked about the album all the time. It was a 24/7 job for us; it still is. Most part of the album developed from there, with the addition of some tracks or parts that were created after, or before, like S!urm and New Dawn, that were part of a previous demo. How long did it take you to complete work on the album in its creative phase? Almost two years. The initial composition phase where most of the album was defined ended very quickly but almost till the last day of mixing we came up with new ideas and changes. Not so many bands decide to put that much material for a debut album and considering the amount of material you have with Ink, you could easily release two separate albums. Did you not fear that some people can find the album too long for one consecutive listening session? Yes, that’s definitively something that we knew could work bad for us. A new band, appearing from nowhere and more than 2 hours of music to listen…But it was a necessity for us to include all that music in the first album. As we were defining the band and composing, we knew that we needed at least two cds to put all the music we wanted, as we think that the first album is the presentation of the band, and for us the concept of Pervy Perkin is wide, really wide. It’s all kinds of music. We didn’t wanted to release just 8 songs that globally were more “metal” or “experimental” or “rock”. Let’s say this album is the door to the Pervy Perkin universe.

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Prog Sphere talked with the guitarist Dante about the band’s beginnings, the creative process that informed their first studio album, and many more. How did you go about forming Pervy Perkin? It came up very naturally. Alvaro, Carly and I had being playing an instrument since we could remember, and we were friends for a while so… It’s the usual story, they knew each other since they were little and jammed together pretty often. I met them later as they were friends of my ex-girlfriend, and they came to see me to some gigs that I had with another band. It was a matter of time that we played together and decided to start something we really wanted to do for a long time.

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Pervy Perkin is a new name on the progressive scene, hailing from Spain’s capitol Madrid. Jokingly (or not), they consider themselves as one of the bands of the New Wave of Spanish Prog scene. The band released their debut album titled Ink in March this year, a sonic journey comprised of 16 compositions clocking in at almost 200 minutes. That’s quite an achievement for a band that have just started to break new grounds.