Infinity Overture Discusses New Album "The Infinity Overture Part 1"

Ytsejam.com recently posted an interview online with Niels Vejlyt of Infinity Overture, in which Niels discusses the band's new album. An excerpt from the interview follows:

Tommy Hash: With this being the first part of "The Infinite Overture " what were the inspirations behind it?

Niels Vejlyt: The inspirations was that I think I progressed a lot regarding compositional skills, and also making use of the way I and Jakob Vand play our instruments.

TH: Musically, what was it that you sought out to do with this album as opposed to "Kingdom of Utopia"?

NV: I wanted to make the music more aggressive and progressive, I also wanted to incorporate a larger variety of musical styles - that way making it more progressive.

TH: How is it that you approached the arrangements on this album without going all out neo-classical?

NV: I wanted to make most of the songs very progressive in the way they are arranged, so that the songs has many different interesting instrumental parts.

TH: You have a handful of guests on this record such as Amanda Somerville & Fabio Lione among others, how did all of that come about?

NV: Well, luckily I’m friends with Sascha Paeth who has a close relationship to those guys, so Sacha pretty much got me in contact with them.

TH: The addition of vocalist Kimmie Tenna Nielsen has marked a big change in the band, how did she enter the fold?

NV: Well me and Jakob Vand held some auditions for female singers, and we chose Kimmie because apart from being a great singer, she also has the perfect stage presence. She also has a personality that makes it nice and easy to work with her. She is also really quick in the studio, she turns up well prepared so there’s no wasted time when we record .

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