Sensuous Soulstar: I wanted to thank you for taking the time out to talk with AVENUE about your band and your music. The first thing fans want to know is how would you classify the music of Engrama? From listening to your music, I sense a bit of soft rock, a little bit of a folk, with an earthy, almost dreamy feel to it, but I feel there are a few other elements in there. Would you classify it as one genre or a mix of many? Engrama: I think our music doesn’t fit in just one genre. Some songs are more post rock, such as the instrumental ones. But we really don’t know how to describe our music. It’s more like the soundtrack of images, and like a dream, as you said. SS: Who are the official members of Engrama, and how did you all come together to work as a group? Who is responsible for the vocals and the music composition, as well as the instruments? E: There are just two members in the band: Pupito Helstein on the guitar and vocals, and Lakua Arriaga on drums and vocals. We met each other in Buenos Aires, Argentina and [Engrama] was born when we started living together. We have just two instruments and our own vocals. SS: How long have you been performing, whether as Engrama, or solo in your first life? Do you give performances in SL, and if so, how often? E: We have performed in Second Life, as
"in our real life shows we never play any cover songs; maybe one in all of the gigs, but usually none" well as in real life, for a little over two years. When we lived in Buenos Aires, we used to play there and now also in Spain. We used to play very often in Second Life; almost every day. SS: Now with your music, do you strictly perform your own original tracks, or do you cover any artists as well? If so, which types of artists do you cover? E: In our real life shows we never play any cover songs; maybe one in all of the gigs, but usually none. But in Second Life, we try to mix our original songs with covers because almost all our originals songs don’t have lyrics, so we think it is more interesting to mix it up with covers so we can offer a nicer show. The kinds of artists we cover are musicians in the Independent scene, such as: Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Sigur Ros, Bjork, and Portishead.