Interview With Wojciech Esharra
Have you always been interested in music? What is your story and how did you start making music?
I have always been interested in music for a long time. The musical evolution itself ran in one direction from hard rock to metal. It would always be faster, heavier, more screaming. At the same time, I was looking for different instruments, as a kid I played my father’s classical guitar, or I made my own drums from cans and just tapped out rhythms. It wasn’t until ’94 that I had my first contact with an electric guitar that I could play. And so it started. The first riffs were made in the cemetery. Music is about the atmosphere. I used demonic spiritualism where, in combination, it led to the creation of Harridan.
What are you working on now? Any future releases we can look forward to?
Currently, I have finished the mixes on the first album. It has been called “Magus Mortis” since 1999. It will consist of 9 hymns. I also recorded all the music on it myself and I dealt with mixes and master in my home studio Silence Grave. Album plans to release early new year. The drums are already recorded for the 2nd and 3rd albums.
What Is Your Ultimate Goal In The Music Industry?
There is no such purpose, not for me. I express myself through music.
What Has Been The Biggest Challenge In Your Career Thus Far?
Recording the accumulated music in the way I imagined it. It took me a lot of time. A place to do ritual compilation for recordings and exercises, complete the musical equipment, learn to play all instruments and use software for creating music, recording, then mixing, mastering. You learn all your life.
How do you go about writing a song? Do you have a melody in your head and then write the other music for it or what’s Your typical songwriting process?
There is no rule, sometimes something comes out on drums, sometimes on a guitar. Vocals always adds final expression to the end. Pure improvisation. I writes texts thematically for a given album. This has implications for the music-making process as well. I don’t do anything in Harridan during the day.
How do you feel the Internet has impacted the music business?
It is certainly easier to announce everything, to spread it out. But the quality has dropped as a result of this and the lack of buying original discs. Everyone now prefers YouTube or another social networking site. People prefer to listen to mp3s because it is more convenient. I think that here is the whole point, the internet makes you lazy, you have everything within a click of the mouse, you don’t even need to get up from the chair. This is no good.
List some famous musicians currently on your playlist?
I don’t have a list of favourite musicians, I listen to everything that gives a kick from old school black, death, thrash metal. I have favourite albums but not bands or musicians.
What Did You Do Before You Started Making Music?
I always put music in my head, at the beginning as a great fan of various bands, singing or humming, tapping rhythms with my hands, etc. I am constant when it comes to my interests, so heavy music and spiritualism / demonism go hand in hand. These are the paths that have become my life since I was a child. Also songs, hymns, songs are created on the turn of my existence so far. I have never given up on music.
Would you have any advice for young people wanting to follow in your footsteps?
Never give up in achieving your goal.
If you could change anything about the music industry, what would it be?
I would forbid antifa to influence any concerts anywhere in the world. Concerts or gigs are supposed to take place regardless of who is playing there. You don’t like it? – then don’t come. Metal fans don’t really care who believes what or what their views are, because people come to listen to music. And everyone will tell you that. And no matter if black or white, it is not up to us to judge, and the only division of hatred and racism that is sown is by doing harm to others, such as the concert chancellors mentioned above.
How do you feel about originality?
There is nothing like originality, only fashion. So everyone presents themselves in a pictorial or individual way. We only have a dozen original metal albums and hundreds of thousands of bands and projects created. So this is a fashion that is noticeable both in terms of clothing and a given genere of metal. However, the most important thing is what you do to be in line with what is playing inside you.
Is there anything else we should know about you? or Something that you would like to add?
It’s now available on the Harridan cd “Return God of the Dark”. You can purchase it via bandcamp and discogs or directly via miratfortin@gmail.com (this copy will be a bit cheaper without the extra fees requested by online shop services). Thank you.
Links where your music can be purchased?