{"id":2955,"date":"2013-10-10T01:23:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T19:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2013-10-10T01:27:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T19:57:17","slug":"in-conversation-with-alcest-mastermind-neige-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2013\/10\/10\/in-conversation-with-alcest-mastermind-neige-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"In Conversation With Alcest Mastermind Neige (Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Andrew Bansal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/alcest_tour_cut2-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2956\" title=\"alcest_tour_cut2 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/alcest_tour_cut2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/alcest_tour_cut2-copy.jpg 300w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/alcest_tour_cut2-copy-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>French atmospheric rock band Alcest is the creation of Neige, who writes and records all of the material but plays on stage with a live band. Besides their three studio albums, they&#8217;ve impressed one and all with their live performances, and I got to witness that first hand when they opened for Enslaved at the Troubadour in 2011. Just recently, they came back on another US tour, this time co-headlining with British band Anathema. They played the Los Angeles show of the tour at the very appropriately chosen El Rey Theatre on October 3rd, and before the show I had a conversation with Neige to talk about the current tour, the making of the upcoming new album &#8216;Shelter&#8217;, the musical direction, live shows, acoustic arrangements, and more. Listen to the chat below.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WrAa3nH9rkc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/gig_reviews\/2013\/10\/04\/anathema-alcest-mamiffer-perform-at-el-rey-theatre\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gig Review: Anathema, Alcest &amp; Mamiffer Perform At El Rey Theatre<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit Alcest on the web at:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/alcest-music.com\" target=\"_blank\">alcest-music.com<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/Alcest.Official\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/Alcest.Official<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/AlcestOfficial\" target=\"_blank\">twitter.com\/AlcestOfficial<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Bansal French atmospheric rock band Alcest is the creation of Neige, who writes and records all of the material but plays on stage with a live band. Besides their three studio albums, they&#8217;ve impressed one and all with their live performances, and I got to witness that first hand when they opened for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2013\/10\/10\/in-conversation-with-alcest-mastermind-neige-audio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Conversation With Alcest Mastermind Neige (Audio)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2958,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions\/2958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}