Beat a Go Go

Modern science likes to picture humans somewhere beneath the tree from which they fell a long time ago doing their monkey business ­ or better, on top of the evolution oak -­ or was it pine? Primus primates. According to them, humans are just a little bit less animal than animals, giving the green light to the human world to suppress and subdue the animal planet. But, being less animal than animals, instead of catching them in the wild, we are fostering them and then slaughtering them very humanely - almost civilized - and thanks to our scientists' brains and the evolution of technology, in millions, daily, all over the world. In doing so, we take care of our animalistic instincts rather than nurturing human values. Like humans, we should take care of all the other weaker creatures. Eating them is not quite a way of taking care, if we speak in common and not in mafia language. So, my message to the world would be, live and let live! This message is not clearly defined in the lyrics but is worthy to remember because it is strongly present in the subconscious when writing a song. A good pretext for lyrics can also be a life episode or a recently seen movie, a book or a comic book also. In my case, comics are very important. Through them I learned to exaggerate when the time and place are right and yet not to lose the ground under my feet.

What can you say about the song "Mr. President"?

In the case of "Mr. President", the muse for this song was a real person, and yes, he was a president. And he's dead now, five or six years or so. Mission accomplished! I can't debate with the deceased but it seems that no "democratically" elected president, dead or alive, is immune to the lyrics of this song. Not to waste words on the caste of despots lifted to power under the curtain of democracy. If somebody's in power by the will of the people, then the same people can and should throw him down. That is how the democratic system should be, if we understand the word "democracy" correctly. But once in power, one would do anything to stay there as long as possible, at any cost. Power is like a drug - once you're addicted, you need more and more. But the failure of the modern electoral system is the speed of rotations at the top. A few years available for democrats, a few for liberals, a few for republicans, social-democrats, radicals, nationalists ... and all of them with one goal - to profit to the maximum possible in this short period of time in power. That is why they need bulletproof cars and armor around themselves, to be protected from the anger of the masses, because they prove to be the biggest, smartest and most cunning thieves ever to walk the Earth. They do it with style and the means of power allows them to rule the mob quite legally. Very similar to the behavior of common people, as regarded by my little brothers and sisters, the animals. All things are connected and pulling a string on one part of the world will cause a resonance on the other side.

On the stage you look like a magician - the way you move. Can you say something about this?

Nothing is completely black or white in this world that I see like a gray spot with an infinite number of nuances. This is what makes it so great! Infinite varieties of somehow connected destinies. This is pure magic and we are all bewitched by its illusion! A glimpse of this magical taste can also be experienced at Hic et Nunc shows. Each song is re-experienced every time it is played because live shows are the incarnations of songs in the repertoire. On the stage, I keep myself busy by playing with the Vox AC 30 amplifier and in the case of the last show [at Orto], with a theremin made by the sound engineer Boban. A theremin is played with the whole body where each move causes a different sound. This maybe makes the player look like a magician. Maybe...