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“Each of our songs is 100% imaginatory. Just think of the moment you have every time before you fall asleep - tired, half-dreaming, recapitulating all the things you did (or didn’t) throughout the day, week, month, year, … And that’s when the music takes its part. It comes from an experience, but in kind of a transcendental way - it comes from an experience based on your current reality, but affected by your imagination, which leads the experience further and further.”

— Purplefox Town

Marie: Purplefox Town, how did you get to writing songs, playing music and since when do you perform together?

Ondra: The two of us started playing together already in 2013 and although we used to play a few covers (mostly Beatles), primarily we always wanted to write and perform our own music.

Adam: Yeah but the early teenage songs soon started to feel childish and silly and that's when we decided to make a new project in 2015, give it a more seroius approach and find the right guys to make the band with. That's how Purplefox Town was formed.

Marie: You already have a footprint in the scene in Prague. How would you describe the music scene in Prague?

Adam: Well, we love the scene, but since it's the only scene we really know, it's hard to describe what is unique about it. Anyway we can see how the coronavirus crisis changed it, it used to be a very cosmopolitan scene where the local bands like us mostly supported the foreign ones coming here for tour, but then when the lockdowns came, to me it started to feel like the local bands suddenly became the thing, many of them have risen lately.

Marie: You have an album coming out soon. What are the stories behind the songs and what was your inspiration for this?

Adam: There are many and it’s actually for the first time for me that I am writing songs and lyrics that are somehow connected to the real world I sense and experience. The scenes and stories are still set in fantasies, but the core comes from the real life. And not only mine, this time I am writing lyrics also to songs Štěpán and Honza came up with and that is really interesting process to try to portray their feelings and points of view.

Marie: Are your songs autobiographical or do they come from your imagination, or both?

Ondra: Each of our songs is 100% imaginatory. Just think of the moment you have every time before you fall asleep - tired, half-dreaming, recapitulating all the things you did (or didn’t) throughout the day, week, month, year, … And that’s when the music takes its part. It comes from an experience, but in kind of a transcendental way - it comes from an experience based on your current reality, but affected by your imagination, which leads the experience further and further. So far it creates something, we don’t know how to classify, so we call it a song.

Marie: Which of these have you chosen to play for (A)VOID sessions, and why?

Adam: We chose 'Answers in a Sphere' because we were surprised how good it sounded when we tried it with just two acoustic guitars. The album version feels very different, there’s upbeat groove and synthesizers and so we wanted to have it recorded in this sort of intimate way as well.

Marie: How would you identify your conscious and unconscious influences on your upcoming third album?

Adam: I would say that my influences for this one have been pretty conscious. I deliberately surrounded myself with old sci-fi books and movies, had an ABBA affair, dated her in Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, let that sink in for a while, then I added some Pond and Papooz and eventually something straight out of myself as well.

Ondra: To me it was just soundtrack to a movie 'Heavy Metal' (1980)

Marie: How would you like for your album to be received? Where and when should people listen to it best?

Adam: We believe this one might catch attention of a wider audience, we tried to make the music more accessible and there’s a bit for everyone. People should listen to it wherever they want, but space heading elevator with a tiny round window sounds like the best spot to me.

Marie: Do you listen to much music on Spotify, and if so, what are the top releases we should check out?

Ondra: I never give recommendations of this kind, because I never take them either. Just start on what you listened to when you began to perceive music and then go with the flow.

Adam: I agree with Ondra, but still I would recommend local bands like Island Mint or Panoptikum which both released new music recently and are pretty hot right now.

Marie: And finally, what are your plans with the release of this album and summer 2022?

Adam: Well, we are probably still going to be stuck on finishing the album, but here and there we will be doing gigs as well. Anyway all the big things are yet to come in autumn.