Mohamed Laglilate is a drummer from Morocco. I wanted to get inside the mind of a double bassist on the other side of the world. It has to be a different scene over there. I was fortunate enough to talk to Mohamed Laglilate through the power of Facebook. You can check out his band http://www.youtube.com/user/harshwordsband here doing some covers. Metal lives and breathes, its breath just smells different depending on where you go. They also have their blog here http://harsh-words.skyblog.com . Below you can see what we talked about.
DP: What is it like to be a drummer in Morocco?
ML: In morocco it is normal, there are a lot of drummers here, but if we are talking about metal drums there is not a bad amount of drummers.
DP:Where do you play in Morocco?
ML:Now just in my city, we play at 7 scene.
DP: Why do you like double bass drums in music?
ML: Every drummer of death metal uses double bass , i found it to be very hard 3 years ago, but now I like it very much.
DP: How hard or easy is it to get a show
ML: It's very hard to get a show in Morocco you find a problem of sonorisation, a local, and then there is the gear.
DP: Do a lot of people listen to metal in Morocco?
ML: Not a lot, but some people do.
DP: Are there any bands from Morocco that are popular in more than just Morocco that you know
ML: In Morocco I like 2 bands, Wanted: technical death metal and Syncopea: progressive metal
DP:In one of our past conversations you mentioned that double bass pedals are really hard to come by, why do you think that is?
ML: We don't have a drum shop here, we have yamaha but with a commande, it's very expensive.
Thank you for reading this E-interview. It just goes to show that music will go where it wants to, it can show up in any part of the world, and surprisingly because of technology can sound the same, great minds think alike!
In a country like the US, musical instruments can be found anywhere and at really affordable prices. It is more impressive to me when a band outside of the US makes an international presence. This means usually that they have had more to overcome as band than just making it work, often oppression, government influences, and what we think is a bad economy is nothing compared to what the rest of the world deals with.
Just be appreciative of what you have and if someone got it for you. The dollar is worth three times as much as the Moroccan currency. This means that the $50 bass pedal over here is probably $150 over there making it harder to just throw together a band because you liked the video game rock band. Can you imagine that $1000 double bass pedal costing $3000, yes it is very real, I don't think Americans realize the value of being able to go to your local department store, and get real functioning instruments. Rock on Harsh Words! Thank you Mohamed for the interview.
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