Thursday morning (March 21), it was introduced that A Perfect Circle will launch a brand-new music as half of The Sessanta E.P.P.P. Along with their upcoming Sessanta tour companions Puscifer and Primus, the EP options one new music from every band, all three co-written with Maynard James Keenan.
That similar evening, A Perfect Circle guitarist Billy Howerdel joined Loudwire Nights to debate the brand new music, the upcoming tour and extra with host Chuck Armstrong.
“We just ran through it for the first time two days ago,” Howerdel advised Chuck about rehearsing A Perfect Circle’s new music, “Kindred,” forward of the Sessanta tour.
“We are now finding our bearings quick. Usually we do a song, record it and we’ll have months to kind of digest it. This has been on the fast track, so it’s interesting. It’s very exciting, very unknown and exciting…for what I lack in guitar ability, I try and make up for in sound design — and textures and that stuff takes a long time. It’s harder than figuring out how to play notes.”
The Sessanta E.P.P.P. comes out on March 29, and A Perfect Circle will carry out “Kindred” on the Sessanta tour, which kicks off on April 2 in Boston.
Billy Howerdel Reflects on A Perfect Circle’s eMOTIVe
In addition to getting the Loudwire Nights viewers excited for brand new music from A Perfect Circle, Howerdel mentioned his earlier work — with A Perfect Circle, Ashes Divide and as a solo artist.
“I don’t think I would discard any of my musical children, so to speak,” Howerdel admitted. “I can stand behind it all.”
One album particularly stood out to Howerdel as he talked about A Perfect Circle: 2004’s covers report, eMOTIVe.
“[It’s] different, but we did our own take on other people’s songs, so it has a different position in my fondness for the things we did,” Howerdel mentioned. “I’m really proud of it. I really liked them once we did them live. I think in the studio, that record was cracking the code, it was an interesting set of parameters we put ourselves within on eMOTIVe.”
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He defined there was a bit of a time crunch with the album, too, which was just a little completely different than Thirteenth Step and Mer de Noms.
“We definitely had more of a deadline we set, whereas before —we try not to go forever, but it was a little more open-ended,” Howerdel revealed.
“We got into the live sense of playing those songs in 2010 and 2011 when we went on tour and then recorded it for [A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone and Echo]. That was really fun to look back on, and I think those things still hold up.”
What Else Did A Perfect Circle’s Billy Howerdel Discuss on Loudwire Nights?
- What it is like looking for a birthday current for Maynard James Keenan: “I’ve had a couple things along the way, but you know, he’s got kids now, so I don’t think I can get everything I was thinking. It’s tough. I’ve got a couple of ideas.”
- What impressed him whereas he was making his debut solo album, What Normal Was: “I had kids that were that age, 11 and 14, so I was trying to come up with what I was listening to at that time and kind of give them a snapshot of my influences of what made me elated, excited — what it was I was listening to.”
- One factor he is just a little nervous about with the Sessanta tour: “I can’t even imagine playing on a Primus song at this point.”
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