Cassandra Syndrome in No Apologies Magazine
So this one's from quite a while back, but I finally got my copy today :) No Apologies magazine sent a reporter and photographer to our show with The Dreamscapes Project back in February as part of the Twelve Days Project. The bulk of the article talks (quite rightly) about TDP and the Project. Here's an excerpt that specifically talks about CS:
"Though both bands used the same lyrics and similar melodies, the two versions were unmistakably unique. The Dreamscapes Project took a "folk-core" approach to the song, with soothing melodies dancing from a tin whistle, cello, and violin, whereas Cassandra Syndrome performed it as operatic metal.
The bands may seem like odd partners, but Irene Jericho, lead singer of Cassandra Syndrome, says that their excited and expressive personalities are what brought them together when they met years ago. "We first shared the stage together at a festival and both their band and our band have a tendency to engage in a lot of banter on stage and to be kind of silly, and so I think there was an immediate sort of like 'Oh! You're as weird as we are; let's be friends."
Though Cassandra Syndrome's members are lighthearted on stage, their music is much deeper and more serious than is typical for their genre. The heart of their music lies in the ancient myth from which the band gets its name. Jericho explains, "Basically Cassandra was the famed seeress of Troy, and she was cursed to see the future but no one would believe her, mainly just cause Apollo was pissed off at her family. 'Cassandra Syndrome' means that you have these dark visions of the future but no one will believe you, and our music is sociopolitical and a lot of it is kind of alarmist in tone. We try to draw attention to different issues that we cover: racism, and the environment; we cover politics, we cover the gap between the rich and poor in third world countries, so we tend to focus on that."
Cassandra Syndrome's set was intense and powerful."
I don't think I realized how much I use run-on sentences when I speak. LOL
Anyway, hope you enjoyed it :)
~Irene
