{"id":106915,"date":"2023-09-26T14:57:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T18:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?post_type=interviews&p=106915"},"modified":"2023-09-27T12:55:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T16:55:22","slug":"before-pop-susil-sharma-of-karma-glider-lets-us-into-his-world","status":"publish","type":"interviews","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/interviews-panm360\/before-pop-susil-sharma-of-karma-glider-lets-us-into-his-world\/","title":{"rendered":"POP Montreal | Karma Glider’s Susil Sharma lets us into his world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The last time we saw the noisy post-punk\/shoegaze pop act, Karma Glider, was on a concrete amphitheatre in Rouyn-Noranda for FME. This time we will see them in l’Escogriffe for POP Montreal, armed with all of the tracks from the first EP, Future Fiction<\/em>. Before this appearance, we spoke with the founder\/ frontman of Karma Glider, Susil Sharma. Previously part of Heat, Sharma started Karma Glider just before the pandemic reared its ugly head and now has a full-fledged band<\/strong> that is on its way to Burning Up. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PAN M 360: Take me through the origins of Karma Glider. It\u2019s still quite a new project in the grand scheme of things.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susil Sharma:<\/strong> The band is kind of a pandemic baby. I\u2019d been making some solo recordings and got the group together to back me up for some live shows in 2020. Once everything closed down, the shows were canceled but we just kept jamming and eventually decided to record and move forward as a band<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAN M 360: At first listen, lots of Karma Glider’s music sounds pretty feel-good in a sort of indie rock vein with poppy post-punk, but are these songs coming from a deeper place? I ask because \u201cBurning Up’s” lyrics can be taken many different ways. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susil Sharma:<\/strong> Totally. I love bands like The Smiths, Echo and The Bunnymen and The Verve that can pull off that happy music-tortured lyrics dynamic and I aspire towards that same thing. I love filtering personal experiences like the ones I\u2019ve written about in Burning Up and others through a medium that doesn\u2019t make the lyrical content obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAN M 360:<\/strong> Going off that, as a songwriter, is it important for the song to have a personal context?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susil Sharma:<\/strong> It really is important to me that I draw honestly from my personal life in my work, but I like writing oblique lyrics that don\u2019t spell things out too obviously and leave room for the listener to connect them to their own experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAN M 360: Right from the initial 5 or 6 seconds on \u201cIn Deep Ocean,\u201d I was hooked by that \u201cwooo,\u201d and video game coin (Mario?) sample. Where did that idea come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susil Sharma: <\/strong>Thanks, man. I was listening to a lot of early hip-hop when I wrote the song. Songs like “It Takes Two” and “The Choice Is Yours” are big influences as is the production of Public Enemy, Big Audio Dynamite, and Andrew Weatherall-produced records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAN M 360:<\/strong> Another video game reference is with the “Burning Up” music video, which has to be one of my favourites of the year. Can you tell me about that creative process and how A Link to the Past inspired it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susil Sharma: <\/strong>Haha, thank you again. I was talking with the label about making a lyric video and I wanted to make something a bit more interesting than those can sometimes be. I\u2019m not sure at what point I thought of doctoring the Zelda walkthrough but had I known how long it would take to make, I would have thought twice! Interestingly, my parents didn\u2019t let me play video games when I was growing up, so I\u2019m not sure where all these arcade influences are coming from… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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