We read that Art was in two car accidents, can you tell us how these incidents related to part of Audio Karate coming back together to be a band again? Well it became the catalyst that's for sure. I had basically given up music I had a good job I was content to leave music behind. But when I had my first accident I realized how quickly life could be taken away from you. It also hit me, literally, that I wasn't completely happy and music was the thing missing. Plus I worked for a bank so I was sick of being a corporate whore
Why did you decide to change the name to Indian School, and what do you want this new name to mean to fans of the band? Changing the name was tough because the nucleus of Indian School is Audio Karate. But for us and hopefully for fans its a new start, a new sound. Audio Karate released its last record in 2004 it seemed silly to me to take on a name [audiokarate] that felt languished.
We hear you have a keyboard player in the band now? Can you tell us about how this new member came in? I wish it was a far more interesting story but the truth is I simply found a musicians advert on a website and our piano players influences were actually bands we had played with and that were friends of ours.
What can you tell us about your latest EP 'The Cruelest Kind' ? Well it took quite a while to finish, almost a year. And we recorded the record ourselves with our guitarist Leach doing the engineering. When it came to lyrics I employed the help of one of my buddies Joshua Mitchell to co-write. Most of the songs are about girls which I've always been inspired by, everything from the really great ones, to the broken ones. There's a song about dying and also Rob your House is about the greeds on Wall Street and how we got fucked over.
Interview with Arturo Barrios
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