None of us feels dominated by a foreign agenda or a leader of the band. This is about as pure a democracy as you can get creatively. You feel like you're in it for yourself and everyone feels like they have a personal stake in it, yet it still operates as a group. We all feel free to contribute whatever and whenever. We've all grown up in the 20th Century in which we're exposed to many different types of music consciously and unconsciously all the time.
Music is in the environment, on television, on radio and on city streets.
Cloud Chamber draws from a really broad cultural palette. You know, there's something different about a group just playing because they love to play, rather than trying to prove a point or work within a tradition or trying to reproduce someone else's compositions. There's a freedom here. The vocabulary of music is a little different. In some ways, we become instruments of the instrument.