Greenroom Magazine (Issue #01 / Fall '13) | Page 12

MUSIC

HIATUS KAIYOTE

GREENROOM

“Our spaceship is basically a supermarket trolley
with lighters attached to the back of it.”
that have gone to the conservatory and made
their money doing corporate gigs but then they
will also be in some pop project, a metal band,
jazz gigs and then some really experimental
shit. There are less people and less gigs than in
America, so there isn’t as much space for niche
scenes. People just play a lot and have broader
horizons about what they do.
Nai, I hear that Questlove smells like maple
syrup?
Nai: Yeah! I met him at the Brooklyn Bowl when
I came out in October [2012] to represent the
band and he told me that he had heard our music
through Angel of Dirty Projectors who heard it
through Animal Collective. Then he gave me
this big cuddle and he smelled like maple syrup.
I love honey - I named my guitar Challah, after
the honey ants in the desert - so I told him and

ago, and that’s how it all kind of leaked out. He
saw a couple of our songs before he went on
and then after the gig he was like, “man, lovin’
your shit, its really cool.”
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