How did Andreas Meyer (Forma Tadre) and Bruno Kramm (Das Ich) get involved with production work for Elemental?
Isaac: Vince and I were both too busy at the time to handle all of the production (although we did most of it), and needed to outsource some of it. However, outsourcing a creative property is a bit heavy a task, as it is “creative”. So we went out to a bar one night, had a few drinks and talked about the new direction we were headed in, with a few songs in production already. We mapped out song structures, voicings, and influences… it was a very “scientific” process really. A lot of artists in this scene think they can handle the whole production process, and have really lowered the bar regarding production value. We think that a composer can often get “too close” to a particular song, and his judgment is then clouded. From there we jumped off the idea of “who would we like to work with”. What was great was that we didn’t care who was popular at the time because we were fairly disconnected from all of that. So we knew Bruno has an extensive classical music background, and would be ab
