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Good Buddha.
"The album is the greatest thing you've ever heard and if people don't buy it they're fooling themselves. I'm sure you were going to write that anyway, your pen was just poised over those words," Andy 'A.N.D.' Lane declares.
You have ample opportunity to test his theory with the Buddha's latest, 'Futurhistrix' having just been released and a national tour including two Adelaide shows. Along with their quirky beats and funky jams, Good Buddha will be bringing three new members on tour to complete their new sound.
"Three of us [Lane, Alex Young and Matt Johnston] made the album 'cause that's who was around and we've been working together for a long time now. When we play live we need more people so we hooked up with Glen [Humphries] and Mark [Walton] who were like-minded dudes. We were all brought up on a steady diet of jazz, soul, funk, rock and hip hop and all our tastes converge around those sort of things. Ranji [Navaratnam] was also on the album so she's touring with us," Lane explains. "When we write more we'll use those guys as well because it's all going so swimmingly. Don't quote me on that 'cause it'll all bust up in a big drug and alcohol haze and we'll hate each other. It's all about setting ourselves up for a big fall really. We'll buy some really big cars to smash when we're high on really expensive drugs. We'll blow it all in the biggest circumstances possible."
Expensive drugs and fast cars is one prediction for the future, but given the album title reference, I was curious as to whether there was more behind Good Buddha's futuristic vision.
"It's a strange concept that once we discovered sort of popped up everywhere. It's about using modern approaches to same old glorious stuff," Lane explains. "Hopefully the future will be alright and there'll actually be one. Things are pretty grim out there on the world stage but that's why you have to keep having a good time and hopefully they'll all disappear into their little worlds of hate and we'll rise victorious from the ashes," he pauses, "There's a quote! Phew! That's a concept album for sure!"
Despite this semi-political outburst, the Buddhists try to keep things on the party side when it comes to music. "Yeah it's pretty much all about a good time at the moment. I personally tried to delve into my political feelings but it just ends up sounding like bumper stickers when I play it back. I like parties, I like people to have a party and we play party music so we'd be lying to ourselves if we didn't just say we want to party. We even started out playing at house parties. A few mates of ours moved into a massive place and they got a demolition notice the day they moved so we had house parties every week. That's where we cut our teeth, in a big kitchen with sweat dripping off the walls."
The long drives are also used to create 'poetrical' lyrics. "Al's big on his wordplays, they're all through the lyrics and don't really make sense until you've heard them a few times. None of the words would be accepted in Scrabble; although one day..." Lane trails off, then adds enthusiastically, "Maybe after the car accidents and expensive drugs we'll be famous enough to be accepted into the Macquarie dictionary!"
Cassie Hilditch
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Good Buddha's 'Futurhistrix' is out now through MGM. Catch the Buddha boys at Rhino Room Fri 18 June with Red Monica DJs Needle & the Activist, DJ Japeye and at Crown & Sceptre on Sat 19 June with Texjah and Hemi Love.
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