Time travelling

Musketeers look to the past

By Tatat Bunnag
Photographs by Varuth Hirunyatheb
and courtesy of What the Duck

The guys of Musketeers are currently out on the road to support their brand new single “Time Machine.” The pop rock quartet — singer Chakree Lapboonruang (Ten), guitarist Pakpoom Nimlamai (Pooh), bassist Sanwit Whansanit (Doi) and guitarist Rawin Mitjitranon (Big) — have achieved success during their career with two well-received studio albums and a number of chart-topping singles.

“Time Machine” is retro rock ‘n’ roll as Musketeers take listeners back in time down memory lane, and bring back nostalgic memories. Their fans are counting down to the group’s biggest ever show on July 23 at Live House Bangkok.

Student Weekly recently caught up with the band at What the Duck’s headquarters to talk about the new song and their plans for the album.

Student Weekly: Can you tell us about your new single?

Pooh: “Time Machine” is vintage-style rock. You can hear the ‘80s music influence in this song. It’s a very basic blues or rock ‘n’ roll tempo, which is something our band have never tried before.

Ten: The song is about going back in time in our heads. I got the idea for the song as I often thought that the more we grow up as adults, the more we miss our childhood days. Everybody misses their childhood at some point. We miss having fun and being carefree. Remember when we were little and we always wanted to grow up? Now we realise it was better being a kid!

Student Weekly: It sounds like Musketeers don’t want to grow up.

Ten: Adults are just obsolete children. I believe that there’s always the kid inside you, no matter how old you are. It’s about being happy and never losing yourself. Although you are getting older with more responsibility, sometimes you just have to be a little kid and enjoy your life more. My dad is usually pretty quiet at home, but anytime he meets up with old friends, he’s like a happy kid again.

Student Weekly: It’s the first time that you self-produced your music. Was it easier or harder than working with a producer?

Big: We just felt that for this album, we needed a bit of a change. We were quite confident about doing it ourselves.

Ten: We did a bit of co-producing on our previous albums too. We always took a very keen interest. Working on the new recording has been very smooth and we could finish quicker than before, because we all knew what we wanted.

Student Weekly: Why did you choose “Time Machine” as your first single?

Ten: The new album has a concept about time. Each song will talks about a different time in our lives. So we thought it would be a good idea to release “Time Machine” first.

Student Weekly: What can fans expect from your new album?

Ten: It will be a six-track mini-album, and it might be called All About Time. We’re planning to release a documentary to accompany the album. It will be a short film about the story behind the concept. We’re still not sure when it will come out, maybe early next year.

Student Weekly: Are you ever worried about running out of new ideas?

Ten: Not really, at least not at the moment. With my lyrics, I’ll always try not to repeat myself with the same subject. I’ll never re-write songs like “Dancing,” “Yak Hai Ter Long (Want You to Try)” or “Ni-Taan (A Fable)” again. I want to always give something new to our fans.

Book: All of us are music lovers, and we always keep up to date with new music. We listen to many different styles, and both old and new bands to get inspiration. So I don’t think we’ll run out ideas for Musketeers that easily.

 

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