Sonic Influences
Cris Cohen: With “Song For Hope” in particular, part of the style and part of the tone reminded me a lot of Eddie Van Halen's "316." I'm curious if that or his particular style was an influence.
Nili Brosh: It's interesting bringing that into the conversation as it pertains to these songs, because obviously Eddie is such a huge influence on my playing. But this is not one of those instances – at least not in a conscious way.
I feel like some of the stuff that I've written leading up to this, not that I would necessarily use the word “cinematic,” but some of the more worldly things on my last album, “Spectrum,” have this romantic vibe to them. And so that was kind of the next thing in that journey to me. And it became clear that it needed to be kind of a reverby, solo-guitar tune, washy, all that.
But actually, some of the style of that kind of tone came from Devin Townsend and his “Casualties of Cool” stuff. If I'm drawing a more direct, sonic influence. Obviously it's a completely different body of work.
