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9/02/23 Press Run Interview
Interviewer: How did you come up with the name "Contract Loophole"?
Raphael: It's up to interpretation. I mean what is a contract? Maybe it's the contract of life? What is a loophole? I took the name from a book I read back in my monk phase back in Mongolia. I remember signing a contract for the rights to the name of um... [Pause] Yeah so contract loophole comes from my previous group or something I broke up for creative differences or something. It was like The Beatles, possibly worse than The Beatles breakup um... but it was a three-piece instead of four, but we had four at some point, but we kicked him out because of some kind of dispute inside some like um some uh like a group... you know??
Interviewer: Would you care to talk about your previous band?
Raphael: Yeah we had a few albums, like I said it was like The Beatles, it was made back in mid '22 with a few pals. We had an album... or more like an EP, it was around 30 minutes long. We had 2 singers/songwriters, heavily inspired by The Beatles. Me and my buddy [Redacted] [Pause] ...you might have to cut the name out, oops. Yeah so after that we kicked our instrumentalist out for some personal reasons, and then I made an album about it because I was so pissed and hurt about it or something. Yeah so after that we all came as a group and made a self-titled project, which was our first album as an actual full band in a somewhat studio.
After that album we kind of went off the deep end after "self-titled." I made a solo project again for the band, and a lot of the stuff you'll hear off that record will definitely sound like the stuff on our upcoming EP.
Interviewer: I hear a lot of people say your music is heavily inspired by the early 17th century baroque music scene. Do you agree with that or not?
Raphael: Yeah, I can understand where those claims come from. I mean, like we're basically a Claudio Monteverdi cover band.
Interviewer: [Unintelligible]
Raphael: What?
Interviewer: Yeah, so that was Contract Loophole frontman "Raphael"! Make sure to purchase their upcoming Demo record soon.
Raphael: Thanks for having me, man. I can't feel my legs
Interviewer: Bye.