Artist Profiles

Centao

// Matthias Dietinger, vocalist

CENTAO are an alternative-rock band from Linz, Austria. “Rising” (2002), “Mindstrip” (2005), and “Your Poison Is My Paradise” (2008) are all available from MoRock Records.

Website: www.centao.com
Photo: Renè Huemer / ReneHuemer.com

Interview:

Music = Magic. You can’t see it, and you can’t touch it, but music transports the most powerful emotions that humans can ever experience. Music gives us strength, music reminds us of certain moments, makes us happy or sad, and tries to explain what we aren’t able to express. For me it’s the level between what we think and what we are able to put into words, and we can feel it. Music makes me hot, it gives me the creeps, and butterflies in my tummy, and I feel the adrenaline rising in my body. The most important things are the mood, the situation, and the places where we consume or make music. All these components interact and create the whole impression. Music is all about the “grace of the moment”. It decides if the notes you hear turn into a spiritual adventure, or just into a “I listen to music” thing. It is so beautiful to let yourself fall into the arms of music you love, and to celebrate this with heart-felt devotion. Then you can reach a point just like being in a trance that is truly unbelievable! Otherwise music can just touch you like a breeze, and with the blink of an eye it’s gone. Go and feel it! I think nobody actually needs music but I know that without music I would die!

“Music = Magic. You can’t see it, and you can’t touch it, but music transports the most powerful emotions that humans can ever experience.”
– Matthias Dietinger, vocalist in Centao

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