Tres Warren

1: Analog or Digital?
Both

2: What time did you wake up today?
8:30

3: Last thing you read?
The baseball standings in the sports section

4: Whats your first memory?
I don’t remember, probably hanging out with my granddad, he was my best friend.

5: Tea Or Coffee?
Coffee

6: Last thing you cooked?
Beans and rice with green chiles.

7: If you’re reborn who or what would you like to be?
I haven’t thought about it, I’ll play the hand I get dealt I guess.

8: What inspires you?
Figuring out the puzzle.

9: Last record you played?
The Tony Williams Lifetime: Emergency!

10: Favorite piece of musical equipment?
Roland Space Echo, but honestly, I don’t use it all the time.

11: Last movie you saw?
Ride in the Whirlwind by Monte Hellman.

12: Who do you love?
My girlfriend

13: Do you have any pets?
She has a dog, so I kind of have a dog.

14: Are you useful?
I can bait a hook.

15: Biggest fear?
I’m not sure.

16: What do you value the most?
Spending time with people that mean something to me.

17: Famous last words?
I don’t have any yet.

Taketo Shimada

1: Analog or Digital?
analog

2: What time did you wake up today?
6:30 am

3: Last thing you read?
Old Capital by Kawabata

4: Whats your first memory?
I don’t remember

5: Tea Or Coffee?
both

6: Last thing you cooked?
cucumber and cabbage pickles

7: If you’re reborn who or what would you like to be?
I don’t know.

8: What inspires you?
fear

9: Last record you played?
Bismillah Khan – Raag Multani

10: Favorite piece of musical equipment?
shehnai, lap slide guitar

11: Last movie you saw?
Pacific Rim

12: Who do you love?
myself, my wife, my family and some friends

13: Do you have any pets?
cat

14: Are you useful?
I don’t really care about that.

15: Biggest fear?
air plane crash, global warming, hurricane flooding, giant earthquake

16: What do you value the most?
things staying the same

17: Famous last words?
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Based out of New York, Tres Warren (also of Psychic Ills) & Taketo Shimada are Messages. Their latest release, an LP reissue of ‘Mirage‘ is out now on Root Strata, available from a variety of fine vendors.