Me: You've had a big year this year with three albums 
coming out, what caused this change in output?

Evanora: So this past while, I've had this, like kind
of lack of interest in releasing stuff out of like,
well, I mean, I make music for myself and my
friends. And so once I like make it and I send it to friends and stuff, essentially in my head it's essentially already released. So beyond that, I don't really care for people hearing it beyond that. And then I'll like forget about it after I like send it to like the friends who it'll mean something to. And then a while later, I'll come back to it, like two years later, even. And then I' only then I'll be like, oh damn, this is crazy. Like, I want the world to hear this or whatever. And then release it. So I've just been like, kind of in this bad habit of that. And this year I was just like, let me like. Purge everything that I've been like holding so I can like, because it would feel, I would feel almost guilty working on new music. Because I like, I would make a song I'm like knowing that I'm just adding to this massive pile of albums that I'm like, and I haven't even got everything down here. This is just a chunk of like, but I got a hety chunk out of the way, but I still didn't get all the back catalog out yet.

Me: Portraits from Memory is a big departure from the previous two Evanora albums, what inspired that?

Evanora: It was definitely just been a long time coming. I've been planning on doing some more melodic stuff for a while. Honestly, I'm just surprised I haven't done this sooner. There's no real, like, intention or thought behind specifically, like this change of sound or this or that is just all Yeah, it's not really, there's no real intention. It's all just kind of naturally, is what it is.

Me: What's the meaning behind the chess motifs on Beimax Chessclub

Evanora: The whole chess thing was when I was living in Berlin,  there was this bar called Beimax. And it was like the most random, like suspicious bar. Like nobody really went there. There's like this one regular guy there who was just like spamming the like scam, as fuck slot machine. I think one of my friends one time talked to him and he said he'd put like $50,000 into it and he'd never gotten anything from it, but he still comes to every day to give praise to the slots, you feel me? It was just like a weird time in my life and I  was like, I'm not trying to go home, so I'd like go there and I'd stay out all night and play chess. I'd go with my friends and we'd bring chess boards to this thing and do like fake tournaments and it turned into kind of like a saga that was like began around chess.

Me: You’ve draw a lot of your own covers, have you always been artistically inclined and what not and where did the style come from?

Evanora: Yeah, not all of them though.

So for the Evanora stuff,  all the covers have been done by other people. For the Marjorie stuff, though, a lot of them are done by me. But it's also 50/50, a lot of the main album cover arts are, by me, but yeah, I've definitely always drawn. And, with the Marjorie cover arts, the style is like somewhat of a homage to the early days of DeviantArt and whatnot.

Me: What does Gantz mean to you?

Evanora: When I was super young, the half price bookstore near my school had Gantz in there. I feel like Gantz is just like… I'm sure other people have had similar experiences, but like being super young and just like opening the book, the illustration in it is super like crazy. I don't know what it is about it, but it stuck with me, like, super heavily, and then later on in life, I, like, reread it and realized how much of an impact it kind of had on me.

Me: Okay this is a personal question for me, but you reference video games a lot in your music. Are you still an avid gamer?

Evanora: I wish I could play more games now. Like I haven't played them in a long time, but yeah, I definitely used to be a very heavily on that shit. Like, I have like 1,200 or maybe 1,400 hours logged on Garry's Mod. I would play like Garry's Mod, Fallout New Vegas, I have way too many hours logged on that shit. Definitely don't regret it, though. Definitely artistically, I feel like, it inspired me in a way. A lot for sure. So yeah, definitely there's some importance there, but it’s been a while.

Me: Favorite spot in the Bay?

Evanora:
Damn.  I don't really know. I feel like a lot of places that I nostalgize in the bay is kind of either gone or is based on people or at a certain time. Versus location, but hard location-wise that are still around... Tilden Little Farm is like not too far outside. It's like a literal little farm that you can go and you can like pet the goats and you know what I mean? It's cute. Classic, classic date location. Where else? Just like downtown Berkeley, outside of Berkeley Highs, it's like, I me, where all the everyone posts up where can find anything.

Me: How was your time in Reptillian Club Boyz?

Evanora:  Yeah, it was very brief. I mean, I'm definitely very grateful for it, honestly. It gave me a lot of experience because I feel like pre-RCB I was like, I mean, I was throwing my raves and doing my thing. But I had never had exp erience with this very fast paced, like, cult fan base kind of experiences. And honestly it can be extremely intense and it was too much for me at the time. But I'm very grateful that I was able to be thrusted into that for a second and it gave me kind of a place to like learn from mistakes.