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Local musicians speak about their musical path and preferences, share experiences and talk about life and music at large.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

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After wandering for years through the vast Canadian landscapes, and finally giving up the quest for the sacred Hockey Puck, Luke Treble<\/strong><\/a> arrived in Krak\u00f3w in 2014 armed with songs, his trusty 12 string bazooka, a somewhat healthy liver, and a bulging hernia.\u00a0In 2017, he released the album Son, Get It Done While You\u2019re Handsome & Young<\/em><\/a><\/strong>. He’s also the guitarist and singer of The Arc & Tech Arrows<\/strong><\/a>, a local band with a sound knee-deep in the rock genre with blues notes, jazz tones and folk ballad grooves.\u00a0Towards the end of 2020 he released Shitty Love Songs Vol.1<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>and is now focusing on his solo project.<\/h5>\n
Instruments:<\/strong> guitar<\/h5>\n
Music styles:<\/strong>\u00a0rock, folk, folk-rock, pop-rock<\/h5>\n

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Krak\u00f3w Music: Why the guitar? How did it all begin for you?<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Luke Treble:\u00a0<\/strong>There was always music playing in the house, in the early days at least. I remember the weekends, summer days during vacation from school, my father would blast music, especially British rock n roll. A lot of different bands, but above all\u2026 Oasis. Oasis was the favourite band of the household. My parents had a couple small cafes on Whyte Avenue in Edmonton, which is the main drag of entertainment\/culture and arts of the city, definitely at that time it was, and there were several great small CD and vinyl shops. My dad would drop into them, talk with the owner, ask for recommendations of something new and he picked up Definitely Maybe<\/em>\u00a0by Oasis right when it came out. So, that album and the next two or three albums, were constantly playing in the house from the time when I was six.<\/span><\/h5>\n
That band and especially those early albums were always playing throughout my upbringing, but I remember the point exactly when I became fixated, sort of speak, with the guitar. It was a VHS concert film of Oasis…There and Then<\/em> – Live at Maine Road\u00a0and the Royal Albert Hall 1996 – Noel Gallagher with his Union Jack Epiphone blasting The Swamp Song<\/em>\u00a0and the crowd going wild, \u00a0that\u2019s the opening scene. That concert film was viewed endlessly and I soon began walking around the house strumming a tennis racket with a penny (one cent Canadian). This went on for many weeks until I was finally presented with a real guitar. My father had been in Poland visiting our Grandma, who was very ill and was soon to pass away, and when he returned I remembered the shock of seeing it. I can\u2019t remember if I had been informed of the present earlier or not, in any case, I was stunned. It was a classical nylon string and I played it strung as right hand upside down for about a year before I realised I\u2019d be more comfortable re-stringing it as a lefty. A neighbour did it for me. And that\u2019s that.<\/span><\/h5>\n

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KM: What\u2019s one of the songs you play (composed) that you\u2019re most proud of?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Luke:\u00a0<\/strong>Hmm. I\u2019m proud, I guess, of everything that I\u2019ve written up to this point, but probably proudest of what I am currently working on right now. In terms of guitar playing though, the songs that stand out for me would be Conduct & Condition<\/em>, Forces of Nature<\/em>, Conflict in the Kitchen<\/em>, Departure Tune<\/em>, Seasons Confused<\/em>, Hard as a Bean<\/em>, Race Against My Own Feet.<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n

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How was the learning experience for you? Do you recall any particular teaching, mentoring, advice?<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Hmm. I just played endlessly… in moments when I wasn\u2019t supposed to, neglecting school and what not. My folks told me, you have to go to college or start paying rent, bla bla bla. I went to an open-house for a music school. It was all very nice, but turned out you need to read music to get in. The next day I took the guitar, a small bag and boarded a Greyhound bus out of town. It was a key moment in my marriage. <\/span><\/h5>\n

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What\u2019s your most memorable moment on stage or your most memorable gig? Why?<\/b><\/h5>\n
The last few gigs at Buda<\/a><\/strong> were nice… I played a couple cool shows in Switzerland with a makeshift band, one was outdoor at some massive factory squat in Zurich<\/a>. Another one was in a high school auditorium in some small picturesque perfect Swiss town… Busking on the bridge in Girona, Spain getting invited for whiskey and beer afterwards.<\/span><\/h5>\n

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What\u2019s your go-to guitar? What\u2019s the one you usually play and feel most comfortable with?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Different songs, different needs, but my 12 string Simon and Patrick would be my choice for the desert island\/Crusoe scenario.<\/span><\/h5>\n
What would you say is your best skill playing the guitar?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Hmm. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m not very good at playing.<\/span><\/h5>\n
What are you currently practicing? What are your short or long term goals in terms of technique?<\/strong><\/h5>\n
I\u2019d like to move to Romania and later to Spain to live with the Gypsies and learn from them… and later to Greece to master Rembetiko<\/a>. And on and on. Now I\u2019m focused on Ethiopian Jazz and Polish Disco Polo compositions.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
What is your favourite genre of music to play?<\/strong><\/h5>\n
My own.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
Feeling or technique? Which is most important?<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Rather getting a good night\u2019s sleep definitely and being sober while playing, at least half.<\/span><\/h5>\n

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Luke Treble
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