Eva questions the Empire
We have three new releases: Empire Cheese will present the ‘Efficient use of Space’ EP on Friday January 16th at OCCII. Two weeks later, on Thursday January 29th, Eva Braun will perform at their tape release party at the same location. Because of both occasions Eva Braun asked Empire Cheese a question for the monthly OCCIIZINE. You can read the Q&A below. On the same Empire Cheese show the duo Silver Souls will perform their nihilistic ritual to celebrate the release of the ‘Lunar Caustic’ tape. More info soon. Also, we hope to have the store up and running asap! 
Q: What do you consider as an efficient use of space?
A: This title for the EP somehow popped up when I was facing the problem of making a release with what I always considered being pretty much of a bedroom project without an aim and without the idea of achieving something. The nice thing about home-recording is of course that you do it in your own rhythm, it’s an activity that takes just as much space as it needs to be what it ‘is’, stripped off of the labour that is involved in playing together with other people, like planning rehearsals, buying equipment, traveling and playing shows etc. There is no additional value to what you do, it runs parallel to everything else. When Knife Slits Water asked me if I wanted to release a 7”, the idea of efficiency became part of this activity, all of a sudden I have the responsibility for the space they are providing me, which is literally the 15 minutes on the vinyl and in a more abstract way their dedication and trust in what I am doing. ‘Efficient use of Space’ is a somewhat ironic comment on this situation which I almost find a bit scary since I never thought of Empire Cheese as a project with which I would release records, or even play live. Furthermore, I think the most efficient use of space is sharing a bath tub, the smaller the better.