Review Fix Exclusive: Non Talkers Marco Brantner Talks Future

October 1, 2020 Patrick Hickey Jr. Books & Comics 1

Review Fix chats with Non Talkers Marco Brantner, who discusses the band’s origins, creative process and goals for the future.

Review Fix: How did the project start?

Marco Brantner: It started in 2014 after I was blown away by my wife’s amazing voice and decided to invite her to start an alternative pop band named “Brantner”. For some reason we felt that the name didn’t really suit us and also brought a bit of confusion. After, in 2019, when we’ve recorded our latest EP “Pendulum of time” we took the opportunity and changed the name to “Non Talkers”.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Brantner: Most of the songs we have written so far started with a melody or a riff and after we thought of lyrics.

Review Fix: What’s your standout song? How was it written?

Brantner: With this new name (Non Talkers) we don’t have a lot of songs yet, just the 3 songs from the EP and a single. The song that seems to stand out the most is “Fire burning in my veins” and was also the most challenging song we’ve ever written. It went through so many stages (re-recording, remixing with different producers, etc) and it took us years to get to the final result. We’ve always felt that the song was not exactly how it should be and it was only when we met the drummer and producer Hugo Danin that things started to fall in place. He managed to arrange the song in a way that would even exceed our expectations. This song was inspired by our love story cause me and Evita met under the same conditions, we just came out of exhausting relationships at the time and we were both feeling that we couldn’t start over again, somehow we were convinced that love would never happen again for us. But guess what, it did!! Now we are married, write and perform music together and have a lovely daughter. I guess sometimes you have to go through certain experiences to find the right path. We have tried to write this song in a flirty easy listening sort of way cause that’s how it felt for us at the time. 

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2020?

Brantner: Our goal for this year is to record our first full album and hopefully release it by the beginning of next year. We are very excited about it. 

Review Fix: How do you want your music to affect people?

Brantner: We would like to provide the same that our influences provide us: emotions, happiness, sadness, empathy, make us feel related to something, help us overcome certain obstacles, keeping us company, connect with new people.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Brantner: Looking forward to releasing our new album and hopefully being able to tour next year. 

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14262 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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