Hamish Cowan has resurrected Cordrazine after a 13-year gap and released the new album `Always Coming Down`.
He wasn't completely non-musical in that time. In 2000 he released an electronic album under just his first name Hamish. "Thinking Cher, Madonna, Britney, Hamish. It just kind of sat in there quite comfortably," he told Andrew Tijs at Undercover.When he wasn't making music, he was making muffins. "The way that I got into making muffins, I was working as a nurse at the Children's Hospital," he said. "My family had a muffin shop and my dad wasn't doing too well. He was injured and they needed help. I would go every morning at 5 o'clock in amongst doing music and going off on tours and doing records and writing. There was the most strange day of my whole life where I got up, I was making muffins and still in my muffin outfit. There was a new HMV store opening so I went over to cut the ribbon to open the store and everyone was looking at me like 'what is that muffin dude opening this store for'?. I then went and did Hey Hey It's Saturday that night but I was glad I did it because it kept me grounded".
Hamish doesn't believe in 'art for arts sake'. "I have always had this idea that you should work and that any kind of art should express and individuals life and their interaction with the world. Otherwise 'art of art sake' is kind of meaningless to me. It doesn't express anything, it doesn't connect with anyone and it doesn't mean anything. Cordrazine were fortunate enough or unfortunate enough."
Watch the Cordrazine Undercover interview with Hamish Cowan here
Watch Hamish Cowan from Cordrazine perform for the Undercover Usessions at uctv.fm
