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First of all - can you introduce yourself and your band to us?
I am Ivan Muñoz singer/leader from Industrial band Vigilante (www.vigilante.cn) and future - synth pop band Hopeless (www.hopeless.cl).
Could you describe your opinion and/or views on racism within 1-5 words?
I think that is just a stupid need for feel superior or better than the rest. Or, to describe it in one word: stupidity.
What are your views on your own country when it comes to racism? Bad? Worse? Not thát bad? Please explain.
In my country, unfortunately, racism exists.
Mainly the racism that exists is towards the immigrants who come from neighboring countries like Peru or Bolivia, which is very sad since partly that has prevented us to be able to unite more to make against much more important problems as the influence of the USA in our respective countries. Also a great discrimination against the original towns of Chile exists, where the known example is the one of the town mapuche.
Although, nevertheless, where it exists greater discrimination and violence, especially on the part of neoNazi groups, it is against gays and punks, where in some cases the violence has been so great that it has finished with the death of some.
It seems some kind of sick ´trend´ these days to bring racism into alternative music, referring to terms such as 'nazi-punk', 'NSBM' and 'right-winged electro'. What are your views on this? Do you think it will become dangerous?
I think that is terrible that so negative ideologies are mixed with the music that we like so much.
In addition I believe that it is a potential danger in itself, since the majority of the adolescents and children sometimes feel more respect to a musician or a band that to its same parents.
I believe that we must learn of our errors and not try to repeat them.
Did you witness any racist things during local gigs, festivals, etc? Would you reject an offer to play a show together with an outspoken right-winged band?
There have been some occasions in which due to the thematic one of my lyrics, I have received insults or threats of people neo-Nazi. Luckyly I've never had a physical confrontation with them, since many of them are very brave in group, but individually they become inoffensive.
The case has not occurred me of play with a rigth winged band, but I would succeed I believe that I would play, to offer to the people who go to the show a different alternative of thought, and, who knows, perhaps open the mind of a pair of Nazis.
I believe that saddest and terrorific of some people who follow that tendency is that they feel and they think in fact that what they do is good and is correct.
In some South American countries the natives have lesser when you compare it to the "white" majority. How is the case in Chile?
Chile does not much different from the rest of the world and the original tribes are despised here and forgotten by the government and people generally.
To many ones forget that a part of that native blood runs by our veins but they prefer to leave all that like part of the past
I feel very proud of our native inheritance, and in fact, in my last album I especially wrote a song for the town mapuche called "Fair Fight", in it I speak about the historical fight which they did against of the Spanish conquerors.
Your band is also a bit political, witnessing some of your lyrics. What point or points do you try to prove, or to spread?
What I try with my music and lyrics is to give the people the power and hope who need, try to move a little the consciences and invite them to that they are not satisfied to the mediocre life that they have.
Generally, I made an analogy of the life with the war, and do this because I feel that as we grow every time we must fight harder to conserve our dreams, values, sensitivity and hope.
Got any final words?
I would like to invite people to try to see a little beyond its own existence and thinks which is the world that wants to leave its children.
I believe that in essence all of we are the same, and while we are delayed more in realize of that, more painful will be the way it takes that us to the happiness that everyone of us longed for.
I know that exist many differences between all of us, but we must think that the people who are in the power want indeed that we are separated as possible, therefore if we surrendered to hatred and the intolerance, they win! As say a sampler of my new album: "if we can't live together, we're gonna die alone!!" Thank you very much for the interview, RESPECT!!
Interview by: Gerardo
Answered by: Ivan (all instruments)
Listen to Vigilante at www.myspace.com/vigilanteband
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