Name: torpedo
Nationality: Swiss
Members: Carro Loubère (vox, guitar) Jay Liseron (bass) Drew Hammer (drums)
Interviewee: Carro
Current release: torpedo's new album What the fucked do we all do now? | - Lights is being released in two parts via Broken Clover and Cheap Satanism. The second and final instalment is out October 10th 2025.

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Sound, song, and rhythm are all around us, from animal noises to the waves of the ocean. What, if any, are some of the most moving experiences you've had with these non-human-made sounds?

I am always very moved by the whistling of the birds on my window in the morning, in Winter particularly. I got seeds for them and many of them come there and really make lots of noise.:) Sometimes they wake me up. I love that! Also, it is always moving when they come on my balcony whistling close to me.

The silence when it snows is very touching, too. The sound of cows in the stable, their breathing and the sound of the machine used to carry the hay for the cows. It was rolling, picking the hay, rolling, dropping the hay, the hay was falling and this sound repeating again and again.

Also, one sound that moved us a lot, was the sound of the house where we recorded our first album Sphynx in 2018 on the west coast of Ireland, in front of the ocean. It was February and there were many powerful storms with strong winds. The house was whistling like a flute!! Some night, I couldn't sleep, it was so loud.

But this sound was so mysterious and unexpected, it felt like the house was communicating. There are some sound, field recordings from this place here and there on this album:



Many animals communicate through sound. Based either on experience or intuition, do you feel as though interspecies communication is possible and important? Is there a creative element to it, would you say?

Yes sure, it is based on observations and it is definitely important to be able to communicate with other forms of life, animals, but also plants. I have three strong experiences with this.

I love plants and I've created an inner jungle in my flat with hundreds of plants inside and outside on the balcony and on the windowsills. During the whole year, as I mentioned, I have many birds that are coming to my balcony to drink (I put water out for them) and to get some seeds during the wintertime. They also come to stay on the small trees that have grown.

One door of the balcony opens to the room where I play most of my music. Often, when I play guitar and sing, they'll sing as well. I noticed that when I sing, they often whistle louder with me and that some birds react more to particular notes that are close to their singing timbre. Also, they will come close to me and start whistling if they would like something, like water or seeds.

Once we had to move many things from the balcony for building works and we had to remove the place where we were dropping seeds for them. They were very agitated and finally, one morning, we found many empty seeds on our chair. They had drop them there!!

Even with plants, I can hear them if they need water. I feel it and I know they need something. Also, if I did not water them and they are thirsty, I noticed that I got much more scratches or my hair stuck in their branches. But then again, when they are happy, I can feel that, too. And I am pretty sure that this is a vibration that bring me this information. So yeah! I feel that it is important, very inspiring and it is doing good to me to communicate with these magnificent living beings.

I would like to share a more difficult experience connected to this topic. For a long time, I was walking everyday by a fallow land. It was a garage that had been demolished. For a few years, the bare land has been left on its own. It was a pretty big piece of land with a pond.

Little by little, I saw the plants taking over the space and after a couple of years it turned into a beautiful savage garden with wild lilacs, white stock, and elderberry. Lots of birds were hanging around the green space and it became a more and more magnificent garden. We really loved this space and how nature did take the place, put flowers and insects everywhere and made a beauty from a bare and desolate industrial land.

It was destroyed in a single day during a terrible heat wave. I arrived one day and it was totally destroyed. If I get this perceptions about plants I was talking about just before, you can surely imagine how I've been affected by this. I heard and felt terrible things for a long time, walking by this place that had been so beautiful. I was hearing howls and feeling terror and grief, the will of escaping and also a great desolation for human kind.

The song “NOW” from our last album came from this heartbreaking experience and was aimed to heal this terrible grief. “NOW” is a love poem to the intelligent beauty of plants, which heal all and beautify what's around them. Even in the most desperate situations. They continue to grow.



This song is questioning our relationship with plants and life in general, speaking exactly of what you are asking in this question: the communication between species. Also, it is questioning our freedom to refuse, to refuse to obey acts of destruction, the exercise of our citizenship and our free will.

I feel this song is really connected to what is happening right now in our world. Let's free this world from war, from any kind of oppression, Free Palestine, Free Congo, Free Sudan, Free Ukraine, Free Haïti, Free Nigeria, Free USA, Free Europe. The international community must act to stop the genocide! Free the world from imperialism, from capitalism. People have the power!

And let's create a treasure trove on the fallow land of this dying system strangling our societies, let's create a garden as beautiful as the one nature has been creating on this abandoned industrial land.