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Kristo: It says in your band’s bio that Encounters was conceived in 1998 but was
not formed until 2005. Why the long hiatus? What led to this extended
hibernation?
Ponchie: I just indulged in the time-honoured,
frowned-upon tradition of bumming around to find oneself, doing mind-numbing
activities some of which I would not recommend. Also, all of us in
EWAY were more or less focused on the more mundane but necessary aspects of
life then. Since 1998, I had already been dabbling into instrumental music not
because I intended to but because I couldn’t write decent enough lyrics
to those compositions that I would consider worth listening to.
