Interview with Sergio Jordan of Nagare by Daniel Ryan

Interview with Sergio Jordan of Nagare by Daniel Ryan

What’s your name and what do you do?

We are Nagare, an Experimental Doom Drone band from Madrid, Spain. Two guitarists that explore the path of dense and slow atmospheres, obsessed with tone, distortion and feedback. We also collaborate with other musicians from other disciplines. The name is a japanese word that means "flow". It's a concept that includes the flow of water and something that is never the same and flows towards a metamorphosis.

How long have you been making music for?

We are two seasoned veterans musicians with extensive experience in doom and stoner bands within the spanish underground scene. We met by chance and connected through our shared vision of experimental music.

What is your favorite instrument to play on?

We think that it's obvious. The guitar. We are essentially two guitarists. We have also played synths, and Juan Carlos has parallel projects of synths music (Vako and Wolf Petrus), but for this album (Nigredo), we have the collaboration of Girón on the synths.

What acts have you played with before if any?

As we said before, we are veterans on the spanish underground scene, so before Nagare was born we had played in many acts like festivals and smaller events in Spain and Europe for previous projects. But we are totally focus on Nagare now.

If you had to layout all the bands in order you played in as a timeline what would they be?

We have a large experience in Doom and Stoner bands and other experimental projects, but we are totally focus on Nagare, so we want to priorized it above all.

What is the coolest experience you have had as a musician?

We think that it's different for everyone, but we came from the world before internet, so one of the coolest experience is to know people for all over the world with the same vision or interest in music. Some of this people are still friends.

What inspires you to keep doing what you do?

It's something visceral for us. It's not rational, it's a physical need, a dependency. We are absolutly obsessed with research of tone limits and experimental music. Distortion, feedback, research... that's our inspiration and our need.

If you had to name some influences what would they be?

The obviuos influence is the drone music, but there are so many. From jazz to techno. Everything that has something to say is welcome. The main influence, of course, is drone and experimental music, but also black metal or dark ambient. It's hard to say only one.

What is your favorite venue you been to or played in?

As we said before, we have played at festivals and smaller events. Our only concern is tone and music, so we don't care where we are if that place offers what we need, a good acoustic and the hospitality to let your mind go.

To sum up this interview which website can we find your latest music and anything you like to share for the readers of Asphyxium zine?

You can hear our music in every streaming platform, like Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music or Google Music, etc. You can also visit our BandCamp (nagareband.bandcamp.com), YouTube channel (youtube.com/@NagareBand) or Instagram (instagram.com/nagareband) to stay in tune. We hope you enjoy our album Nigredo released digitally on 1st june 2026 (and we hope physically soon!).Thank you very much. See you in the path.

Thank you very much!

Cheers!

Sergio.

-Daniel Ryan