Below is a recent interview with Tara, from the band Lycia. After over a decade of recording and performing, they recently released their last album "Empty Space" on Silber Records.

1. I am sure many people have asked about the departure from Projekt. Since I'm sure I won't get an answer to that question, instead, I will ask if there will be any future releases (Lycia, solo or otherwise) through Projekt or will all new albums be issued through
Silber Records?

tara: There will never be another release on Projekt unless something very bizarre happens. Mike has a solo record in the works that will come out on Silber. We're quite happy with the way Brian runs things. He's a great friend and a great businesman. I'm sure our story wouldn't be much different from any other disgruntled bands you hear yapping...

2. I'd read that "Tripping Back into Broken Days" was actually recorded after "Empty Space". Did you know that "Empty Space" would be delayed when recording "Tripping Back.."? Was there any overlap in the creation of the albums?

tara: We stopped working on Empty Space because we were having problems. It's another one of those things I'm going to refrane from fully discussing.
Let's just say it lead to Mike deciding to say "fuck this" to Lycia. Tripping... IS an Estraya album. It should have been released under the Estraya name. We were misguided in the decision to call it a Lycia album. It was a mistake on our part. We recorded Tripping... completely content to walk away from Lycia (and had been done with Lycia for a few years at that point) but were pursuaded to use the Lycia name at the last minute so to speak. It was our final decision, but it wasn't the right decision. Empty Space was supposed to sit on a shelf and collect dust and never see the light of day, but we decided to release it because it truly was the end of the line for Lycia and a couple people wanted to hear the album.

3. As a lifelong Clevelander, I've always found the naming of your album "Cold", created after moving to Ohio from Arizona, kind of amusing. Any real correlation?

tara: Absolutely! I lived in Ohio my entire life and Mike grew up in Michigan, so we're both extremely familiar with Winter in the Midwest. When we recorded that album it was the snowiest Winter we'd had in Ohio in a long time. Our house overlooked a snowy field/woods and every day we stared out at that scene while we recorded. Lycia has always been about reflecting the environment around it - physically and emotionally - so it made perfect sense to name the album Cold.