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Biography

Creating music and having a band has been my dream since I was a teenager but the opportunity to start doing something has presented itself just now for me. Unfortunately I still don't have a band so what I created I had to do mostly by myself, although when the songs were ready they were reviewed with an arranger as I'm no musician and they needed tidying up. I presume I still have work to do on them, we got to the pre-mixing stage but the whole thing was so costly I shall have to leave it here for a while. I had to work against various odds a part from the economical sacrifice, as I said I'm an artist, in that I have ideas and will and enthusiasm to create things, but I'm no musician so I largely experimented to make music that would fit the melodies I had in mind. Originally there was another plan but that would have needed the use of mainly real instruments and it was, at least at that stage, out of my capability to create a whole album on real instruments without the help of other musicians, so instead of giving up I opted for experimenting with electronic music, using thereby a basic computer program, some real instruments and voice, all in very poor recording conditions, I don't envy the studio that cleaned up the sounds for me. So it was pretty much an adventure and all in all I thoroughly enjoyed it. The other part of the work I loved, being rather eclectic, was making up the covers for two singles (fancy that being unsigned!) and the album and the videos for the two singles, that was amazingly funny and I have to thank my son and my sister for their precious help and patience. So at the end of the day, I'm 39, well over the usual age for a beginner, still I'm not missing out on any of the enthusiasm and emotion in being aware of having made a dream come true, of having brought to life, and intending to keep on doing so, something new. Creativity and art have no age and I'm happy!!!

Influences

I couldn't say I had any particular influences in making this album, it just came about like that almost by itself: Having said that my love for music covers many genres, from classical to hard rock. The first band I have loved is Duran Duran, with them I fell in love with music, then came a rather different type of sound with the Joy Division, The Cure, Bauhaus, just to mention some, in the nineties there was a bit of a gap for me and I just explored different styles, mostly classical and ethnic music; in the past few years I went back to rock, mainly thanks to my son, being a teen ager he too has started listening to music, I have started discovering the old rock bands such as Led Zeppelin and Rainbow, ecc. but my favourite bands at the moment are the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Muse and Interpole, Radiohead.  I also very much like some songs by Metallica and my very favourite artist is John Frusciante, not only in RHCP but with his solo work.

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