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“It’s not a formula. It’s really something that I feel,” he stated on what triggered him to compose each piece.
Each of these pieces evoke a different sentiment. “The Quest” portrays F.E.D.’s emotion through the process of working on releasing an album.
“There’s a little bit of a difference between inspiration for a song versus inspiration for an album,” added F.E.D., who published his first album almost a year ago. According to him, working on an album is different in terms of scales because at first one needs to find a common theme for the album, and then negotiate how all the songs will tell a story that relates this theme to the audience.
“[For] the first album,... I wanted the piano to have an important place,” explained F.E.D. “[and] I... wanted it to have very elaborate orchestrations.” Having a strong background in piano and being part of an orchestra played a role in this decision.
“A lot of people call my type of music ‘New Age Music’,” he added.
Therefore, the early concept for the album was to combine new age music type sounds with film music style orchestrations.
F.E.D. just started to put together other compositions for his next album.
“I’ve been thinking about it for a few months now,” He said. He wanted to find a specific direction for the new album.
“I have a lot of songs that have been written for a year or even ten years ago.”
“What I have right now is an amount of songs that I began to put in a basket.”
From this basket, he chose the songs that best fit the concept of the album.
“I think I have right now between 10 and 12 songs I’m leaning toward.” Yet, these songs are currently just demos. Once he picks them, he has to refine and record them.
“Sometime even if you have that big basket of songs, some other songs come.” He is currently composing new ones.
Each song takes a different amount of time.
“One song may come completely finished in your head,” he explained. Meanwhile, other songs take longer to compose. For instance, a song may take more than a year for him to be fully satisfied with it.
However, since F.E.D. is a self-funded artist, he needs to work within a certain amount of time to balance his budget between studio time, other musicians, and all the other aspects of producing and releasing an album.
“You try to do the best job that you can within a certain amount of time,” explained F.E.D., a perfectionist.
Aside from being a musician, F.E.D. also devotes his time to architecture.
“Even though I’ve been playing music forever, you could say that it’s in an early stage of my solo musical career,” said F.E.D. Because of this early stage of his career, being a full time musician is not financially ideal for him.
In the meantime, F.E.D. admits having a love and hate relationship with architecture.
“I can go for three months of the year, and I’m completely in love with architecture.” During this time, he would barely touch the piano.
F.E.D.'s interest in piano started during his childhood. When he accompanied his father, a civil engineer, to his office, he recalled passing the time with the architects.
“For some reason, I just liked being there,” he stated.
Later on, he went to college to study civil engineering, but then switched to architecture.
Nowadays, he works with a partner as self-employed architects.
“We look for projects and propose design for people,” he stated.
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