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Welcome "WORLD5" and thank you for having a chat with us.
- Thank you!
You guys aren't even from the same countries.. How did you ever even meet? and how does this affect your music?
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The most important thing is to know each other musically very well
..otherwise we wouldn´t recommend to record an entire album that way we
did.
Steffen
(one of our guitar players) and me actually know each other from high
school and we played and recorded music since we were kids.
After
life separated us (he moved to New Zealand and me to the Canary
Islands), after a couple of years, (the internet was already a bit
better developed at that time), I thought let´s do something musically
together again.
We knew lots of great professional musicians, so we needed to find a way to connect musically and via the web.
The countries of these musicians are the United States, Germany, New Zealand, Spain and later on Sweden.
I would like to point out: WORLD5 is NOT an internet or Cyber band.
Bass och drums , guitars, keyboards and vocals ...we all played together.
All
the influences from these different countries do of course reflect in
our music and makes it interesting for listeners from all over the
Globe.
Multiple Grammy Award winner Randy Miller in Houston produced our first album”Global Experience”.
The
album made quite some waves ...and here we go, our third album “3” was
recently released by our record label Spectra Music Group.
WORLD5, What is the story behind the name and who came up with it?
- It was actually very easy to come up with our name: We are 5 musicians, literally spread around the world: WORLD5
What is your music about and how has that evolved over the years?
- Our music has always positive vibes and most of the lyrics are about human relationships.
We did of course evolve over the years as a band, just check out our 3 album releases.
How do you hope your music will inspire/influence your listeners/fans?
- Positive vibes are always something everybody can connect to.
Our music is very easy to access for everyone. We don´t want to “show off” or complicate our songs.
With
how the world looks today, do you feel like artists should "stay in
their lane" and just produce music? or do you feel like as artists, you
should try to get your voice heard?
- Artist shouldn´t stay in the lane, as soon as you follow a trend it´s already over.
Don´t follow trends, create your own trends. Follow your instincts and stay with them.
What are you currently working on and what are your plans for the future?
- We are always creative and write songs, as soon as we have enough good material, we will record it and release it.
What is the one thing you want to tell your fans?
- Enjoy our music ..we are writing it for you!!
What is the one thing you would want the music industry to know?
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As an artist and also as a music consumer we think the music industry /
record labels have to sit down and rethink if they really want to
deliver their music to companies with crappy sounding low quality MP3s
instead of focus on quality.
The
sad thing nowadays is that a lot of (mostly younger listeners) don´t
even know how music really sounds.They think it sounds and was recorded
like they hear them on these crappy sounding outlets.
We recommend: Listen to a real records and you can feel and hear the huge difference.
It will be a real life experience!
And that was my chat with "WORLD5".
and I must say, it makes me smile everytime I hear a story about how music can connect people from all over the world.
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