The Fantazzmo vision is: I'll play what I wanna play and the end result is Fantazzmo! I'm not breaking any new musical ground and inventing a new style or genre of music, I'm celebrating all music!
I like Otis Redding & I like Pantera, I like Classical music & I like Jazz. I listen to music according to mood. I can be hearing a Stevie Wonder song one minute and cranking up some Machine Head the next.
I know that as a musician, I must recognize that not everyone is as open minded. I tried to make the songs on Fantazzmo 1: Enter the Fantazz as cohesive as possible. There is a common thread amongst all of tracks: They all have great feel, the production is wonderfully clean and it sounds like there's 3 or 4 dudes just tearing shit up!
Fantazzmo 1: Enter the Fantazz is a musical journey.
I would like for the listener and live audience to have fun, move and groove just like the music does. There are dynamics and a variety of musical styles on this album, and they have one common thread: It's the same band. Yeah, there are some moments of tranquility, retrospect, sadness, but just as in real life, all of these moods must be felt in order to really appreciate the happier, energetic, "highs."
In other words, there must be dynamics. Led Zeppelin was and is a musical powerhouse. Their use of light and dark, loud and soft, really catapult the music when it needs to, and brings tranquility when it is needed. I look at Led Zeppelin as a model for what a band should be. They broke the mold. Musicians capable of creating so many diverse sounds and moods within the confines of a rock group. They used whatever influences and "genres" they felt like using. Can you find the genre link in bron-y-aur-stomp and Kashmir? D'yer Maker and No Quarter? The connection has nothing to do with genre, only the way these stellar musicians interpreted it and set it before us. They used big drums and bottom end, confident soulful vocals, masterful guitar playing and the best recording technology at that time.
I can give you another example, the Beatles. What's the genre link between Michelle & I want you/She's so heavy? I wanna hold your hand & I am the walrus?
Because of bands like Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and numerous others, you have before you Fantazzmo 1: Enter the Fantazz.
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