MAPPING #5: GLOWAL
Hello Alessandro, Hello Fabio, Hello Glowal. A pleasure to have you in my section Mapping! A duo that in just 1 year is breaking all over the world with productions. My most sincere congratulations. You are the perfect profile for this section! Thanks!
What’s behind Glowal? Where does Alessandro come from and how many years was working in music? And Fabio? Tell us a little about your influences.
We live in two different Italian cities(Alessandro in Pisa, Fabio in Lecce) so we spend a good part of the day on the phone, talking, planning and exchanging ideas on quite everything around Glowal. We both had, in different ways, an artistic journey before joining forces, with both good and bad experiences and a musical background that is part of our actual sound. We found ideological and artistic affinities in each other and felt the conditions were right for Glowal.
There are many factors that lead you to take this kind of decision, but the feeling that it is the right thing in the end is the one that prevails. Obviously our characters are different, but the passion and determination with which we approach the project is the same. We think this is what makes it work, each one of us has his own attitudes and is completely dedicated to Glowal.
Do you have any rituals to produce? Do you do it together or does everyone do something about the track and send each other the track according to the process of creating them? Tell us a little about the process you’re going through in the studio.
We work constantly on music and every two months we close ourselfes in the studio together for 10 days or more to finalize the sketches and ideas we collected and to start and finish new tracks from 0.
Siamese, Innervisions, ATLANT, Sapiens and now Diynamic. In just a little more than a year. Is this achieved by aiming directly at these labels or by simply letting them carry you away? Tell us what you think has been your secret to go so fast and so well.
There’s no particular secret, we have been doing lot of music and sent it to the labels we believed were the right home for it. Also a little bit of the past experiences helps to see things from a different point of view.
Do you prefer software, hardware or both? Can you explain us the machines that you work with or the pluggins most used by you in the process of creating music?
We use a lot of software, vst and various plug-ins + Midi Controllers, a Native Instrument Maschine, a Midi Keyboard and a microphone, very basic setup + creativity
In the way that you are going… where do you see yourself in 5 years? Can you tell us something about your next releases? Any clue?
We prefer to keep working step by step, one goal at a time, in 5 years? Who knows 🙂
We have two remixes for Agoria dropping in September and a new EP coming very soon aswell, but we can’t unveil so much about it in this moment.
Is 2019 the best year of your lives? Why?
For sure 2019 is a very good year for us, we are very happy about how things developed during this year for Glowal and we are looking forward to make it better and better.
What do you like the least about the industry, although you’ll probably see everything rosy now?
We love the industry in general, is like a big playground where you learn to play with good and bad experiences on your own skin. If we have to say something we like the least here it is: the superficiality of some people working in the industry who don’t have a little bit of forward thinking about an artist career if it’s not immediately accompanied by great numbers. But yes it’s all part of the game and we love it 🙂
Can you give 3 tips to young guys who want to go as high as you are doing in such a short time?
*work hard on your music
*stay connected, be curious and try to understand what happens in the industry.
*be humble but always think with your head.