Do you love chill, ethereal guitar solos that make you want to lay on your back and look up at the stars? If so, then you will love "Darwin We Need to Talk" by Ferzad Variyava.
This song has such a good hook, I'm probably going to be singing it all day - but I'll enjoy every second of it! Variyava's smooth guitar riffs are everything you could want in a guitar instrumental, a relaxed yet energetic piece of music that you can really sink into.
Musically Notable: How do you go about composing your music? Do you sit around in a room with other musicians and just jam?
Ferzad Variyava: I don't have much of a method to making my songs. I try to feel my way through the instrument and arrive on a melody that sounds cool in my head. I find it the easiest to express myself on guitar though I've studied piano through my school days.
Ferzad Variyava: I don't have much of a method to making my songs. I try to feel my way through the instrument and arrive on a melody that sounds cool in my head. I find it the easiest to express myself on guitar though I've studied piano through my school days.
My inspiration is primarily the tone that I can get out of the instruments and effects. I play an Ibanez S370 and use Native Instruments Guitar Rig 5 for my guitar tones though I sometimes use my Line 6 POD HD 500 for heavier tones. Honestly I get lazy to hook things up when I get a tune in the head so it's always Guitar Rig, nine times out of ten.
After the main melody I add on the groove, backing and bass elements which I mostly program through Vsti since my productions are laptop based. I only follow one eccentric rule and that is to play each of the instruments live, from beginning to end, without an error. So basically, if I screw up, I start again. Call it OCD, but hey that's me.
I play, produce, sequence and mix by myself so it's a Lone Ranger thing. Would love to collaborate online with some musicians one of these days.
MN: Who would you say your greatest musical influences are? The music that really shaped you?
FV: My greatest musical influences? I'm gonna go for Joe Satriani, Dream Theater, Sting, Bruce Hornsby and lots of metal like Priest, Maiden and the likes. I think what really shook my music world up was a rather unknown band that I heard in school called Then Jericho. The album was The Big Area or just Big Area. If you can get your hands on it, it's definitely worth a listen. Every song seemed like magic. And still do.
FV: My greatest musical influences? I'm gonna go for Joe Satriani, Dream Theater, Sting, Bruce Hornsby and lots of metal like Priest, Maiden and the likes. I think what really shook my music world up was a rather unknown band that I heard in school called Then Jericho. The album was The Big Area or just Big Area. If you can get your hands on it, it's definitely worth a listen. Every song seemed like magic. And still do.
MN: How about any gigs or albums coming up, got any news for us?
FV: Gigs? For my guitar instrumentals? Nope. I plan to release a song exclusively on soundcloud at least every fortnight. There's no plans for publishing my music commercially. Specially not in India since there isn't much of a market for this kind of music.
***You can catch up with Ferzad on Soundcloud - go give a shout out!***
As always, if you or someone you know should be featured for New Music Wednesdays, drop me a line on Twitter @AngelinaPanozzo or through my website.
FV: Gigs? For my guitar instrumentals? Nope. I plan to release a song exclusively on soundcloud at least every fortnight. There's no plans for publishing my music commercially. Specially not in India since there isn't much of a market for this kind of music.
***You can catch up with Ferzad on Soundcloud - go give a shout out!***
As always, if you or someone you know should be featured for New Music Wednesdays, drop me a line on Twitter @AngelinaPanozzo or through my website.
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