Introducing a brand-new Alt-Rock band with a punk attitude! Spain’s FORTVNA. Forming through close friends who wanted a fresh start on their musical output. After spending time writing and coming together, FORTVNA is here and ready to impact the entire world! To further showcase the new introduction, comes the single and music video for “Feel Ya” The song was produced by the prestigious Dani Alcover in the band’s home country of Spain. The group also have toured in the past through all of Europe through previous bands. When we spoke with FORTVNA’s vocalist Patty here’s what she had to say about the song. ‘Feel Ya‘ is a very sensual song. There’s a lot of artists writing about love and sex, but Feel Ya conveys the tension before the first sexual encounter (it can be as innocent as a kiss) between two people who feel attracted to each other. I think there is a very specific moment in every relationship in which each part undresses themselves (in a figurative way) and show their vulnerability; there is some kind of uncertainty, your imagination running wild creating everything that can happen; but the most important thing is there’s also a fire within saying: […]
Straight from ‘Milan Design Week’ the talented ‘Ricardo Seola’ launches a guitar album worthy of classical praise with the epic and soothing ‘Santa Monica’
Ricardo Seola has been composing, producing and performing for more than 20 years. In Brazil, from the mid-nineties to the mid-’00s, he had recorded a great amount of material with several bands and started scoring soundtracks for short movies e advertising. In 2007 Ricardo composed “Deixa o Tempo” and produced the music video for the song. The video was awarded “Best Brazilian Independent Music Video” in one of the most prestigious movie festivals in Brazil, the Gramado Cinevideo. Taking a parallel career as a designer, which started from learning to produce his bands’ promo materials, Ricardo went to Milan in 2008 to take an interior and industrial design specialization. In his first year in Italy, he won an iF Concept Award, one of the most relevant design awards in the world, for a musical education concept. During his specialization, he kept making music, especially for movies and art installations, one of them awarded by the design online magazine Dezeen in a partnership with the wearables producer Jawbone. During the ’10s photography came as a new and complementary art passion for Ricardo. Which started as a collection of design assets for posters and marketing jobs, ended up as an art project […]