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COVER INTERVIEW > PARISI: A NEW ERA IN EXPRESSIVE DANCE MUSIC

MARCO: With Matteo we know there’s a certain feel to the MARCO: In our heads, I don’t know how we sound.
project, and we try to channel that in the same way with Sometimes people are like “this sounds like PARISI” and I still
the Swedes, and if you follow that you get into the right don’t understand what that is. Maybe it’s just how we play.
trajectory. Also, on the first day we met Matteo we made Probably it’s our sonics and decisions, the groove we made
‘Sacrifice’ which is another special moment. We just turned or the stylistic approach to it where you can feel our soul.
our laptops on and made it. As we said before there’s Once we started producing, we always tested this idea of
always something special about the first time you meet starting a project and doing it as brothers.
someone, and it’s not repeatable.
JACK: We also have always loved to perform since we were
—---------------------------------------—------------ kids. We thought that it would be nice to do this at some
point for our own project.
Proving that there’s more to them than producing, PARISI
also made the journey into a career of leading artists, MARCO: Also to challenge ourselves. We feel like this is a
putting themselves as main artists on tracks for the new world where we have so much to give, and there’s so
first time with ‘Believe In Myself,’ ‘Tease’ and a string of much to explore. One thing we miss a little bit perhaps on a
collaborations with Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso. subconscious level is because we’ve played our entire lives,
from when we were five or six to fourteen or fifteen, with me
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single day.
When releasing your first few solo records as PARISI, how
did the creation process differ from being producers for When we produce, we don’t perform. I think now, going
other artists versus yourselves as the main artists? back to it with a different level of maturity with new
tools and instruments, there’s so much to explore and to
JACK: It’s completely different in a way, and we are
understand. We want to push ourselves and explore more
learning. We’re learning in everything we do. It sounds
of our sense of musicality. I think so much new music
cliché but it’s essential. With everyone we meet, there’s
and ideas will come from us performing and creating
something new to learn every day and it’s so important
live performances. It’s very different from just sitting on
to be open to that. Being artists, we may overthink more
a laptop and making a record, so I’m very excited for this
because it’s our project, our voices, our artistry.
library to become full of creation for new music.
MARCO: I think when you’re in the storm, you see rain all
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over. When you’re outside of the storm you see where the
storm is but you can see how it is. I think when you’re inside
More than anything, at the heart of what they do, they
of something your perspective is very different from being
are performers. Coming alive on the stage, the passion
outside. To an extent it’s easier for us to work on other
for what they do is showcased as strongly as ever on the
projects because we approach it from a different angle
stage. Doing their first shows as PARISI last year, this is
and there’s more clarity. Everything is fresh. When it’s our
only the start for yet another aspect of their ever-evolving
own music, we are inside of it, and it feels totally different.
careers.
You don’t always have that sense of clarity, so that’s why it
is so important to work with other people. We would go to
“We’re learning in everything we do. It sounds Fred and ask him what he thinks of this and that, and it’s the —---------------------------------------—------------
same with the other friends we have.
cliché but it’s essential. With everyone we meet, Besides from kickstarting your journey as artists in the
spotlights, you’ve recently put yourselves on the live show
JACK: We always try to get feedback and share feedback.
there’s something new to learn every day.” circuit. When fans come to a PARISI show, what sort of
We think it’s the most important thing.
experience can they get?
What was it that made you decide that now (and these JACK: The reality is that we always love to explore and
past recent years) was the right time to step into the expand. We did two shows in London and New York, and
spotlight and release singles as PARISI? they were so good but also so informative and already after
two shows we were deciding what to change. I think fans
MARCO: During our daily studio sessions, we were meeting
can expect to see us doing what we love to do, and that’s
with so many writers and producers and making so much
our goal, we want our show to be as live as possible where
music. Some of these demos were circling around and a
we can create and remix songs on the spot. It’s going to be
few people in the industry said “it sounds like you.”
a performance, not a DJ set.
JACK: We were asked the question “have you ever thought
of doing an artist project?”

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