AMARI INTERVIEW FOR FAIRTILIZER

- Could you introduce yourself to our worldwide community?

Hello hello, we're Amari! We're a band, we're djs, we're producers and singers and players, but above all, we're 5 good friends that make music from 10 years now, mixing lots of different genres and influences but still trying to keep the italo vibe on top!

- Your new single "Tiger" is coming out on the 13th may, what have been your sources of inspiration?

For this new single we've mixed some love inspired lirycs to some sci-fi adventure ideas that we had in mind, since the concept of the full album POWERI was some retro galaxy fascinated stuff. We just putted this huge ice cream falling on top and that's it, easy no?

- Can you tell us a bit more about the indie music scene in Italy?

we have lots of good bands here, in these years of touring we had the pleasure to play with most of them, and some ended up in a remix album that we made under the moniker of "Amari Night Members Club" sort of dance version of the greatest italian indie bands of the late years.. who knows we'll make a number 2 release?

- Is italian Music easy to export? Or limited by the language?

cannot say if it's easy or not, since we too are trying to do that, but i guess that to go abroad you have to be focused on your own formula, you can pretend to be from somewhere outside Italy if you want or you can be the tipical baffi-mandolino-pizza clichè, but the main thing is the style!

- How has internet and the new media changed your way of working as an artist? How do you use it on a day to day basis?

As our first promoters and managers, we've tried to stay up to date to every social media that came up in these years, focusing on a door to door communication with the fans, and somehow this did worked !


- What tools are you using the most online?

I have to say Facebook and Twitter for the sharing attitude that they have, and youtube, vimeo and fairtilizer of course for uploading contents to share, it's the best combo!

- How do you feel about people sharing your music for free?

We're 100% happy of this, the more people shares the more you get known around, and if someone wants to support us, then he can do it in loads of ways, buying cds or mp3s, tshirts, or (the part that we love the most) coming to our gigs !

- Could you let us know your 5 "desert island" albums? And your current 5 ones?

ok, i'll try to have a record from anyone from the band, so here they are!
Desert island albums:
- Boards of Canada (Music has the right to children)
- Beastie Boys (Ill Communication)
- Lucio Battisti (Anima Latina)
- Daft Punk (Discovery)
- Elliot Smith (XO)

recent crush albums:
- Caribou (Swim)
- Jesse Rose (What Do You Do If You Don't?)
- Why? (Eskimo Snow)
- Quentin Harris (Sacrifice)
- Bibio (Ambivalence Avenue).
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