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JENSON
is a music band that try to reveal and express to the world the dreams
thoroughly guarded by the stars. On a star the colours of your soul
become visible and shine through all your body, Jenson have the magic
key to unlock the doors that lead to the secret world…how do they do it?
Here’s their story.
“It’s always difficult to say precisely how a new thing comes to life
and mainly when it’s a hugely important thing. I reckon that some people
you meet, you don’t meet them by sheer chance, instead, I’m sure you’ve
been guided to them for some reason, otherwise it’s impossible to
explain.
I strongly believe that for some strange cause the stars in the sky turn
on their light whenever we need it and they promptly suggest the way to
follow. Than it’s up to us whether to pay attention or not to. As far as
Jenson is concerned, everything started off in an old back yard when the
city turned into a cold winter in 2002”.
Jenson
“I remember an odd feeling since the very first day I worked with
Jenson, a sort of awareness that we could do whatever we wanted to do
when put together, musically speaking of course…a professional
understanding I’ve never felt before! We could easily release emotions
and creativity, building songs. Every bit of it gave me the idea that
the project, not identifiable in Jenson only, adopt me and gently took
care of me and my skills and use them for itself. It’s very much like
the project came to life by itself and lives on by our artistic
support”.
Marco Maggiore
It takes time and a lot of dedication to obtain what you’re looking for
and this thing, I’m sure, the members of the band know it very well.
Having spent quite a lot of time with the boys and being friends since
the early days I always had the idea that they knew precisely what they
were aiming for, they knew what they wanted and most importantly it
seemed to me that in a way or another they were able to see trough
something I personally couldn’t spot at all.
The album “Legend Of Music” actually started off in November
2002, when Jenson (songwriter/singer) met the legendary drummer
Marco Maggiore at a school of art and music.
The two guys right from the very beginning got on well, and most
importantly they discover to have a lot of things in common, they have
affinity in many ways, for instance:
The artistic and music formation, dedication to the project, work pace
and reliability.
They don’t waste time and as soon as possible they start working on the
songs, some of them written previously by Jenson, and others written
while they were working on the actual project.
During the making of the Demos of their debut album, the pre-production
tracks have been carried out by the duo only, aware of the fact that the
combination between them just works, and has a lot of personality and
style.
“As far as I can remember I’ve always written songs, since when I was
very young, that’s what I can do best, it’s my best talent, really. I
love it and it never really occurred to me that much to compose a new
song, it regularly comes easy to me, that’s why I say it’s a talent.”
Jenson
After having spent a few time as a duo working single minded and very
accurately on their songs, Jenson and Marco needed a band, a good one,
so they started to “Look around” and try to find out the missing
elements.
Marco decided to trust the “Natural selection” no auditions, no
advertisements in any kind of newspaper.
Marco in particular had just been through an unpleasant situation and he
wanted to choose the rest of the bend in the most natural way possible.
A lot of good and not so good musician alternated and followed one
another before the recording took place and all the elements clicked
into place, but it’s really a common thing having trouble with this sort
of things, and then it’s always difficult to find the right people and
mainly for such a peculiar and ambitious project as this one.
The two boys remember that in their old school there was a good bass
player, extremely reliable to work with, someone you can trust, someone
with a very serious approach to music: Alex Perosin.
Alex is a very good bass player and really sensitive with a lot of
passion for his instrument, he’s exactly the kind of bass player Jenson
needed.
The last element to become part of the project is the guitarist Fabio
Beltramini.
He is a very eclectic musician, he his talented with a supremely taste
in music, due to the fact that he studied and gained a diploma at the
Conservatorio di Milano, where he studied trumpet.
Fabio, an old friend of Marco, has a huge guitar sound, something that
grabs you, very vibrating and powerful, he’s just the perfect element to
complete the band.
The recording sessions of the debut album “Legend Of Music” begun early
in 2004 at the DDE records studios, independent label own by the English
singer Dee D Jackson.
All the members of the band had had studio experience before ‘Legend’,
mainly demos or recordings for others but working on a project you
created and shaped with your own mind, it’s a totally different matter,
the tension and expectation is vivid. The band at the
DDE records is
supported and helped by young technicians who recently finished to
attend their classes at school, so the boys had a chance to experiment.
“If we could melt Jenson’s talent for composition and Marco’s
fantastic ability to develop a song, I think it’s almost impossible to
find any better combination.”
Leslie B
The boys consistently so single minded and sure of themselves both in
studio and live don’t stop for a second: “There’s always something to
do” they say. They start a series of gigs that last almost two years,
hours and hours of rehearsals. They pay attention to every single detail,
there’s never a moment to louse.
Even though there’s a lot to do they never forget to work on new
material and in fact during 2006 they start working on new songs, making
four brand new Demos which they need as a ‘model’ for future works in
the studio. There’s one song in particular that gets all the attention
and rings the bells, it does because it’s absolutely catchy and gripping.
The song is called “Welcome To Magic” an explosive and dynamic
composition that somehow tastes sweet, “Like a candy”.
During august 2007 the boys go in the studio once again, this time they
choose one of the top studios in the city, the
Massive Arts Studios.
The guys in the studio are like volcanoes in eruption, very clear ideas
and definitely at ease, they know precisely what they want and where
they’re going and in three/four days the song is done and completely
mixed!!!
In studio they meet the sound-engineer/producer Marco Barusso: “a
genius” this is the word the boys use to describe him.
The quartet using more then 150 tracks push to the very limit the
potential of the studio and the more modern machines, the song becomes
from “Explosive” to “Epic” and the result is thrilling, a solid groove,
the arrangement never dull and the voices are exquisite, it’s magic from
the stars. it’s something different from your average pop-rock album…it’s
Jenson.
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