Laila: Hi! Welcome to watchmojo.com. I am your host Laila and I am pleased to be talking to artist Zane about his musical career and his debut album Stages. Let's hear a little bit of your album stages and what's been some of the emotional, what have been some of the emotions behind that album?
Zane: Well, Stages began as a collection of stories on our personal journey that took about a little over a year to do. It was basically songs written during the course of that year about the moments of my life. As I experienced them, I wrote them. You just see those chapters? A one man's journey through personal change, I mean, that's what its chapters, so that's what, its chapters. So if you sit with headphones on which is the best way to experience the album, that's when you will understand the lyrics and the way the song is going to twang and from beginning to end, then you will really understand where it's coming from.
Laila: You have previously been praised as a great performer and who knows how to work up the crowd. How did you carry that energy over into studio?
Zane: Although the album is kind of dark, a little depressing. It wasn't like that in the studio. I met the producer Albert Chambers to the course of the two years that we recorded this album, it was nothing but laughs and good times in the studio and it's fine and then when we did the take to record, we came out serious and we focused on the song.
Laila: How was your musical approach changed since you signed the record?
Zane: Well, you write the songs in a way that you never really think of the genre, people label music Rock, Alternative, Pop, Disco, you never think of that. What you think of is writing the song. It's important to have people that understand where you are coming from and interpret the music in the way you are coming from. I mean, if it's a dark song, it's not going to end up being a disco track. So you have to be somebody that understands that.
Laila: How does the music industry make it hard or easy for you doing, specially so creatively as an artist?
Zane: We always make compromises because music is not a solo art; it's a collaborative art, right. And I mean I have the album, I have the songs, I have the DVDs, I have the music videos and yeah you are on top of things but in the end it's a collaborative art. So you always have to compromise with the producer, you always have to compromise with the director, the script writers. I mean, you always have to make concessions.
Laila: Why did you decide to make a music video for Lost?
Zane: Lost is my favorite track of the album. My absolute favorite. Deep down in my heart I always wanted to do Lost. So after we discussed it again with the producer Johny Abifadus. We decided to write a script and do Lost. If it was my favorite track, then the video had to be very important and we wanted to interpret the song in a music video which was always very important to me. Something I always wanted to do deep down inside.
Laila: Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to meet you.
Zane: Well, thank you for your time. Nice meeting you too.
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