Dragonetti Perspective on Stories
I'm a Las Vegas based artist. I want to create beautiful gritty songs that make people feel powerful, nostalgic, melancholic, and hopeful. I'm looking for collaborative relationships with artist and business people.
Who knows where songs come from? When I write, often times I'm picturing places from my childhood in Southern California and Alaska. My grandfather was an Irish singer and he lead his church every Sunday. I never got a chance to hear him because he died when I was very young. But I feel connected to him. I love the fact that, through recording and the internet my songs can live on past my death. That way my great-grand kids can hear my voice. Much of the time I'm writing for an audience that hasn't been born yet.
When I was young MTV played music videos. Is MTV even a thing anymore? My first memory of listening to music was in my play pen. I was about 4 yrs old. My mom was pregnant with my little brother and I was rocking out to Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA.' Mimicking his fist pumps. Some of us were born to run I guess.
In High School my friends and I jammed after school almost every night. I just wanted to be good and I wasn't for a long time. But after years of free form jamming with my guys I developed an ear and some chops. At that time I was into prog rock and jam bands and to me, playing shows required a virtuoso level of skill. But in 2002 or 03 I saw The Strokes at the Joint Hard Rock in Las Vegas and it changed everything for me. These guys weren't virtuosos but they sounded and looked so cool. I thought to myself "I can fucking do that."
Dream pop, neo psychedelic, baroque pop, chamber psyche
It hasn't really.
I write songs about love, family, life's winners/losers, history, the occult, esoteric Christianity, what Carl Jung called "the shadow self," and pondering what happens after life.
I'd like to tour with all my friends that I have jammed with over the years. Too many to name and most of you wouldn't know them even if I did. But they were my greatest influence and inspiration.
Music that hypnotises you and quiets your mind so that you are able to work on yourself. Music that inspires you to be productive, to build, write, paint, create, think, or work out at a higher level.
Picture an alternate timeline where CAN was as influential as Pink Floyd in the 1970s. Where Kraftwerk was as big as disco. Now fast forward to 2024, what would that music sound like? Dragonetti.
