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availability Jesse Clasen and Jacob Michael are ready to get inside of
your minds. The duo call themselves Foreign Air and are a different
breed of cat from all the other acts that are out there. The two
currently split their time between New York (Clasen) and Washington DC
(Michael) – initially establishing their friendship while playing in
different bands. “One night, I watched Jesse perform and I was
really intrigued by his voice and some of the stuff he was doing. We
kept in touch and got to know each other over the years. We became
really good friends.” Jesse followed up by saying, “With Jacob, we
played just one show and it went really well. We kept in contact with
each other. Over the years, it just developed into a friendship. We
shared music online through Dropbox. Whenever I was in D.C. playing
with different bands, he would come and hang out. Whenever he was
around my area we would go to shows together. Sleep on each other’s
couches. This project just kind of happened. I don’t think it was
planned at all.” Coming together as Foreign Air has been a
life-changing experience for the duo. Jacob notes, “For me
personally, putting out the first song ‘Free Animal’ on SoundCloud
has changed my life in a really big way. Prior to that, I came from
more of a live music background. Playing different live music
instruments. We are into rock music and hip hop. A lot of different
genres that you wouldn’t think go together. Jesse adds, “This
project has been a lot about using new tools and really diving into
it. We are taking that whole mindset of songwriting from more of the
‘90s hip hop that we grew up listening to as ‘80s babies. Instead
of finding records to sample, we are writing songs like we have always
done with real drums, guitars and bass. Then we try to figure out how
to chop it up and put them across pads and pitch them differently and
see how a song can completely change. This is a new world for both of
us.” The entire catalogue of music the duo have created together,
including that first song “Free Animal” all the way through their
most recent release “Turning”, has been streamed over 50 million
times on Spotify and Apple. The music has soundtracked global
advertising campaigns for Samsung, Nike, Vodafone, Microsoft, Hugo
Boss and many other brands in addition to television features on
Showtime, ABC, TNT, Vice and Fox. While it’s difficult to nail down
the exact genre, Billboard Magazine calls the music “Transcendent
Indie-Rock-Meets-Electronica with a penchant for forceful guitars and
haunting vocals”. Jesse goes on to mention “Getting together in a
room in my house and ironing out details and rearranging things. Then
we took a hard dive all over the place from New York to LA to
Washington D.C. to different studios owned by my friends. Different
situations where we would look around the room and see what we could
add to the songs. In some places it would be taking out a midi piano
and replacing with a real grand piano that might have been in that
specific room. Just trying to tie it all together with certain sounds.
I think that might be something only we can hear. We started in the
bedroom and took it around the country to see how it could develop. We
would revert back if we didn’t like where it went. It was a very
open process where we tried to make the best song that we can.” The
party is only getting started for the guys as they have their sights
focused on the road and new music.
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