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Factory of Dreams
Factory of Dreams is a Symphonic metal project, with some gothic and electronic
elements. I usually like to call it Atmospheric Metal, but this may narrow the
band's genres way too much.
Musicians's BIOS:
Multi-instrumentalist Hugo Flores rose to international attention with his first
solo album in 2000. After that he formed the band “Sonic Pulsar” that would
further refine his sound and style and lead to the release of 2 albums, one in
2002 the second in 2005. These albums further inspired Hugo to the point of
creating a massive multi-album story arc under the moniker “Project Creation”,
which has release 2 albums so far, one in 2005 and one in 2007. In 2008 Hugo was
once again inspired to create a new project, this time with vocalist Jessica
Lehto to create new music outside of the style he’d been working in for the last
several years. Now in 2009 they are back with a new album of goth and
progressive metal that is sure to catch your attention.
At the age of seven Jessica started playing the keyboard/piano. She took a few
piano classes but learning notes bored her and Jessica ended up learning mostly
everything by ear. Jessica started singing when she was 15. That was when
Jessica discovered more metal driven music such as The Gathering, Within
Temptation, Nightwish and Blind Guardian. Since then her interest in music has
grown much deeper, and at the age of 17 Jessica started writing pieces of her
own. She’s currently keeping this passion for music up in her project Once There
Was, and also through participating in different collaborations like the new
fantastic Factory of Dreams developed by Hugo Flores.
Genre: Atmospheric metal / Gothic
Home town: Lisbon, Umea
Home on the web
http://strangeutopia.com
http://www.myspace.com/projectcreation
http://www.youtube.com/projectcreation
http://twitter.com/factoryofdreams
http://en-gb.facebook.com/factoryofdreams
Past material: Atlantis (Hugo's solo cd), Sonic
Pulsar's two albums, Project Creation two albums also
Current project: Factory of Dreams
Places where music is available for purchases
http://progrockrecords.com/artists/view.php?id=96
http://kinesiscd.com
All Amazon stores
And many more (Street date release on the 17th November)
Interview questions
How did you get your start in music?
Yeah I wonder myself really, I guess I began playing the acoustic guitar and
piano when I was like 7 years old, then started to compose on my simple PC, and
playing some guitar riffs.
My earliest compositions, all synthesizer based, were very symphonic, orchestral
and very progressive too, in the sense that they had so many parts, like a
story, and lasted for a long time. The first cd I made was called Atlantis, and
it was the first to gather most of my musical tastes.
Later I got a contract with Mellow Records to release Sonic Pulsar's 'Out of
Place' album. Later, with my epic Project Creation I partnered with Progrock
Records, and I'm very happy being part of that family of musicians now also with
Factory of Dreams.
Jessica: I’ve always been interested in music, both listening and playing. I got
quite a late start concerning vocals, I suppose it had been a good thing if I
had begun singing at an earlier age, but a late start is of course better than
no start. At the moment I’ve been writing music myself for nearly 10 years and
doing so, and having my own little home studio, has helped me when it comes to
collaborating with other people I guess.
Who are your biggest musical influences
I'd say David Arkenstone, Vangelis, Dream Theater, Rush, Devin Townsend, SYL
maybe The Gathering too, among some others.
Jessica: The singers who might have influenced me most are Anneke van
Giersbergen, Sharon den Adel, Tarja Turunen, Enya and over the past few years
I’ve started listening a lot to Sarah Brightman and Björk.
What is your biggest inspiration when creating music?
I don't think of anything in particular when creating music, just what comes to
mind... so I let the music and images that come with it just start to build
slowly. Mostly it’s scifi, fantasy stuff directed towards today’s issues in this
World I suppose.
I'd say that life with no music is dull, a movie without music has much less
impact. Music is really everywhere.
Jessica: When writing music I’m often very much inspired by everyday life, what
people close to me are experiencing or what I’m experiencing myself. When I’m
singing I’m mainly trying to interpret the mood of the track also through the
vocals, paying attention to what the lyrics might be about and such.
Could you give us the details of your current project.
Well, Factory of Dreams began as an escape from my totally progressive sound,
and now, with our 2nd album, it retains that style but throwing more
progressiveness to the sound crafted on our debut album. It's a symphonic metal
project, with some goth and electronic feel to it. It's basically me and Jessica
Lehto. I produce and create all the music while Jessica provides all vocals. We
released our debut album POLES in 2008, and now we're back with a new production
bringing a whole new epic and progressive feel to the sound crafted on Poles.
Actually, A Strange Utopia is more complex, heavier, faster and at the same time
catchy, this time with some guest singers and performers.
What is the next goal you would like to achieve with your
music?
Ultimately, to keep evolving, making better and better music and trying to
surprise myself and keep satisfying my musical needs. Also, trying to achieve a
higher audience, apart from that I'm satisfied. But yeah, I'm always thriving to
make better music and most especially music that means something to me. I place
more importance in feeling the music rather than lyrics, so, when I compose it
really must move me in some way, musically.
Final four
When the zombies take over the world where will you be?
I'll be with them, nothing better than being with a bunch of Freaks. I mean,
they're among us right now, just look at politics..
Jessica: On another planet taking care of bunnies.
Jedi, Ninja, vampire, were-wolf, pirate, fairy or Spartan?
Vampire, or wait a Vampire-Jedi, that'd be awesome!
Jessica: Fairies are nice.
What one piece of art, be it music, book, film or picture,
do you think people must experience before they die?
I'd say the film 2001: A Space Odyssey perhaps, it combines music, film, photos
pretty well, and it's a unique picture.
Jessica: The Gathering’s “How To Measure A Planet”.
Give one fact that most people would not believe about
you?
I don’t really enjoy that much hearing myself, either singing or giving
interviews (audio ones lol)
Jessica: Actually I can’t think of anything, sorry. Perhaps I’m too much of an
open book ;)
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