Formula Indie Sessions _ Interview Delace x ICE
What is your earliest memory connected to music?
I grew up in a house outside a small city called Albacete, in La Mancha (Spain). There, on the upper floor, my father had an old stereo system connected to a vinyl record player. I was 6 years old and remember sitting in front of it and playing classical music pieces from artists such as Tchaikovsky or Beethoven.
How did your passion for creating music begin?
I think it was thanks to discovering FL studio, maybe the 11th version. I had a low budget laptop and tried to play some chords in the demo version. As I always had interest in technology, finding this way of making music without the theoretical part really amazed me to the point of becoming a producer and composer before singing.
What’s the story behind your current music project?
It’s been a lot of years making music with friends and trying to find my sound, and they always pushed me to drop something out. But the most important part is that I have lived in 5 countries and worked in so many things, but music creation always had a spot in my life, no matter my situation, I worked overnight many times just for pure passion and joy. I slowly became a person with a lot of storytelling in real life, so I started singing that out. My journey of personal growth in a very nomadic way gave birth to a new love for my roots, as it happens in The Alchemist book by Paulo Coelho. I was a traveller with no home who returned with a lot of experience of life, just to live in a simple way creating beauty through the eyes of an ancient soul, or this is how my relatives would describe me, like a sensei.
How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard your music before?
Authentic, pureness mixed with streaming, love with underground, roots, street.
What is one thing you’ve learned that completely changed the way you make music?
That we are just a vessel which gathers energy from the universe and translates it into the language of music, so it might be more important to be connected than to know a lot of music theory.
What tools, instruments, or software are essential in your creative process?
FL Studio is my playground, but I normally start from the outside, with piano, Spanish guitar or finding a sample in a movie or similar. But recently I am creating a piece of each new song in my mind and then moving it to an instrument or the computer.
Which indie artist or song are you loving right now?
Spanish going global like Sen Senra, Judeline, Pablopablo or Ruswoski. Of course Billie Elish, Tame Impala and especially The Lumineers.
How have your personal experiences influenced your music and artistic vision?
On everything. I am this kind of artist who cannot separate personal and musical life, as my life journey is filling my songs. I have to add here that I consider creating music one of the last acts of freedom that remains in our society, so it is for me.
What emotions or messages do you hope listeners take from your work?
Well, I target deep emotions. I try to tell stories of different lives in the way that listeners look inside them, touching lots of topics like love, loss, guilt, lie and underground life. I really want to be like those artists who were a guidance for lost souls, with no fear of talking out loud about the world situation but from a kind of cinematic approach.
What’s the most important lesson music has taught you so far?
I have discovered that creating music with your heart, and its process, is all the joy you will get from it. Streamings and all that stuff is out of the art, and targets ego. The intimate moment when someone is feeling your song is all that matters.
What is a dream venue or festival you would love to perform at?
The sphere in Las Vegas would be cool, creating an immersive experience related to flamenco with a lot of visuals. People’s minds would blow up.
If you could collaborate with any artist, past or present, who would it be and why?
Rosalía. She represents that part of mixing her own culture with universal sounds and the concept of being timeless, and that is all I want.
Where can our listeners follow and support your music? (Website,Spotify, IG, links)
https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/artist/0QLROELGzFBt87m3Qgi2rK?si=bcJ6Q_GyQYW0a0sDUknNwA
Instagram: @delacebb
youtube.com/@delacebb
Soon I will launch a collective website where I am cofounder called Peso Mob, with more artists from music, design, and other arts.
Looking toward the future, what’s your dream for the next chapter of your musical journey?
Take it to the next stage and go on my first tour though Spain with musicians, dancers and bring an amazing show to each city, and then to other Mediterranean countries like Italy.
What do you hope listeners will discover about you along the way?
A friend from the distance, someone who will bring calm and truth in uncertain moments.
