Fudasca is Simone Eleuteri, 23 y/o from a small town near Rome.
He has released today, 13th March 2020, his first single via Sony Music: “make you mine”.
Make You Mine
(Feat. Snøw, Powfu, Rxseboy)
The track features Powfu, whose song ‘death bed’ is already top 30 on the Spotify global chart, Snøw who featured the global hit “Get You The Moon” by Kina and Rxseboy.
Music is something Fudasca can never live without: it is a way out. It’s atmospheric lo-fi hip-hop form takes on almost therapeutic aspects. This young Italian composer and producer found out that music could help him overcome anxiety and panic attacks with which he had been struggling with for some years.
In the mid-2010s, thanks to new sounds that were brought to the public attention by stars such as Drake together with newcomers like PARTYNEXTDOOR and XXXTENTATION, Simone acquired new tools to express himself more freely. That was the real birth of Fudasca.
Fudasca’s songwriting process follows a ritual: “Almost every song begins with the guitar: I always keep it next to the couch on which I sleep, so that I can play it the minute I wake up”.
From his father’s old records to his own compositions, he finds inspiration from good old guitar strings. The melodies are often inspired by the artists he loves such as Pink Floyd, Phil Collins and Michael Jackson, who shaped his music just as much as the 00’s mainstream hip-hop artists he grew up listening to.
When the inspiration flows, Fudasca knows exactly where to focus it: messing around with guitar arpeggios, shuffling acoustic riffs and composing on the computer, which is like finding the right way to a final destination, a mood he envisioned from the very start. Some days he becomes so immersed in his songwriting that he even forgets to eat. But also when he is in front of a monitor, Simone is never alone: “A couple of years ago, the owner of the bootleg boy’s channel invited me to join a Discord group chat that brings together singers and producers like me: that’s when it really started for me”.
Usually frequented by gamers, that group chat became a place for mutual acknowledgement: “I find it very casual and cool in there: you’ve got great artists such as Snøw, with more than 100 million streams on Spotify, and other artists who are happy to work with an underdog or unknown individual.”. Snøw, as well as Resident, Hashir and many other artists worldwide have shared creativity on the beats that Fudasca has made.
However their creative process, is never merely passive: “I give them a beat, a melody, a topic, sometimes only a few bars, where after we continue talking and shape the song together: I know instinctively that these artists understand the meaning of my songs and the issues that I and many others like me have to deal. The internet is not only a way for us to communicate; it becomes a virtual “real” place with in which to create”.
Simone’s complicated family situation sees him sleeping in the kitchen, in the small apartment he shares with his parents. That is certainly one of the reasons why Fudasca was forced to come up with innovative ideas to record his music: once at his grandma’s council house, another time, in a garage. Every guitar recording is made in his car: “For me it is soundproof enough, so I drive to a nearby parking lot, sit on the rear seat and start recording on my phone: to be honest I actually find the slight imperfections in the sound the most appealing”. His music is exciting and fascinating exactly because it balances on the edge between flaws and spontaneity. This principle applies to life as well, a message conveyed in his songs, where hope is ever present.
Music however, can be a double-edged sword: “Sometimes, the discomfort I feel helps me to create music that transmits the very opposite, almost as if it were a condition to strive for. Sometimes the music itself can be a source of anxiety”. That is why his personal experiences do not create boundaries in his music. The desire to be with, or communicate with others is the essence of his being, from life to music.
When he needs to take a break, he drives to the nearby Lake Nemi, where thousands of years ago the goddess Diana was worshipped. Fudasca takes a deckchair and walks along a small trail: “I find a clearing and I sit there contemplating the lake which transmits tranquility”.
He sits right in front of the calm body of water: “I don’t write nor play anything there: I just gaze on the lake”. There, everything is in balance.
