SOAWARE is a two member band from Italy. The first self-titled album is a production, arranged between 2014 and 2018, studied with acoustic guitar piano and voice and developed only later with synths, samplers and analog instruments.

Please list all of your band members and their roles in the band.

Damiano: Guitar, synth, bass, d rum machine Ema: Voice, synth, bass, piano

The band was born in 2015 with voice acoustic guitar and piano,

For starters, what bands were you guys a part of prior to Soaware? How long has the band been around?

Damiano: guitar in “Mad Cobol”, “Sown”, “Duncan Mustache”

Ema: Bass e back vocal In “Mad Cobol”, “Wicked Corporation”, voice in “Cani di Diamante”

All those se band are italiano alternative band active from 1999 And 2014.

What’s the origin of that name and have you changed the band’s name before? 

We really love Japan and the culture of the country and Damiano during his last trip discovered the aesthetic concept of the “mono no aware “ ,

The emotional participation of the beautiful sides of the live and the wonderful sensations that you can have but in the same moments you can prove a nostalgic feeling liked to the fact that you know that those moment could not come back, because life change, the existence change.

This one of the several Japanese concept so romantic and deep that really impressed us,  because in the western culture didn't exist words that express concept like that.

So we think that could be cool to try to mix this concept with western concept so far from this deep and elegant feeling.

SO,  like so much like “a lot “ like this society is asking to us, to be more , to be perfect otherwise you won’t count anything, and AWARE, from the concept above, it sounds to us like a great contrast and simply sounded cool to us.

Who writes your songs? What are the main themes or topics for most of your songs and do you think these topics will change over  time?

We wrote our songs and each song has his own identity. We have talked about personal experience that changed our life or fact that we have seen and impressed us or maybe fun facts that anyhow made us reflecting on them. Also, it is really important to say that the words sound is really important for us so often we adapted the words to the music and in order to achieve the result we are even ready to modify the original words but never the concept.

What bands are currently inspiring the music that you’re making?

To be honest? Probably all the bands we have listened in our life, From The Duran Duran and the A-Ha in the 80’s when we were just babies to Nirvana and Alice In Chains arriving to Korn, Deftones and why not David Bowie and Nick Cave? 

We don’t know exactly but we like to think this is SOAWARE.

Was there a particular band/artist or concert that inspired you to start a band?

Wow, difficult question, probably the FESTIVAL BAR, an Italian old festival  during the 80’s.

What do you do to prepare for a show? Any flexing, exercises, etc …

Beer? Recently Gin & Tonic 

What has been the biggest highlight of the band’s career so far?

Actually this band is too young, but probably for SOWN having a worldwide distribution with Frontiers Records

If you could tour with any bands, past or present, who would they be and why?

Surely St. Vicent because she is 100% sexy 

Is there anything else you would like to add? 

Can you arrange a tour for us with St. Vincent ? Jokes aside , thank you so much for this interviewing for the space you gave to us.