We were lucky to catch up with Kennady, Jeremy Macdonald, Kramer recently and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Kennady, Jeremy thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

Kennady: For look at fiona. the music that we are currently in the process of making has changed how I will be a musician forever. We are in the process of recording and releasing a project and the music we are making is just something that will stick with me forever. Seeing how much songs can develop and what they become makes their journey so significant. This is the most meaningful project

Jeremy: in my many years as a songwriter, I have struggled with loneliness. In meeting Kennady, I was finally able to cowrite and realized that such raw and delicate sound did not have to exist in the lonely sphere with which I had imprisoned myself. In under a year’s worth of songwriting, we have created something unwaveringly beautiful. We have an album and a half’s worth of material and this musical journey has been the most fulfilling of my life.

Kennady, Jeremy, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Kennady: I have been a musician my whole life, I didn’t start writing until the end of high school. I really fell in love with how safe it suddenly felt to communicate. I came to college to do what love, met Jeremy in a class, and it’s just never been the same. This past year I’ve released songs and I can see this project becoming something big on the horizon. We each bring different skills and experiences to look at fiona. and it’s really helped this project become something special.

Jeremy: In high school, dreampop was the god I worshiped. In my reverb drenched escapades I began to lose sight of music as entertainment and find it a refuge. The way things sound. Emotions communicated through texture over lyrics, becoming deeply immersed in the history and lexicon of alternative music. My first paycheck from my first job at a movie theater bought me the guitar I play to this day. I didn’t know how to play. I bought a shitty digital fender mustang amp and would twist the knobs for hours. I became obsessed with the ways you could enhance and change sound. It is endless. In my time as an emotional adolescent it fused with a lingering sadness and the rest was history. Over the years I built up my craft as a storyteller and songwriter, and the second I heard kennady play in my ensemble at school I felt an immediate connection. We have both worked enormously hard at this in our individual lives, and join one another to create something entirely unique, something bigger than this work we have both done as deeply emotional and volatile individuals.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

Kennady: I think that society needs to recognize artists as hard working people. Understanding that their art is worth something having and sharing and keeping and knowing.

Jeremy: Compensate us for the thousands of unpaid hours we have spent building such an uncertain career for ourselves. It is love that keeps us going, and your support which keeps us afloat. I have walked away from gigs with $3 before. I think we need to create a more inclusive social safety net for those that create the things we consume. It can be rough out there.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

Kennady: I have had to learn that I am not like any musician and that the things I create are my own. Another thing I am still trying to unlearn is that even though I am not the most technically trained musician, I still bring my own skill and knowledge into each project. This comes from an uncertainty and insecurity that I am still trying to understand.

Jeremy: I think one thing going to music school has done is humbled me. I am surrounded by some of the most incredible musicians and future music business people in the world, and have learned to step back every once in a while to accept the help and knowledge from my peers. It wouldn’t be possible without them, and we owe everything to the engineers that have supported us through this project. We cannot do it all ourselves.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/lookatfiona?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZsWbdhMDdEVz1rLSRYuBfImb0lmkcQpu34Vr29VUD2vKGsGt-Khx4XiYs_aem_qmd-PfWM9mIai42phKdFfg
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• Soundcloud: https://m.soundcloud.com/look-at-fiona