We recently connected with Shwesmo and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Shwesmo thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. When did you first know you wanted to pursue a creative/artistic path professionally?

Music has been around me and I was around it starting very early on in my life. I was sent to learn piano at the age of 6, and although I don’t remember really loving the lessons themselves, I already started taking the simple things I’ve learned and writing funny songs with my sister, Later on when I was 12 I picked up the guitar and knew that this would be my instrument. Fell in love and couldn’t leave it for a moment. I spent 6-8 hours a day practicing, composing, and diving as deep as I could into this endless world of music, which really felt like offered no limits. I think somewhere there as a teenager was the moment that I felt like I wouldn’t do anything else in my life, it almost felt like I didn’t even have a choice, and it was a great feeling.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I am Shwesmo, I create adventurous electronic music, a melting pot of middle eastern grooves, progressive metal-fusion colors and heavy bass sounds. There’s nothing I love more than breaking musical borders and rebuilding them into something new. Shwesmo is a story of who I am, musically and personally. I feel like throughout my years as a musician, I’ve visited those genre “stations” – starting out with rock and metal – diving more into prog metal and jazz-fusion later on, then revisiting my roots and getting back to the Jewish and middle eastern grooves and music I grew up with, and eventually landing in the electronic music world. I collected what I liked in each genre and bridge between these to try and create something fresh, fun, and interesting.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

As someone who composes, creating a new musical piece and publishing it is one of the strangest and greatest feelings. I find myself pondering about that quite often. Working on a new personal creation is such an intimate process. It encompasses everything about who you are at that moment, emotionally and musically, whether openly through lyrics or weaved into the notes and sounds of your music. Being a known perfectionist, it takes quite a while for me to be completely content with the musical piece and call it ready. Then, you just throw it into the world, releasing into the most public space out there, with the intent of as many people to listen to it, and hoping that they connect with it personally as well. The dissonance between the two things creates that magic, and to me that’s the most rewarding aspect of it.

One of the things I love the most in life is listening to a new artist for the first time, and thinking “wow, this is something I haven’t heard before, and I love it!”. It fills my mind with exciting creative energy and I usually just can’t stop listening. If I can make anyone feel like that about my music, then my job is done.

Any resources you can share with us that might be helpful to other creatives?

I always say that I wish youtube existed when I was a kid! It just started out when I was a teenager, and It’s been an amazing resource for me later on in exploring and learning electronic music production. I feel like if some of the resources and knowledge that’s out there today was available to me back then, it would’ve been a crazy accelerator for any process of mine. I’m extremely grateful that all of this is so easily available to us nowadays, and to the young people out there – no excuses! It’s all out there, for free, if you just look into it.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://beacons.ai/shwesmo
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shwesmo/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shwesmo.music
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shwesmo

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Nachman Bremo Nave Noifeld Merry Ann Genin