Review Fix Exclusive: The World Over’s Tiaday Ball Talks ‘Mountains’ And More

Review Fix chats with The World Over’s Tiaday Ball, who discusses the band’s new album, “Mountains,” detailing their goals for 2017 and creative process.

Review Fix: How did the band get together?

Tiaday Ball: So The World Over was created in 2013 by founders Xavier Moreux (France), Ryan Knecht (California), Anthony Dellaripa (Connecticut), Eric Gledhill (Boston) and myself (Tiaday, Hawai’i) who had all moved to Los Angeles from around the world with the mutual goal to make music. Donovan Allen (Coachella, bassist) later joined us in 2015 after Eric’s departure. Together we conceptualized a band that could represent many different cultures and promote messages of hope and empowerment! Continuity is important even though the name may not have the same meaning as when we first originated.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Ball: We just dick around. Nah, jokes aside…For “MOUNTAINS” specifically, we spent a lot of the time recording demos at Ryan’s studio either jamming ideas acoustically, writing over vocal melodies or going off of other recordings we did on our own. After we collected the demos that we knew we definitely wanted on the album, we flew to Canada to work with Siegfried Meier (Kitty, DMX) at Beach Road Studios!

Review Fix: What’s your standout song? How was it written?

Ball: We’d like to think that our self-titled song “MOUNTAINS” off the new album is probably the most “standout” song. You can check out our lyric video for it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTx_aSn-ckw


We will also be releasing an official music video for the “MOUNTAINS” song within this month, so stay tuned for that.

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Review Fix: What are your goals for 2016?

Ball: We’re mainly focusing on promoting our new album, “MOUNTAINS” (out on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, etc.), and getting ready for our tour in December!! 
We will be hitting up AZ, NM, CO, WY, UT, ID, WA, OR, NV and CA and will release the exact dates soon.

This tour is to promote our new album so get yours here: https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1146557304

Review Fix: How do you want your music to affect people?

Ball: Since music is a form of art…if it invokes any emotions in people at all, then I believe we’re doing our jobs right! But we’d hope it affects people for the better, as anyone should hope.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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