Review Fix Exclusive: Owl Company’s Enrico Minelli Talks ‘Riddles’ And More

Review Fix chats with Owl Company’s Enrico Minelli who discusses the band’s upcoming single and album, detailing their creative process and goals for the future.

Review Fix: How did you get involved in music?

Enrico Minelli: I was 13 when I started to learn guitar. At that time I was listening to Alice in Chains and I wanted to understand their riffs to sing along. Until this day they’re one of my favorite bands of all time. Knowing a few chords, I found out that maybe I could sing, after that I started my first band.

Review Fix: What makes your brand special?

Minelli: We are not trying to reinvent anything, just to keep it raw like it was back in the days. All you hear now is so over-produced, layers and layers of pure noise. Since the beginning we had this in our minds, to keep it simple, to stay truth to what we do live.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Minelli: Mainly it begins when I’m alone with an acoustic in my hands. Sometimes I have an idea and sometimes just playing random stuff some ideas starts to spark. There’s no secret, it’s just part of the job. At least it’s the way I see it.

Review Fix: What makes you different?

Minelli: I think it’s my voice tone. I’m a baritone, something that is rare nowadays.

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

Minelli: “Riddles” probably. I had the riff in my head, I was driving to my studio in Sao Paulo when it hit me. Sat down, called Felipe, the guitar player, and we started to jam it. The lyrics are based on stories that my father used to tell me about the second world war, he was born in Italy during that period.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2017?

Minelli: We want to play. We have a tour planned to the second semester to the east cost. We wanna take our music to the world, to be able to show it wherever we’re invited to.

Review Fix: What makes your debut album special?

Minelli: It was 2 years of hard work, composing, choosing the right tracks dedicated to it. We took our time to make something to be proud of. We’re having a lot of good feedbacks and that means the world to us. At the same time that the whole process was smooth, we were putting our hearts on it.

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

Minelli: I believe that music heals, that it can change people. A song has the power to be a closure for some and to open doors to others when you let it touch your soul. I think that everybody has a soundtrack for their own lives and we just want to be a part of it.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Minelli: The album is coming on July 14th and the video for “Riddles” it’s almost done. We’re putting up a tour to US and Europe, soon we’ll post the dates.

Review Fix: Anything else you’d like to add?

Minelli: Stay tuned to our social media for some great news.

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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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