Review Fix Exclusive: Giulia Millanta Talks ‘Conversation with a Ghost’ And More

June 9, 2018 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats with singer Giulia Millanta, who lets us know about her origin in music and creative process for her new album, “Conversation with a Ghost.”

Review Fix: How did you get involved in music?

Giulia Millanta: Music just happened to be in my life as a kid. No one in my family is a professional musician but my dad used to play the guitar and my mom the piano. My first instrument was the drums. Then I had to switch to the guitar cause we used to live in an apt. I became an M.D. (doctor of medicine), never practiced…became a full-time musician in 2008 with the release of my first record.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Millanta: Never the same.

Review Fix: What inspires you?

Millanta: The world around me. Things that happen inside and outside of me. Things that resonate with my heart.

Review Fix: What makes “Conversation with a Ghost” a special album?

Millanta: Well “Conversation with a Ghost” is a record about loss. I lost a bunch of friends in the last year and a half and that is part of what prompt me to deal with the concept of loss, in a broader sense.

In this record, every single song is about losing something: love, sanity, your perspective, a friend, your innocence… It’s also about working through the pain that loss can bring and healing

Review Fix: How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard you?

Millanta: Well… the best way to experience music is experiencing it! Music can’t be told or defined in words. Also, as the artist and the “mother” of these songs is hard to have the distance necessary to put it all in words. Reviewers do that. Here are some adjectives they used to describe my music: powerful, deep, raw, quirky, insightful, intense, feisty, humorous.

Review Fix: How are your live shows different from your studio work?

Millanta: My records are all recorded live. 2, 3 takes at most. Very few overdubs. That being said: live shows are different because it’s a fuller experience. You get to see the artist, there’s an exchange of energy and they change all the time. I never play the same song twice. It’s always new to me.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2018?

Millanta: Tour, reach people and make them laugh and cry, give them a good show. Sell tons of records.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Millanta: Another record at some point….there’s always another record in the making.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14263 Articles
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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