"The Pack"

I am so happy to introduce TULA, the newest artist to join “The Pack”.  Tula comes to us from Antwerp, Belgium and is a self trained pianist; who started playing the piano at the tender age of 5 and to this day, doesn’t know how to read notes.  She plays with her heart and the passion you’ll hear in her music is evidence that she doesn’t need to read music, because it comes deep from within.  Her dad, a former trombonist and son of a Lithuanian opera writer, always told her that “music is only for the soul.”  Well, from Tula’s perspective, music IS THE SOUL.

Like so many of the other Pack Artists, Tula pursued higher education and earned a Molecular Biochemistry degree; but this endeavor was to please her parents. She worked in the labs as a “mad scientist” during the day; however, always anticipating the night, so she could make her music, take the mask off, and be the musician she is…
Tula is currently working with the same Producers who work with Delain, Serenity, Imperia and other big names in the Goth metal music industry. Music is her soul…it’s in her blood and as she puts it, “Music is my soul, my motive and my drug. It’s a true addiction. I live , breath and feel it as my second skin …my music is who I really am”
“My Music My Drug”

This is an amazingly painful and strong song, with an incredible story behind it.  In Tula’s own words, this is the story behind this powerfully moving piece:

“My Music My drug” was recorded when I had nothing but 20 Dollars in my wallet.  I thought about giving up on music, since my life wasn’t going in the direction of music, and no one in the music industry believed in me.  I wrote “My Music My Drug”, just like an addict for making music.  My head was not thinking, I was just writing it in one try, without trying how it sounds before, and wrote the music for it very fast.

Then I said to myself I HAVE to record it. Something about that song was real…I went into the studio late in the afternoon and gave him the 20 dollars.   The technician said that I only have one hour in the studio for that and that means I only have one shot with recording on the live piano.

Well, I was scared but I just closed my eyes and recorded the piano (I have a photo from that session which was so special, you can see I’m drifting in that).  The piano has always been my best friend.  It accepted me when no one else did, and like always it never let me down…The technician was amazed that I actually pulled it off.

Then I recorded the vocals.  I almost cried in that session, since I told myself that was the last recording session I will have, since I did not have the money.  It was so special…

Two months later I talked to my amazing musician friend Jan Yrlund, a very known finish guitar player who played on very big stages in Europe.   I remember his email telling me that his producer and Oliver Philips heard the song (MMMD for short), and he wants to produce it for me, but he will keep the vocals of that session because the emotion in it was something different, and so was it.

Only later I discovered that he is one of the biggest producers in the Goth metal music industry, who made Delain, Serenity, and worked with members of Within Temptation.  He became one of my best friends, and together we made “Psychosomatic” and “Hey You”.  He was also the one recommending me about SAB , well I hate to say it, but he is most of the times right…

When I recorded , I didn’t think about anything, but how much I do not want to give up on my music, I just was who I really am, a musician, aching to let my music out…

The inspiration behind it, is to never give up on who you are, although it hurts sometimes, it hurts more when you don’t follow your heart.  Music was my drug and my savior when no one else accepted my music.  It was my hug in cold nights, it was everything I am not: courageous, a fighter, an outsider and all I really was… It’s the power of my thoughts, Music made pleasure out of my pain …

I went through a lot back then and for this I want to add this quote.  “It is unbelievable how much truth there is in it, and god knows I’ve been scared in life….”Scars don’t determine where you’re going; they only tell where you’ve been.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald)”

Tula captured my attention on April 1, 2010, when she left me one of the most moving personal messages I have ever read.  The message wasn’t about her or her music; instead, it was about the meaning of “The Pack”.   I knew at that moment, she belonged….but after hearing her music, I was 100% certain!  As we go through life, if we’re lucky, we come across something or someone so incredible, you just know, it will never happen again…that it must be fate.  This is how I feel.  Tula deserves to be heard by as many people as possible.  Please take some time to listen to her playlist on her Sellaband player…soon, we’ll have her songs on “The Pack’s” player also.   If you like what you hear, please support her project…every part purchased carries a much larger reward; not only for Tula, but for you, the investor.

Wolfman

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