IF... was officially born in 2003 after a quite long collaboration amongst Ferrato-Delicati-Munzi and a CD recorded as "Francesca Ferrato" a Pop Oriented Project but with a tendency to go to an Alternative sound and mood that finally pushed the three to splash into today's IF... "We could say everything started off with -I feel so- that gave us the direction... " But there was a lot of the today sound of IF... in an old Delicati's project_SNZA_ raw for sure but with that distinctive sound. Mauro played in several projects and he is really used to odd tempos and progressive. His drumming changed the way Delicati and Ferrato used to write songs at the point that a huge block of material was trashed and new songs were written in a team of three. They have recorded their CD mainly arranging the songs basically jamming and then usually they do a demo with LogicPro, overdubbing then all real instruments and removing the samples. "We have decided to use a Mellotron library as it was a real instrument, no other funny keys, just some pads from Roland and Kurzweil..." This gave the record that distinctive prog sound that "spot your skin". Max arrived after the recordings as live support but he soon became important for the band for his sound and his human being. This band is like a family, we are not colleagues, but mates and close friends. We run an independent label _SOUNDFACTOR_ and we do our best to bring all our artists to the next level, trying to involve them in sharing time and passion. We work as producers in our recording studios in Rome, an important stage where we learn every day the art of making music.
