War Torn Produced By Damir Hadzalic Facing The Physical Wars Within To Locate Peace

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Absolutely fantastic and very excited to share a conversation with you because, my God,

I love where you're exploring music and you're taking listeners to it.

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One of the things that I love about your music is the fact that there's emotion really tied

into it.

How is it that you're able to do this?

Because I mean, not everybody, I mean, everybody just kind of just gets in there and says,

yeah, I do music.

But no, when you do music, you bring it.

Sure.

Well, with this particular project, it does kind of stem off of my life story, along

with everything that we've kind of seen in current days.

So it is difficult to actually be honest to kind of talk about my family's story and

then try to connect it and it's a way I'm trying to get people connected to the music

more for them to really listen in a way.

One of the things that I'm very inspired about when it comes to your music is, I remember

when the sixth pistol sat down with me and they talked about how their music was all

about people need to know how we have felt in life and especially when it comes to war.

And then you're doing your project called War Torn.

I love how you're able to turn that negative energy into something where we're pulled into

the storyline and we understand as well as we're growing with you as you talk about these

moments.

Yeah, I appreciate you listening to Swing's War Within, right now I'm still building

to release the full project, I did release Dream of Just Recealing and I have been reaching

out, as you know, I'm the producer of this project so me trying to gather the voices

for this project has really helped me build it to what it is right now and I really

get to appreciate this one artist from Zimbabwe, Marco Olvines, which you'll be hearing all

over the project and that is the part that it's not just the producer but it's with the

artist and when you guys work together it's not from the magic that happens.

I really appreciate it if I was able to collaborate, we're not just him but several different

other artists across the globe really.

Yeah, I mean and the way that you guys are really building this project up because I mean

to be in that recording studio with you has got to be just something absolutely spectacular

because proceeds from this are going toward children in war zones.

When you're recording like this you've got a plan, you've got a purpose and as the producer

I mean my god, it's all up there in your head and you've got to make it to where it's

got to become a reality for the rest of us to catch up with.

Yeah, it's exactly the objective, it's like the music is like objective based in the

way, it's almost like military in a way where I'm trying to really create something that

resonates and try not to make it too forceful so like a lot of different, a lot of songs

on here, I let the artists deliver what I feel like is authentically themselves and not

to kind of involve myself too much but just didn't the idea and then what this project actually

means not just for myself but for its existence because the plan is for it to be a funnel

for people, just not only it is raising awareness but like I said, any purchases, anything

that's the screens, anything that anything any revenue that I get out of this project

no matter what it is, I am funneling this to the cause, that is the whole idea.

Yeah, well you do that with a song piece, I mean you really do open up that door for us

to feel it rather than just hear or see a word.

So how did that song piece come into play?

Well, it started with the song word within, so word within has the horseshoe game on it

which are the younger brothers of King Crooked which is who starts off the record on piece

so that combination was really blessed down to me from the horseshoe game, they had 20

cents word within back to me, I didn't know exactly what to expect because we had this

conversation about what the music sounds like and then as they got to know me and they found

a lot of them on background being a refugee and growing up in the states and the projects

they delivered word within and immediately that's where I was just thinking of okay, what

do I do with this song?

I have this song, I never released any music before, I need to start figuring out how to

release a word within it and as I started researching and everything that's been going

on in the world during that word within time period that's when the cause idea came

across and of course at that time period I was also on the production that I have that

came actually forward this is like what's the next step now where do I start building

because I have something here that resonated with myself really deeply and hopes that

or within with others like it did with myself so I asked Horserding would King Crooked be

willing to listen to this production and see if this would inspire him and I only want

him to reach back out to me if this is something that he truly would want to put his name

on and I had this video that I want you to watch with the production and then I sent him

just a video with the B in the background and he responded back and like he was like wow

he took like a screenshot of part of the video and he just couldn't believe what he was

seeing and and you know he delivered I was very that he was such a professional too when

he delivered it back to me and he knew like immediately like he knew what he needed to do

and I was she came back like like a bully with with those lines and it was such spoken word

that I was like wow I have some I it's like I add the next level I felt like I just went

up I went up a level with the with you know with the message and you know that's that's where it

goes into all right I have King Crooked this years you know in the hip hop world he is no one

everyone knows who King Crooked is his affiliation with M&M you know slaughterhouse

the Joe butting you know he was recognizable many people know him so I like I saw I'm thinking

myself I'm on this on the ground producer I have King Crooked on a record then we've given

me some really substantial like real lyrics that I need to see how I did I started to do research

on artists that have done similar things with music or have given back so like I started

each not to bigger artists I mean I started finding information on people like Tangerine Lamar

people like Lupe Fiasco and Moral Technique that have donated music and I started pitching I was

on a rampage pitch mode of just sending cold emails out and yeah and as as that started you know

happening I was listening to the games project has most recent project and I heard a few lines of

him mentioning Sudan and Gaza and humanitarian aid and then I went to his page and I realized

that he's giving opportunities to artists and producers and you know I started doing my research and

I started you know sending emails direct messages and I ended up getting a message back and that's

that's essentially how that started with him please do not move there's more with Demir

coming up next the name of the music project war torn from Demir hot as lich in looking at your

story experiencing your story and I want I want listeners to really understand your story in

in a very creative way are you not with war torn and with the song piece and all the others involved

are you not sending a positive message to the people of Iran Gaza Ukraine and Israel the musicians

you've got music inside of you don't turn off your inner music let your music be a speaking

voice for the people that need it most absolutely absolutely um it's it's a it's a cry out I mean

it's definitely you know it's it's showing people what's happening I mean we do we see

you have every single day I mean for some media is engulfed with what's going on every single day

and that's that was one of my biggest influence in the world the things that I was seeing and

and trying to connect it with all the people that are refugees are now and that this this

battle or these wars are occurring and the people that are turning into refugees is it's not going

to end when the end when the war ends that's actually probably one the begin the work begins for

like the foundation save the children they're they're going to be working out this for a while

and with the refugee centers you know when I was a refugee when I just came to the state and then

you know in 98 we went a refugee center and then we were waiting to get public housing and that's

where we got and took a project and I when I arrived into my into our apartment we had a whole

bunch of foundations that have provided us a living arrangements there for us food to provided us

I had you know a whole bunch of toys in my room and I was I had everything that we needed to

started life in in the states and and and you know I also the way I learned the English language

this is a funny story I love sharing it because it's it's close to my heart but when I arrived

in my into my room there was a CD player on my my bed and inside that CD player was actually the

the slum shading LP what and then I was like inside of that CD player so I remember that

we were we were given like ABC books and like learning how you know kind of prepare for first grade

because I was getting into first grade I did the kindergarten in Germany and then I came to the

states and I was there there in the summer and instead of watching the ABC books or watching the

videos and things like that every day I was listening to Eminem no day as a six-year-old

I was listening to Eminem I mean it might not be the best music to listen to but I mean it was

like it was like teaching the language so like you know by the time I first grade first grade

started out I was very fluent like I was doing really well in grade school and you know the teachers

used to applaud me and and I used to just repeat lyrics all the time this was something that I

just constantly did and you know and it kind of stuck with me so yeah is that the reason why when

people hear your music they say that it's more than just playing your music it's actually breathing

with your music that we're able to really put down our guard and just experience your sounds

yeah people have you know people have said things like you know you are like

giving us almost like a movie soundtrack in a way yes I I'm not the greatest for music theory but I

you know I I try learning things when it comes to developing like soundscapes and sound design so

you know I I work on a lot when it comes to just the the sound itself from the very from the notes

that I create I will just take a few different elements and I'll try to maximize

it's it's feeling so like like what we're in that I would go you know throughout the whole scale

until I found found the right note that that that felt what I felt like literally note for note I

would go and try to create a humility that I'm I'm feeling with the bass being that that kind of

encompasses a lot of my music you're going to hear is it's very it's a roaring re-space and I

I love that sound and you're in here the consistency throughout this whole entire project it's going to

have this feeling to jam back into like six songs yeah yeah yeah yeah because we we are in this

age right now we're the average listener even if they're going to Spotify or even heart I heart

radio they want the full concept they want the full album and when you've checked war within

inside this oh my god I mean this to me is a love song I feel that rhythm the wrapping inside

the song there there's so much emotion and that you keep us glued to what is happening creatively

and you being the producer I mean you're you're the person you it starts with you

yeah yeah it started with me and I have no idea how I got here to be honest you know I've

traveled I've traveled to Germany to collaborate with zombie juice from flapper zombies he's the

one that comes in at the end of war within and that was also you know he's he's mine mine um

generation we I grew up on this reason we're pretty much the same age and I literally traveled

to Berlin not him and you know Berlin and went to the studio and that was absolutely magical I'm

that was the first time I got to actually witness an artist in the studio work and you know when

I played a more within and you know I loved the facial expression and I loved his because I

like I had a concept I had an idea and and immediately he knew what needed to come next after like

what they did uh because he he took it to the next level like his his verse was my favorite

uh because he just elaborated um the whole idea and uh yeah that it's incredible how things were just

just coming together wow where can people go to find out more about this project and everything

you're doing because you're obviously that person that helps open up the process for a lot of

creative minds it could visit me on my website I'm a social media my website is www.hc-mprad.com

uh my social media is uh hz-prad so hz-pro-d underscore and uh

tiktok thing hz-prad underscore but if you want to really reach out to me reach out to me through a

DM update uh or you can email me on my website I love it I love are you gonna you know

i've met a lot of different acts that have come out of you crane that are touring the country

because what they're trying to do is promote peace will you be touring the country as well to help

bring the positive message forward you know that that would be a great opportunity that i'm

trying to see if that will be uh i don't know to be the states but it looks like there may be a

collection of meaning in africa uh just because the artists that actually a lot of the artists that

i'm working with are apt and based and you know there might be something that i'm gonna maybe look

to uh uh uh like a like a like a fun way they're type of events um yes connected to the two of you

i i don't know how any of that works i've never ran the show i've never done anything like this

before uh but what i have and the artist that i may have available at the time i think i could

possibly get that together so so it's like a fun way they're at the same time we're playing music

i would love for an event like that um to be possible you know wow dude you're gonna have to come back

to this show and share even more as you continue to grow this project because this is not just a one

day thing i want i want your entire journey to be shared i appreciate that i appreciate that

i'm learning i'm learning this is this is i've been thrown into the wolves when i learned when i

got that word within back uh you know from the shoot game they uh they really threw me in a uh uh

a circle with what i'm gonna be and as i was progressing and as i started getting these

connections and these artists wanting to elaborate and helping me push the message forward

you know yeah i'd be more than happy to come back on the show and talk about and and you know

there's a lot of things that i'm still working on like more visuals like i want to think uh

you know actual videos for these these songs because every song like and i think that's where i

when you were talking about like concepts and music in general where we're kind of like

losing that aspect of music at least in the head pop world where every four years we kind of get

a trend of music that kind of forms and people kind of want to hop on this trend and pick talk

just kind of taking over and we have seen just music that trends and goes away and fades and never

like sticks and i think it's because people don't have i don't know they don't give us concepts they don't

maybe you know uh you know and maybe in a way what i'm doing when i'm trying to really just spread

a message but in general i guess what we see in the music world is that music is like change and i

think it's also evolving a lot with AI and things like that so there's a lot of changes actually

there's a current in the music industry uh but think we're missing some of the human elements right

now and i i love concept albums i love listening to a album and you know let me try to listen

to what it's the artists like story whatever the case is the you know or even the production wise

like if it's just everything is like cohesive and you can you can listen to a project from

from the start to the end without skipping anything like if like i feel like you're listening to

a whole movie that's what i love doing and i've done my entire life and and this is what war

porn is it's it's a little missile and it's just being shot out i just love where your heart is

well until next time please be brilliant today and continue just growing with your

music thank you so much for having me you bet you'd be brilliant today