From the music of Project Creation's mastermind and the beautiful voice and talent of Jessica Lehto, is born Factory of Dreams an incursion into a Fantasy World of Gothic Electronic and Progressive Rock music. 'Poles' is the new album by Hugo Flores, the debut for Factory of Dreams.
Story
The place: A land with two sides, Positiveness and Negativeness, Dark and Light called POLES. The World: Ruled by a Generator of illusions, the Factory of Dreams. The Fuel: Human minds. The Blood: A river of emotions. The Ignition: Your cd player. Album: POLES, the debut release for 'Factory of Dreams' brand new Project by Hugo Flores and Jessica Lehto. A cd with a fantastic booklet fully designed for the story told in 11 songs.
POLES – Track List
1. Transmission Fails
2. The Sight of a better Universe - Lyrics
3. Air Powerplant
4. Factory of Dreams
5. Gliding above the ocean of memories
6. Peace Echoing
7. Stream of Evil
8. The Piano in the sea
9. Generator of Illusions
10. Electric Boom
11. Crossing the bridge to the positive pole
At the age of seven Jessica started playing the keyboard/piano. She took a few piano classes but learning notes bored her and Jessica ended up learning mostly everything by ear.
Jessica started singing when she was 15. That was when Jessica discovered more metal driven music such as The Gathering, Within Temptation, Nightwish and Blind Guardian. Since then her interest in music has grown much deeper, and at the age of 17 Jessica started writing pieces of her own. She’s currently keeping this passion for music up in her project Once There Was, and also through participating in different collaborations like the new fantastic Factory of Dreams developed by Hugo Flores.
Short statement by Jessica:
"I had not previously heard any of Hugo's work until he got in touch with me in December, but I immediately liked what I heard and felt very optimistic about it when he asked me about my possibilities of recording vocals. To do a good job when recording vocals for someone else's music you need to like that music or things get complicated, something I've learned over these past years. Nowadays I only do the collaborations I really feel like doing, and this is definitely one of them. There's a certain atmosphere in these songs which I like, and Hugo is a highly skilled musician. I feel honored to work with him."
Electric Guitars, Bass Guitars and Synth bass, Synthesizers, Additional Drum arrangements
Multi-instrumentalist Hugo Flores rose to international attention with his first solo album in 2000. After that he formed the band “Sonic Pulsar” that would further refine his sound and style and lead to the release of 2 albums, one in 2002 the second in 2005. These albums further inspired Hugo to the point of creating a massive multi-album story arc under the moniker “Project Creation”, which has release 2 albums so far, one in 2005 and one in 2007. Now in 2008 Hugo was once again inspired, this time by vocalist Jessica Lehto to create new music outside of the style he’d been working in for the last several years. He brings a goth element to his new project “Factory of Dreams” that is sure to catch your attention.
Short statement by Hugo:
""I'm thrilled with my collaboration with Jessica on Factory of Dreams. Factory of dreams blends my music with Jessica’s angelical voice, capable of providing magic to the harmonious and melodic, but powerful music.
Factory of Dreams is very abstract. The opening song, Transmission Fails speaks about an entity loosing memory, loosing energy, but you will soon guess what we’re talking about here. The World of POLES is an abstract view and a metaphor of our own way of life... The generator is what drives us, the Poles, a necessity for life.
I never did something in this vein, and to say the truth so spontaneous and simple. But like everything, what seems to be simple, gets complex as time goes by!"
"FACTORY OF DREAMS – Poles" was composed, recorded and mixed by Hugo Flores
All vocals performed and recorded by Jessica Lehto
Fretless bass on Electric Boom performed and recorded by Chris Brown of Ghost Circus
Music and lyrics by Hugo Flores
Mastered by Chris Brown
Produced by Progrock Records and Hugo Flores
2007.12.15 - Jessica Lehto from Once there was will be an integral part of the project, and will contribute with her great vocals and melodies.
2007.11.15 - This new project is gonna be more gothic, electronic rock. I'm in search for a vocalist to fit this kind of music. As you can guess, it'll be different from PC, but fans of both SP an PC will recognized similar melodies and overal music vibe. I'm also looking for a designer for the album.
2007.10.01 - I'm starting a whole new project. I want to escape a bit now from the complexity of Project Creation, so I think I'm gonna do the most spontaneous thing possible with my music. I'll record during a week 11 songs and start from there.