From Colombia to Georgia… Chasing Music Dreams (ft. Foli For A Film)
Today, guys, welcome to The Creators Show podcast. I'm your host, Tyler Watson. We're here with Foli For A Film. Say hello, guys. Give a little round of applause.
Tyler:Hello. I kinda
Megan:Hello, everyone.
Tyler:Yeah. Do you guys wanna Okay. So we have Megan?
Megan:Yes.
Tyler:And is it Camilo?
Camilo:Yes, sir.
Tyler:Okay. I didn't wanna butcher. No.
Camilo:That was pretty good. That was pretty
Tyler:Just heard like
Megan:Solid try. Solid try.
Tyler:Solid try. Wait, what it then?
Camilo:No, no,
Tyler:no, no,
Megan:not try. Solid
Tyler:Oh, good, like, Yeah.
Camilo:Successful attempt.
Megan:Yeah. Successful attempt, rather. Yeah. Okay. Because I was like I did not mean to repeat
Tyler:because I've heard like a different, a bunch of different ways of saying it. Anyways, we won't get into that too much. So first off, kinda tell me about your band and who you guys are. Do you wanna do you wanna start?
Megan:For sure. So I'm Megan. I'm from Bogota, Colombia.
Camilo:Nice. Nice.
Megan:I moved to The United States in 2022, but I began our band Foli For Film in 2020. We're a pandemic band.
Tyler:Okay. I'm no. There you go. Pandemic Baby. Yes.
Megan:Not an iPad baby, thankfully. Not yet.
Tyler:Not yet. Not yet.
Megan:Not yet. And, yeah, we began as a studio band initially. Mhmm. So we never played live until we moved to The US. Oh, okay.
Megan:So before, we actually just composed together and then we recorded some songs at home. And then we went to the studio to record the songs and made a whole album.
Tyler:Nice. Nice. Yeah. I was gonna ask a ton of you wanna say something?
Camilo:I mean, I was yeah. Yeah. Like, very much pandemic band kinda like, you know, quarantine happened to close down. It was like, alright. Found new music.
Camilo:Sounds cool. We have a copy of Ableton. Right on. A
Megan:bunch of plug ins. Love that.
Camilo:The you know, we started recording songs for everybody. It was we had like this laptop that could barely run itself. It was like running to the ground.
Megan:And the little interface.
Tyler:Sounds like a little airplane engine going on, like a lawnmower.
Camilo:Very much.
Megan:Her absolutest hardest.
Camilo:Did what we could with all that because, you know, everything was also like virtual instruments, synthesizer, the whole deal. And eventually, went to studio, recorded things, got a better computer, did more with the songs we already had, and just full on studio band. That's what did. Full on studio band until 2025?
Megan:Yes. Last year. Yes. So
Tyler:why don't we why don't we, before we get into now, let's talk about let's talk about, like, the very beginning. So where was the inspiration there at the beginning to start the band back in 2020 when you guys both lived in Colombia? So and it was just you guys who started it. Right?
Megan:Yes. Just the two of us.
Tyler:Well So tell us tell us what started that, what sparked you guys' music interest.
Megan:I would say that we had always been interested in music. He has been a musician for a long time. I'm a musician as well. I briefly went to music school then dropped out.
Tyler:It's expensive, probably.
Megan:It's expensive, and I got so many health issues in so little time. Oh. Oh, gosh. Yeah. I was like, the university is telling me to not do this right now.
Camilo:Right.
Tyler:Yeah.
Megan:And we had both been on bands before. Like, we were actively Mhmm. Participating out in the music scene in Bogota. And we both have very similar complaints, I would say, regarding, like, having a band, moving a project forward, or, like, collaborating as a group.
Tyler:Right. You guys had a mutual bond and the fact of just your your independent struggles and working with a band and stuff like that.
Megan:Exactly. And Him and I have very similar music influences, and the things that we are not similar on, we complement each other on. So we're like I mean, it's a pandemic. Most bands will probably die anyways Yeah. With this pandemic.
Megan:And and that's okay. It's bound to happen with many, many bands. How about we team up and we work on a project together?
Tyler:Yeah.
Megan:And we each took kind of like a different role that, again, complements each other. So for example, he was like composition, and I was like visual development Yeah. Things like that. And we teamed up, and it ended up working.
Tyler:Wow. And and I didn't clarify this before because I didn't are you guys are you guys married? Are you guys dating or
Camilo:Married as hell.
Megan:Oh, yeah. We are married.
Tyler:Okay. I was like, you saw the ring on your finger. Was like, I gotta clarify. I didn't at first I was gonna say you guys were like dating, and then I was like, oh, no. That's fair.
Tyler:That's fair. So did you guys so we'll go on a little bit how you guys met then because maybe that's a little bit how'd you guys Oh,
Megan:oh, oh.
Tyler:So because clearly y'all were probably around, I would say, you guys appear to be like in your twenties. So you guys probably around 16 or 17, something like that.
Camilo:Actually, I think we met right. I was 19 and you were 18.
Megan:And I was 18.
Camilo:How old are you? What?
Tyler:We met outing I was ourselves out as 18 in 2020, so What?
Megan:We basically range angst status now, I
Camilo:guess. Okay. Very much.
Tyler:No. You're not the oldest people to be on the show. Don't worry. There you go.
Megan:That that's good. I'm 25. I was born in the 2000. And
Tyler:and, well, you know, that's convenient. Right?
Megan:Yeah. You know, it is the Chinese zodiac of the dragon, which is the best one. Oh, sick. Hell yeah.
Camilo:There you go.
Tyler:And are you guys you guys have a similar year?
Camilo:'99, so '26.
Tyler:Okay. Okay. So how did you guys meet? Let's hear about that. Let's hear about you guys' how you met story.
Camilo:So kind of by chance, which kinda was kinda funny. I went to play to a music school that she happened to attend to. And
Tyler:That you ended up leaving.
Megan:Actually, it was not that one. Oh. So during that time how do I explain this without making it sound?
Tyler:Oh, wow. So
Megan:no. I I was in school, but I was already 18 because in Colombia, people graduate when they're 18. Okay. Yeah. But I was also doing this program that was like a university program, but only on the weekends.
Megan:It was a music degree.
Tyler:Okay.
Megan:But it was more of an associate's degree, I would say. It would be like The US equivalent to that. So I was doing that while I was doing school, and I met him there. But then when I graduated school, I went to music university and all those shenanigans.
Tyler:Oh, okay. Okay. That makes sense.
Camilo:Yeah. But it was very much a super random thing like, you know, kinda I hadn't played there that day we had met ever probably. Who knows? I mean, who knows? But, know.
Camilo:Yeah.
Megan:And it's it was like salsa event, which he doesn't
Camilo:I did not play it.
Tyler:So Yeah.
Megan:He he doesn't partake in a lot of salsa playing or salsa dancing or anything like that and neither do I.
Tyler:Oh, well, sounds good.
Megan:But the keyboard player from a band he was on back in his day was like, oh, dude, there's like this salsa thing. He was really into it. Come with me. Let's play, whatever. So he went.
Megan:We met there. Thankfully Did
Tyler:you guys dance together?
Megan:No. No. Damn. Hell no.
Tyler:We do. No. No.
Megan:Even though we're Hispanic, neither of us can dance at all. Like, not at all.
Tyler:I can't dance together.
Camilo:We ain't got moved. Nope.
Megan:No moves at all.
Tyler:So, okay, so then, so you guys met at a salsa dance for you guys were there. You were in the room.
Camilo:We around.
Megan:It was like a salsa music workshop. They were
Camilo:salsa dancing. Yes.
Megan:But they were mostly, like, playing.
Tyler:Right. Because
Megan:because it was, like, a music
Tyler:There was probably deep people dancing.
Megan:Exactly. Was, like, people randomly dancing, but everybody was there for, like, the salsa music playing.
Tyler:Because this is a music school.
Megan:Yeah. Because it's, like, it was, like, a music workshop workshop.
Tyler:So then you guys you guys met here. You guys, over the pandemic, you started. And okay. What brought you guys what brought you guys here? Because to me, like, when I think of anybody coming from anywhere, this could be, like, the state over to to come to KSU.
Tyler:I'm like, why? So to hear somebody coming from Columbia to KSU, what what brought that to to to happening, I guess?
Camilo:I guess there's a bunch of chance in our story because we were also like this close to being in New Mexico.
Megan:Or Florida.
Camilo:Or Florida. Like, they were like
Tyler:That's two very hot places.
Megan:Yeah. Know.
Camilo:We just kinda I was moving to The US with my family. My family is up in Jersey. I live in Jersey for a while. Mhmm. And we knew we wanted to move together, so we tried to figure out the college thing before we moved.
Camilo:Yeah. And what ended up happening is that we had we had like an agency and they found colleges for us that had scholarships and whatever.
Tyler:Oh, wow. Okay.
Camilo:And a few of the one of the few that were on that list was KSU.
Tyler:Hoo hoo. Yeah.
Camilo:There you go. Yeah. Woo.
Tyler:And so okay. So then, basically, it was just one of the one of the options. What were the other options? What made you choose KSU? Not to act like a KSU advertisement right now, but I am curious.
Megan:Okay. So the options was KSU, the University of West Georgia for some reason.
Tyler:Yeah.
Camilo:I haven't heard that name
Megan:since then. A university back in Boca Raton, Florida.
Tyler:Okay.
Megan:I don't remember the name of that. And then a university in New Mexico whose name I also don't remember. I think
Camilo:it's literally University of New Mexico.
Megan:That probably. Maybe.
Tyler:There's It sounds like the University of New Mexico. That's something. That's that's for sure.
Megan:Yeah. And basically, what I did was just this is gonna sound like so KSU advertisement, but I actually did went to the website and I looked for all the majors and minors they had. And I was like, okay. What is the program that I can transfer either the most credits or that I can take classes that generally interested me the most, and I wouldn't be able to take anywhere else. And Kennesaw actually had that more than all the other universities we were looking at, so we went for it.
Tyler:Yeah. I was about to say, Kennesaw, like, the transferring thing, like, internationally, like, I don't know, like, did a lot of your credits transfer?
Megan:It a nightmare.
Tyler:Yeah.
Megan:You have no idea how much
Tyler:I guarantee.
Megan:Begging was involved in the process.
Tyler:Bro, there's bad transferring just between states. So I can't imagine It was
Megan:insane because I had to order all of my transcripts of my classes from university back home, and they had to hire a professional translator to transcribe everything, basically, and it was like tens and tens of pages. And they charged a whole lot, but that's
Tyler:Wait, like translate it like from languages? Yes. You're telling me Okay. But that's Spanish or
Megan:I I know. But that's the thing What's
Tyler:I mean, that's
Megan:If your transcripts are not in English, they're you have to translate them with an official translator or else they're invalid. Even if we have people here that can read them.
Tyler:That is ridiculous. I know. It's like Spanish and English are the two most common languages in the world.
Megan:I know. And I was like, I should be able to translate them myself. Like, I'm capable of translating them myself.
Tyler:You speak Spanish.
Megan:Can use English. And I speak English, and I know how to use a computer. So I have those qualifications going on for me. And they're like, no. It has to be someone official.
Megan:So I got them translated, and it wasn't only the transcript by the syllabus of every single class I had taken.
Tyler:Oh my gosh.
Megan:So it was, like, hundreds of pages.
Tyler:And did you have to oh, but you weren't were you transferring?
Camilo:Or Yeah. It's
Tyler:a total problem. Didn't you?
Megan:Oh, and
Camilo:it's weird because, yeah, you can have that or you can have a teacher that's like, yeah, man. It's whatever. Like, did you know this? Yeah. Alright.
Camilo:No. I have experience quite a few
Megan:of them. Did not have that. Because what I had to do was that I had to send those transcripts to a third party that wasn't KSU, but also wasn't, like, any Your current score. Yeah. Exactly.
Megan:So you had to send them your transcripts, and they would determine how many credits they would give you for it even though the transcript said how many credits each class had. And then that party would sell would send the results to KSU, but they wouldn't send them to you so you actually wouldn't know.
Tyler:That's just
Megan:bonkers. How many credits transferred or not?
Tyler:And I mean, these just like general ed classes, like like just history and
Megan:Both history, like gen ed classes and art classes. And that's the thing. When I actually send the stuff, the credits transferred. But almost all of the classes I took were three or four credits. But for some reason, the people from the transcript business like, don't even know how to call that were like, no.
Megan:Every credit that's three credits, we're gonna make it two credits. And every class that was four credits, we're gonna make it three credits. So then most of my classes were suddenly two credits, they wouldn't be able to be transferred because there were only two credits.
Tyler:Yeah. Because then it's like, why even transfer it?
Megan:Yeah. I know. So I had to come back and, like, back and back and back and back and they were like, no, actually you can't even transfer your art classes because you need to send a portfolio per class that you want to transfer. And I was like, that's fine. I did it.
Megan:Sent like one portfolio per class and then suddenly they stopped answering my emails, so I had to chase every professor down.
Tyler:I oh my gosh. Yeah. I already like gave so
Megan:open open it it and and be like, here's my work. I already sent a portfolio. Already lose my mind dealing with, like,
Tyler:the KSU stuff that they just have because I I cannot stand working with Gong.
Megan:Yeah. It's crazy because I also think most of the people that work here have no idea what other people that work here do, so it's very disjointed.
Tyler:Yeah.
Megan:So for example, I remember I do like the double major. Right? But within one of my majors, I do a double concentration in in the art degree. And I wanted to get into printmaking. And in art, you need to get accepted into the concentration you're gonna take rather than just, the general program.
Megan:And when I was attempting to enroll into printmaking, they were telling me that there was no printmaking program. That's cool.
Tyler:You're, like, looking at it on the website. You're like
Megan:I'm like, I'm looking at it right now. Like, you guys have it on the Internet right now, and you have photos. Like, I see a printmaking studio. You you you guys have printmaking here. They didn't really like, they they refused to believe me.
Megan:And I came to York Yale, like, one month before classes started to, like, hunt down all the professors, and I found the printmaking professors. So was like, oh, so you are real.
Tyler:So you're a real person?
Megan:This is a real program.
Tyler:Oh my gosh. I
Megan:I will continue.
Tyler:I'll keep it off of that because, frankly, this cannot just be about terrible experiences of cars. True. True. But, wow, you you really went through hell to to get to to to be here. So
Megan:But it is transferred bunch of stuff.
Camilo:The the KSU thing was mainly out of it lined up with what we had from before and the scholarship thing. So KSU.
Tyler:It could have been worse. Yeah. Probably, you know, it could have been
Megan:much worse. Yeah. I am grateful. Very grateful.
Tyler:So, you know but, you know, we kind of we're fast forward to now or somewhat now. You're in Georgia. You guys are kind of starting to develop your band. Do you think a lot of your band's, like, identity what what is actually, we're gonna ask this first. What does what does Foli For Film mean?
Tyler:What is the inspiration for the name?
Megan:Okay. So I vividly remember when we named the band. We were at a bus stop, and we were just talking about how I really don't like the names that he puts on stuff. I was like, you suck at naming stuff.
Tyler:Was like,
Megan:you cannot name any worse things. And he was like, I mean, what name would you, put on the band? And I was like, I don't know. Something like Foli For Film. It stuck immediately, and we're like, okay.
Megan:Let's go for it. Yeah. And Foli, not written as it is on the band, but, like, the word Foli, I mean, it's like the art of sound design Mhmm. For, you know, like, movies, TV shows, things like that. So we're like, oh, like sound design for a film.
Tyler:So music. Oh, that makes so much sense.
Megan:Like music for a film, but not music.
Tyler:You That ties ties so much together in my head, actually. Yeah. And did you guys pick the sides when you guys were still in Columbia or when you guys came over to the to The US?
Megan:Oh, when we were still in Columbia.
Tyler:Okay. Yeah.
Camilo:That that's the thing like the band at like when it started and the the initial influences were super production heavy and sound design heavy and that kind of thing. So when when we I think the name just kinda came up, but then when we heard it, it was like, that makes so much sense. Just wasn't It made so much sense. Was like, you know what? It can't be in your name.
Camilo:Like, it has to be that.
Tyler:Agree. A big question I have, because this to me, this just seems a little bit, like, nerve wracking, especially as as you guys are transferring from one music scene to the other. But I also think it might not be. So what's the music scene like? How much did you guys deal with that in Colombia to in The United States?
Tyler:Like, is it Are they similar or is there, like, a scene that you've kind of gotten into here would that you would say is more like what you guys like to play? Like, kinda how would you describe that?
Camilo:That that's interesting. I I mean, as in the scene, there is a bunch of, you know, like minded minded bands that you can find in Columbia as well that play the the kind of stuff we play or the kind of stuff we would like to play with, if that makes sense. So there's very much a scene that moves around whatever, but finding the places to play at is kinda like more of a
Tyler:Busy guy. Challenge. Right. For sure.
Camilo:Right. Because because you also have I mean, know it's a thing here in Britain, Colombia, you have a lot of the pay to play situation, venues want to It's
Tyler:pay to get the spot.
Camilo:You know, like like the I mean, that makes video.
Megan:Or not even the pay to play, but the, oh, no. We're not gonna pay you. We're just gonna give you a bunch of tickets, but you have to sell all the tickets.
Tyler:Yeah. Right.
Megan:And if you sell all of them, we'll just give you, like, 10%
Tyler:of it.
Megan:I I'm not excited about, like, 10% or something crazy.
Tyler:So that's the experience you guys had in Colombia. In not all places, but it may be a reoccurring experience.
Megan:Exactly. That that was Yeah. Like, are harder to find, and the venues that there are I don't know how to explain it, but I would say that the scene back home is a little bit like, they exclude people a little bit more than they do here. And I think it's because the opportunities are not as common, so there's a lot of rivalry between people and bands and
Tyler:That's
Megan:that's right. Yeah. Gatekeeping for sure, and I see less here in The US.
Tyler:Yeah. I think it also maybe be we're in a we're not in a college town, but, like, we're in an area where there's a lot of young people and there's a lot of people moving into this area right now, not from, like, were really born in the area. So I think that might add to your There's maybe a little bit more of a Not saying this isn't Columbia, but there's a little bit more of a push for like the arts in this area as of recent. Because like a lot of people grow up in these areas, they're just small little country towns, and now it's not that at all. So maybe that's what you that might be Yeah.
Tyler:Reason
Megan:I can see it.
Camilo:And the sense of community is I mean, we felt a strong here, I don't know if it's necessarily a Colombia versus being here thing. We also when we were there, we didn't really get to experience with the band that kind of setting. Like, the experience I had with them, for example, is when I was like 16,
Tyler:Right. Guys were studio
Camilo:recording. Yeah. Exactly.
Tyler:And this is pandemic as well.
Camilo:Exactly. So, who knows what that would have looked like? Like, right now, you know, dealing instead of with teenagers with 20 year olds. It's like, I bet that changes a lot.
Tyler:Right. I would say. But,
Camilo:being low in here, people are amazing.
Megan:Yeah. Very perceptive. Yeah.
Tyler:That's good because I I, you know and did you guys this might be a dumb question, but you get how how long did you guys when did you learn English for like, there was something well, that was something you guys just, like, learned growing like, growing up, just learning how to speak English?
Megan:Okay. So for me, I actually grew up studying, attending rather an international school.
Tyler:So Oh, okay.
Megan:So we're always learning English. Right. Right. I remember that when I was from, I don't know, like pre k to middle school maybe, all of the classes were in English and we're not allowed to speak in Spanish, actually. So, you know, even PE was in English, dance class was in English, science class was in English.
Tyler:Right. That makes sense.
Megan:And then high school, they're like, we're gonna do a little bit more Spanish, so you're still gonna have like English class, English literature class, and like those GCSE classes that
Camilo:Mhmm.
Megan:You have. But all the rest was in Spanish. Interesting. And it was kinda funny because I realized that I, for example, didn't know how to do math in Spanish because because you do it differently. I had no idea.
Megan:Oh, that's interesting. And I had to relearn a bunch of stuff because they suddenly, like, changed it on us.
Tyler:That's very interesting.
Camilo:What you must.
Tyler:I guess I wondered because, like, if you, like, let's say you only sang in English or only sang in Spanish, like you come over to the scene, that might make it obviously, there's there's plenty of people who live in The United States who speak Spanish, but that might maybe diminish your your stretch a little bit, I guess.
Megan:Yeah. The crowd for sure.
Camilo:And there's there's a whole, you know, cultural thing with language that, you know, the language you learn from in schools or whatever is just completely from the one you learn being in the place and
Megan:Yeah. Like, the real English.
Tyler:Right. Do you guys blend, like, in your songs, like, a mix between, like, Spanish, English ever? Or do you guys kind of?
Megan:When we recorded the album, all the songs we decided to make in English.
Tyler:Interesting. It's like you were planning ahead
Camilo:there a little Yeah.
Megan:Yeah. We're just playing four d chess, you know?
Tyler:Yeah. I
Camilo:mean, lyrics, I mean, it's been getting better but can be a pain personally, like to write especially when you're writing like in your in another language. It's like how can I you know, in Spanish itself it's like, this makes me wanna kill myself? Yes.
Megan:Too personally in Spanish sometimes.
Tyler:When you're jumping around, like, vocabulary as well, and you, like, knowing the right word for something and kind of crossing between languages, like, know I sadly do not know another language. I always feel, like, bad about it. But the people I do know, like when they like I knew somebody who like spoke English and they moved to Norway. I don't even know what the language.
Camilo:Norway. Norwegian? Is it Norwegian?
Tyler:Is that what it is?
Camilo:Yeah. But anyways,
Tyler:they they would basically interchangeably exchange like that language in conversation. Like they would just jump between multiple different languages even if like they would like say one thing, English say one thing. And I always thought like, well, could you do that in songs?
Camilo:Yeah. No. For sure. I mean, for example, recently we, as a band, haven't fully assembled the whole album, so we kinda play mainly the songs that make more sense to play as a band.
Tyler:Right.
Camilo:So, we have a few gaps to fill more time on a live set. We've chosen to do a few Spanish songs and that's that's come across really well actually. Yeah.
Megan:They have been more successful with the crowd than any of us was expecting, I would say.
Tyler:Oh, yeah. Good. I I think honestly like like there's plenty of songs I listen to that are only in Spanish. I have no clue what they're saying, but it sounds sick. You
Camilo:know? That's what I I've
Tyler:just feel blissfully ignorant listening to it. It's just like they could be saying something horrendous and like I wouldn't care.
Camilo:Yeah. Listen listen to German songs except our our German major is not here anymore.
Megan:Oh, no. He loves but, yeah, I don't know. Like, what do you think about the songs in Spanish we played the other day? So good. Yeah.
Megan:You liked it?
Tyler:Ellie said they were good. Yeah. Just so you didn't know. Yeah. Well, let's kind of dive into now.
Tyler:So now you guys have been in the kind of scene here and kind of saw for a decent minute, you know. You've been performing for a while, and you had to construct a band while you were here, like other members. How did you bring them on? How did you meet them? How did that go?
Tyler:Let's give them a little bit of a shout out.
Camilo:Well, not a little bit, but huge shout out. Taehyo and Alex, I love them. They're so amazing.
Megan:Taehyo being our so so so much. Drummer.
Tyler:Woah. No. Why why? Woah.
Camilo:Alex being our drummer.
Megan:Because it's to forget the roles in the band.
Camilo:There you go. I need to make the 12 instruments apparently. Alex is our drummer and Taylor's our key keyboard player, synthesizers, keys, all that. And they're both music students, like I I knew them from the Yeah. Music school.
Camilo:And for the yeah. If anything, like, the reason we took so long starting the band is because finding members was a bit of a pain.
Megan:Yeah. That's an understatement.
Camilo:That was a yeah. I mean, because it's not only, you know, when it's such a personal like, let's say, if you're playing a gig really, can you play the instrument? Awesome. You know, that works. But when you're playing when you're making such a personal project that is music you write, music with intention, music that you have an ambition for, you wanna have people that
Tyler:Share that
Camilo:yeah. Like, it, share it. And also people that you like and hang with. Yeah.
Megan:Yeah. And able they to make friends with.
Camilo:Yeah. Because that's the thing. It's like whenever we play, it's not only the the music, you know, not only the music and music come together, it's also like it's such a great friendship that I feel.
Megan:The human relationships. Yeah.
Tyler:Absolutely.
Megan:Yeah. That's true. In bands I've been before, I've always had that problem when we are all bandmates, but we never really clicked as friends. Like, we did try. We made that, but it was always kinda awkward, I would say.
Tyler:A little bit forced maybe. You know?
Megan:Yeah. Even though we did try. But, again, with Tewa and Alex, that did not happen. We became friends immediately, and we hang family. Yeah.
Megan:Exactly. And we hang out even when we don't have to do band stuff, which is I'd never done that before in my bands, and I don't think you did.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah. Sure. For sure. I mean, that yeah.
Tyler:I feel like you would just that would just have to be like a like, kind of like a best friend type thing. Now, y'all told me off camera that you had some issue you always have had some issues with your name, people misunderstanding, which I sadly admitted to not understanding that it was fully and I thought it was foil probably for the entire time, at least ten minutes before the interview. So tell us about the issues you had with that, especially with maybe even members of the band.
Camilo:I mean, the the main thing is so it doesn't help that we mistyped it on purpose. Because, you know, foley, you go f o l e y. That's the actual word.
Tyler:Yeah. That makes sense.
Camilo:We're going f o l I. It's just like
Megan:Even when you put f o l I in your phone, it immediately changes changes it to foil.
Tyler:Yeah. In your phone, it's you.
Megan:You made a typo.
Camilo:But, you know, it was intentional or whatever because artistic or whatever. But or drummer. Yeah. Or or drummer. Not allegedly, like, very much so.
Camilo:Like
Megan:We heard.
Camilo:Until until we played our first show, he was like, it's not foil? I was like, no.
Tyler:No. And before
Megan:and after, when he heard me announce the venue, was like, oh, so we're Foli For Film, not foil for a Good to know.
Tyler:He was like envisioning himself flipping burgers at that moment.
Camilo:I said like foil for a film. What what could that I'm thinking of like photography revealing things. I don't know.
Tyler:Oh, yeah. It made no sense to me. I was like, foil? Don't see that, but I didn't question it. There's been some there's been some interesting names.
Tyler:I was just I don't question it anymore. I'm just
Camilo:And again, historically I mean, it's not the case, I guess, but I come up with terrible names.
Megan:Yeah. Maybe it would have been foil for a film if Maybe.
Camilo:If I had to set it to the video game, maybe.
Tyler:Can I get a quick time stamp real quick? Sorry. Perfect. Okay. We're right on time for exactly how I wanted to be.
Tyler:So, now I want you guys to kind of dive into, so the music you have released save the album for a second. Want to leave that for the end. But kind of talk about the music you have released and, like, you guys' songwriting process and how you guys build a song, around your vibe, which I would describe as kind of indie rock, indie pop, cinematic indie. Is that kind of does that sound right?
Megan:Yeah. I call it psychedelic indie.
Tyler:I've heard that. Yeah. I like that. Yeah.
Camilo:I haven't thought of, cinematic indie. That that makes sense.
Tyler:Yeah. That's cool.
Camilo:That that there you go.
Tyler:I feel special for bringing that up. No. I'm kidding. But kinda give us an idea of like how you guys approach the songwriting experience and how you guys all collaborate and who's kinda filling in what gaps to make the right song for you guys.
Camilo:So at first with the with the few singles where we've released, we have two singles at the moment, Spotify, all platforms, you know, physical even.
Tyler:Uh-huh.
Camilo:There you go. It was mainly keeping it a 100%. On in 2020, I came across this were were reels, you know, I think in 2020?
Tyler:I think so. I mean TikTok, where at least was.
Camilo:Oh, there you go. It was on Facebook. I don't if Facebook has had that thing at that point, but
Megan:video face reels had been a thing for a
Tyler:while. Yeah.
Camilo:Tim Impella Elephant. I think I think, you know, little song or something in the band, Timmy Pella Elephant. Heard it. I had not heard that before. Actually, when I heard the vocals, was like, this is a weird Beatles song.
Camilo:I hadn't heard this Beatles tune before.
Megan:This dude sings just like John Lennon.
Camilo:He he sounds a lot like John Lennon in that song in that song in particular for some reason. But loved it. Like, the whole synthesizer thing was completely new to me at that point. And kinda especially, like, getting the production synthesizer thing with the regular band guitar, bass, drums kinda situation. I was like, this is cool and went full on deep on learning how how that worked.
Camilo:So for the first few songs, we kinda produced it entirely like composed it, produced it Yeah. Did synthesizers, everything. Everything is either us playing it or a MIDI keyboard. Like, there's no For example, the drums is not because it was just the two of us. Yeah.
Camilo:None of us are a drummer very much.
Tyler:Can not play drums. Maybe have a drum kit.
Megan:Yeah. Exactly. So
Camilo:all that worked like that and really the main thing since since we didn't have a live band to record as a set Mhmm. We were we had extra freedom to go all about in production. So Yeah. You know, hearing the the the recordings with headphones, guess, you know, double money or whatever, the amount of keywords that are in that thing, we cannot have enough people playing them. Because Yeah.
Camilo:It's like, I I would literally have like a a take looping on like 12 bars and just have a layer of keys, 12 bars, next 12 bars, another layer, next 12 bars, another layers, next 12 bars, and so on and so forth until I have like 30 tracks, something. Yeah. Yeah. And it's so many things that you can really pinpoint it to one single thing. It's it's more like everything dwells into just sound.
Tyler:Yeah. It's like, I've really watched my friends kind of kinda do like songwriting in that way, and it's just like, it just keeps adding on adding on adding. Yeah. It's like you could never truly, like, maybe live record this. You could try, but you don't have to cut some things out.
Megan:Right? It would take you a really long time, I would say.
Tyler:Like To
Megan:set up or Exactly.
Camilo:Yeah. It's just it's such an interest interesting section or like at least hard to me to to reach. Because once it's there, can hear it. I was like, oh, it's cool. I can like add this is whatever.
Camilo:But before it's there, you don't really know what it's missing Yeah. Until you know that, oh, I'm missing 40 layers, I guess. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah.
Camilo:Yeah.
Tyler:It's it doesn't have it doesn't have it's volume yet. Right? Right. Well, to kind of can I go into the next? So you guys have performed at a couple shows now.
Tyler:Right? What were you guys performed at Mayhem House? Where else have I heard you guys perform at?
Megan:At Kennesaw, at the Marietta campus.
Camilo:Marietta campus and their gazebo.
Tyler:Stinky Campus. Yep. I'm sorry. Are you performing at the gazebo, Marietta campus, At Grain, we performed. The with the radio pop up
Camilo:show. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's right.
Tyler:So where do you guys have anything anything else lined up in the future to perform at?
Megan:We do. We wanna make a single listening party slash concert in June on a record shop. We will
Tyler:Wait. Which record shop?
Megan:We don't know yet.
Tyler:Oh, I know. Talk to me afterwards. I know a place.
Megan:Okay. We will talk afterwards.
Tyler:Probably talk to Peak Answer as well. Anyways, continue.
Megan:But, yeah, we are working on making, organizing a single release party, and we are actively looking for venues to play at. It has been kind of hard because Yeah. Him and I kind of being, like, the leaders of the band and also not knowing the scene at all. Yeah. Yeah.
Megan:It's being kind of funny to try to find places to play at because we're like, what places? Because we didn't grow up here. And we Yeah. Yeah. Before the band, we didn't really have any friends that were in the, like, in the rock indie scene.
Megan:So we're actually looking for venues that are going to have us.
Tyler:Yeah. There there there's a lot. And even if it's something as crazy as somebody's backyard, like Mayhem House, it's like there's there's scenes out there. And it's like it seems like once you get to know one, you just kinda get to know them all, truly. I mean, it's all about who you know, really.
Tyler:Yeah.
Megan:You get
Tyler:to know more bands and stuff like that. I mean, for the bands I don't even perform and I feel like I could pull together a few just from the people I've met. So, it's like we'll talk about that after. I'll hook you guys up. Don't worry.
Megan:Thank you.
Camilo:The main thing, know, we we've been trying to, for this more like summer season, I guess, to try play more around the state inside Georgia because we've really just been inside this Kennesaw, Marietta area kind of thing.
Tyler:Yeah. It's Atlanta, really. I mean Yeah.
Camilo:Exactly. Yeah. Expand further beyond that. And hopefully for in this time of year, next time comes around, we have a record done, another record done, and do more with that. Hopefully, it'll stay fun.
Tyler:Absolutely. And to kinda like go into kinda one of our last topics, you guys have an album coming out soon. Are you guys excited? We do. Well, I don't know how soon, but like there is an album
Megan:Very soon.
Camilo:Soon,
Tyler:actually. Very soon. How soon are we talking?
Megan:June.
Tyler:June. Okay. Perfect. So this will be out in time. So we'll make a little promo video for that.
Megan:Thank you.
Tyler:Yeah. So tell me about your album. Something Spiral is what it's called. Right? So tell me about your album and, like, how many songs you guys got on it?
Tyler:How long you guys been working on this? Stuff like that.
Camilo:So the album has six songs, I believe. Yes. Yes. It's like, you know, the the whole thing is really kinda like a single track. We try to make it that way.
Camilo:That just divides into a bunch of chunks. It's about forty minutes or so and
Megan:Very synth heavy.
Camilo:Very synth heavy. Yes. Was looking for
Tyler:more into that psychedelic cinematic vibe you guys are going for. Right?
Camilo:Yeah. That's right. Yes, sir. And we really again, that that's the all the music we've been doing since 2020. We really finished that in about 2022, '3 or so as a Yeah.
Megan:I think it was done on 2022.
Camilo:Yeah. Yeah. Like, as in, like, fully mastered, fully everything.
Tyler:Oh, so this album's been done
Camilo:But for a
Tyler:now we're just waiting
Megan:for We just haven't released it yet.
Tyler:Right.
Megan:We released a couple tracks, but we have again like four more tracks, five more tracks Mhmm. To go.
Camilo:And that's the thing, know, we finished that album. We're we're kinda waiting to have the band playing and have like actual bandmates to be playing the album with Yeah. To to get that release it right. But we kept So writing at at the moment, have material to get a bunch of stuff together.
Tyler:Oh, so yeah. You always have a whole
Megan:like panel. Material for the second album is pretty much done.
Tyler:It just Oh, so you have two albums.
Camilo:No. That's like music. There's music, but Yeah.
Megan:There there's plenty, plenty of stuff. It has just taken us a while to release, especially when we moved. Oh my god.
Tyler:There's so much.
Megan:We moved. We didn't we didn't even have a car. We didn't even have anywhere to stay.
Tyler:Were you just Uber everywhere? Like, what?
Megan:No. We would just walk everywhere.
Tyler:Oh, fuck.
Megan:Like, we would walk around. Ken is looking for, like, apartment complexes, just Google Maps walking, constantly walking.
Tyler:Wait. Where were you guys staying when you get was it like a hotel or something?
Megan:In the Extended Stay America. That's right in front of the Oh, yeah. Is that the baseball stadium? The football stadium?
Tyler:No. I know what you're
Megan:talking about. One of the stay yeah. We were staying at that extended stay. As little time as we could.
Tyler:Yeah. It gets expensive. Yeah. Because it
Megan:gets super expensive. And then, like, adapting to, like, the whole culture. So we bay I would say it took us at the very least, like, one whole year to just, like, adapt to being here.
Tyler:What's the what's the biggest culture shock of living in Kennesaw? But it's probably even different if you go somewhere else in The United States. But what's the biggest culture shock? Think about it. Cool.
Camilo:To me, personally, walking thing is not that up north, like not bad at all. You know, the you need a car to go everywhere in this place, very much.
Tyler:Oh, So Oh, you yeah. This is not places in The United States are not very walkable.
Camilo:Right. Right. But that's the thing, like, I lived in Jersey for like a year or two in especially like an area that's very near to like in New York or whatever. So you could get places, you know, you could like get to your
Megan:There was stuff between one place and another.
Camilo:Where like you you need to go to a crossroads, so it was like a, you know, four minute walk and and back, whatever. From where whenever a car breaks down, it's like half an hour walk to get to anything.
Tyler:Oh, yeah.
Camilo:So it's like so that was for me. I don't know. For you?
Megan:For me, I would say is how politically tense conversations get out of nowhere. And everybody's like, woah.
Tyler:We're like Yeah.
Megan:Almost any conversation. For example, one time, I was at a market and I was having these cute earrings that were like mask earrings, masks like face masks.
Tyler:Like, yeah, like masks like kind of like masquerade type mask?
Megan:Yeah. Yeah. And there were a bunch of other earrings that I had, know, like naked black and white baby earrings. Cool. Like, peel earrings, like, all sorts of earrings.
Megan:But the only problem I've gotten has been with, like, the mask earrings because people are like, what are you trying to say with that?
Camilo:What?
Megan:What are you implying? And that had never happened to me before. I'm like, it's just a fun earring. I I've don't had people, like, conservative people get triggered over, like, fashion choices. I just
Tyler:I just this shocks me a little bit.
Camilo:I mean, I think
Tyler:it's obviously my I dress super basic. So if somebody messes with my plain black t shirt, I'm like, I don't even know
Megan:We're gonna have a problem.
Tyler:Yeah. I don't even know where to go here. But I I just feel like it's just crazy. So people just like approach you, be like, are you wearing that?
Megan:But only for with mask earrings. What the heck? I could be wearing, like, a tiny bikini or be full of chains. I could be wearing anything. But if you wear, like, mask earrings or, I don't know, maybe, like, some abortion related earrings, whatever, you're gonna get, like, questioned.
Tyler:Yeah. It's a we live in a very, very, politically intense environment in The United States right
Megan:For sure. And it's not like Colombia is not divided by politics, especially recently, but here in The US is everywhere. The other time, I was ordering an Uber from one place to another because I don't drive. I have really bad driver's society. It's like, I do not drive here.
Tyler:No worries.
Megan:And the guy was like, young lady, did you know that Jesus loves you? And I was like, yep. For sure. I was like Right on. Yeah, I know.
Megan:And he was like, yeah, yeah. Take this pamphlet. And he gave me this pamphlet and it was like a comic book, but it was a homo four week comic book?
Tyler:No. That
Megan:was inside of this room and I was like, okay. Well, thank you, sir.
Tyler:That's interesting. That's very interesting. I I think it's like, I I always like to tell people because I feel like it's like the it's the it's the double edged sword of The United States, is where you have like, so many different like, religions, different beliefs, different cultures, all these things kind of coming together into one. And it's like, on one side it's bad, because it's like, everybody's kind of like trying to one up each other, trying to be like, well, we're the we're the top one. Like, we're like, where we set the standard.
Megan:Yeah.
Tyler:And then but sometimes it's really cool because you kind of see where kind of other The
Megan:diversity, right?
Tyler:Right. You see where people kind of bring together where it's like, okay, like, I'm gonna go try this type of cuisine today or I'm gonna go model off of this blah blah blah.
Megan:That's one of my favorite things about The US by far.
Tyler:You meet so
Megan:many different people. Diversity. Yeah. Yeah. Like, everybody's here and everybody has such an interesting story to tell.
Megan:Yeah. And also people are more open to just talk with you and share their story. People are very friendly here, super friendly.
Tyler:That's shocking. But I see it. Yeah. I'm Interesting. Maybe maybe I need to go that'd a very funny collab video as you guys take me to Columbia.
Camilo:There you go.
Tyler:That'd be kind
Megan:Whenever you want.
Camilo:With a budget,
Tyler:but maybe maybe we'll do that. Well, is there any before I, like, start closing stuff, is there anything have brought up that you guys definitely wanna talk about or do you guys feel how you feel about what we talked about? That was good.
Megan:Do you feel good? Yeah. I feel good too.
Tyler:Yeah. Wanna
Megan:try promoting the merch?
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah.
Megan:Since we have merch.
Camilo:Do you
Tyler:have any merch with you now?
Megan:Yeah. I have plenty my of merch. God. I have even more merch.
Tyler:Did I send you all something about the merch? No. Oh, I actually encourage people to bring merch.
Megan:I just saw the girl from Huellas do it, I was like, that girl is brilliant. I'm a do that too.
Tyler:Oh, that video did great. Oh, let's We
Megan:have that album.
Tyler:Oh, sweet. This looks like the Epcot ball.
Megan:Those are like the first it's like a single compilation That's we my made friend. Yeah. That we're offering on, like, the live gigs. Oh. And they have two singles that we have already released and one sing and one that we haven't released that's gonna be on the album.
Tyler:Nice. Nice.
Megan:Have some how do you call this? Wife beaters?
Camilo:Tank top. There you go.
Tyler:That's a better name. I promise.
Camilo:Cool.
Megan:It's the tank top. What's this? Another tank top. Yeah. Maybe that's not the most radio friendly name.
Megan:I'm so sorry about that.
Tyler:Let's see this. I like this. I like this.
Megan:Thank you. They're screen printed by me.
Tyler:Oh, okay.
Megan:And signed by
Tyler:me as At case you?
Megan:In the printmaking studio.
Tyler:Look at there. Doesn't that look great, y'all? Oh my gosh. You have so many.
Camilo:Hey. Should
Megan:see that's funny. Tote
Tyler:The whole table's gonna be covered. This one's cute. I like this one a lot. Oh my god. Yeah.
Camilo:I Is it
Tyler:you guys?
Megan:Yeah.
Tyler:Are you wearing a Led Zeppelin shirt?
Camilo:I am. That's a great effort detail.
Tyler:I could tell it because it's actually the Ruckus
Megan:Led Zeppelin shirt. Oh my god. Did you
Tyler:ask Led? Did you ask Zeppelin?
Megan:Holy for Film.
Tyler:We'll make a video to promote all this because there's Oh my gosh. There's so many.
Megan:Many things. Like, I I have so many like the same
Tyler:The phone cases in there too?
Megan:No. I have lighters, but I didn't bring them, but they are a hit from live shows.
Tyler:Oh my gosh.
Megan:I have like Just put
Tyler:them in. Just put them in.
Megan:Just put them. I just I just put everything I have. I don't even know what this is. Another one. Okay.
Tyler:Wow. Well, wow. There's probably a merch. Get some merch, y'all. There's plenty of it.
Tyler:The stock is currently on the table, at least a
Megan:portion There is of plenty of stock.
Tyler:Well, is there anything you guys wanna say to the listeners before we before we go? Anything any shout outs you wanna give? Any advice you wanna give? Inspiration?
Camilo:Well, I was thinking shout out to you all for having us. Thank you very much.
Megan:Thank you. You gotta straight up my mouth.
Camilo:Thank you for listening to what all we have say and thank you for everybody that's listening. And and yeah, very excited about talking about the album that's coming up soon. It's been in the making for a while. So it will be out soon and we will be playing it real soon in a bunch of live shows that we'll be announcing as well.
Megan:And thank you so much for everybody that has been supporting us Absolutely. The time that we've been hectic here. Thanks so much for listening. Thank you so much for sharing and for Yeah. Watching.
Megan:Thank you.
Tyler:Yeah. Of course, guys. Well, thank you guys for being here. Truly, another great episode. And I have to take a look at some of this merch.
Tyler:I don't know. Well, thank you guys for listening for this episode of the Creators Table Podcast. If you're looking to find more episodes, please go follow and subscribe to the Creators Table Podcast. Go comment, go like, do what you can. If you're looking to find some of their music or anything like that, it's gonna be in the description of this video.
Tyler:You can just look them up on Spotify, I believe. But other than that, have a great day, guys. Goodbye.
Megan:Bye. Bye, everyone. Thank you.
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