Building my Indoor Session Took me 6 Months - Epixode

Epixode has outlined the process he had to get through to create his virtual performance show, the "Indorrs Session".

The artiste created the session as a uniform of expression to stand out amongst other artists.

As a show which serves as a means for the act to entertain his fans with different renditions of his songs, Epixode explained his show is meant to showcase the vocal range of his talent.

"Basically, Indoor sessions just like the name suggests is me having different renditions of my songs, if not old songs, unreleased songs, or even freestyles of some of my songs indoor."

"It’s a set created indoors to give the fans a different feel of the regular song they hear on the record. Personally, it’s just for me but I don’t know if later on, I will get to invite musicians not necessarily artists who sing but like guitarists, instrumentalists to have you know different renditions of different songs."

He further revealed that the whole set took him 6 months to build because he used the natural setting of his own home to make it happen.

When asked how it all came together in his head, he said:

"I can’t really explain how the set came about but it’s just me trying to fix things in my space. It’s actually one of my guestrooms in my house that I had to transform to a set and I ended up doing everything."

"Now, you can see plants around, it’s just to give it a natural feel. I love plants and in my house, I have so many plants. Putting the set together was not difficult. I only wanted to have a space different from what people see. You can bear with me that most of these freestyle sessions or virtual kind of performances that we see is basically the color type with just a microphone hanging somewhere and somebody singing. If you watch from the set.

"I am trying to sell every part of me. We have my paintings in the background, the teddy bear is just for balance in the sense that if a kid should watch it, definitely they will identify one particular thing that they would like. That teddy bear is for my daughter so I have a feel of her around me."

"I was an artiste, look beyond and I always say that anything I create is not for me but for the next generation to also get to see the kind of legacy that we were leaving because if I hadn’t granted an interview to tell people I created the set, it would just be the regular thing that everybody is doing but I am looking out of the box that as a person, ‘what if I have to pay somebody thousands of Cedis to just create a set for me?’ Coz it looks good." He explained. 

"It’s simple, Google is our friend, YouTube is our friend why don’t I just go on there and find things that will make stuff easier. I can’t go and pay for these red lights and all of that. Or I can’t buy this HMI light for thousands of cedis. All the things you see in there are DIY (Do It Yourself)’s that I created myself even the lights. it was just a normal saucepan, a led tube and then I had to attach a microphone stand."

"Just building this Indoor session took me about 6 months because it was around the Covid-19 time last year that I decided that if we were not going out anymore, to have these big shoes and all of that, what can I do to entertain myself and my fans."

"And that’s how come I was able to put these things together. I am an independent artiste without a label so if I am not getting paid for shows, then it means that I can’t have enough money to invest in some of this equipment and you will be amazed if I told you that this 'Indoor Sessions' is strictly shot from a phone. Even though I have a camera, I am trying to make it as low cost as possible and I end up editing it myself. So it’s just me, one-man soldier trying to put my work out there." He concluded.