Patron Hunt

Grissini project is Roman. They look like a Grissini. You know, those thin Italian bread-sticks. The irony is such that Roman is neither Italian nor a snack. Rather than that, Roman is a passionate organist and pianist, half Swedish, half French, classically trained and quite into animes, games and films. Roman founded the Grissini in December 2010. First as a ”one-man band”. Felt kinda lonely practicing organ alone in his dark church. Pianist is quite a lonely job as well. Roman met Lilou first at a concert before realizing they’re studying in the same school. Lilou was singing Allegri’s Misere, and Roman’s heart stopped when Lilou reached that famous high c in the high register. That was the starting point of a very long friendship and musical collaboration. Roman met Bastien in the meantime in the corridor of the conservatoire. A solid guy that you can always count on. Those kind of people you’re glad to have in your life. At that time Roman was playing with two violinists instead of a cellist. At some point Roman thought, ”we just miss a cellist to be a classical piano trio”. And there arrived Marwane in 2016. She’s the loveliest person in the world. Her energy and kindness, aside being an exceptional cellist, links all their character and artistic traits together, which makes the Grissini something so special in Roman’s life. Today, the Grissini Project is a project with many identities and constellations. A project, an idea, rather than a trio, a quartet, an organ, nor an orchestra. That was Roman’s goal and the idea remains the same: to make music like you can’t hear it anywhere else. Because YouTube money sucks. What YouTube money actually? Ok let’s try to be politically correct. This is rather serious subject. At the golden age of streaming and numeric music, it’s difficult for artists of our kind to find a stable economic model. It’s an extremely unsafe career path. On the 4th of December 2020, our Howl’s Moving Castle video, the biggest of the Grissini YouTube channel with 23+ millions views, got striked from nowhere by a rather obscur Japanese rights holding company who deleted the video despite the fact the video was licensed on Roman’s behalf and clean of all copyright infringements. In a blink of an eye and with no warning, the locomotive video of the Grissini YouTube channel disappeared, and Roman’s financial capacity for the project with it. Roman has always been financing the videos from the Grissini earnings and from their very own pocket. Roman is proud of that. Proud to be independent and self-financed. However as for now the costs of production of the videos always exceed the earnings the videos are generating. And Roman’s not even talking about larger productions like The Witcher 3 which cost Roman usually around 4.000 or 10.000. The production cost of the videos are constantly rising because Roman also wants to bring incredible content. In the meantime, the incomes from YouTube videos are decreasing. YouTube unfortunately gives privileges to quantity instead of quality. Each video represents dozens to hundreds hours of work: Transcription, arrangement, rehearsals, recording, editing, mastering, filming, and so on. Roman is trying to increase the pace a bit but that’s rather difficult especially since Roman is finishing their master degree as a classical pianist on the side. One or two videos a month is the actual pace. YouTube prefers quantity over quality. A Patreon campaign is therefore an evident solution and also a probably better way to engage with those who really support the Grissini: You. Roman is boiling with dozens of project and ideas inside their mind and they can only see exciting new artistic fields to explore with the Grissini Project. You can be part of that story

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