When you are growing as an artist and do it through other people’s projects, your identity may get lost, doing so many things that represent a need, not an expression.
I’ve had plenty of projects under multiple aliases, done all kinds of styles, but now I’m building what I believe has been always my core, no matter the evolution of music. I love my piano, my string arrangements and dreaming about working with choirs and organs. And taking them to other realms through electronic instruments and experimentation.
So this is about putting together the work of a lifetime. In the early process I’ve seen how old ideas, maybe even created in a completely different context, completely fit in with what I may have done a month ago, following this everlasting identity I’ve always had. It’s all about bringing the layers back to basics.
Luckily, I now have a steady engineering job to support myself, so I can focus on making this, the music that I want. I’m always open to work on other projects but I won’t be becoming someone else to do them anymore. The other side of the coin is that my time, energy and resources are limited, but that’s ok. This project is not going to be driven by this anxiety driven releasing era, it’s about creating the soundtrack of places you may need to go. For sure the soundtrack of places I need to go. And for that there won’t be sample libraries. If I have to wait, save for the best string ensemble, and spend a thousand hours working on sheet music, so be it.
Because I intend to optimize processes and recording sessions, it may happen that at some point I’ll have a hundred songs ready to release in the form of a few albums and I will start releasing every week, to say something. If that time arrives, you can be sure that every song was done with all the care possible, that every arrangement took hours and hours to perfect, the recordings were repeated until they were exactly where they needed to be, and the mix was exactly as balanced as it could be. If I release music I will release singles because at some point you have to be in the system, but the albums will be always ready for you to listen from day 1 of their first release in my (future) site.
If you want to be there when I start releasing this music, you know what to do. I intend to document the process through streaming and posting results to the best of my ability and my mental health.