Release single A New Year (What Are You Gonna Do)
NEW SINGLE: A NEW YEAR (What Are You Gonna Do)
2020 is coming to an end, and so is the season of fall. Even darker times ahead. In a world that's falling apart, this season could be a teacher. Life and death seem to greet each other as if old friends, no hard feelings. Letting go, just knowing things will one day flourish again. Maybe it is time for us too to surrender to something greater than ourselves. This song came to me like the wind carrying the leaves, effortlessly. Today on the verge of falling into winter, I give you my new single, the first of my sophomore album, Liberation. Recorded on a vintage eight-track recording machine, it captures, in some magical way, the spirit of a season I hold very dear.
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December 18th 2020
Music
"DON’T DIE WITH YOUR MUSIC STILL INSIDE YOU. GO OUT AND PLAY!"
This album is what happens when, you walk into a studio with the idea for an EP, and you really hit it off with the genius who owns the place. I had never recorded a song before and I only played by myself every once in a while. I had the words and melodies but that was about it. We truly played, in every way possible. Messing around with tubes and tape, real vintage stuff. Without a plan, making up the rules as we went along. Just like we did when we were kids. But then self-doubt strikes…
The record started to sound like a broken record, driving me insane. Plagued by my demons, criticizing every line, every note. I just couldn’t finish the damn thing. Fear is a terrible friend but a convincing one. Putting yourself out there, terrifying! Way back when kings owned the land, there was one fellow who made a career out of this. He was one of the few who dared to speak his mind. A wild card, poking fun at so-called serious problems. Singing, and dancing with trouble like no-one was watching. Playing his part in the drama of life while at the same time seeing straight through it. He seemed like more than a good laugh, however people called him The Fool. Could he have been on to something or was he just mad?
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool,” William Shakespeare wrote around 1600. These words are so profound. They made me realize I was playing to win, trying to impress. I wasn’t really playing at all! I was draining the fun from making music, from life, turning everything into work. I’ve got that down to a science, best believe it. No wonder I was easy prey for doubt. For two years I’ve been fighting my insecurities and gathering my courage. One thing I know for sure now: for as long as I’m alive, I will keep tearing down the walls to come to that place of innocence again. That special place where you spend all of your time playing. That one place where being a fool is the coolest you can be. Today I can proudly say: I will not die with my music still inside me. I’ve got to go out and play!