hey
for context on this post, listen to my new album (mountains) here!
if you decide to, i hope you find something you like in it.
ok, time to talk about the album, let’s go back to 2023.
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nov. 2023 — “#idea”
i can vividly remember when i started to want to make this album, i made a song called “you are eternal, you are light”. a 6 minute track that was dense in texture, weird in translation, and unreal in meaning.
i released it, didn’t think much of it, and then deleted it from my pages.
i deleted it for a good reason. i had a plan for the song, i wanted to fit in into a greater piece of work, i just didnt know what yet. i spent the rest of the year trying to fit it into my third record titled “god bless jonathan walsh”
but it wasn’t right to have the song in the context of such a graceful album. it needed an environment around it that agreed with the song.
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apr. 2024 — “what?”
this month was pretty wild. i was working a ton, which was draining, but it was also just the way life goes.
i remember kendrick dropped “euphoria”, which took absolutely everyone by surprise.
but to be completely honest, i also had loss in my family. grief hit me pretty hard, i wasn’t sure what to do, this was the first time i was fully alive and conscious for something like this, i didn’t know what happened, i didn’t feel in the loop,
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nothing felt real.
so what do i do about it? …
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jun. 2024 — “lifeblood”
…i made something.
the only thing i knew how to do when i felt trapped. the last time i felt something that intense was in 2021; i did the same exact thing under the same exact name. i spent sleepless nights trying to express how i was feeling, and i did it perfectly. this piece of work defines an entire era for me, it’s something of a memorial piece. and i know that you’re asking,
“what does this have to do with (mountains)?”
remember the song i was talking about? i wanted to put it into this piece of work, right at the start! but i physically couldn’t. i felt like putting something so dark right in the beginning didn’t kinder to my vision.
i wanted this to be music for a wake, not music about being at a wake.
that comes later.
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sept. 2024 — (foundation)
one vacation full of music for the album later…
loss strikes again. grief hits the hardest it ever has.
but this time; i didn’t fully lose myself. i had someone to go to. i had foundation.
in the foundation, i discovered what (mountains) was truly about.
it couldn’t be defined in one word,
it wasn’t fully about grief,
it wasn’t fully about vacation,
it wasn’t fully about love,
it wasn’t about any specific event.
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it was about
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it was about me.
fully unintentionally, i made an album about me. i made an album about my perspective, going through what the year had in store for me, as the year went on. i was completely oblivious to what i had done. but i realized.
song 1 was made in january,
song 2 was made in february,
song 3 in march,
4 in april,
etc……..
but there was a gap in the track listing between brighton and sean maguire.
i knew i wanted the album to end with the ladder, and the former had to stay where it was. and then it hit me.
you are eternal, you are light.
it fit perfectly.
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