Artistic Conception - How the seed of a creation will always REMAIN its essence - 14 AUGUST 2025 - PARIS, FRANCE

After spending my 20s as a producer/songwriter/side-man for other artists, I recently wrapped production on my first solo album. Granted, all prior musical pursuits had given me some foundational perspective on these topics, but really this was the first time I as a mature adult was in a position to invest the entirety of a somewhat well-rounded individual into a piece of art - and to do so with as much authenticity as I could carry.

For the purposes of this essay, I want to focus on the moment I first listened through all final productions at Belairstudio, Rome, Italy, in January of this year. The album was divided 70/30 for me. Of the 10 songs on the album, I could immediately feel the 7 songs which came from undeniably real, passionate, heartbroken, inspired moments. Similarly, I felt the contrast to the 3 songs that objectively had nothing wrong with them, but where the seed came from something slightly closer to perspiration rather than a melody whispered across from a parallel world [please see legends from Tom Waits to Dylan, Cohen, Cave all refer to the same experience].

I think it’s a concept that can be expanded to life. Whether true or not, I’ve begun to hold the belief that almost anything in life; friendships, relationships, any decision made from where to live to what job to take, carries with it the energy that exists in its conception, that is either pure/aligned/inspired, or less so, and can never be separated from the end manifestation.

To hear the 3 songs that weren’t as aligned was not a problem per se; I still love them and am proud of them, contributing to a well rounded body of work and artistic statement. But the observation that day, that was less cerebral as opposed to physical in the pit of my stomach / root chakra, was one that instilled a resolve to pay even more attention to these moments of ‘timeline conception’. To have the right intention in the beginnings of things - to not rush life - to be patient enough to let life talk to you, give you the song when you’re meant to receive the song, the friend when you need that particular friend, the right love when it’s aligned, and all other things of worldly and spiritual sustenance, in time, unforced, and with the right seed.