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1. Thank you very much for your time! Before we introduce your new release to our readers – what kind of drink would you recommend to sip on while they listen to your new music?
First off. Thank you for having me. A glass of red babe, With a water back. That what I’m drinking making it.
2. Please give us an update about – new single, new album, tour dates, new videos?!
The new album is called “Life of Pi.” It’s a complete departure from my last album. Where my last album “The Makings of an Outcast” is songs about my story. The new album “Life of Pi” is songs about my faith.
Not just faith in any one religion but faith in different aspects of my life. Faith in the love I have with my partner. Faith in myself. Faith in my music. Faith In my artistry. Faith in letting go. Faith I will overcome.
I play with religious and spiritual elements through the production to tell the story. Every song is even inspired by a different major arcana Tarot Card. Spanning the entire fools journey.
I title of the album and perspective was inspired by the book “The Life of Pi.” But also because no matter what, just like pi, (just like the beat) life goes on.
3. We live in times of many conspiracy theories. Which, harmless, theory would you wish were true? (For example Dinos living inside Earth or E.T. living in a home in California)
I think the North Pole has a whole government system and hidden operations of some sort. Something that they’re hiding up there that they don’t want us to see. I don’t know what it is…. But there’s something there.
Also I think the opioid epidemic. How the government is really behind getting people hooked on things just so they can then cure them. Trust me people they want to keep you dumb, unhealthy, and poor.
4. What fashion style or brand would best describe your music?
My music is your like favorite shirt. You would wear it every day if you could.
5. Tell us more about your songs! Topics! Message!?
We have 22 songs on this album. They represent the fools journey through the major arcana. Which retrospectively represents all of our journey’s in life.
We open the album with “Clarity”. Clarity is a feeling of freedom. When you can stop listening to what the world at large is saying to you, and you trust (have faith in) that voice in your own head over anything else. It’s my faith in my own inner voice.
Following clarity is my introduction song,
“The Artist.” It’s a pop song bragging about how I’m proud of my artistry, and my journey. Because my story is so unique and I fought so hard for it. I have so much love for it.
Up next is the first single off the album, Breathing. Before the album was called “Life of Pi,” I was just going to release an electronic album of beats and call it “pi.” But when I started singing over the beats I breathed life into these songs. My breath is my anchor. As someone who’s diagnosed with anxiety, breath work, yoga, running, and singing have saved my life. It’s a song in ode to that.
The next song is “We Got Wings.” A soft rock song that was inspired by a taxi driver in Miami. My partner and I just left a sex party at like 7 in the morning. We were a little tired you could imagine. But our taxi driver was wide awake. His energy vibrated so high. I asked him where he was from and he said “heaven.” And then he said something that changed me forever he said, “don’t worry yall, we could never fall we got wings.”to this day, that’s my response to people when they ask me where I’m from.
Following comes “Winds of Change.” Because every pair of wings needs a good gust of wind. “Winds of Change” is a song about my faith that the only constant in life is change. And how we’re always meant to changes. My faith that you can’t fight the waves as they come but you gotta learn to surf.
From Winds of Change, we go right into Glory. Glory is a song for the haters lol. It’s a song of how I have faith that I’ll make it, regardless of whatever or what little support I had. Because I saw it for me, even when no one else did. Even when everyone else paid me dust, and I was homeless with nothing but a guitar. I Saw it for me.
As a pallet cleanser the next song is “Thicker Than Thieves.” A love song I wrote for my partner when we were living in Hawaii. It’s the second single for the album. It’s a song of my faith in our love.
“Whole Damn Vibe” is next. I wrote this song three albums ago, and I’m putting a new spin on it. Remastering it and making it stronger than the older version was. It’s a song I wrote when I needed to inspire confidence in myself. It’s a song dedicated to my faith in myself. It’s my theme song, it’s my victory song.
We start to get a little tender with the next song. “The Inner Child,” is a song dedicated to my younger self. How I believe in the inner healing work in order to be the man I am today.
“Ishmael” is a song dedicated to my fans, family, and friends. All the people in my life who supported me and helped me on my journey. All the people who still believe in me. The people who are the lights of my life.
We are now half way through the album with the title track. “The Life of Pi.” A song about conquering your inner fear. My faith that even when you’re looking the tiger in the eye you can’t back down.
Starting the B side of the record we have Return to Love. I wrote this song as a message for Trump. And I’ll just leave that at that.
Next is “White Rabbit.” A song about drugs frankly. My belief that there are no bad drugs, only bad circumstances.
“To Kill a King” is next. It’s the Next single on the album. It’s a song about my own mortality. My understanding as an artist that even though I’m dead, my art will live on past my time. And that’s what makes me a successful artist. The understanding I tried to make this world a better place in whatever way I could, while I could.
“Classic Cartoons” is probably the most sentimental song on the album. It’s a song I wrote for my childhood best friend who I’m not friends with anymore. And although we’re not friends anymore, how I believe those times that we were important and sacred. How even though we’re not friends anymore I still believe in her.
As another pallet cleanser, to pick us up from the sad boy moment. The next song is “Circuit Sex (control my body). A song about how I love to dance and fuck on a dance floor. Made with a tradition gay circuit party beat but with a killer shredded guitar solo.
The next song is “Black Mustang.” It’s a song about the time I broke into Lana Del Rey’s house. When I was a young man, my mentor told me to reach out to someone that could help my music career. So I reached out to Lana Del Rey. However I wanted her to read my letter, I didn’t want it to just end up in her fan mail. So long story short I broke into her house and dropped off 10 letters around the house. And I even left on on her vintage white mustang our front. And to this day I believe her song “White Mustang” is an answer to my letter. So my song “Black Mustang” is going to be an answer to her song. I’m basically writing her back finally lol.
Following that is my club banger “Drink Some Water.” This is a song dedicated to the people at pride hold the “God hates F-G’s” signs. How I believe they need to cool off and drink some water. How I believe love is and will always be more powerful than hate.
Following this song is the last single off the album. “How to Get to Heaven from Daytona.” Is a rock song I wrote to my old mentor. It’s a song about how you can find heaven from anywhere. It doesn’t matter where you are. Heaven can always be a place on earth.
We come into then “Heat.” A song dedicated to sweating, how I believe movement is medicine. I needed a song to represent the element of fire. And Heat came no naturally
“Shepherd” is a song about I believe we lead by example. How I believe we’re all teachers for each other. How we’re all just walking each other home. And it’s my vow that I’ll do my best to help people walk home in whatever way I can. In my contribution it’s in my music. Helping people walk home with a little more pep in their step.
And we finish the album with “Nirvana.” We’re reached the stage of completion. We’re reached all the enlightenment that pi can offer. It’s my believe that I will always keep learning and you really can’t find Nirvana from going looking for it. True contentment can’t be found from
Anywhere but within. The man who traveled to the top of the mountain to ask the enlightened monk how to reach enlightenment was given the answer, “if you have to ask, you will never know.”
And that’s my album “Life of Pi.”
Song- Associated Tarot Card
Clarity – The Fool
The Artist- The Magician
Breathing – The High Priestess
We Got Wings – The Empress
Winds of Change – The Emperor
Glory- The Hierophant
Thicker Than Thieves – The Lovers
Whole Damn Vibe- The Chariot
Inner Child – Strength
Ishmael – The Hermit
The Life Of Pi- Wheel of Fortune
Return To Love – Justice
White Rabbit – The Hanged Man
To Kill A King – Death
Classic Cartoons – Temperance
Circuit Sex (control my body) -The Devil
Black Mustang – The Tower
Drink Some Water – The Star
How to Get to Heaven From Daytona – the Moon
Heat – The Sun
Shepherd- Judgment
Nirvana- The World