Orion

First and foremost, thank you for listening to “Yellow.” I started campaigning my songs on Musosoup, trying my best to reach a broader audience and to get my single out there the best I can. On the platform, there are: music curators, instagram influencers, and music websites. I got a total of 45 offers. (I pay to have my music reviewed and featured but I don’t have to do the networking part.) I could only accept so many because the money starts to add up after a little bit. The response was much higher than I expected. I’ve had some amazing reviews and features and it’s been an honor to have. Please continue to share and support “Yellow” as it continues to grow.

“Orion” is my next single. The artwork is done by Alycia Robb again and her incredible work will represent my song. It’s a space themed song that explores the ideas of loneliness and destiny. “Orion” was born from a time when I was reaching out for collaborations and got into the songwriting idea process before the collaboration was stopped. I was feeling inspired during that moment, excited to do a collaboration, and ended up making a lot of ideas and lyrics. This was one of the lines that I felt had a lot of promise, “Orion lost his belt”. After that, I kept writing about what that would mean and how it would influence earth, especially before the technology age. The song came very naturally. I made an ambient piano track and layered it with other electronic sounds. I honestly stripped off some of those layers because I made too much and the melody got lost in it. I did struggle a little with the bridge but it just took isolating the part and reflecting on what I really wanted to say here. It’s a song that didn’t require a lot of work and felt like it wrote itself.

I’m still trying to figure out my space as an artist. The positive reception I had on “Yellow” is guiding me to focus on experimental songs and trying more with “experimental memoirs” (I’m not sure what else to call this genre I’m in.) Not that I would only make lyrics based on non-fiction but creating a space that feels like entering something special to me or entering my perspective. And I love the idea of making more songs like “Yellow”, I already have a couple more ready to share. “Orion” is a marriage between my style and a typical singer-songwriter piece. I’ll see what the reception is on this. However, I’m also all about making the songs that come to me and not transforming them into something they aren’t. But I also would like to make music that I’m good at and people enjoy. “Yellow” felt like I was making a space for myself that not many people try. I hope that as I continue to put out music that the direction will come clearer. Speaking of loss of direction, “Orion” comes out Saturday 11th and hope you give it a listen.