Once I had graduated my masters program in 2023, the UK gov granted me two additional years to live and work in the uk, and I decided I was going to take advantage of those two years to continue learning through experience and exploring as much of europe as I could before I return to North America. It was two years of practicing and traveling, and in that time I made a lot of new friends and connections in the world through not just my music, but theirs, and working on theirs. I learned a ton. I had also seen a lot of the world in a time when things were by no means stable politically or economically anywhere, and it inspired me to create this EP, "False Flag Policy." The idea was that I felt super politically inspired, much as we all do in our mid-twenties. I felt inspired to make something that forces all of us to look inwards at what kind of world we've created without having any kind of innate bias. I wanted the political messaging to be extremely open and interpretable so no matter what you believe, my point will get across, or at least one can form their own meaning from it. That was the idea at least, I can only hope it worked as intended. The other goal with this record was to prove what more I've learned even since my studies, and my ability to continue to grow rapidly even without structure. Furthermore, I approach this record with a lot of experimental techniques, and worked closely with Mastering Engineer Josh Shroeder and friends/colleagues Riccardo Adriana and Danylo Vaskov to make as visceral and unique of an experience as I could with this record. Beyond extensive traveling and trying to live my youth to its fullest, this project and the studies necessary to complete it largely consumed my later half of 2024 and first half of 2025.
About Being Human
I Control the Weather
I Control the Weather is a song that takes a direct stab at authoritarianism and modern governments. It uses direct references to popular conspiracy theories to criticize the oligarchal and surveillance-based nature of modern capitalism whilst making efforts to avoid taking any direct political stances and avoid bias.
Burn the Earth (ft. Jacques)
Burn the Earth is as its name would suggest, a song about the collective anger of societies being pressured by poor governing, a crumbling global economy, and a depressive and hostile social culture pushing people to the point that they'd unironically rather watch the world burn than face the future we've created for ourselves. This song was produced in collaboration with producers and engineers Riccardo Adriani (Jacques) and Danylo Vaskov in order to create as unique and visceral of an experience as possible with this song.
Impossible
Impossible was the first song recorded on this record. It plays at the idea of wage-slavery, and how the vast majority of people are currently forced to live paycheck-to-paycheck, and while modern technology allows us all to have things and better quality of lives than our ancestors, most of us only have access to the lower-end quality of life, and no more than that. No time or money for off-time or vacations, and this is by design. Not only is this by design, but we as the people and the consumers have unwillingly contributed to our own downfall by playing into the Red vs. Blue game, when in reality we're all two sides of the same coin. This song largely inspired me to create the rest of the EP at all.
