Celebration Of Life!!! My New Single Is Out
That’s it, after what felt like forever, the first single from the new upcoming project I gave life to with Ben and Momoka, called “Kimiyo”, is out now! It’s quite meaningful to me.
Every time I release a new creative project or a new album, there’s always a profound mix of exaltation and emptiness involved. Exaltation, because I’ve been so utterly impatient to share it with you all, and emptiness because I absolutely offered everything I had emotionally during its gestation. It’s particularly true for “Kimiyo”, but for the first time since I have had the privilege of sharing my music with you, I felt a profound sense of accomplishment. It’s not that I’ve never been overly happy regarding my achievements before. But given the context by which the project has been conceived and nurtured, it makes me particularly proud. I’m proud of what Ben, Momoka, and I had the privilege to explore, dive after dive after dive. We’re gratefully blessed to have been able to become the vivid sensations we discovered within ourselves and immensely thankful to have been able to express those intimate emotions in such a genuine kind of way.
I’m also proud for not letting myself be submerged by the distressing darkness that kept on calling my broken heart and helpless soul to surrender to its isolating midst. “Kimiyo” took place in a difficult period for me. Not only was I still unable to use my voice following my surgery, I also didn’t know if I’d ever sing again, and MacKaye’s cancer was progressing regardless of all the chemotherapy and all the alternative treatments he was undertaking daily. I was physically exhausted, mentally worn out, and spiritually numb. I didn’t recognize myself, nor did my friends. Working on that very special project became my lifeline. Momoka became my inner voice. Ben became my musical translator. And as much as I wanted to deny the implacable reality I was in or to push back what was medically inevitable, I knew it would be the last project I would ever work on with MacKaye at my side. Therefore, the “word” associated with “Kimiyo” was a clear image of a pivotal moment in time, a slow frame-by-frame type of motion stream where everything looks in suspension or standing still, but where a defining “scene” is being lived. It’s something so pure and genuine that it would design almost every upcoming step forward, and it did, more than I could ever imagine.
Every time I release a new creative project or a new album, there’s always a profound mix of exaltation and emptiness involved. Exaltation, because I’ve been so utterly impatient to share it with you all, and emptiness because I absolutely offered everything I had emotionally during its gestation. It’s particularly true for “Kimiyo”, but for the first time since I have had the privilege of sharing my music with you, I felt a profound sense of accomplishment. It’s not that I’ve never been overly happy regarding my achievements before. But given the context by which the project has been conceived and nurtured, it makes me particularly proud. I’m proud of what Ben, Momoka, and I had the privilege to explore, dive after dive after dive. We’re gratefully blessed to have been able to become the vivid sensations we discovered within ourselves and immensely thankful to have been able to express those intimate emotions in such a genuine kind of way.
I’m also proud for not letting myself be submerged by the distressing darkness that kept on calling my broken heart and helpless soul to surrender to its isolating midst. “Kimiyo” took place in a difficult period for me. Not only was I still unable to use my voice following my surgery, I also didn’t know if I’d ever sing again, and MacKaye’s cancer was progressing regardless of all the chemotherapy and all the alternative treatments he was undertaking daily. I was physically exhausted, mentally worn out, and spiritually numb. I didn’t recognize myself, nor did my friends. Working on that very special project became my lifeline. Momoka became my inner voice. Ben became my musical translator. And as much as I wanted to deny the implacable reality I was in or to push back what was medically inevitable, I knew it would be the last project I would ever work on with MacKaye at my side. Therefore, the “word” associated with “Kimiyo” was a clear image of a pivotal moment in time, a slow frame-by-frame type of motion stream where everything looks in suspension or standing still, but where a defining “scene” is being lived. It’s something so pure and genuine that it would design almost every upcoming step forward, and it did, more than I could ever imagine.
Being such a personal project, I believe that’s the reason why “Kimiyo” is such a vibrant testimony of a journey, of its people, of someone that was my entire universe, while also being a virgin canvas disposed to display the most radiating of all colors that new voyage will be generously offering me and inspire to me, with every blooming shine I will discover along the way. My heart is for “Kimiyo” to lead you to experience your personal travel, one that will be filled with the same measure of blissful ecstasy and uplift as it is for me.
