Meeting with my management family is always the highlight of my week, as much as all their little surprise affectionate cheer-up texts and emails are inspiring blessings that lighten my days. If I ever felt ‘useless’ for over a year, I don’t have that impression anymore, especially since Jennie called me to lovingly shake me up after feeling completely stunted by Mikko’s fast-paced approach at first. I’m “unfreezing” like the band members would say, which is great news considering that I’m getting busier and busier with all the details regarding my upcoming project’s release campaign. It’s the reason why I’m not that sad about Mikko returning home for 3 weeks today. It would have been too much intense work for me to have to deal with 2 extensive artistic endeavors at the same time and would have been dangerously detrimental to both. So the projection schedule Jeff and I have done earlier this year comes as incredibly handy right now, as it will allow me to have a well-needed break from the actual studio production, which will offer me a beneficial perspective on what we have done up to that point, while granting me the proper time to entirely dedicate myself to all the necessary elements I have to provide in order to honor everybody’s dedication towards the fantastic musical universe Ben, Momoka and I have given life to.

It was pretty funny when the team members asked me if I would be open to exploring the idea of editing the identified single amongst the project’s songs for radio purposes. We all circled back to Mikko’s 3-minute experiments’ inside jokes we have together, ever since he arrived at the studio. Any kind of art alteration is a very touchy subject to talk about, especially with me. I don’t know about other artists, but for me, alteration is not a dirty word as long as the newly crafted incarnation has a soul of its own. If not, there’s no comprise, and that’s what I’m so grateful for regarding my management team; artistic integrity is at the very center of their preoccupations, therefore I know that any of their questions regarding art’s commercialization is a well-thought and well-considered one. No matter what it involves or might imply, it’s always about serving the project’s best interest, along with being impactful and rewarding for it all. And that’s what I’m ultimately looking for; reaching out to the people it may resonate with and commune with them. That’s my sole interest and I’m willing to do whatever is in my capacity and beyond to make it happen.

That’s why our weekly rendezvous is so inspiring for me, Jeff, and Miss Isabel. Ideas are continuously bubbling up and giving birth to other avenues to be explored collectively, which sets everything on a perpetual ongoing movement. That’s exactly what we want, which is to have our enthusiastic nature being fed with a larger spectrum of conceptual ideas, as it’s through those constant cogitations and their soon-after tangible incarnations that every one of those abstractions made real can otherwise give room to impossible upcoming opportunities. We always had a fierce and resilient will, and with everything we have assembled over the years – from our professional studios to the merch company, multimedia department, film production facility, up to the recent vinyl manufacture – we have access to every possible “tool” enabling to make whatever left-field concept a reality. We were only missing a dedicated team believing in us enough to guide us in the right direction, which we now have… in the family we found.

One thing is for sure, having 2 brains is pretty useful right now. 🙂