LOCALIZING…..

hey friends, Alexander here.

I've been making music privately, or at most, amongst my closest friends, for about five years. I can hardly reflect on the magnitude of change I've been witness to, both inward and out. Dead philosophies and shed images, axis tilts and one long, present moment. Can’t say I haven't left the ground from time to time, but some kind of dense love found anchor in me. Making music has been a God and a guide, and a friend who listens.

I grew up being a loving consumer of music, but I was never instinctually musical. I absorbed so much music in my adolescence, and made lasting, truthful connections to many artists and songs, but my creative voice was not an outward thing. Or really all that much of an inward thing. Perhaps it never seemed real to me. That changed around 2018, when I met Cole, who was actively writing and producing his own music, which I found fascinating. Shortly thereafter, our worlds exploded in every direction.

A year of government-mandated isolation, a house filled with utter friendship, spiritual exodus, and relentless psychotropia can do a number on twenty-plus years of conditioning. One fruitful takeaway for me was to avoid seeking answers, when able, and the power of acceptance is stronger than the suffering of resistance. These, and that making music is a cheat code to nibbana.

I intend to take a lot of dives through this column, so I'll leave it there.

but I have two songs that will be coming out very soon!

One of them is called ‘Making Moss’ and the other is ‘Mal’ta Boy’. I may make a post about them at length in the future.

until then,

Alexander