This has been a long time coming... My new album ‘The Living World’s Demands’ is coming out on November 4th, and the first single “Sensations” is out now! Check out the link in my bio to hear the song, to pre-order the full-length album, and to buy tickets to an upcoming performance. More concerts TBA soon! ... 🔹⚫👁️⚫🔹 ... [CW: suicidal ideation] ... This song is both about suicidal ideation, something I’ve dealt with for most of my life as a conscious being, and also more broadly about the effect of media on our psyches and how we are so attracted to surrounding ourselves by images and stories of other people—fictional and non-fictional—through all forms of media. While it’s normal to be influenced by people around us, we are living in a dangerous cultural moment in which we are able to watch others’ lives ad nauseum, which pulls us (consciously or not) into a tide of leeching off of the personal lives of people featured in the content we consume to break up either a lack of interesting emotional landscape in our own lives or as an avoidance mechanism to one’s own life experiences, emotions, and trauma. ... 🔹⚫👁️⚫🔹 ... I wrote this song when I was feeling particularly vulnerable to this phenomenon—not really sure of what I should expect of myself, I have compared myself to people who exist on screens. (Are these stories true or made up?) With the amount of media online that is supposed to represent “real life” or something “authentic” but is truly contrived, edited, produced, and/or scripted, it’s dangerous to compare ourselves to this vision of what we cannot ever be. It can prevent us from becoming our authentic selves. ... . . . Animation & album art by @phoebedigital @leavingrecords / @phantom.limb #newmusic #releaseday #experimentalmusic #electronicmusic #moodysong #puremoods #indianmusic #drama #sitar #ballad #ambient #ambientsong #newtrack #albumrelease #albumannouncement #eclecticmusic