The other day there was a question asked in a group for musicians. What’s the higher purpose of your music? Someone like Elizabeth Gilbert, whose book Big Magic I adore, would take issues with that statement. She encourages creatives to do it simply for the fun of it. Don’t overburden yourself …
The venerable British electro-pop duo Pet Shop Boys was one of the first English-speaking musical act that I was exposed to. “It’s a Sin” was the very first song (I had no idea that it was about rebelling against religious boarding school) that came into my orbit (probably on a mixtape …
Predictably, the end and beginning of a year is a time of reflection. A lot can happen in a year. In my 2016, here are some of the things I went through with my artistic pursuit. I started releasing singles as Aristotle’s Hope. I released two extended songs, “If I …
When I chose to write a song cycle to ChangeDirection.org‘s Five Signs of Suffering, I faced a few questions. One of them was about what point of view I was going to write from. I took on the project because five seemed a good number and the subject matter was dear …
I wrote “Can You Love a Landmine” in March 2016, and played it as an acoustic rock song at open mics a few times. One of the requirements I have for any Aristotle’s Hope songs is that I must be able to play and sing it at the same time, and …