For Boston started on a whim, to be honest. It was the 17th of February and my calendar app kept pinging me: First, about a solar eclipse. Then, I learned that it was Lunar New Year. Next, it let me know that Ramadan was just beginning. Finally, I got a notification letting me know it was Fat Tuesday, meaning the day before Lent. I was left thinking about how it symbolically felt like a really important day and began to feel a desire to use it as a reason to take a risk. See, I’d started toying around with recording my own vocals a day prior and generally had been reflecting on advice from others to take a “Leap of Faith” regarding the next step in my adult life: So that morning, it all just clicked. I had to record an album!

Despite never having written or recorded a song of my own before, I had years of experience creating remixes and pop instrumentals. I gave myself permission to turn any doubt / overthinking off and use those musical skills with my own voice for the first time, just to see what I could come up with. As a remix lover, covers felt like they’d work well for this new process, and so it was decided: I would take the length of Lent to record and produce the album and cut myself off at Easter. As I write this on the day after Easter, the album is complete and has been sent to distribution. It’s been the most personally intense period of introspection and inner work I’ve ever lived, and I got a pretty cool album out of it. Hope you’ll take a listen when its out on May 1st.