![]() ![]() It was comforting to know it would exist in that same form of records, and not in online spaces then. but over time we agreed to put it out on vinyl only. I can’t remember how but a label owner in Sweden heard it and wanted to put it out. I recorded the Berlin EP on a trip back to California in an old A-frame house with some dear friends. The people’s energy there felt more akin to mine too. It informed me a lot, as a person, and as an artist. It was not as much about the music, as the freedom of expression. I leaned in to touch it all, and found myself in an underground club scene that felt strangely resonant. The depth of experience and shadow I hadn’t touched. My travels took me to Berlin, in a deep winter. To surf and lean more into my own spiritual practices. I left, disenchanted, but clear, that I would make music only from my heart, and didn’t really need others to hear it. I dabbled in that world, of the music industry and moving up… then I realized it wasn’t for me. the way I grew up, the way I saw and experience the world. One that I didn’t totally understand, but it expanded my mind a lot. I would leave my island in Australia and go back and forth to LA with support from patrons that wanted me to share my work with me. they invited me to LA to play for some people. I was playing music in a hallway of a hotel in Costa Rica to some new friends and someone saw me there. Writing, shaping song and sound, learning to use my own voice. I started creating from that place, before I left home, and among my travels. I think I had decided even then that I wanted to give myself to music. Then found my own genres… grunge, ambient, and the most delicate of artists, Jeff Buckley when I was 15 or so. I got moved by the folk and experimental music of the 60s and 70s through all that vinyl. I saved money to travel the world as a teenager, left home at 17 after school. Music and the sea have defined my life ever since. I would visit it many times a day and night, wake and walk to surf as my first movements and return as last moments of every day. I have always had a very deep connection with the sea. I chose what to listen to from the covers mostly, and found my dad’s old guitars to strum. The vinyl felt big and beautiful in my hands. I feel in love with music through my dad’s record collection. We grew our own food, had goats for milk and chickens for eggs. My mum was a yoga teacher, my dad a sustainable planner, and surfer. ![]()
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