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The Making of “Looking for a Dream” – Track #5
“The Range of Light” is the album’s conclusion, which brings about some optimism and celebrates beauty. During his numerous walks in the Sierra Nevada, John Muir found a new name for the sublime Californian mountains: “the range of light.” More recently, Cheryl...
The Making of “Looking for a Dream” – Track #4
“Happening Somehow” illustrates my collaboration with other musicians on the album “Looking for a Dream.” While the acoustic version of the song was much slower, and more melancholic, the band transformed the song into something much more dynamic, with an...
The Making of “Looking for a Dream” – Track #3
“Stay” was first based on a note found in a copy of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road I purchased in a secondhand bookstore in Leicester in the fall of 2013. Here’s the complete note: Hey Chris, All the best for your 24th birthday. Both of us are on the road in a different...
The Making of “Looking for a Dream” – Track #2
“Walden,” the first single and perhaps the central theme of the album. When I was doing some research for my master’s dissertation in 2015-2016, Henry David Thoreau’s book caught my attention since I had already read a few passages in Christopher McCandless’s diary...
The Making of “Looking for a Dream” – Track #1
I remember writing the song “Looking for a Dream” at my parents’ house in the country, around five years ago. It was a cold, snowy winter night, I’d just come home, there was no sound and it was almost oppressive. It’s precisely this sultry, oppressive atmosphere I...