Lithuanian-Canadian artist Aistis has shared his new album ‘Clay’ in full.
In a manner, that is an album that arrived virtually accidentally. Aistis was composing his upcoming challenge ‘Cavier For Seagulls’ when his consideration was caught by occasions within the current – deciding to sort out this head-on, the songs got here pouring out.
Mixing truth and fiction, lifting from his personal life whereas extrapolating into the creativeness, Aistis constructed an alt-folk odyssey. Out now, ‘Clay’ is flavoured with sensory delights – songs equivalent to ‘Lilac Fragrance’ for instance conjure extraordinary atmospheres.
‘So They Say’ is deeply emotive, whereas closing track (and title monitor) ‘Clay’ is remarkably astute.
Introducing the challenge, Aistis writes…
I had been navigating a relationship with somebody that I cherished deeply however discovered ever-confusing, stunning, typically painful, unusual, sophisticated, but life-affirming. I feel loads of ‘Clay’ began as an exploration of attempting to achieve a deeper understanding of what it was I used to be feeling, however form of morphed into its personal entity the additional in I went.
As the author/creator of the work, there’s inherent bias in my re-telling of historical past and feeling. This grew to become ever obvious to me the extra I wrote, so I made a decision it could be much more fascinating and true to discover my emotions round this relationship by mixing parts of actuality with intentional fiction and exaggeration, advised by the narration of a number of voices. Myself, the muse, and the inner-voice, with out ever defining who it’s that’s talking. The journey grew to become non-linear and is filled with love, hypocrisy, self-reflection, inside-jokes, romanticism, self-deprecation, and wonder.
Regardless of its fictional parts, it someway seems like essentially the most trustworthy exploration of the love and reverie I maintain for this individual, for each expertise shared collectively, good or unhealthy, in addition to of the self. All through your complete course of of constructing ‘Clay’, this individual remained/stays concerned and performed/performs an enormous position in collaboration, making the whole lot all of the extra particular, whereas virtually including to the ethos and mythology of ‘Clay’ itself.
Tune in now.
Picture Credit score: Sophia Perras
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