New year is coming together with a new album and I'm happy to say I feel most fulfilled with the outcome so far. The story of it begins back in 2017 when social media was a place of discovery where anyone could exhibit their work and reach new audience. Fascinated by the exposure and validation I was getting from promoting my newborn debut 'Baroque', I started throwing tons of time and energy on social media to the point I got devoured by the content instead of using it for my own benefit. I went down this rabbit hole of comparison, self-judgment and 'aesthetics over substance'. I pushed myself to market my work in ways I didn't feel comfortable with through blogs I didn't necessarily appreciate and through platforms that promised to drive traffic to my social accounts.
Looking back at those days, I think I felt too vulnerable as a music-maker. Not only I was exposing myself completely through my lyrics, but I was doing it through means (music) I had no education on. No education means no confidence, no power. I was -strictly- a designer for most of my life until 2015 when I started expressing myself through songs.
At some point, social media became a real mess in terms of discovering art and it was obvious I was present there for all the wrong reasons. In 2023, after losing my father to cancer, I went numb and had a few realizations. Here's the biggest one: The two main values I was imbued with throughout my life, power and control, are as temporary as our life itself. When death took my father, it also took his imposing presence, his concrete worldviews and egotistical behaviors. It took a man who had the power to rise above everything but not the courage to embrace his mortality. So I decided to embrace mine by staying away from everything and everyone who demanded my time and energy without giving me something in return.
In 2024 I started using a notebook as a way to unload and decompress my over-thinking mind. I relocated my free time from social media to a place that is my own. I felt the need to own things. My time, my thoughts, my productive journey on this earth. This process reminded me of the joy that comes when you create for yourself, for the sake of creation and not to prove your ability or talent. Just like we did when we were kids, spontaneous and untainted by the challenges of adulthood. This is how the new album, D****** B******** started flowing. 2025 will bring many beautiful things and I need the world to believe it.
Spyros Psarras aka Korfian
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