Felix Cartal & Lights - Feel Less
String Version
Live at the Warehouse Studio
why is it so hard to move forward? because it might be easier to stay where we are. to sit and stew in our stuck. there’s a fear of change. because the change might not work. but also, the change might work… and then there can be a whole new set of…
five years ago Lights and I made a song called Love Me. the song won a Juno for dance recording of the year (and arguably changed my life). we became real life friends and creative collaborators. we kept writing and eventually put out…
now that the live string version of feel less is out, i want to talk about how it came to be. there was always this myth growing up that to make it in the music industry, someone would have to “discover” you and then everything you ever wanted was just handed to you on a silver platter. shows like American Idol thrive on this sort of fantasy-machine and i think that concept does an excellent job at promoting the show, but a terrible job at helping artists learn the grind and passion required to…
i’ll write the “album of my dreams” as soon as i have a bigger audience. i’ll make my show “bigger and better” as soon as i get booked for bigger shows. i’ll take more "creative risks” as soon as i have more career security. having a “big idea” in your head is the safest place to live. and it’s comforting, living in that dream world. but real art is…
i’m currently sitting on the plane flying home to vancouver from miami. i’ve skipped miami music week the last few years what with the pandemic and also some years it just not seeming worth it… so it was good to be back. i think it’s probably my 8 or 9th time, which seems wild in retrospect. it’s a good mix of people, some people who are trying to re-create the “glory days” whatever that means, and most who just kinda adapt and roll with the ebbs and flows of the industry. i’m always a fan of those in the latter camp as the former feels a bit like…
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i ran my first marathon last week. my body is feeling somewhat normal again, a bit tired, but mostly mentally drained from it all. my running journey has been on-and-off my whole life, a bit of high school track, random runs mixed in with touring throughout the years in an attempt to stay healthy. i had one half-marathon attempt that got de-railed by the global pandemic in 2020. (the race was canceled and there was an option to run ‘virtually’ but that essentially killed all motivation to complete the thing.) so last year was the year i got…