“MY FRIENDS MADE MUSIC ON MY LAPTOP AND I STOLE IT”

This album playfully began in December 2019 and it spanned collaborations across Romania, UK, Iceland and France.

It all started with a couple of house parties, back when parties didn't endanger the entire cosmic fabric of existence as we know it. My laptop was opened and my pad was on. People ran around my living room and recorded little snippets of chaotic music, beats... When I got back to London, I was feeling homesick and I had a laptop full of musical ideas from my friends back home. I was phased out into my cold laptop screen in a shitty London attic, surrounded by both people who cared about me and people who absolutely despised me - living through one of the hardest periods of my life, getting fucked over by the landlady and various other parasitic aspects of glamorous capitalist life in Western Europe. I did what any other artist would do. I started living in my little world, surviving on tuna cans, dreams and fantasies.

The songs began taking shape. Most of the lyrics were thought of on the spot - most my singing (or speaking) was stream-of-consciousness, so writing things on the spot. I was not really thinking - I was just doing. I started talking to my producer and sending him the projects.

Fast-forward - I’m back in Romania - pandemic happens - but I still want to collaborate with my friends now scattered across the world. This project took me across Romania, UK, Iceland, France... All from the comfort of my living room. It has been weird, making music in the pandemic - but even from a distance I've found solace in sound and in collaboration. Technology can be a blessing.

I cannot wait to make incredible amounts of money with this music. Like... at-least 75 dollars. I also paid 50 dollars to the distributor so they won't delete it if I die and my card declines. Ain't that great! I wonder if this Legacy Option, as they call it, includes cataclysm and disaster - what if an asteroid hits Earth? I hope the distributor will make some sort of nuclear-resistant super-robot who will personally shelter the last remaining copies of my songs in his personal cloud-storage. They owe me that - I paid 50 dollars, after all.

The edgy tumbleweed rolling on Abbey Road on the cover art is about the death of the Rockstar, or something along those lines. It's a rough time to be making music but we have to keep at it.

The artwork belongs to Claudia Geaboc (follow @cloeneikid on Instagram). The tumbleweed on Abbey Road reminds me to not take myself too seriously - The Rockstar is dead and our industry is in shambles. It's hard to survive being a musician, but who cares. Everything is hard. It's not like we'll stop, and it's not like we'll start getting treated any differently. Might just as well keep making music.