Much as i'd like to be a contributor in the repertoire, I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not really a story-teller, at least not as good as they are. But I am an innovator. And my creative energies are focused on the development of the language that is music. I am no poet. I guess that's what I get for studying music in the academia for too long. The point is, whenever I listen to songs released recently or at least in the last 5 years by noteworthy artists from the indie or mainstream vine (mostly the former), I could see so much potential with the medium, I could hear limitless possibilities in the arrangement, wild genre cross-overs, or just plain, hot ideas that no one else could execute but me. I always go "God! what if...", and then curse myself for not doing anything about it.
So now I've decided to produce my own EP. An album would be too Herculean a task given the time that I have. No pretensions, no underlying political message, just pure musical experiments. I would liken this EP to Chopin's collection of Etudes in the 1830s, mere technical studies that hopefully would, in the future, be adapted by true lyrical geniuses. Well even if that doesn't happen, I'd do this all the same, simply because I think I can. And I don't have to assume the charisma of a singer-songwriter genius. I just want to make music the way I know how. The knowledge that I have will become a burden if I don't get this out of my system. Wow I think I now understand what Thanos meant by "cursed with knowledge". It's a responsibility. So abangan, I'm thinking at the end of this year. It's in the works.