Ballads

Love, just like life promulgates, persists and perpetuates in ebb and flow. Irrespective of how much we try to cling on to it, advocate its eternity or try to pin it down within the confines of comprehension, just like truth, it can only be persued and not quite attained. Though this supposed temporariness of love gives meaning to its temporality, as much the lover dearly aspires to be immoratalized in and with one's beloved, the acknowledgement of each other's mortality and the plausibility of the ephemerality of love acts as an impetus to make the best of each moment that one is able to live in love because it reverberates for a lifetime and perhaps also beyond it. 

The debt of life and who do we owe it to? Our progenitors, friends, family or lovers. This album attempts to entangle this question through ballads and sonnets, it comprises of the contemplations on purpose, plight and the perseverance required to light up a knight that armours one to propel against all odds. The pursuit of art and adventure often entices us to live on the sharpened edge of the sword where becoming what we wish to be requires us to challenge the rule of the rod, the path of finding one's inner light requires us to brave through the blinding brightness of our narcissistic pride and surf through the turbulance of threatening darkness.

Ex Nihilio Nihil Fit (Nothing comes from Nothing) is amongst the most revered cited quote in the academic vocation, especially those concerned with sociology and social anthropology due to the implicit iconoclasm that the study of social institutions and associations reveal in peculiar ways because the search of truth is paved by plausible quicksand of the lurking threat that supposes there is none. Although, being in the world confirms that truth persists and prevails in various forms. This album documents the critical moments that the songwriter witnessed during the course of a decade and how he reconciled with those moments of criticality to affirm himself.