【Music】CITY OF THE SILENT

For most of my conscious life, I lived in Daly City, California. It’s a place I connect with so much, and my homesickness has been a big motive in writing a lot of this music and indulging in a lot of old memories. However, on my hometown’s eastern border lies a city named Colma. I used to spend a lot of time there in transit from one place to another and to stop to eat and stuff like that. It’s a place where more dead people are buried than are people living there, hence “The City of the Silent”. On the foggiest days, I used to walk along the many cemeteries and funeral homes that lined the streets. It was eerie, but it was also peaceful. I had fallen out of religion by the time I was spending a lot of time there, and coming to terms with life and death seemed a lot more candid when I was around a necropolis settlement like that so much. I wanted to take a moment to breathe in this album, before the end. So I tried to create a soundscape that sounded the way my head did whenever I spent time a