Shamanic verses
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"It took me a while to figure out what was driving this song...July last year was a hell of a month for me...I experience[d] a spiritual awakening...[and] I believe this song was predicting that awakening"
I think the song was a premonition of a spiritual awakening I was about to experience a few months after I wrote it.
I wrote this song at the end of a relationship, I had just let go of everything, I had ended something which held a lot of promise for me.. a home, maybe a family etc.. I let it all go.. and I felt cool about it.. it just felt right..yet its about a female saying 'I am your Saviour, I will find you'.
So why the hell am I writing about a 'Saviour'. I call the song 'Saviour (Shamanic Verses).. I don't know why but I do.. the verses have very shamanistic imagery.
There is a lot of archetypal imagery in it, dreams of drowning dragons (dragon- fear/ kundalini serpent), eating spiders (Spiders represent the mother), blinded brothers (third eye references), haunting the living, living with the dead, talking to spirits, .. It is very astral and subconscious lyricism.. ethereal stuff..
It often takes me time to figure out what my songs are about.. I write from my subconscious as much as possible..
So after I had wrote the song this monumental spiritual awakening happens to me, now I am not a spiritual guy generally, I am not attached to any spiritual practices but it happened so it has to be addressed and well this song came before it.
I would say that I was a channel for the song.. .. I am not sure how much choices humans consciously make.. and how much is channelled through us from the collective unconscious.. Are
Does Art belong to the artist? I am not sure about that anymore either.
Yet, I can separate myself from it and listen as a listener and it feels like sincere hope shining after a storm of suffering.
Musically I turned the song Brotherhood O.A. backwards and worked from there, deep bass, earthy tribal, mystic post punk. '
Mastered by GRAMMY® award-winning Greg Calbi (Interpol, Arcade Fire), Karma of Youth is a metaphysical roadmap for a lost soul. Documenting the experience of his rare spiritual “Kundalini Awakening”, it aligns itself to the same values that Buddhism, Hinduism, Freemasonry, Hermeticisim, and most ancient cultures hold. It is a deep purification process in which one emerges stronger and more level-headed than ever before, reaching the highest state of nirvana.
“I thought I knew what my songs were about for a long time, but it is only recently that they all make complete sense and thus create a metaphysical roadmap,” he divulges.
Taking his name from an early childhood experience (he would not speak a word to anyone at school for the first year) and from Colin Wilson’s 1956 book The Outsider (which examines the psyche of great artists and their place in society), Outsider is an apt moniker for his brand of metaphysical musical exploration. While the background of his music may seem intellectually out of reach to some, his music has proven its universal appeal. His breakthrough EP ‘Míol Mór Mara’ yielded over two million streams. His profile exploded even more when his music was used for FIFA 2018 (the first time the Irish language has ever been featured in mainstream gaming) and Match of the Day.