I stopped looking for clouds. I started breathing them.

We are all obsessed with finding “space”.

We look for cloud storage for photos, space in our calendars for appointments we don't want to keep, space at home for things we don't use. We've become very good at optimizing empty spaces.

There's just one small problem: in the meantime, we're going freediving.

I wrote this new song, “LUNGS”, starting from this very feeling of digital suffocation.

The song will be available on all platforms from this Friday, January 9th, but today I wanted to tell you about the Why, even before the how.

When words take away oxygen

Sometimes a text is too much. Words define, close, and enclose.

I needed "“air”"I wanted a song that sounded like a window suddenly thrown open in a room that had been closed for days. And some notes I'd recorded three years ago resonated with me, just as a little stylistic exercise.

I took the guitar, I looked for that clean but scratchy sound (a bit like Joe Satriani when he decides to be melodic and less alien) and I started to make it resonate with a fixed idea: freedom.

No compressed walls of sound, no pointless virtuosity. Just notes that have the physical space to expand.

Why a cube and not two lungs?

For the cover I could have gone the easy way: a stock photo of a blue sky, or worse, an anatomical illustration of two lungs (which would have been very helpful). pulmonology, let's face it).

Instead I chose a cube.

Look at it carefully. There's a cloud trapped—or perhaps generated—by a perfect solid. It's the epitome of our condition: our freedom (clouds) today often lives inside digital boxes (the cube, the screen, the server).

But music has this strange power: if it's sincere, it breaks the geometry. It breaks out of the edges.

⏳ An appointment with your oxygen

“LUNGS” is a 3-minute breathing exercise that unlocked this morning.

Headphones on, eyes closed, play.

👇 Listen to “LUNGS” on your favorite music app (Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, etc.):

PS When the world rushes by, we'll stop and breathe. Are you up for it?