- 2021-04-20
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Donate to support families affected by the crisis in Ukraine ➔ The Workday Release Releases New Album “Like The Light Of Stars”: Streaming
American singer-songwriter David Ottestad, aka The Workday Release released his seventh studio album “Like The Light Of Stars” on April 16, 2021 via ENCI Records.
It is his first album in two years. The album comprises of 11-track.
The title of the album comes from a lyric in the album's seventh track “Every Voice I Hear is Mine”.
David Ottestad said, “This is a contemplative song that I feel like represents me personally very well. It's a song all about how much time I spend in my own head self reflecting, existentially obsessing, and spiritually deconstructing. In the second verse, the lyrics say, 'I split in two, I am near and far, gone and coming too, like the light of stars.' I have often thought about this concept of how when you're looking up at the stars you're seeing the past. Some of those stars we're looking at may be gone now and their light is just reaching us. Is that not a perfect analogy for artists and their art?”- He continued, “I have often felt like I'm releasing what I create into a void of nothingness wondering if and when it may reach someone. I have often found something someone else has created to be so inspiring that I felt mad that it took me so long to find it. I think it's an especially poignant theme for an unknown artist like myself who has learned to hope less for personal success and hope more that what I create finds its way into the lives of those it can personally impact.”
He added, “I've been in this music-songwriting-recording-performing space for 12 years now. I really know what I'm doing. I've been around the tools and the process for long enough that when it came time to make this record, I knew exactly how to do it and who to do it with. I wanted these songs to feel big and small, epic yet intimate, polished but human, complex yet simple, happy and sad. Of course, that may begin with the songwriting but it's also only accomplished by working with people who can help you nurture and sustain that vision.” - source : Spotify
