I AM LIGHT_ by Eric Thielemans

Aspiring to Light.
On the day of the recording, as I remember it now, I didn’t particularly feel light.
After having tracked some drums and piano, a set up that I wanted to explore for this session,
I felt an urge for singing and out came “I am Light”, probably as a way of acknowledging and answering to my inner lack of it at that particular moment.
I guess one could call such an action ironic.
Now music for me always, yes literally always, has this healing potential, since it allows for anything, any energy to just be channeled and transformed by means of my instruments and the room in which I play.
So much for my possibly intended irony, if there ever was one.
The whole of this album was tracked in a matter of 3 to 4 hours.
All happening, going from drums to piano, piano to drums, as if in a kind of trance state.
All music, except for the field recording used on “Insides”, was improvised, played on the spot, without any preconceived idea of composition nor prepared thematic musical material.
Everything was recorded straight onto a hard drive in what I remember to have been at a 1:1 ratio.
Meaning that almost any sound played got recorded and ended up on the release I am presenting to you.
Somehow, the fact that this album came to be so effortlessly, and showed itself as something rather new in my approach and how it ended up sounding and…well…being, left me both amazed, grateful and a little bit puzzled as to what I could or should do with it.
Perhaps that accounts for the lapse of time between finishing the album and it ending up to get released. Perhaps.
That, and the fact that I love to let a work finish itself, as if fermenting in the bottle still, long after having been bottled.
Also, I am not a person with a need to share everything with every person.
I can be fine, really just fine, knowing what I know and sharing it with the presences of what surrounds us. The many beings and entities, consciousness in many shapes and forms, sharing their presence in subtle and various ways.
There is not always a need for social interaction when one feels one can dance with the stars.
Surprisingly then today, while taking a shower, the water, as it does so many times, made me totally open up and become ecstatic, when suddenly, out of so called nowhere, I got that I should release this album.
I happily received the message. And I tend to listen to what I receive that way, especially when it makes me feel that light and excited.
So here it is.
May your listening experience be graced by the Beings of Light.

Berchem, Wednesday May 18th, 2022.