What Eats at your brain on a daily basis?

What eats at my brain on a daily basis? I've gotten to a point in life to separate my being enough from negative things in this world where I can just be Aware and be an observer. To answer the ? I would say the way Religions and Politics create more of a distance in people and separate us as a whole. I believe we are all Individuals but the chains of Religion and Politics need to be broken so people unite as a whole for a better world one day. I believe Religion should be more of a Religiousness Vibe and Politics must stop it's corruption of using people as pawns in very dangerous games.

We need a meeting of Science and Religion so to say!! Science excepts the unknown were Religion makes a business on claiming to know the unknown!! The bridge must be met. We are in a world of so many possibilities that to say one knows is a dead way of thinking. Once you claim you know then inquiry stops and that is the building block. We will never know many things and that is Beautiful. The Mysterious is exciting and lets the new unfold.

I'd like to see people stop shoving their beliefs on one another as if it is the only way!! More Compassion, Individuality, Love, Respect, Creativity and Awareness

I myself stray away from listening to the radio.... what do you think of the "mainstream" and the culture it spawns?

The Mainstream is basically the cookie cutting factory!! I wont say all of it but I will say alot of it is!

When you go back through the history of how labels signed acts basically from the 1940's through the 1970's I'd say that labels were more excited when you were Individual!! Something Different! New! Expanding!! They love it if you sounded like no one but yourself and even thought music has grown so much in style and genres they get scared shitless if you don’t sound like something already proven or something they know.

Today all of the great Artists are sought of underground or have their cult followings!! The labels just want to duplicate what is selling! What formula is working!! It's a sure way to keep your job, your Mercedes and your pockets full. The public is not as stupid as they think though. When one style is hot you see all the copycats come out and these A&R guys will say shit like we are looking for the next Britney Spears or the Next this and that!! What I wonder is why they search for what has already been done!!They are not searching they are followers scared of being a gambler on something new.

There is also a constant need for comparison. If someone cant compare you to something they get lost. I say Yes Get lost and lets try the new. People catch on and I believe many are sickened with the same old crap they hear every day.

There are now many Genres and subgenres and music is constantly expanding but we dont hear that expansion on the Mainstream Radio!! Thank the Universe for Internet Radio and the underground Stations!!

I notice on your site the teaching of Osho... can you give a explanation of the man and his beliefs?

Yes! I've always danced to a different beat shall we say. I've studied many religions, philosophies and different paths. I was raised catholic. Catholic school my whole life and my favorite subject was actually religion.

I enjoyed and was interested in all the ways and philosophies but even at a young age there was an energy that did not want them imposed on me. They were imposed on me as a natural progression as family passes along common threads.

What I always felt from about a the age of a teenager was that why does religion cause so much hatred, anger, war and racism. Religiousness is beautiful when it's a meditation, when there is a freedom, a presence of the unknown not the known. There really is no known!! Nothing is for sure or life will have no mystery.

I love talking and praying to trees, the ocean, the wind, the beautiful mysterious bird on the tree and the energy in the air. I just sit alone and talk!! I feel a peacefulness unexplainable in words.

As I've searched I've found a big question mark? about religions.

I don’t impose my thoughts on anyone because it is none of my business and not my right!! It shows no compassion and exceptance of Individuality. I just feel this world is vast and mysterious that we create things to take away that mystery because mystery is unknown and thats scary to most. The Individualist as I like to call him/her needs to grow more. Many get so locked into patterns with religion that it controls there life and takes away many freedoms and much to explore. Then there is arguments and racism towards each other over what religion we are which is very real and very sad.

I'd like to see religion advance like science into a religousness quality!! Every religion has carved in stone how it is and what is the right way. So many right ways and yet if you don’t follow ones they believe you are condemned or have a false God. It creates too much separation and history has proved that. Science continues to explore!! It's vast, it's unknown, it's never sure and that allows evolution! Growth raising man and his awareness to greater heights in his being. I love to see religion have that mystery and respect of unknown. I've heard many say that the world was here thousands of years before creation! Exactly this earth was the God you could say but it is interesting the long gap before life.

I post some quotes of Osho about creativity and individuality which I feel are positive quotes that open you. I find Osho's work to be a very interesting read to anyone with an open mind and I mean a mind that can truly drop its ego for even just a moment.

As I said my own thoughts are mine and my awareness is mine. I dont’ say this is the way because I can never know the way! If I knew the way and the outcome it would be boring and cut off the mystery.

A wonderful book I think many would find interesting is Osho The Book Of Freedom "creating your own path to freedom"

In closing I'd say politics and religion have killed the most people in the world so somewhere we must grow and continue evolution without borders!!

Since we got a piece of your thought process in our head... tell us about your new record and what were the main inspiration for its creation?

I decided a few years back to make my first solo album! I had made an album with Virgo, one as Barker and 2 albums as Poem 27. I've always written and produced everything so it was time for a solo album.

Sex No Longer In A Form is a track that became the title of the album due to it's lyrics about people stopping their negative judgements of judging peoples sexuality and sexual orientation. It made the biggest statement to me so I titled the album Sex No Longer In A Form.

In a way it's a holistic album!!It falls under Alternative/Rap/Electronica but their are hints of drum n bass, reggae, triphop and rock!!

I always love bass lines and beats with textures and soundscapes on top. This album is a journey through dark and light!! It speaks of loss, it speaks of removing societies shackles, it speaks of the results society can have on our beings. Thank You For That is a track were the individual sarcasticly tells this world Thanks for all the chaos "and as a matter of fact quite frankly Thank You For That" "Everyday is a crisis in my mind I cant get through"

To sum it up this is an album about growth in our beings and what you have to deal with in this world as you obtain that growth. I consider the lyrics to be vulnerable yet I consider them to be a person searching and telling some of his stories on his search and how it has played out in his life. It's an album that entails Sexuality, Confusion, Stopping judgements, society’s chains and the cause and affect!!

It pumps with an Urban sensibility and as Sali Oguri wrote on my bio "A Pocket Funk" and a gritty street sound!

I went through 2 managements in the process of recording the album and turned down my last management offer because they wanted complete control of my career. There were many delays. I can normally make a new album within a few months but due to legal issues which are resolved and just life "Sex No Longer In A Form" took a bit of time to finish but I'm thrilled to have it complete. I released it on itunes and myspace 4 months ago and the feedback and comments have been amazing!!

I'm an Individualist!! When I write it is very animal instinct. I turn my keyboard on and have no preconceptions. I just let whatever is coming into me go to the keyboard and when I write the lyrics I let the flow just come. I step away from myself in a way as an observer and just let my creativity be as it chooses. I don’t sit and say let me write a hit song!! I've done that before and it bores me. It's more like let me write whatever is being felt in the moment and let me shock you, wake you or stop your thoughts for a moment. I want to give you something to thin about and I also want to stop your thinking!!

I've been influenced my so much music through the years that it would be a real long list to name my inspirations!! Some of my favorite artists that have inspired me are Tricky, Roni Size, The Prodigy, Peter Gabriel, Leonard Cohen, Massive Attack, David Bowie, Mos Def, U-2 and the Beastie Boys!! Believe me when I say these are a few.

When ever people say who do you sound like!! Its really lame to me. People need to register you with something and I prefer to be my own sound and style. There are always pieces of your inspirations in you but it comes out as your individual energy!! None of us are alike and that is the Beauty of life!!

I'm already writing tracks for a new album I'll start by the end of 2009 and again it will have my vibe but will be different. So many music artists try to copy themselves on their follow up because it worked the first time. This leaves no growth to me. I never know what I'm going to do. It will tell me!! It's from the unknown!! Art is the unknown!! Its vast!! Its Mysterious!! This is what touches me!!

Besides Music what do you find yourself doing in your spare time?

I would have to say when I'm not doing music the things I enjoy to do are being with nature!! I love to communicate with the ocean, the trees and the wind!! Many think this is nuts but I will tell you that when you talk to the ocean, the trees and the wind it will answer you in its own way. There is such a communication if you allow yourself to go into it without feeling silly or that it is absurd!!

I enjoy meditation but not the way most people do. I don’t sit and picture rivers in my mind to be silent!! The river will stop the silence. Meditation is just being present to me and feeling your inner. Not projecting thoughts because then the mind is not silent!!

Don’t think the river! Be the river!!

I love meeting new people and feeling their energy! Reading is something I do everyday. I love all types of books but mainly Philosophy and much of it is rubbish but you discover as you go along what is real and what is bullshit!!

I've had many relationships but have come to a point of enjoying being single because it allows me not to answer to anyone and have a total freedom of my life.

I can jump on a plane tomorrow and not worry about nothing. I've experience both!! I'll tell you there is nothing like having the whole bed to yourself!!

I love to cuddle and all that good stuff but I don’t feel I need to be in a relationship to experience this!!

I will never say never to anything because that would be foolish!! Lets just say as my Journey progresses I learn more of myself!!

What else would I say!! Yes!! I love Poker especially Texas Holdem! I love to exercise!! I'm a big movie fan!! Most T.V. is rubbish as is the radio but I enjoy a good biography and the discovery channel!!

My favorite thing is just meeting new people and sharing the energy!!

The Earth is a vast place to explore ... where are some of the places you have traveled... and where are some of the places you might want to experience in the future?

I've been all over the United States but missed some places like Hawaii and down south. I'd like to see every state and not just passing through if you know what I mean!

I've been all over Canada! I lived in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan off and on for about a year. I've been to Winnipeg, Calagary, Alberta, Montreal, Ontario, Banff and Vancouver.

I'm originally from Brooklyn, New York! My origin!! I'd love to travel through Europe especially places of my family heritage such as Sweden, Latvia, Russia, Greece and Italy.

One day I hope to go to Egypt and I have a fascination with Switzerland!!

When it really comes down to it I'd like to see this whole world!! If there is one thing to do while you are alive on this earth I would have to say you must see of much of it as you can!! It's our world, our planet!! The greatest gift is to discover it!!

I love all cultures and types of people from all over!! It's a beautiful thing to meet people from other walks of life!!

I have been into comic books for years and I know people always have that dream to have a superpower of their own.... What would yours be?

Guess what! I do have powers!! They are just undeveloped because I'm constantly removing trash, the past and any negativity from the mind!! Once the awareness is 100% My abilities will have tremendous energy in positive ways!!

If I had a super power right now!! I'd have to say that I'd want to be able to go into peoples minds and remove all the negative things they feel about themselves! Have them see their Individual Beauty which no one can have and cut off the mental circuits that create judgement towards others!!

Kinda light everybody up with just the touch of my hand and they all become full of compassion, love, creativity, non-judging, aware and present in the moment!!

I guess I'd be called Captain Enlightment!!Believe me though I could still use some more enlightment!! It comes as it comes! There is no rush! It is all part of the Journey!! I'm just happy I put myself on the journey and have learned not to fear the many turns that will come!! Fear is good but in balance!! As long as it don’t control! It can be used as a great allie our fears but like I said!! Not something that controls our mind or spirit!! A tool shall I say!

If you could sit down with any current political figure at the present moment who would it be and how would the conversation go?

There are none I'd like to sit down with and talk to because they have their own agendas!!

To stray back into the light of your music.... How are you going about promotion and getting your passion and ideas to the mass audiences?

Thanks to the internet the way you can market yourself it totally different today. I market mainly on Myspace, Facebook and my website.

I still believe in hitting the pavement!! I hit the streets a few days a week just to meet and talk to people!! I give out business cards and tell them a bit about myself. I also like to hear about them because creativity feeds creativity!

When I have the copies of the Album in 2 weeks I'll be selling them right in the street besides using online digital download stores that the album is already on such as itunes, Rhapsody, Amazon MP3, Emusic, Napster and Shockhound.

An Artist can really be Independent and control his career today thanks to technology!! You can record your songs right in your own house and upload them to millions of people across the world instantly.

The next step is performing live as much as possible which is on my current agenda!

Final thoughts!!!!!!!!

Final Thoughts!!I look forward to creating music and sharing that energy with people. I hope for a world where Individuality, Awareness, Creativity, Love, Compassion, Inquiry, Playfulness and Meditation shine in each beautiful soul!!