🌬️Santai Storytellers this Sunday July 13th ✨ft. Bennett Bay @bennettbay0_0 & Bare @baresounds
🔊Live at Santai⬇️
Join us for an intimate evening of music and storytelling at Santai Storytellers – a new series celebrating the raw, the real, and the resonant. Set in the cozy surrounds of Santai, this edition features the evocative sounds of Bennett Bay and Bare – two singular voices weaving tales through song.
Through instrumental lyricism and honest confessionals, Bennett and Bare invite you into their inner worlds — tracing memories, quiet revelations, and the quiet ache of being human.
Whether you’re here to lean in or simply unwind, come santai (relax) with us for a night of soul-stirring performances and quiet connection.
Pre-book your seats tru our new reservation link via @quandoo_sg on our bio.
It’s a funny thing this notion of time. I started playing music seriously at the age of 15. Writing songs and getting inspired by great song writers like Damien Rice, Jeff Buckley and John Mayer just to name a few. I kept at it till I was 23 with ups and downs, being blessed to have been a part of my band @stillsunrise I then spent the next 10 years of my life struggling with depression and cycles of addictions. I just turned 33 a couple days back and I am on my road to recovery. This was the first song I wrote in 9 years. It was my first time playing it live and it’s not the best version of it but I’m really grateful to my good friend and brother @winchicky for helping me flesh it out, @glenweemusic my brother, who’s show I was opening for sometime last year and @wetheuncouth for sharing that beautiful space they had at that time. So all things considered, despite my innate need for the perfect representation of the song. I’m putting this out into the world, in honour of all my friends who have stuck by me through these years. I love you all so very much. It’s true, life has been meaningless till you and our time is fleeting. Thank you to every soul who has brought meaning into this little existence of mine. This song is called “Fleeting”.
It’s been just over a year since I’ve left my childhood home. It has taken me longer than expected to roll away the stone in my heart, preventing myself from being fully immersed in my new surroundings. Obsessing over the ephemeral constructs of my new house. Filling the space with my humanly senses but try as I may, the place will always look different. Floor tiles feel cold. Sounds too quiet. Smells lack familiarity. Tastes too dull. My heart too closed. Now I’m slowly beginning to bask in the good news that a house is just a construct and with the stone finally rolled away, I can once again rest in the fact that a house is not a home and by the grace of god, I’ve never been homeless.
Ever since Book Depository was extracted from my life, it’s been a hassle for a shut in like myself to find books online. Lately, as I’ve roamed about in search of a new cave in which to hibernate and exist, I stumbled into the National Library. I walked through a maze of shelves lined with the facade of books in search of a quiet little space to sit and write. As I settled into a nice little corner, I stared blankly back at the rows of bookshelves, waiting for my thoughts to crystallise, I noticed a little QR code on the shelf closest to me, with instructions to download the nlb app. How amusing I thought it was for a library filled with books to have a QR code for an app to a digital library. I eventually, broke out of my trance of procrastination and began my arbitrary exercise in being creative. I began the dance of consciousness, and only snapped back into reality as the announcement of the libraries closure came blaring over the speakers overhead. Thankfully I found a way around the maze on my way towards the exit, but as I was leavings I saw the QR code staring back at me once again. I figured I might as well enter a digital library now since I was exiting the physical one. That night as I laid in bed, I decided to finally open the app and to my amazement, I was greeted with a beautiful interface with all sorts of materials from books, to magazines and films. I decided to look for a book I’ve been meaning to read for some time and almost immediately my search returned with options to read it as an e book, listen to it as an audiobook or borrow it from the library. I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve never enjoyed reading books on my phone. (Manga the only exception) So I decided to see how I’d go about borrowing the book. It then gave me an option of all the libraries carrying the book and immediately saw that they had one copy that had not been borrowed, in the library I was at that afternoon. I immediately reserved it, and went back the next day.
Sending out love and gratitude to all the beautiful souls who’s presence (physically and spiritually) brought weight and form to Bare Beginnings. Thoughts that were abstract has been spoken into form and a void empty of feeling is now a space that has been blessed with meaning. I look forward to sharing many more better weathered days with all of you.
I am glad to announce after years of preparations and internal conflict, I have finally started the first chapter of the BARE journey.
BARE is the musical/creative vehicle founded by Yuresh with the sole intention of sharing the spectrums of life through the medium of art.
BARE beginnings is the first iteration of creating a space where artist and art enthusiasts can come tougher in communion sharing a moment in time that can never be truly replicated in its form.
In collaboration with the GrandMaster Collective, as well as surprise features, we welcome you into a space where time is an abstract illusion and music and emotions are the only constant. Light refreshments will be provided at the venue on us.
Links to tickets in my bio.
I am glad to announce after years of preparations and internal conflict, I have finally started the first chapter of the BARE journey.
BARE is the musical/creative vehicle founded by Yuresh with the sole intention of sharing the spectrums of life through the medium of art.
BARE beginnings is the first iteration of creating a space where artist and art enthusiasts can come tougher in communion sharing a moment in time that can never be truly replicated in its form.
In collaboration with the GrandMaster Collective, as well as surprise features, we welcome you into a space where time is an abstract illusion and music and emotions are the only constant. Light refreshments will be provided at the venue on us.
Links to tickets in my bio.
Bare beginnings
I am glad to announce after years of preparations and internal conflict, I have finally started the first chapter of the BARE journey.
BARE is the musical/creative vehicle founded by Yuresh with the sole intention of sharing the spectrums of life through the medium of art.
BARE beginnings is the first iteration of creating a space where artist and art enthusiasts can come tougher in communion sharing a moment in time that can never be truly replicated in its form.
In collaboration with the GrandMaster Collective, as well as surprise features, we welcome you into a space where time is an abstract illusion and music and emotions are the only constant. Light refreshments will be provided at the venue on us.
Links to tickets in my bio
