a single night, last week, we all came together in from the freezing cold. you can almost *see* the warmth in the room in these photos 🧡
a dear friend of mine, Shina, was kind enough to capture these radiant moments on camera and hand print & scan them. the rest are on my website if you want to see! & thank you all for listening to “let him cry”. it truly blows me away each day to hear from every single one of you. so much more to share very, very soon 🙏🏼 maybe you can let me know which songs move you the most. 💛
my debut album “let him cry” is out today.
my late uncle Armand, intubated in his death bed, wrote down that it was his time to go. the reality set in, and I began crying uncontrollably. a nurse tried to calm me down, and to help me stop crying, gave me tissues. he grumbled. another nurse came to teach me breathing exercises. he grumbled louder. It continued. he finally threw the pad across the room and stopped us all in our tracks. I read the words “let him cry” scribbled out on the pad. he slowly pointed to his son. I went to him. we wept in each others arms.
I hope this music can remind you to feel, just like my uncle reminded me, when I needed it most.
listen on spotify, apple, and everywhere else that you listen to music. 🙏🏼
written produced mixed and mastered by me (@giulliang )
album art featuring a photo by my dad
and a lost letter from my mother
“ma” mixed by Jake Aron (@mordecaimoroh )
“ma”& “I’ll never get used to you leaving” mastered by Pete Maher
special thanks to Kyra, John and Thalita🪽
for patiently always being there to listen and to lift me up.
& to the dozens of friends who have listened to the links I sent in the middle of the night. thank you thank you thank you 💛
so it was my birthday yesterday which always makes me reflective and I haven’t posted a lot here … BUT!!!! just wanted to do a little tribute post to this past 9 months I’ve been just in my little room creating and producing these special beautiful things with an incredibly talented bunch of friends. i’ve been producing quite a few projects i’m very proud of, but I also want you to know how deeply grateful I am to everyone who is listening to “let him cry” and let you know I haven’t forgotten about you. you’ll be able to hear all of these new beautiful collaborations soon and Im gonna try to be more of my shell this year 🫣💛
心 heart (xīn) + 理reason (lǐ) + 學 study (xué)
in mandarin, the word “psychology” is made of these three characters. thank you for listening these past few months to my songs, they are my “heart-reasons”. cinematic universe is beginning soon 👀
I call this “intimacy voyeurism”. humans in the throes of love. captured on 35mm film. to my song I’ll never get used to you leaving 💛
#streetphotography #35mmfilm #lovesongs
many people have known me as a very social being..
but I spent a lot more time alone these last couple years. out of necessity. trying to understand more deeply who i really was, after a life of trying to be everyone else *but* myself.
so, there were a lot of hours of just me and my cat in my room, poring over new melodies, picking away at the guitar journal entries, logic pro project files.
“let him cry”, this album of mine
began as just a few demos I thought *might* possibly be an EP. but in the midst of those demos…
I fell in love.
I spoke to my younger self in therapy.
I studied mandarin, visited my mom more in taiwan.
spent a month recording at my best friends apt.
said goodbye to my partner, and welcomed her back.
cried a little, sometimes a lot, sometimes too much.
lost my aunt Bel, attended groups for guidance.
& produced friends music, traveled as much as I could.
and at the end of all of it …
I’d pieced together my life, and found
that music helped keep me sane
brought me calm, soothed my anxieties
became a sonic diary
one that will always shift in its meaning to me
that is what “let him cry” is.
a record of my life through heaviness and healing. thru love and grief. thank you everyone for listening and hope it can be a salve for your heavy days and a light on the sunny ones. it surely was for me 💛
might have to do another reaaal soon 🤝🏼
we were at capacity! so so grateful to everyone who joined in 💛
from the “let him cry” album release show on sunday
📸 by @alexskbrown
man... my abandonment issues told me no one would show up. but instead, we were at frickin capacity!!! because of all of you, sunday was truly one of the most beautiful nights of my life. we laughed, sang together and cried together. all I could ever truly ask for. not just “let him cry”, but LET THEM CRY.
thank you for showing up for me. for this community. for this music. I’ve truly put my heart into it these last few years. to many many more nights like this.
here are some of the highlights i’ve gathered…
only the real ones can name the songs in all these clips 😈 give it a try 💛
me before weeping whilst reading all of your childhood memories. thank you everyone for sharing!! and if you haven’t
* make sure to submit at tarune.co !! *
