Ipanematsu

This is a song for when you wake up from a great dream and then go back to sleep in the hopes of returning to that dream. It doesn’t always work but when you succeed, you’re like some kind of dream magician and it’s awesome. I wish there was a word for that.
Peng Chau Ferry, Central, Causeway Bay, Aberdeen
Week 5

Sleepyhead

Using vocal samples can be tricky but it feels so damn good when it works. I always wanted to title a song with parenthesis too so double yay.
Week 6

Gotta Love (Your Man)

What Is Love?

Fragile 
I’ve had this classic Cantonese pop song stuck in my head since I was a baby. It’s one of the earliest melodies I can remember. For Mother’s Day, I wanted to pay tribute to my mom raising me in Hong Kong during the early 90s and showing me great music from an early age. Thanks mom! 
Week 8

Fragile

Nightshade / Lamchop
I’ve always dreamt of writing music for an ultimate samurai showdown. Maybe I’ve just been watching too much Samurai Champloo.
Week 9

Nightshade

“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about." - Haruki Murikami. 
Week 10

Needs

I’m moving back home to Victoria, Canada on August 3 to support my mom who has been battling chronic cancer for the past three years. I knew I would eventually have to move home but I didn’t have what it took to make the call until recently. I was torn between the life I had built here in Hong Kong for 7 years and returning home to deal with the pains of reality. I didn’t think I could feel happy in either Hong Kong or Victoria because I’d have to give something up either way and the fears and anxiety put me in a dark place. I hid myself from the world and stopped making art and music entirely, not believing there was much in me to give. After visiting home this past December, I finally made the choice to return home. I felt so relieved at the beginning of this year, like so much of the fear had been lifted, and I began to look for ways to be open and vulnerable again. The real reason for these weekly tracks and videos was to teach myself how to be happy again - how to not hide from the world, how to get over the fact that things won’t be perfect and how to look at the world around me with hopeful eyes. It is also my visual diary, a way for me to look back later in my life and remember who I was and how I felt living in Hong Kong. I can’t thank you enough to everyone who has encouraged me to make tracks and videos - all of your comments and feedback have shown me that my fears weren't real and that true happiness always takes vulnerability. Thank you and much love. 
Week 11

Things You Do To Me

I really hate goodbyes. The worst part about moving is that you can’t escape them. These last few weeks have been tough as I’ve had to do the goodbye thing with so many of my closest friends and walking down memory lane with them is always bittersweet. But at the end of it, I’ve gotten over the sadness and I’m left with this calm sense of gratitude. Looking back, I feel so fortunate to have the friends that I do and I hope that we won’t let ourselves become strangers again. I will miss you and I know that our paths will cross again.

Strangers Again

Whoever said it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all must have been a really tough guy. I wish he also said something about how it much it sucks to lose something but that it'll be okay in the end. This is a song for you guys trying to be tough out there. Also, can you guess the movie sample?
Week 13

Mr. Tough Guy

I wrote this for my ex before we broke up a few months ago when I left Hong Kong. I wasn’t going to share this one because it’s so bittersweet for me and captures a feeling I no longer feel. But I’ve moved on since then and I’m happy that I had felt such love for her and translated it into music even if it didn’t last. By sharing this with you, I’m learning to let go of my anxiety and fear that prevents me from being vulnerable as a musician. I hope that you'll feel the happiness I felt in that moment and find someone someday who makes you feel the same.

Every Day

Goodbye

So it's been a year since I've uploaded anything to Soundcloud. Here's something short and sweet.

Lamchop

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