Rishikesh Hirway

The Adrian Lenker records are so important to me, and I love them so much.

All I knew was the final product.

I had no idea how he actually got there, but I asked if he would be interested and sent demos and got word back saying, yep, super into it.

Let's get on a phone call.

And so I was like, great.

Okay.

This is a big deal for me because I'd never worked with a producer like this before.

I'd never made an album with a producer before.

on all the One Aim Radio stuff, I produced everything.

And I was excited about that idea.

I was excited about the idea of sort of getting out of my head and letting collaboration in because inside my own head, you know, like before, like that was the danger zone.

I had already learned that within the confines of my own head, I could get paralyzed and, and, you know, just start to feel really bad.

But if I brought in other people and

I could rely on their enthusiasm, even if I lost my own.

Yeah.

When we spoke, I said, you know, okay, so I have those demos you heard, you know, and I actually had taken those demos pretty far.

Some of them were very fleshed out, had a lot of production and stuff behind them, partly because that's just what I need to do in order to wrap my head around what the song is and what it means and, you know, what I'm going for.

So they had full arrangements with me playing lots of instruments and harmonies and things like that.

And I said, like, do you want to work the way that I had worked before?

Where it was like, I'll give you my recordings and we can add to them and maybe edit from them and turn them into the final recordings.