I like to think of my music as sort of just a unique amalgamation of everything that I listen to which really was the idea for this first EP, All I Am is All I Hear. It's that stuff I find myself turning back to the most. As I became a person on my own, you know pre-teen and a teenager, of course, I discovered Top 40 radio and so I got really into R&B and Hip Hop and I'm still really into R&B and Hip Hop but it's still the folk and the soul music that resonates the most with me. I was raised on Stevie Wonder, the Beatles, the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Bob Marley. They have great taste and they've bestowed just fantastic music unto my ears from a really young age and I could not be more grateful for the music that they introduced me to ‘cuz honestly, it's still the most influential music to what I make. I really have my parents to thank for a lot of my musical background. I picked up instruments the second I could hold them and as a little kid, I would just run around the house with a guitar with like half the strings broken and just scream Beatles songs at the top of my lungs. Yeah, so I've really been making music in some capacity for as long as I can remember. So for those that may not be familiar with you, can you tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into music? Creatively, it's been tricky and I'm trying to figure out what's to come next but I have a lot of fun ideas. The outdoors play a big role for sure, I had to get hit with some seasonal depression especially coming home. I'm trying to figure out what comes next and I'm working on a bunch of different things here and there but I haven't found something that's pulled me strongly. I'm hopeful but also just having released something at the end of last year I'm sorta trying to figure out what my direction is right now. I'm sorta feeling a little lost, definitely excited and optimistic hoping that the fall will see us blooming into a new way of being and a new way of life. The first two months of 2021 have been a little mystifying. Thanks for hopping on today, how are you? How has the first half of 2021 been treating you? We sat down with Sam to take a deep dive into All I Am Is All I Hear, talk about the unifying power of music, his creative process, and so much more. Hearty, sometimes zesty, and cooked with love.” Besides, who better to describe his work than Sam himself Per the Bandcamp description, which is perfect, All I Am Is All I Hear is “A musical soup of sorts. Vulnerable and refreshing, Sam’s music satisfies a degree of nostalgic lingering we all walk around with but this time it's repackaged with the new knowledge of the present. This EP is a sonic representation of Sam taking inventory at a hard point in life, just like we all do. The first line on All I Am Is All I Hear (“I’m starting from scratch // I’m relearning my own name”) is a testimony to the discovery Sam would make throughout this process. All I Am Is All I Hear is Sam’s way of honoring all that influenced him and ultimately, gave him the tools to be able to make it his own. Entering his tweens and teens introduced Sam to Top 40 Radio and an array of R&B and Hip Hop that contributed to the artist’s chameleon-like approach to genres. He credits legends like Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Bob Marley, and many others as key inspirations in his craft. Crawling in the corners of the Chicago-based musician’s mind is a plethora of undeniably good music. Honoring the title, the five-track EP is a culmination of all the advice, wisdom, and words that have shaped Sam as a person and as a musician. Although initially panicked, this immersion into the past sent him on the journey of releasing his first EP, All I Am Is All I Hear, at the end of 2020. Tossed back home to his childhood bedroom in Portland, Samuel Aaron found himself back in the space where he first fell in love with music.
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