The Story Behind Kahel at Bughaw

The album is named after its first track, which is also the simplest thing I've ever written. Two colours. A sky and an ocean. A moment that lasted maybe twenty minutes in real life and has lasted, somehow, much longer inside me.

'Kahel at Bughaw' — orange and blue — is a love song, obviously. But it's also something else. It's a song about the specific quality of light at dusk, and what that light does to the way you see the person standing next to you. How the ordinary becomes sacred when it's lit a certain way.

Where the Album Came From

I spent most of 2025 collecting feelings. Not writing songs yet — just paying attention. I kept notes on my phone: a conversation that ended badly, a meal that tasted like home, the specific silence of a hospital corridor, the strange pride of watching someone graduate. Small things. True things.

At some point I looked at the notes and realised I had an album. Not by planning it — by living it. The songs came out of that collection. Each one is a specific feeling, given a melody and a word and a duration.

What I Want You to Feel

I want you to hear something of your own life in this music. Not a mirror — a window, maybe. Something that shows you a version of an experience you've had, lit in a way that lets you see it differently.

The title track sets that intention. Orange and blue. The sky at the moment before dark. Whatever you were feeling when you last saw that — I wrote this for that version of you.