David SweetLow

**The name is the answer. The life behind it is not.** There is a voice, and there is a name — and beyond that, nothing you need to know. What carries the songs is plain words, in English with flashes of Japanese and Spanish, set to places you can almost stand in — Hokkaido's wind, an Ishikari river, a secluded Shinto shrine. More than a hundred of them, told in one voice, no explanation asked. The voice does not perform identity. It performs his truth. ## Statement > I write songs about the things we carry and the things we let go. Love that got away. People who found it and never lost it and those who did. The quiet fear we all carry inside. I'm not trying to be overly clever — I'm trying to be honest how I see the world, and I want each line to sound like no one else said it quite in the same way. Who I am and where I come from is not important, my message to the world is in my words & music.