True Bypass by Wayward Atom

The title True Bypass translates to me as “pure conduit,” and that’s exactly how I felt during the making of this album that I was, and still am, simply a channel for the music. I don’t know where it comes from or why it flows through me, but I do know that throughout the creative process I saw myself as a vessel.

I deliberately put aside rational thought, past musical habits, and inherited perspectives, and instead began experimenting with something completely new, strange, and unexplainable which became the foundation of the whole album. I couldn’t control the creative wave the music seemed to move by itself. What I realized is this: if I cannot control it, the only thing I can do is to let it in exactly as it comes, in its pure form.

Throughout the process, I kept returning to Merab Mamardashvili’s phrase: “What do you know, besides what you know?” It became a guiding motif, because I often felt that my old views and perceptions were holding the music back, not allowing it to be fully spontaneous and expressive.