BEGINNING FROM THE END
Electric cellist, classical cellist, and soundtrack composer Brianna Tam unknowingly began the conception of her second album, I AM, back in 2019 – even before the creation of her debut album, Growth. It started with a melancholy melody, and grew into a piece temporarily titled, “Stuck in a Rut.” The piece was forgotten about until its rediscovery in 2022. After completely rewriting it into the epically stunning and cinematic piece that it is known as today, Brianna retitled it as, “Bioluminescence,” thereby marking the beginning of her journey into I AM.
Although “Bioluminescence” is the last track on I AM, it was the first to be completed. It’s a depiction of what happiness and fulfillment feel like to Brianna, and was written during a time when those feelings were scarce. Surrounded by thoughts of emptiness and despair, Brianna knew that focusing on the fulfillment of her desires would deliver her out of the darkness and into the light. In essence, Brianna fixated on the end from the beginning.
WHAT IS I AM?
I AM is a Hero’s Journey. It’s a tumultuous odyssey towards finding fulfillment, happiness, and peace from within, rather than from without. Inspired by Brianna’s own life-changing inner journey, I AM ventures into those incredibly dark and vulnerable places within us that people often deny or hide from. However, it is in these shadows that one may understand their responsibility in creating the chaos and dismay in their lives, and therefore rise to a place of creating goodness and light instead.
I AM is what happens when the Red Pill is taken. I AM is the result of reaching rock bottom. I AM is the consequence of curiosity, and the only way out is to realize that I AM.
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