Behind the songlast release

Ape, performed alongside DeBee, was written during a deep and complex period of married and parenting life, mine and my wife’s. It tells the struggle between the desire to follow one’s dreams and the daily routine that wraps around you and holds you back, which at times feels like a loop with no way out.
The song takes shape through the metaphor of the bee: a small, tireless creature that works without rest, creates sweetness and life, yet is fragile and vulnerable. The bee only stings when threatened, but in doing so it sacrifices itself. Sometimes, even when trying to defend one’s freedom or make one’s voice heard, one gets hurt. A voice that fights to exist, fragile and nearly extinct, yet capable of changing the world if only given the chance.

The images flowing through the song reflect this tension between love and pain, golden light and deepest darkness, the colors of the bee’s own armor. They are real, lived moments in which the heart tries to find a balance between strength and fragility, between the need to protect those you love and the desire not to lose yourself.
Ape is also a gesture of resistance against the cold of society, a world that rewards the ordinary and silently suffocates those who dare to be different. It is the story of blooming again despite everything, of finding one’s voice even when it seems there is no room for it, of holding onto hope as one holds a small, fragile but powerful treasure. A voice that fights, that loves, that suffers, and that wants to bloom again.

The production blends acoustic sounds with rarefied atmospheres.