Interview with Colton Claye

Love Music: What led to the change in style from the last EP?

Going through projects I had started I felt these songs sort of fit together in both sound and themes. The first EP seemed to focus a lot on how what we call "toxic masculinity" isn't confined to gender, but more a product of power, this one tends to be preoccupied with technology and personal transformation and how they impact each other.

Love Music: What's the reason behind choosing this name for the EP?

I enjoy the work Jonathan Haidt has done on where we tend to agree and disagree in society and he was discussing how so many rules in cultures tend to stem from our feelings about bodily processes such as eating, sex, menstruation, death, etc. and I had felt there was a great title in there. Since these songs mention food more than usual and i'm often looking at things through a lens of sex and death anyway, I figured , well here is the time for it.

Love Music: Any idea why food was such a concern in these lyrics?

Nothing I intended, but I would imagine it would be because it is essential to our survival and it weaves its way into two things i'm preoccupied with. First is the injustice of viewing other beings as food . And second, i'm committed to the idea that we are just heading for more and more problems until we finally start to understand the tragedy of the commons and start using a mix of idealism and technology as instruments with designs on breaking free of limitations and nature's indifference toward us. I can't hear another leader gain applause for a platform of creating more jobs , I want to hear someone who is interested in creating more leisure, even if that reality is generations away.

Love Music:  How did you decide to cover the song "Lord of the dance?"

I was taking a course on the history of dance and the professor shared the lyrics. I was instantly inspired to put those words of personal transformation through dance to a sound that was more in the direction of Studio 54 and that modern context where we use sex, drugs and disco to exhaust the body and transcend it.

Love Music: Any particular musicians that inspired the sound on this EP?

There is something of late 80s Leonard Cohen when he was first trying out keyboards. I think most of it was inspired by the music Al Di Meola did with Jan Hammer and Chick Corea or some of Pat Metheny- that looseness of jazz coming out of modern technology. And also Darryl Hall and John Oates and their ability to use a very concise and tight form of music and you still hear authenticity and freedom in there. I fell far short of those standards and my hopes in every way and hesitated to even share the results but the search for soul and striving for something greater, making that choice gives the whole adventure a meaning and makes it worth having gone on it.

Love Music: Are you on social media?

You can connect with me here-- https://coltonclaye.wixsite.com/home/music