September 12, 2025 • 20 mins
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Sam Welch released his project The Republic in 2024 and now returns with a new album titled The Attic. Building on themes from his previous work such as spiritual transcendence, the album expands to explore healing, resolution, and hope.The title track showcases the vivid, imagery-driven lyricism Sam is known for. Inspired by memories of his grandmother’s attic and the eclectic artifacts within, the song also draws on the metaphor of a yard sale. Sam reflects on the idea that, much like items given new purpose, people carry lasting worth and value in the hands of God, regardless of how much time has passed. At its core, the song conveys hope—a message that serves as the foundation for the entire album.The Attic also delves into themes of healing and regeneration, which stem from Sam’s personal experiences during its creation. He faced health challenges, including worsening tinnitus and caring for his cat during a medical scare. With the help of hearing aids that dramatically improved his quality of life, Sam translated his journey of perseverance and renewal into the music.Though the process took longer than usual, Sam views the extended timeline as a blessing rather than a setback. Completing the album affirmed his creative drive and resilience, proving that he could continue to grow his catalog despite adversity. He also incorporated new techniques, such as the TC Helicon vocal doubling system, to enrich his harmonies and further elevate his sound.Spirituality remains a guiding force in his work. One track in particular connects to his single Jerusalem, which he regards as a Christian rock anthem. Producing his own music allows Sam to be deeply involved in every stage of the creative process, something he embraces fully.For Sam, music is about discovery and transformation. He values the unpredictable nature of creation and finds fulfillment in bringing songs to life. More importantly, he is inspired by the impact his music has on listeners. With The Attic, Sam Welch continues his mission to write from a place of community, faith, and healing—encouraging others to find hope and purpose through sound.
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Sam Welch released his project The Republic in 2024 and now returns with a new album titled The Attic. Building on themes from his previous work such as spiritual transcendence, the album expands to explore healing, resolution, and hope.The title track showcases the vivid, imagery-driven lyricism Sam is known for. Inspired by memories of his grandmother’s attic and the eclectic artifacts within, the song also draws on the metaphor of a yard sale. Sam reflects on the idea that, much like items given new purpose, people carry lasting worth and value in the hands of God, regardless of how much time has passed. At its core, the song conveys hope—a message that serves as the foundation for the entire album.The Attic also delves into themes of healing and regeneration, which stem from Sam’s personal experiences during its creation. He faced health challenges, including worsening tinnitus and caring for his cat during a medical scare. With the help of hearing aids that dramatically improved his quality of life, Sam translated his journey of perseverance and renewal into the music.Though the process took longer than usual, Sam views the extended timeline as a blessing rather than a setback. Completing the album affirmed his creative drive and resilience, proving that he could continue to grow his catalog despite adversity. He also incorporated new techniques, such as the TC Helicon vocal doubling system, to enrich his harmonies and further elevate his sound.Spirituality remains a guiding force in his work. One track in particular connects to his single Jerusalem, which he regards as a Christian rock anthem. Producing his own music allows Sam to be deeply involved in every stage of the creative process, something he embraces fully.For Sam, music is about discovery and transformation. He values the unpredictable nature of creation and finds fulfillment in bringing songs to life. More importantly, he is inspired by the impact his music has on listeners. With The Attic, Sam Welch continues his mission to write from a place of community, faith, and healing—encouraging others to find hope and purpose through sound.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:33):
Hi, everybody, Welcome to Creators to Creators. Today, today we
have a special.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Guest, Sam Walsh.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Welcome back, Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
You can see you.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Thanks absolutely so, you know, I love going to the beginning.
But for those that don't know, like you know about
the the young version of Sam Welsh and how you
know you became to be who you are now, tell
us a little bit about your childhood and when did music?
(01:07):
You know, when'd you get the love for music?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yeah? I have to keep reminding myself I'm not young anymore.
So anyway, I've been doing music since I was about
eight years old. I came from a I come from
a musical family. Started studying piano at around eight and
then I started studying vocals and choral stuff in high school,
and then in college I was in a men's a
(01:33):
cappella group, and then from there I went on to
start writing music in about two thousand.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Wow, that's awesome, you know, and you know, now you
have a single, a new single.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Out the actually a whole album, an.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Album, and you know, they they sent us like the
single the Addict, and I listened to it and it
was like, wow, well it's really truly different. Tell me
a little bit about like what inspired it and like
why now this new?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Well? I continue my work along the theme of addressing
issues related to what I call transcendence. I like to
talk about transitions from one world to another world, and
I thought the attic was a good metaphor for sort
of where we're going to be going at some point.
(02:31):
There's a lot of metaphors. There's a lot of sort
of different constructions in the song. If you think about
what an attic is, it's part of a house. So
the question is, well, if heaven is kind of like
an attic, is Heaven basically just a human construction? Does
it actually exist or is it just part of a house?
Like an attic is part of a house? So kind
(02:54):
of asking that question and also using some imagery in
the song. One of the images is viable with the
broken binding, So I'm kind of setting up a metaphor
for that, representing the idea of spiritual frustration, spiritual on ease,
(03:16):
a little bit something not being quite right. I talk
about the tuning of the radio. You know, when you're
in the status in the attic, you got to listen
to the static, thinking about you know, the great beyond
as something like radio radio play where you have static,
(03:36):
and then you can tune tune the static and actually
get a channel, an actual channel, which would be discovering
another level of reality basically. So that's that's another metaphor
in the song.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I love that you're you're you're asking these questions, you know,
for listeners to you know, Posey's kind of these questions
because I don't think a lot of people actually think
about those, these kind of deep introspect questions, honestly. But
you know my question, and I'm curious, since you know,
you've been on this journey of like these you know,
(04:11):
these I don't know, just just finding out more or
just understanding you know, what it all means. What would
you say, you know this, even with this this new
song and this new album that you discovered in this
this kind of new in this way that now that
you know, with this new music coming out and that
(04:33):
you released, what have you discovered so far?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
That I'm really I'm really proud of myself for producing
another album this year. Yeah, it's been a very difficult
year for me in a bunch of ways, and I'm
it's kind of a milestone for me because it's been
a rough year and it's affected the thematic content of
my music as well. About you know, the title of
(04:58):
the new album is The Attic Songs of Faith and Healing,
And the reason why I put that is because a
lot has gone on with me in the past year
that relate to having faith in the idea of healing
and resolution. I was involved in a very serious incident
(05:21):
last spring, not this past spring, but the spring before
where I had an incident in my music studio where
I was actually listening to my headphones. I had the
headphones on, I was just going about my business, but
there was feedback that came through the line and it
(05:43):
aggravated something known as tininus. I don't know if you've
ever heard of that tape.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yes, and it's like the ringing right.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Of the year. Yeah, a lot of musicians have it.
I've actually had it since I was about nineteen years old.
I've dealt with that my entire adult life. But for
some reason last spring, when this thing happened with the feedback,
it triggered the tenness reflex in my brain, and it
triggered it so severely that I really got severe tendonnists.
(06:12):
And I've had that since then. So it's you know,
I was really was. It was an existential struggle for
me when when it happened, I tried to figure something
out to see what I can do about it, and
everywhere where I went people were like, you know, there's
no cure for tennis. You just have to deal with it.
And it was a very frustrating search and a very
(06:35):
stress frustrating struggle for me to try and get that resolved.
So I think that you know, I went I even
went to church. I mean I went to church. I
talked to my pastor. He gave me, he kind of
gave me the cold shoulder and said, well, you know,
that's not a religious issue. You're not in some way.
I don't want to talk to you. And I literally
(06:57):
haven't been back to that church since then. I was
so the guy for not helping me. But so, but
the idea is that it is possible to maintain hope
no matter how dire the circumstances are. One of the
things that I did discover about tennis is that it
can be treated in certain ways. There's things you can
(07:19):
do to make it better. And one of the things
that I discovered was hearing aids. Believe it or not,
because the technology now is really good. They have things
on here in hearing aids that are called hearing they're
called tis maskers, and they produce what's known as pink noise,
which goes around the sound of the tennis and allows
(07:41):
your brain to listen to something else other than just
the noise that's coming out of your you know, your
your your brain, it's all that all that ringing, you know.
So it's been I think it's really restored the quality
of my life in a lot of ways. Well, the
downside is that when I when I perform and when
(08:05):
I work in my studio, I don't wear my hearing
aids because I don't like to. I don't you know,
I don't like to be around the potential for more
noise and exposure and have the hearing aids on, so
I take them off, and that means that the tendness
comes back. So it really I'm very very aware of
(08:26):
it when I'm when I'm not wearing the hearing aids.
So when I'm in my studio, it's like that when
I'm performing, And it's it's kind of ironic that, you know,
the thing that I love the most doing is the
thing that's the hardest for me to do now. But
I'm proud of myself for plowing ahead and actually getting
(08:47):
stuff done and doing what I have to do and
having it be, you know, content wise, a fairly normal year.
I mean, this eight song is eight tracks on it
and I'm still putting out it right now, and so
it's been a productive year.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I love that, and and you know, to to thank
you for sharing that, because you know, I I know
some people that deal with that too, and uh different,
I hear there's some people that have developed it, you know,
when they're in their thirties or in their twenties or
like whoa, it's you know, or sometimes some people get
it later. But I you know, one thing I did
(09:26):
hear about, you know, someone told me that, you know,
it was it was some type of appeal they take
to just kind of reduce the noise. And they sell
it at like some some stores. And I don't know,
I guess it depends on the severity of it, but uh,
they said it for the most part, you know, taking it.
If they take it on the regular, it you know,
(09:46):
it keeps it away. But I think, I mean, I
guess you would have to just keep taking them. That's
that's the case. But I don't know, I can definitely,
I don't really know the name, but I think it
something They definitely sell them at Walmart. But my friend
said it helped her, So.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Okay, yeah for anything. Sure that sounds yeah, that sounds great. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah, it's a pill and it's it's literally for for
that like for the I think I think it's something
ringing of the ear. It's it'll stay it on the box.
But yeah, he swears by it. But you know, I'm
so I love what you said. But in spite of
all that, you still put out the album, which you know, honestly,
it's just so amazing to hear, you know, you just
(10:36):
it just shows me you never know what life throws
out you and what people are going through, but we
see the product of what you put out. But I
didn't know the story until you shared with me, and
I appreciate that. So it just makes that, like your
art form that much more important. You know, it's like
you you still did it, and I just think that's
pretty awesome. Absolutely, what what's something you know? And on
(11:02):
this you know, uh, you know this this new this
this music And obviously with the process of making it,
you know, I'm sure there there was it like you
said it was, there's a lot of downfalls and things
like that. Tell me a little bit about the process
of making this particular one. And and did you use
(11:22):
like any new type of things, like like AI use
of things to make this project?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I did, actually, And I I just want to say
one more thing about faith and healing because I was
involved in a rather transformative experience with one of the
cats that I own, who's had a serious medical condition
her whole life. It resolved this spring because I switched
her to a better VET and she's doing great now.
(11:51):
She's she's actually having a little bit of a flare
up right now, but she has recovered from a serious
condition due to my switching or to another VET. So
I think that's one of the smartest things I ever
did in terms of caring for another living being that
wasn't sort of healing this year that I went through.
(12:13):
I want to talk a little bit about the material
that the materials that I use. I actually have a
new piece of equipment in my studio which is a
big part of the album this year. It's called a
It's called a core Pa one thousand, and it's known
as an arranger, and what it does is it produces
(12:36):
musical templates. But along with that, it's basically like a
synthesizer that has something known as a vocal doubler in it.
Doubler the doubling system allows one to create multiple vocal harmonies.
That's sort of the bread and butter of the sound
(12:57):
of my music. It's the thing that I've really trademarked
in terms of all my songs. They all have a
lot of vocal harmonization, and over the years I've developed
different use different vocal harmonizers. The harmonizer that I'm using
(13:18):
this year is by far the best one that I've had.
I actually did use this harmonizer about I don't know,
maybe five or ten years ago, and I sold it
and started experimenting with other harmonizers, and then I realized
that the one from the cord PA one thousand is
the best, and I finally went and got another one.
(13:40):
It's made by TC helicon Nice and it's a great
thing because it basically allows you to play the chords
on a piano and have that information sort of like MIDI.
I don't know if you know what MIDI is, but
it's an electronic signal that changes the instrument it has,
(14:01):
So basically it has the electronic information about the notes
and everything, but you play the piano keys and it
produces the vocal sounds. So when you play the chords
on the piano, you'll hear the vocal sounds and that's
that's where the harmonies are. So it's a great way
to create vocal harmony, and it's it's it's sort of
(14:23):
the new area that I'm kind of focusing on right
now in terms of the music from here on out,
is continuing to experiment with different chord progressions on the
piano that I'll get translated into different harmonic progressions vocally.
So it's it's been a really fun thing to use.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I love that. Do you you know, do you feel
like music can be healing, like because of the frequencies
and things that you put like you if you listen
to the music over and over against almost like trance like.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
I do, do I think I don't. I don't listen
to my music enough, actually, but I like, I mean,
I can almost feel like the music is talking to
me when I when I listen to my songs, I'll
hear myself saying things through the music, and it will
be kind of like a almost like a diary of
(15:20):
something that you've recorded that's kind of speaks back to you. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah, that's cool, you know, because you know, I know
this was that this this album really talks about, right,
you know, healing and resolution. I think that's important. I
think we all need it, and especially a time that
we live in now with with there's so much going
on around the world when you when you look on
you know, uh.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
TV.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
But what's one thing you want people to take away
from this album?
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Just the idea that in the dark times, there's possibility
of returning to more illuminated times and that there's an
interplay in life between light and darkness, and the light
is not the light without the darkness, so it sort
of it takes both, you know, it takes both worlds
to get the full spectrum. And that one of the
(16:16):
songs is actually called Twilight, and it's about the interplay
of light and dark and you know, just like morning
goes tonight, night goes to morning, and the two things
are directly part of each other. So I just looking
at my history as a musician, I've struggled with all
(16:37):
kinds of disability over the years, especially actually emotional sort
of psychiatric disability, and I think my music speaks to
people who have struggled like that themselves, who want it
to want some reassurance that things will get better and
come back to where they were. So that's kind of
who I'm speaking to.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I love I love that, and I think that it's
so important and thank you for that for that kind
of message. Really quick, What advice, really quick would you
give to someone that wants to you know, that are
that that has a lot of things that they're going through,
and you know there's a lot that's maybe it's just
hard to get music out there. How would you encourage
(17:20):
that person that's trying to do that too that what
you're doing.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Well, don't do it for marketing purposes. Do it for
the experience of doing it. Don't don't think that it's
going to be providing a paycheck, don't think it's it's
going to be things that you think it's going to
be that it might be, that probably won't be because
it's easy to have high expectations that are kind of
(17:45):
not met. With this whole business. I was thinking that
I would make a lot of money going into it,
and that hasn't happened. I mean, it may happen in
the future, but the main thing for me is it's
been an outlet for me emotionally, spiritually. It's been a
way of kind of just materializing the things that I
(18:08):
think about. And if you can get that sort of
objectively in the world, then it's like a part of
yourself has gotten gone out and become real and that
creative process is really rewarding.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, you're you're so right, it is rewarding. Again, thank
you so much for coming on. It's always a pleasure
to catch up and talk to you, and thank you
for you know, making music that we need that will
provide that healing, and that does heal us because I
appreciate artists like yourself that that doesn't follow the masses
(18:49):
but creates their own lane. So thank you for that. Sam,
You're welcome absolutely. Where can people find you on social
media to follow everything you have going on and to
get all your new music, they.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Can find me, Sam Welch is well. My My website
is Sam Welch Boston dot com. You can listen to
all my music for free on there. You can sign up.
I have a quarterly newsletter that I put out that's
free that you can sign up for. I'm also streaming
(19:22):
on SoundCloud and I've got a presence you can look
me up on. I've got a I've got a YouTube
content page. I've got TikTok, Facebook, Instagram. So doing a
lot better. I took a actually took a music marketing
course at Berkeley College of Music last winter. Wow. It
(19:43):
gave me a great game plan of things to work on.
It kind of made it clear what's involved with the
whole process. So that's been great.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You know, it's okay, it's amazing. How you know that's
great that you took a lot. I think I need
to take one too. I mean, I know a lot
about marketing, but it is a lot that goes into
like putting stuff out and like it's like a machine.
You got to continue to do it. It's like, you know,
it's pretty cool, but you're doing a great job and
fantastic work. As always, it's great to see you again,
(20:13):
and thank you so much everyone for listening and always
remember to live, love, laugh. We'll see you guys next time.
Bye bye.
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Speaker 3 (00:33):
Hi, everybody, Welcome to Creators to Creators. Today, today we
have a special.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Guest, Sam Walsh.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Welcome back, Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
You can see you.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Thanks absolutely so, you know, I love going to the beginning.
But for those that don't know, like you know about
the the young version of Sam Welsh and how you
know you became to be who you are now, tell
us a little bit about your childhood and when did music?
(01:07):
You know, when'd you get the love for music?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yeah? I have to keep reminding myself I'm not young anymore.
So anyway, I've been doing music since I was about
eight years old. I came from a I come from
a musical family. Started studying piano at around eight and
then I started studying vocals and choral stuff in high school,
and then in college I was in a men's a
(01:33):
cappella group, and then from there I went on to
start writing music in about two thousand.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Wow, that's awesome, you know, and you know, now you
have a single, a new single.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Out the actually a whole album, an.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Album, and you know, they they sent us like the
single the Addict, and I listened to it and it
was like, wow, well it's really truly different. Tell me
a little bit about like what inspired it and like
why now this new?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Well? I continue my work along the theme of addressing
issues related to what I call transcendence. I like to
talk about transitions from one world to another world, and
I thought the attic was a good metaphor for sort
of where we're going to be going at some point.
(02:31):
There's a lot of metaphors. There's a lot of sort
of different constructions in the song. If you think about
what an attic is, it's part of a house. So
the question is, well, if heaven is kind of like
an attic, is Heaven basically just a human construction? Does
it actually exist or is it just part of a house?
Like an attic is part of a house? So kind
(02:54):
of asking that question and also using some imagery in
the song. One of the images is viable with the
broken binding, So I'm kind of setting up a metaphor
for that, representing the idea of spiritual frustration, spiritual on ease,
(03:16):
a little bit something not being quite right. I talk
about the tuning of the radio. You know, when you're
in the status in the attic, you got to listen
to the static, thinking about you know, the great beyond
as something like radio radio play where you have static,
(03:36):
and then you can tune tune the static and actually
get a channel, an actual channel, which would be discovering
another level of reality basically. So that's that's another metaphor
in the song.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I love that you're you're you're asking these questions, you know,
for listeners to you know, Posey's kind of these questions
because I don't think a lot of people actually think
about those, these kind of deep introspect questions, honestly. But
you know my question, and I'm curious, since you know,
you've been on this journey of like these you know,
(04:11):
these I don't know, just just finding out more or
just understanding you know, what it all means. What would
you say, you know this, even with this this new
song and this new album that you discovered in this
this kind of new in this way that now that
you know, with this new music coming out and that
(04:33):
you released, what have you discovered so far?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
That I'm really I'm really proud of myself for producing
another album this year. Yeah, it's been a very difficult
year for me in a bunch of ways, and I'm
it's kind of a milestone for me because it's been
a rough year and it's affected the thematic content of
my music as well. About you know, the title of
(04:58):
the new album is The Attic Songs of Faith and Healing,
And the reason why I put that is because a
lot has gone on with me in the past year
that relate to having faith in the idea of healing
and resolution. I was involved in a very serious incident
(05:21):
last spring, not this past spring, but the spring before
where I had an incident in my music studio where
I was actually listening to my headphones. I had the
headphones on, I was just going about my business, but
there was feedback that came through the line and it
(05:43):
aggravated something known as tininus. I don't know if you've
ever heard of that tape.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yes, and it's like the ringing right.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Of the year. Yeah, a lot of musicians have it.
I've actually had it since I was about nineteen years old.
I've dealt with that my entire adult life. But for
some reason last spring, when this thing happened with the feedback,
it triggered the tenness reflex in my brain, and it
triggered it so severely that I really got severe tendonnists.
(06:12):
And I've had that since then. So it's you know,
I was really was. It was an existential struggle for
me when when it happened, I tried to figure something
out to see what I can do about it, and
everywhere where I went people were like, you know, there's
no cure for tennis. You just have to deal with it.
And it was a very frustrating search and a very
(06:35):
stress frustrating struggle for me to try and get that resolved.
So I think that you know, I went I even
went to church. I mean I went to church. I
talked to my pastor. He gave me, he kind of
gave me the cold shoulder and said, well, you know,
that's not a religious issue. You're not in some way.
I don't want to talk to you. And I literally
(06:57):
haven't been back to that church since then. I was
so the guy for not helping me. But so, but
the idea is that it is possible to maintain hope
no matter how dire the circumstances are. One of the
things that I did discover about tennis is that it
can be treated in certain ways. There's things you can
(07:19):
do to make it better. And one of the things
that I discovered was hearing aids. Believe it or not,
because the technology now is really good. They have things
on here in hearing aids that are called hearing they're
called tis maskers, and they produce what's known as pink noise,
which goes around the sound of the tennis and allows
(07:41):
your brain to listen to something else other than just
the noise that's coming out of your you know, your
your your brain, it's all that all that ringing, you know.
So it's been I think it's really restored the quality
of my life in a lot of ways. Well, the
downside is that when I when I perform and when
(08:05):
I work in my studio, I don't wear my hearing
aids because I don't like to. I don't you know,
I don't like to be around the potential for more
noise and exposure and have the hearing aids on, so
I take them off, and that means that the tendness
comes back. So it really I'm very very aware of
(08:26):
it when I'm when I'm not wearing the hearing aids.
So when I'm in my studio, it's like that when
I'm performing, And it's it's kind of ironic that, you know,
the thing that I love the most doing is the
thing that's the hardest for me to do now. But
I'm proud of myself for plowing ahead and actually getting
(08:47):
stuff done and doing what I have to do and
having it be, you know, content wise, a fairly normal year.
I mean, this eight song is eight tracks on it
and I'm still putting out it right now, and so
it's been a productive year.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I love that, and and you know, to to thank
you for sharing that, because you know, I I know
some people that deal with that too, and uh different,
I hear there's some people that have developed it, you know,
when they're in their thirties or in their twenties or
like whoa, it's you know, or sometimes some people get
it later. But I you know, one thing I did
(09:26):
hear about, you know, someone told me that, you know,
it was it was some type of appeal they take
to just kind of reduce the noise. And they sell
it at like some some stores. And I don't know,
I guess it depends on the severity of it, but uh,
they said it for the most part, you know, taking it.
If they take it on the regular, it you know,
(09:46):
it keeps it away. But I think, I mean, I
guess you would have to just keep taking them. That's
that's the case. But I don't know, I can definitely,
I don't really know the name, but I think it
something They definitely sell them at Walmart. But my friend
said it helped her, So.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Okay, yeah for anything. Sure that sounds yeah, that sounds great. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah, it's a pill and it's it's literally for for
that like for the I think I think it's something
ringing of the ear. It's it'll stay it on the box.
But yeah, he swears by it. But you know, I'm
so I love what you said. But in spite of
all that, you still put out the album, which you know, honestly,
it's just so amazing to hear, you know, you just
(10:36):
it just shows me you never know what life throws
out you and what people are going through, but we
see the product of what you put out. But I
didn't know the story until you shared with me, and
I appreciate that. So it just makes that, like your
art form that much more important. You know, it's like
you you still did it, and I just think that's
pretty awesome. Absolutely, what what's something you know? And on
(11:02):
this you know, uh, you know this this new this
this music And obviously with the process of making it,
you know, I'm sure there there was it like you
said it was, there's a lot of downfalls and things
like that. Tell me a little bit about the process
of making this particular one. And and did you use
(11:22):
like any new type of things, like like AI use
of things to make this project?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I did, actually, And I I just want to say
one more thing about faith and healing because I was
involved in a rather transformative experience with one of the
cats that I own, who's had a serious medical condition
her whole life. It resolved this spring because I switched
her to a better VET and she's doing great now.
(11:51):
She's she's actually having a little bit of a flare
up right now, but she has recovered from a serious
condition due to my switching or to another VET. So
I think that's one of the smartest things I ever
did in terms of caring for another living being that
wasn't sort of healing this year that I went through.
(12:13):
I want to talk a little bit about the material
that the materials that I use. I actually have a
new piece of equipment in my studio which is a
big part of the album this year. It's called a
It's called a core Pa one thousand, and it's known
as an arranger, and what it does is it produces
(12:36):
musical templates. But along with that, it's basically like a
synthesizer that has something known as a vocal doubler in it.
Doubler the doubling system allows one to create multiple vocal harmonies.
That's sort of the bread and butter of the sound
(12:57):
of my music. It's the thing that I've really trademarked
in terms of all my songs. They all have a
lot of vocal harmonization, and over the years I've developed
different use different vocal harmonizers. The harmonizer that I'm using
(13:18):
this year is by far the best one that I've had.
I actually did use this harmonizer about I don't know,
maybe five or ten years ago, and I sold it
and started experimenting with other harmonizers, and then I realized
that the one from the cord PA one thousand is
the best, and I finally went and got another one.
(13:40):
It's made by TC helicon Nice and it's a great
thing because it basically allows you to play the chords
on a piano and have that information sort of like MIDI.
I don't know if you know what MIDI is, but
it's an electronic signal that changes the instrument it has,
(14:01):
So basically it has the electronic information about the notes
and everything, but you play the piano keys and it
produces the vocal sounds. So when you play the chords
on the piano, you'll hear the vocal sounds and that's
that's where the harmonies are. So it's a great way
to create vocal harmony, and it's it's it's sort of
(14:23):
the new area that I'm kind of focusing on right
now in terms of the music from here on out,
is continuing to experiment with different chord progressions on the
piano that I'll get translated into different harmonic progressions vocally.
So it's it's been a really fun thing to use.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I love that. Do you you know, do you feel
like music can be healing, like because of the frequencies
and things that you put like you if you listen
to the music over and over against almost like trance like.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
I do, do I think I don't. I don't listen
to my music enough, actually, but I like, I mean,
I can almost feel like the music is talking to
me when I when I listen to my songs, I'll
hear myself saying things through the music, and it will
be kind of like a almost like a diary of
(15:20):
something that you've recorded that's kind of speaks back to you. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah, that's cool, you know, because you know, I know
this was that this this album really talks about, right,
you know, healing and resolution. I think that's important. I
think we all need it, and especially a time that
we live in now with with there's so much going
on around the world when you when you look on
you know, uh.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
TV.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
But what's one thing you want people to take away
from this album?
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Just the idea that in the dark times, there's possibility
of returning to more illuminated times and that there's an
interplay in life between light and darkness, and the light
is not the light without the darkness, so it sort
of it takes both, you know, it takes both worlds
to get the full spectrum. And that one of the
(16:16):
songs is actually called Twilight, and it's about the interplay
of light and dark and you know, just like morning
goes tonight, night goes to morning, and the two things
are directly part of each other. So I just looking
at my history as a musician, I've struggled with all
(16:37):
kinds of disability over the years, especially actually emotional sort
of psychiatric disability, and I think my music speaks to
people who have struggled like that themselves, who want it
to want some reassurance that things will get better and
come back to where they were. So that's kind of
who I'm speaking to.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I love I love that, and I think that it's
so important and thank you for that for that kind
of message. Really quick, What advice, really quick would you
give to someone that wants to you know, that are
that that has a lot of things that they're going through,
and you know there's a lot that's maybe it's just
hard to get music out there. How would you encourage
(17:20):
that person that's trying to do that too that what
you're doing.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Well, don't do it for marketing purposes. Do it for
the experience of doing it. Don't don't think that it's
going to be providing a paycheck, don't think it's it's
going to be things that you think it's going to
be that it might be, that probably won't be because
it's easy to have high expectations that are kind of
(17:45):
not met. With this whole business. I was thinking that
I would make a lot of money going into it,
and that hasn't happened. I mean, it may happen in
the future, but the main thing for me is it's
been an outlet for me emotionally, spiritually. It's been a
way of kind of just materializing the things that I
(18:08):
think about. And if you can get that sort of
objectively in the world, then it's like a part of
yourself has gotten gone out and become real and that
creative process is really rewarding.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, you're you're so right, it is rewarding. Again, thank
you so much for coming on. It's always a pleasure
to catch up and talk to you, and thank you
for you know, making music that we need that will
provide that healing, and that does heal us because I
appreciate artists like yourself that that doesn't follow the masses
(18:49):
but creates their own lane. So thank you for that. Sam,
You're welcome absolutely. Where can people find you on social
media to follow everything you have going on and to
get all your new music, they.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Can find me, Sam Welch is well. My My website
is Sam Welch Boston dot com. You can listen to
all my music for free on there. You can sign up.
I have a quarterly newsletter that I put out that's
free that you can sign up for. I'm also streaming
(19:22):
on SoundCloud and I've got a presence you can look
me up on. I've got a I've got a YouTube
content page. I've got TikTok, Facebook, Instagram. So doing a
lot better. I took a actually took a music marketing
course at Berkeley College of Music last winter. Wow. It
(19:43):
gave me a great game plan of things to work on.
It kind of made it clear what's involved with the
whole process. So that's been great.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You know, it's okay, it's amazing. How you know that's
great that you took a lot. I think I need
to take one too. I mean, I know a lot
about marketing, but it is a lot that goes into
like putting stuff out and like it's like a machine.
You got to continue to do it. It's like, you know,
it's pretty cool, but you're doing a great job and
fantastic work. As always, it's great to see you again,
(20:13):
and thank you so much everyone for listening and always
remember to live, love, laugh. We'll see you guys next time.
Bye bye.
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