Hey Sithu - © 2026
The Question
How can someone you've never met help you rediscover yourself?
The Spark
During a long period when I had stepped away from writing and performing music, I discovered Sithu Aye's album Set Course for Andromeda.
It wasn't just the technical brilliance that captivated me. It was the way the album felt so thoughtfully constructed—shared musical motifs, extraordinary musicianship, and a cohesive emotional journey that made the entire work feel like a single conversation rather than a collection of songs.
Listening to it reminded me why I had fallen in love with music in the first place.
It didn't make me want to imitate what I was hearing.
It made me want to create again.
Hey Sithu became my way of saying thank you to an artist who unknowingly helped me find my way back.
The Journey
Hey Sithu isn't a song about a particular emotion or life event.
It's about rediscovering the simple joy of creating.
For the first time in a long time, I wasn't questioning why I was writing, what the music meant, or whether anyone would ever hear it. I was simply enjoying the process again. Every new melody led naturally to another idea. Every section became an excuse to see where the music wanted to go next.
The composition grew organically, driven less by a predetermined destination than by curiosity. I found myself exploring themes, building connections between ideas, and chasing the excitement that first made me fall in love with writing music years before.
In many ways, the piece became a conversation with the album that inspired it—not by copying its musical language, but by embracing the same sense of wonder and possibility that I had experienced as a listener.
More than anything, Hey Sithu captures the feeling of remembering why I create.
Sometimes the greatest gift another artist can give us isn't a new idea.
It's the desire to make something of our own.