Music is memoir in The Last Hour of Light.
The Last Hour of Light is the first album musician, producer, and podcast host Hrishikesh Hirway has released in fifteen years.
Hirway began working on the album in the months after his mother’s passing and while his father was in the hospital. Feeling into the heaviness of the moment, this album was born from a place of reflection. The deeply personal songs explore how quickly time can slip away and the grief that comes with letting go of people and places and the past.
As the host of the popular music podcast Song Exploder, Hirway asks musicians to share the creative process behind their songs, including any artifacts they have. Hirway has many artifacts of his own from the making of The Last Hour of Light, and he collected them as bonus features in a Dropbox folder he shared out at his album release party.
“My biggest fear these days has been forgetting. I’m doing everything I can to hold onto the stuff that’s important.”
Hirway has been using Dropbox as a digital archive and place to store his files and thoughts for over a decade. The folders contain everything from lyrics to voice memos to half-ideas to past versions of songs. Lately, he's turned to Dropbox Dash to find exactly what he’s looking for in an expanding archive of digital ephemera.
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