That’s pretty much who Bartholomew is to me. The album is about genuinely wanting to show someone that it’s ok for them to look at the world the way they look at the world, as long as they try to progress in it.
Instead I try to be honest and understanding in the environment I am in. Often, when you first meet them, they put on a show for you. You can’t really tell if someone’s intentions are genuine or not. I feel like a lot of times in this world people have motives. If you had to sum up the message of your new album, what would it be? I wrote the songs based on those characteristics. One thing is that he grew up in Never Neverland and was one of Peter Pan’s lost boys, the second is that he is a descendant of Captain Nemo, the third that he secretly works for NASA but he can’t tell anyone and the last is that he is ok with being in the friend zone. They are four solid things that he embodies at all times. I have a very random imagination, so I gave Bartholomew his own personal characteristics. When I was doing research on the name I found out about the principles of the apostles and thought, that’s cool. I used it to throw people off and make people a bit more open to talk to me. What is it about this apostle that made you want to use it as the title of the album? I try to adapt these different perspectives to what makes sense to me. I’ve become more open in understanding, or trying to understand, the way this world works. But yeah I don’t know, I just make art.įor me especially it is about the self, first and foremost. I try to take from all these different cultures to understand why it is segregated and why it is the way that it is. I’m not just a Jamaican man, or just a black man I find myself in Buddhism and Hinduism and you know, even Islam. What’s the role of religion or spirituality in your music? I noticed on your previous album cover you have a reference to Hinduism.
The title – Bartholomew – is the name of one of the 12 apostles.
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