What's up, so we're Timmy Toll here and we're actually on set shooting our new music video,
I think the last album that we did was called Humanity and I think that album, when I was
writing the songs for that album, a lot of those songs were born out of a lot of adversity.
We were going through a lot of changes in the band and I was going through a lot of
issues as well as having trouble singing, I had lost a ton of weight and so those songs
were actually all very, they came from a very painful place but I think what marked that
album was the fact that there was still a lot of hope in the music and I think with this
newest album and we're actually shooting a video for the title track on the album called
Mighty Sound, I think with this newest album there's more of a kind of triumphant, kind
of victorious kind of feel to it, not necessarily that things have all magically gotten better.
Yeah, so we never really wanted to pitch and pull ourselves into an Asian American band
or that identity but for us, the Asian American community has been really supportive.
We've been kind of finding the rate off a little bit, we haven't really done, other than
Humanity, we didn't do any video shoots, we didn't do very much publicity stunts or whatever
but the Asian American community especially has been really encouraging, always coming
on shows, asking about our new album, hey, one of you guys doing this, one of you guys
doing that, so for us, I've kind of gone through some up and down, it's been really encouraging
to have that community back us up in a way that we feel like, yeah, there's still some
kind of life left in us to pursue this career of music and all that.
And as far as just being a Christian Asian American, that's the thing that kind of flows
out of our music, whether that's directly intentional, we don't want to advertise
ourselves as a Christian band but I think that will just naturally reflect our hearts
and how we speak, I guess our faith, how that reflects our music, it will naturally come
out and how we play and how Tim writes the songs and stuff like that.
So all those identities, whether it's Asian American or Christianity, maybe are not explicit
but definitely they play a huge role in the way we form our music and our identity.
And you know, Andrew and I, when we started this, we never really thought about the fact
that we were Asian American and that dialogue didn't really come into the picture until
we started doing this.
As an Asian American, we were living in Charlottesville, Virginia, which is a predominately white town.
And so starting out when we tried to go to these restaurants, clubs, try to get our equipment
going, it was really hard because they would look at you like you guys are musicians.
So it's weird because I went to school in Virginia and Andrew went to school in Illinois
and we never had that in New York, Texas, so we never really had that kind of, you know,
we're from very diverse areas and kind of, you know, that, so when that came into picture,
it was really interesting to see how that played out for us.
