We had the good fortune of connecting with Damon Arabsolgar and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Damon, what led you to pursuing a creative path professionally?
I don’t know exactly if someone can say they truly have chosen an artistic career. Although, I do know for sure that every time I have gone further away from it, I have had autoimmune reactions in various parts of my body. I remember one time when, on a car trip, I was feeling very frustrated due to the hives that I was feeling all over my body, so I stopped to play my guitar at a gas station and the problem disappeared immediately.

I remember quitting a warehouse job for other autoimmune reactions, which have now become clear red flags for me. They remind me of what belongs to my identity and what needs to be eradicated, or at least reduced.
I think that the relationship we have with breathing, food, bacterial flora, and vocation is much more impactful than what we usually call “free will”, which I tend to believe less and less as the years go by.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
Getting to where I am today has not been an easy process, and I am very proud of each chapter of this story. My path has been slow but steady, a steep path made of a lot of perseverance and faith in a bigger vision.

It’s something I could have never imagined, and I was able to reach it mostly because of my stubbornness, my ability to make imaginary things real, and a lot of involvement and effort coming from the people around me.
It has been very hard to be able to reconcile the child within me with the challenges of the world out there.

I realized that, at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is not the final result but the journey and the relationships you build along the way.
Relationships remain; results, on the other hand, are ephemeral.

Friends allow you to get back up, to have the resources to start again and build something even more incredible, they remind you what your real identity is when you feel like you can’t believe in it anymore.

My story is the one of a second-generation child growing up in the suburbs, with no prior knowledge regarding the arts, who began to believe in a dream even though he didn’t even know what it meant and, slowly, has convinced his whole world.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
My artistic choices have led me not to have a stable place I can call home. Home has become the people I work with, the places I return to, the backpack in which I keep my belongings, my musical instruments, the hotels, the stages, the people who organize festivals, and my father’s carpet that I always carry with me on tour.

This lifestyle allows me to spend a week in the mountains, a week at the sea, a week in a city around the world, always having clothes in the trunk of my car, always having a few friends in each of the cities I pass by, ready to go out one night, walking until dawn.

I would take him with me for a week, see together where life takes us.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
Making music is an exquisite collective lifestyle.

It’s not a solo trip, you can only stay afloat thanks to those who swim with you every day.

The list of people that I’m grateful for is endless, from my family to my partner to each of my collaborators, directors, sound engineers, musicians, agents, managers, promoters, and every single person who comes to my concerts.

Website: https://damonarabsolgar.bandcamp.com/merch/geologia-delle-iridi

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/damon.ar/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCSElcFlVRc

Image Credits
Ginevra Battaglia

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