isahrai.com has been around for over a decade now. It started as a way for me to just play around with html code as I passed the time during a bad bout of insomnia. As I tinkered, I made some really ugly websites but I also tapped into a deep passion for the power that the internet holds for us as individuals and as a global community. Over the years, the website has transitioned from a testing ground to a poetry repository to a design portfolio (now located at irmacreative.com) to a personal blog & travelogue documenting my life in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. Over these past 10 years I’ve learned a lot about the inner workings of websites and even more about how I want to interact in the world, both in cyberspace and IRL. Thinking back on the many incarnations of isahrai.com is very much a walk in memory lane. The focus of the website at any given time is a very accurate reflection of what my life was focused on at the time and so now, voila, it’s MUSIC!
I’ve never labored so meticulously and with such trepidation on a website as this one. Music is my business so, of course, I wanted a very professional and thorough representation but, dude, it’s my music which is so very personal and so very intimately mine so there needs to be a reflection of that. Finding this balance has been a hard go that took many cups of coffee and a even a few tears. I finally had to have a friend “threaten” me with a deadline; either I finished the site or she would confiscate the case of red wine we had bought to celebrate the release of my album. I hunkered down, made decisions, got my creative groove on and wrapped it up, saving my red wine and my sanity.
This website is my primary portal for sharing my music, my calendar and everything else music related. This notebook, however, will probably take little detours into other passions such as yoga, travel, cooking, wine, social commentary and technology. These passions, obviously, leave their imprints on the melodies and lyrics of my music so why not carve out a little corner on the site as well?
So. Welcome! Feel free to poke around and come back for more. I’ll be here.
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