This is one of many songs I made in Tarzana, Los Angeles in 2008.
I tried to work on a new song every day for three months.
I worked out the arrangement on an acoustic bass and guitar. And recorded it that way, and started to layer parts. Adding a string section. Then we I tried to alternate between a rock arrangement and acoustic backing between every stop in the song.
Making the stops work was challenging by itself.
I ended up recording "My Name Is Life" live in the studio with Bjørn Tore Tarranger. I remember recording the vocals on Christmas eve and mixing it on my birthday. Not purposely.
The lyrics are about the power of perspective, how you look at things can have a self-fulfilling effect, or what you see is often what you'll get.
It was meant to be released with "The Creature With One Trillion Eyes" album; the first real album with my "Desert Son" project. The album was originally supposed to be named "Tarzania Album" an internal joke that came from a wrong-spelling on the region we were staying in.
Tarzana: the home of writer Edgar Rice Burroughs.