Welcome to Music Matters podcast with Daryl Craig Harris, talking about all things music,

with celebrities, artists, music business insiders, and more.

Michael Isaac, how are you doing today?

I'm doing good. I'm so excited to be on here with you, Daryl. Thank you so much.

Well, thank you for joining me. You're coming to us from New York City, but you're an L.A. guy originally, is that correct?

Originally, yeah, I'm born and raised in L.A., moved to New York in 2024 for school.

Yeah, that's quite a transition, as we know.

New York is fun, and there's, of course, tons of energy there.

And a lot of great talented musicians, of course, too.

So you have a single that was just recently released March 6th called Hold Your Keys. That's from your debut

album, because I think you had an actually EP out before, correct? Right, right, right, right.

This is my first studio recorded album project, so. And then your, yeah, your full album,

the debut album, the Carpet Maker comes out on May 15th, so that's coming up. That's not too far away.

Such a cool album, I was checking out, holding keys, and some of the other tracks, and I love

the sound because it's a mixture of cultures and vibes. Tell me about how you approach

writing this album, because it's different than your other tracks that you've released previously.

Totally. Yeah. I mean, I definitely, I started with a very kind of, not to say run of the mill, but definitely very inspired by indie folk artists and alternative, alternative singer-songwriter music.

And so when I first started putting out music, that was definitely the vibe I was going for.

I went through this period in around 2020-2020, where I just kind of got back into my roots

a little bit and just started remembering a lot of the music I listened to in childhood.

My parents are from Egypt. Both of them were born there.

So I grew up hearing a lot of Arabic music, and I love it so much.

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