Heaven In My Head Issa Ibrahim 2013 music CD- Limited Edition, limited quantities collector’s item UPC 888174232959
I really hit my stride, writing, performing, and producing to the best of my abilities. Recorded, with the exception of ‘Welcome to The Rest of Your Life’ in my new Richmond Hill, Queens, NY studio apartment in a whirlwind 12-hour session. The super’s wife, who lived next door, heard me stomping and singing all. Night into the morning and thought I’d lost my mind…and perhaps, for a moment, I did.
Fave track- “WELCOME TO THE REST OF YOUR LIFE”. Just a few weeks after I won a court ordered release from Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in 2009, I stopped by my art studio at The Living Museum. One old friend and fellow artist asked, “You still locked up in building 40?” Everyone on the grounds seemed to ask that, proving I’d become a fixture at the hospital. I made it a point never to do so to anyone else, knowing how painful and embarrassing it was for me to say for years, “yeah, I’m still here”. When I told him I finally got out he offered a broad happy smile and said, “Welcome to the rest of your life.”
With that gift of a title the rest of the song was written in my longtime partner Susan's new apartment in Kew Gardens. Though I was living in a halfway house on the grounds of the hospital, getting released and spending time with Sue in her new digs showed me there were other possibilities and filled me with hope, which was appropriately conveyed in the composition and recording.
14 songs written, performed and produced by Issa Ibrahim. Limited quantities.
I really hit my stride, writing, performing, and producing to the best of my abilities. Recorded, with the exception of ‘Welcome to The Rest of Your Life’ in my new Richmond Hill, Queens, NY studio apartment in a whirlwind 12-hour session. The super’s wife, who lived next door, heard me stomping and singing all. Night into the morning and thought I’d lost my mind…and perhaps, for a moment, I did.
Fave track- “WELCOME TO THE REST OF YOUR LIFE”. Just a few weeks after I won a court ordered release from Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in 2009, I stopped by my art studio at The Living Museum. One old friend and fellow artist asked, “You still locked up in building 40?” Everyone on the grounds seemed to ask that, proving I’d become a fixture at the hospital. I made it a point never to do so to anyone else, knowing how painful and embarrassing it was for me to say for years, “yeah, I’m still here”. When I told him I finally got out he offered a broad happy smile and said, “Welcome to the rest of your life.”
With that gift of a title the rest of the song was written in my longtime partner Susan's new apartment in Kew Gardens. Though I was living in a halfway house on the grounds of the hospital, getting released and spending time with Sue in her new digs showed me there were other possibilities and filled me with hope, which was appropriately conveyed in the composition and recording.
14 songs written, performed and produced by Issa Ibrahim. Limited quantities.
I really hit my stride, writing, performing, and producing to the best of my abilities. Recorded, with the exception of ‘Welcome to The Rest of Your Life’ in my new Richmond Hill, Queens, NY studio apartment in a whirlwind 12-hour session. The super’s wife, who lived next door, heard me stomping and singing all. Night into the morning and thought I’d lost my mind…and perhaps, for a moment, I did.
Fave track- “WELCOME TO THE REST OF YOUR LIFE”. Just a few weeks after I won a court ordered release from Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in 2009, I stopped by my art studio at The Living Museum. One old friend and fellow artist asked, “You still locked up in building 40?” Everyone on the grounds seemed to ask that, proving I’d become a fixture at the hospital. I made it a point never to do so to anyone else, knowing how painful and embarrassing it was for me to say for years, “yeah, I’m still here”. When I told him I finally got out he offered a broad happy smile and said, “Welcome to the rest of your life.”
With that gift of a title the rest of the song was written in my longtime partner Susan's new apartment in Kew Gardens. Though I was living in a halfway house on the grounds of the hospital, getting released and spending time with Sue in her new digs showed me there were other possibilities and filled me with hope, which was appropriately conveyed in the composition and recording.
14 songs written, performed and produced by Issa Ibrahim. Limited quantities.