Ben Talmi On His Album ‘My Art Of Almost,’ Dedication To Music [VIDEO EXCLUSIVE]

Ben Talmi on New Album, Influences, and… by Uinterview

Ben Talmi is a musician, plain and simple. Growing up, Talmi was inundated with classical music and learned how to play the violin. By the time he was a young teen, he was introduced to the world of pop and MTV. Now, living in some strange brew of the two, Talmi has released his newest album, My Art of Almost.

Talmi recently sat down with uInterview to discuss the new album, its influences, and his lifelong love of music.

My Art of Almost, Talmi says, comes a from a place of honest self-reflection, at least in relation to his creative process.

“[The album is] kind of a self analysis of the artistic process,” Talmi told uInterview. “For me, it was very much two years of being in my studio and really only focusing on the creative process and nothing else. So naturally, what I was writing was just about that.”

The title of the album comes from a fairly similar place. “The title … comes from that very process of writing, making something, putting it out into the world, seeing it kind of fail, and then doing it all over again.”

Through the failure, Talmi continues to make music. It is something he always had done.

“[I’ve made] music from a very young age,” Talmi said. “I really have never done anything else with my life.”

It started first with the classical music he listened to and played as a young child and then with pop music he listened to as a teen.

“[My sound] is really the result of growing up listening to only classical music in the household and not really knowing about the world of pop, and then being ten years old in 1999, the peak of the music industry and TRL was beamed into my head,” said Talmi.

Less than a month removed from the release of his album, Talmi promises to continue to create, no matter what.

About his dedication to music, he said with a smile, “I will never stop.”

My Art of Almost is available on all major music platforms.