Since early in his career, Pannavich Weswibul has created songs that narrate his experiences with in-betweenness: moving from Thailand to the UK before turning 18, living between two cultures, friendships and their loss, and different stages of life and what they become. His songs reflect a quiet and contemplative refusal of emotional specificity, turning his experience and memories into a sonic space that remains open regardless of life’s continuous changes. Grown Out of It, his last single, part of the upcoming album titled Love is teceive aglimpse, reflects exactly on this emotional framework. The song is a mix of sounds of nature with live instruments, recreating the changing dynamic of his school friend group in Thailand. Deep down, it addresses the transition from childhood to adulthood and his declaration of loyalty to his high school friends in Thailand despite their changing lives.

At the root of his practice, the artist takes inspiration from Porter Robinson’s “Nurture”, Alexander Panos’s "Nascent", and phritz’s “しりべつのほとりにて”,  artists who pioneered the genre Botanica. This type of music blends electronic elements with live instrument recordings and sounds from nature, such as trees, water, and animals. In this case, the artist uses this as the foundation to create a sonic narrative around childhood memory, identity, and social awareness. Through his compositions, listeners are encouraged to “feel the grass” or “smell the rain", establishing a deep emotional bond with the audience.

Another layer of Weswibul's work is the subliminal connection message of environmental preservation and the unmarginalisation of immigrants, but rather than being normative or didactic about it, Weswibul weaves it within his compositions to become a subconscious tether for change. As the artist believes we can foster a natural desire for preservation and respect by making nature an integral part of the listener’s sensory experience. Weswibul’s compositions are ultimately a sensory search for belonging, intentionally using natural elements to create a soundscape that recreates elemental experience, hoping to naturally bridge the gap between the environment and the listeners. Furthermore, the artist argues that relatability is better than rhetoric, using shared experience to transform his personal memories into a collective reconnection with childhood and nature.

“I think the most effective way for people to understand the importance of these issues is to relate these problems to their own experiences. For instance, I’ve often talked about the nature in my songs or include a lot of nature sounds and imagery within my releases. I believe that if nature becomes a part of the aesthetic that is woven into the craft itself, people will be more willing to understand what it means to preserve them," the artist explained in our interview.

While Weswibul has a more subtle approach in his art, he also engages in direct action to support social and ecological causes, participating actively in events to raise money for charity, such as the “Knots” event held in March of this year. In addition, he creates opportunities for community education through upcoming projects like “Echoes Of Hometown", where the artist aims to educate and expose audiences to underrepresented heritages, which further expands his mission of global connection and mutual understanding.

Weswibul’s upcoming album, Love is teceive aglimpse is deeply personal and stems from a mix of philosophical inquiry and a specific family memory. Inspired by a visit to his grandpa’s sister in Thailand and the misspelt phrase on her wall that later took on new meaning after her death, the album turns a family memory into the embodiment of love, grief and the fragile clarity of human connection. The album reflects the culmination of the artist's growth. Rather than treating the event as a simple personal anecdote, the artist goes beyond melody to investigate how love is felt more intensely when mixed with the partial, the uncertain, and the already slipping away. In this sense, the album extends his practice beyond nostalgia; in turn, it leads us through the power of intimacy and how it can become something reflective and fragile.

“I wish that this album could provide a different understanding to the concept of love and greed and how we would be the most satisfied with ourselves when we stopped chasing.” The artist explains.

This concern with connection extends beyond his recordings into his wider practice. Through upcoming projects, such as a DJ night and workshops called "Rave From Hometown” happening on the 20th of August and “Echoes Of Hometown" on the 16th of August, Weswibul expands music into a space of education, curation, and collective recognition. The former is a curation of DJs playing dance genres from traditionally under-represented heritage, and the latter is a workshop for music producers to sample music from different countries they may never have encountered before. These initiatives do more than promote undervalued heritage; they turn music into a space of shared culture, exchange, memory and belonging across differences. Aside from being part of these events, the artist is also part of a radio show called "Music from Hometown", where the same idea applies, where music can be both deeply personal and quietly communal and where underappreciated music is given space to be heard. For anyone who has listened to or danced to Weswibul’s music will know it possesses somatic sensorial-affective properties, whereby we are reminded that even in a state of transit between cultures, we can find a "home" through the harmony of nature, memory, and the honest pursuit of love.

Know more about the artist here.

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The artist performing on stage. Courtesy of the artist.