Alex Tsaga, from his project, LightlongLife, speaks with us about his latest single, ‘Living A Moment‘.
Hey Alex, great to connect! What led you to start LightlongLife after your time in the Amazon?
Those experiences in the Amazon jungle were incredibly powerful and profound for me. Before that, I was playing heavy music in a hardcore band, and later I realized why I was so drawn to that kind of sound – I had a lot of heaviness and unresolved emotion inside myself.
I think a lot of people unconsciously search for ways to release their inner darkness, pain, fear, anger, or confusion. Music was one of those ways for me.
During my time in the Amazon, especially through the ayahuasca experiences, I went through a very deep emotional purge. It felt like confronting everything hidden inside me and letting it go. And after that, something shifted. It felt like moving from darkness into light.
Also, I received profound insights into common existential questions about life, death, God, purpose, and who I am. It was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life.
After that, I felt an enormous wave of inspiration and creative energy. LightlongLife was born from the desire to translate those inner experiences using the power of music, lyrics, visuals, and emotion – to create art that helps people feel more connected to themselves and to life itself.
You’ve lived in many places. How has that shaped your music?
Yeah, definitely living in different places shaped me a lot, because every place has its own energy, culture, people, and emotional atmosphere. Traveling gives you inspiration and new perspectives.
But at the same time, I realized something important – it doesn’t really matter where you are if you don’t deal with what’s happening inside you.
There was a period in my life when I was constantly traveling, but deep down I was actually trying to run away from myself – from my emotions, my mind, my inner pain. And eventually I understood that it’s impossible to escape yourself. Wherever you go, you bring your inner hell with you.
If you have darkness inside, you see life through dark colors. If you find peace or light inside yourself, you start seeing beauty almost everywhere.
That became one of the core ideas behind LightlongLife – the idea of finding that inner heaven within yourself and letting it spread into every dimension of your life.
At the same time, traveling was still an amazing and transformative experience for me, and that whole period of feeling lost and searching for myself actually inspired my very first single, ‘I Got Lost’.
How do you turn your ideas about growth and mindfulness into sound?
I try to focus less on “explaining” ideas intellectually and more on creating a feeling.
For me, mindfulness is not silence or perfection – it’s presence. So I often build songs around emotional contrast: tension and release, chaos and clarity, heaviness and uplift.
Sometimes it’s in the lyrics, sometimes in the atmosphere, chord progression, vocal delivery, or dynamics. I want people to feel something shift internally rather than just understand a message logically.
What do you want people to feel when they hear your music?
When people hear my music, I want them to experience something internally – maybe an insight, a shift in perspective, emotional release, or inspiration to change something in their lives.
Sometimes my songs are very personal, and I hope people realize they are not alone in what they’re going through. A lot of us struggle with fear, anxiety, self-doubt, emptiness, or feeling lost, and I want the music to remind people that transformation is possible and there is always a way forward.
No matter how deep or emotional the topic is, I always try to leave some kind of positive direction, hope, or light inside the song.
I’m also a psychologist, and for many years I’ve been studying human psychology, self-development, and different spiritual traditions. A lot of people teach these ideas through lectures or books, but for me music became another language for expressing them.
Songs can communicate profound ideas in a much more emotional, intuitive, and accessible way. You don’t just understand something intellectually – you actually feel it.
What inspired ‘Living A Moment’?
The idea came to me years ago while walking through the jungle in Bali during sunset. The main melody and hook appeared almost instantly, like the song already existed somewhere and I just received it.
The song is about those rare moments where you stop mentally living in the future or the past and suddenly realize how incredible it is to simply exist right now. We spend our whole lives stressed about problems — and forget that just being here, breathing, alive — that’s already the best thing that ever happened to us. We’re so lucky to live in this magical world, where we can fly to any corner of it and witness the beauty of nature.
That feeling is hard to describe, but I wanted the song to capture it emotionally. The feeling of being completely alive, being part of something huge, experiencing this world — feeling it, hearing it, seeing it — it’s bigger than what a camera can catch
Has your view on gratitude always been this strong?
Not at all. For a big part of my life, I was mostly focused on what was wrong, what was missing, and what I didn’t have. And honestly, I think that’s a very common problem in modern life.
Our brains are naturally wired to focus on problems and potential danger. From an evolutionary perspective, the mind constantly scans for what’s wrong in order to protect us. But the downside is that many people end up living in a permanent state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, or inner emptiness.
That’s why I believe gratitude is not just feeling – it’s a skill. And it’s an incredibly powerful one.
When you consciously practice gratitude, your perception of life starts to change. You begin noticing how many things you already have that you once dreamed about or that other people would give anything to experience.
So many things we take for granted – health, parents, nature, relationships, simple moments, even the ability to breathe, feel, create, or love.
For me, gratitude became one of the keys to inner peace, emotional healing, and happiness. Not because life becomes perfect, but because you stop being completely hypnotized by negativity and start seeing the beauty that was already there.
What did Nik Trekov bring to the track?
Nik was responsible for the mixing and mastering of the track. ‘Living A Moment’ is already our third project together. Before this, we worked on my previous single ‘Just Like Me’, and we already have another unreleased track that will be coming out later this year.
I really enjoy working with Nik because he’s incredibly experienced and professional. He has worked with major artists like Bring Me the Horizon, Blink-182, Bad Omens, Limp Bizkit, Architects and A Day to Remember.
He really understands how to achieve a modern industry-level sound.
What was your idea for the music video?
The main idea behind the music video was to represent the value of the moment and how short and fast life really is.
The video starts with an older version of myself looking back at his life, finding an old photograph from his youth, reminiscing about memories and moments that are already gone. Because in the end, life passes incredibly fast – almost like a blink – and what we truly keep are moments, emotions, and memories.
Through the video, I wanted to show the beauty of this world and this life by using different natural landscapes combined with visual effects to create something that feels both grounded and dreamlike at the same time.
I didn’t want to make just another travel video, even though my first music video, “I Got Lost,” also featured many beautiful locations. This time I wanted something more surreal, emotional, and immersive – almost like moving through memories, emotions, and states of consciousness.
Modern AI technologies opened a lot of creative possibilities for that vision. They allowed me to create visual effects that feel magical and cinematic while still keeping the human emotion and authenticity of the story
What do the different locations in the video mean to you?
We filmed the music video in Kazakhstan and Switzerland The different landscapes in the video work on two levels.
First of all, from a visual perspective, I wanted the video to constantly evolve and change so it would stay engaging and cinematic to watch. I love movement, transitions, and the feeling of traveling through different emotional spaces rather than staying in one static environment.
But philosophically, the changing landscapes also reflect the nature of life itself.
Our reality is constantly changing. Nothing is completely stable or permanent. Emotions change, people change, places change, we change. Life is like an endless sequence of shifting scenes, almost like watching a movie where the environment is always transforming.
So in a deeper sense, the landscapes symbolize impermanence and movement. Change is probably the only truly constant thing in this world, and the video visually reflects that idea.
What do you hope people take from this song, and anything else you’d like to share before we wrap up?
I hope that after hearing this song, people will value their lives a little more deeply.
Life is incredibly fragile and temporary, and every single day we wake up alive is already a gift. But very often we get lost in stress, negativity, comparison, anxiety, and constant chasing, and we forget to appreciate the simple fact that we are here at all.
I want this song to remind people not to take life for granted – to notice the beauty, the small moments, the people they love, nature, emotions, experiences, even simple everyday things.
Because what we focus on shapes our reality. If we constantly focus only on negativity, life starts feeling dark and empty. But when we consciously learn to notice the good and appreciate what we already have, our whole inner experience begins to change.
That’s probably the main message behind the song.
Watch the music video for ‘Living A Moment’ below, and find out more about LightlongLife and his music online on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.
