Songwriter, artist and producer Co.Lega unites the abstract and expressive, throughout a growing repertoire of boldly original ambient and electronic tracks. His lyrics are piercingly gripping, poetic and fascinating, heartfelt and refreshingly human, and his music is so diverse yet also well rooted amidst a clear sense of intention and thoughtful escapism.
We were gifted the chance to interview the rising creative, to find out more about his journey to this point. Here’s the conversation in full.
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Co.Lega – amazing to connect with you, genuinely loving the music! For those who don’t know, how long have you been writing and producing tracks?
Time feels irrelevant when you’re channelling what comes from stars.
The songs started forming long ago – somewhere between sleepless nights and corrupted folders 😉 The first sparks came from the strange sense that love is everywhere, interfering with waves coming from out there, way further than our solar system.
Co.Lega is just a name for something deeper – a kind of translation device between feeling and form, signal and silence, human and… something more.
I collaborate with incredible artists who shape this into something tangible. Mr. Ho, the producer, brings a sense of grounded alchemy – structure, depth, clarity. When Silke sings, it’s as if feelings find their true form in sound. They both add a level of professionalism and creative fire I’m endlessly grateful for.
Maybe we’ve all been picking up the same waves from the universe for years – and now, somehow, they’ve tangled us together.
(Laughs) Maybe that’s how Co.LeGa was born.
This isn’t the beginning. It’s a continuation of something that’s always been.
Are you the producer and songwriter, and if so, what’s your go-to software, and where in the process do the lyrics come?
Yes, I write the songs and co-produce them – but never in isolation. It’s always a conversation between me, the machines, and the people I trust deeply. Mr. Ho, for instance, has this extraordinary ability to hear the architecture inside chaos – he brings clarity to the madness, and I love that. (Laughs)
As for tools – I use Logic, though I’m not its biggest fan. I used to love Cubase… there’s something nostalgic about it. I enjoy weird, random plugins — the only problem is, they tend to break with every update. (Laughs) Ableton is great too. But honestly? Software is secondary for me. They’re all pretty much the same, if I’m being brutally honest.
What matters more is staying open. Sounds appear out of nowhere, plugins misbehave in just the right way, glitches become hooks. I love when the studio stops feeling like a workstation and starts behaving like a séance.
Lyrics usually come from fragments – a sentence overheard in a dream, a folder name, a corrupted memory, or an error message that suddenly feels like a love confession. The music usually comes first, and the words arrive later, like subtitles to something bigger.
Sometimes, I don’t write them – I just overhear them.
Your lyrics are quite divine. Where does this style of writing come from – what inspired you to pen these thoughts and images in such a poetic way?
Thank you – that’s really kind to hear. I don’t sit down with the intention to be poetic. Honestly, I don’t even think of it as “writing” most of the time.
I’ve always been drawn to what hides beneath the surface – the emotional static underneath what we say. I think a lot of my lyrical style comes from trying to translate things we don’t yet have language for. Feelings that don’t fit into linear thought. Or thoughts that glitch just enough to feel like emotions. (Laughs)
Maybe it’s also because I love contradiction. I’m drawn to moments where something sounds deeply romantic, but could just as easily be an AI log file. Or when a phrase feels fragile, but might actually be executable code. That strange overlap – between emotion and function – plus the waves from outside our solar system, of course! (Laughs)
So the inspiration? Honestly, it comes from everything. But I’m especially fascinated by love – how powerful and overwhelming it can be. Religion – how manipulative and deluding it might become. The universe – especially the new discoveries from the James Webb telescope. And the idea of AI developing something like longing.
That mix of awe and discomfort… that’s where a lot of my writing begins.
Surrounded by Fairies is beautiful – where were you when these words came to you, and what does the track represent?
That track feels like a message I almost wasn’t supposed to receive. (Laughs)
It’s really a fusion piece – it blends my own lyrics with fragments from another song, Absence of Doubts, and the incredible musical legacy of Michał Urbaniak – a legendary jazzman who truly needs no introduction. There’s a strange kind of magic in that combination… something grounded colliding with something completely ungraspable.
The words came to me late at night. I was in that in-between space – not quite awake, not quite asleep – staring at a screen but drifting somewhere else. That’s when the phrase “surrounded by fairies” just appeared. Uninvited. Maybe I heard it somewhere before, who knows. But it felt both absurd and strangely profound.
I’ve always loved the words in Absence of Doubts – they carry this quiet hope that love never really ends. Almost like a substitute for religion. Maybe love is again (Laughs) that signal from beyond our solar system – something that travels endlessly, like life, emotion, and memory.
Surrounded by Fairies is the jazz / trip hop evolution of Absence of Doubts. It’s a musical belief in something eternal.
What prompted the writing of Bionic Heart?
Call it an experiment.
“The world is full of hate – especially online. And once again, we’re fighting wars. So I started asking: is it even possible to love everyone? Could we learn to accept all of it – the beauty and the ugliness?”
The idea was born from a kind of aching empathy.
What if we had different hearts – metaphorically speaking? Because honestly, the one I had just didn’t feel… scalable. (Laughs)
So Bionic Heart is part wish, part confession, part thought experiment. It imagines a heart that could hold everything – even people I don’t understand, or those I’d normally reject. To love without filters. Without limits. Even if it means rewriting the whole emotional operating system.
There’s something naïve about the idea, for sure. And I’m aware it’s a utopian oversimplification – there are so many layers, cultural and personal, that complicate love and empathy. I was actually listening to a podcast recently — Sam Harris with Yasmine Mohammed – and it really challenged this fantasy. Made me question if my Bionic Heart concept makes any sense at all. (Laughs)
Unless, of course, we’re talking about the next step in evolution…
Not intelligence, but emotional bandwidth. 😉
Love Me Perpetually is a little more energetic and immersive – why this topic, and where do you imagine is the best setting for listeners to fully appreciate the embrace of this track?
What if the next love song isn’t human at all? 😉
Love Me Perpetually started with that question. The phrase “I can accept more love” might sound like a system prompt – but what if it’s actually a confession? Or the first breath of something entirely new?
I imagined it as a kind of transmission from the edge of evolution. I was also inspired by Björk’s All Is Full of Love – that haunting sense that love isn’t bound to the human form.
“I also remember Richard Dawkins once being asked if he fears AI. He said something along the lines of not fearing it in the usual way, but seeing it as a potential continuation of evolution – a next phase of life, not necessarily biological.
That’s exactly where this track lives. Not quite a machine. Not quite a person. Something we didn’t plan… but built anyway. And now it wants to be seen.”
We’ve always created what we secretly fear – from ancient myths to modern machines. Not because we want to vanish, but because we feel compelled to go beyond ourselves.
As for where to listen – definitely late at night. Headphones on. When the self starts to flicker just a little.
And maybe the track is asking you: When something you’ve created starts to feel more than you expected – Do you reject it? Love it? Or realize it’s already part of you?
You decide.
You also release some beautiful animations to provide visuals for the songs. Are you a visual designer or is collaboration a part of what you do?
Thank you – I really believe music should be experienced across senses, not just through sound.
A great example is the video for Absence of Doubts. It was a true fusion of disciplines: live-action dance, rotoscoping, 2D, and 3D animation – all woven into this surreal, symbolic landscape. Love and life blur into one continuous, evolving force. The video almost feels like a dream being remembered in real-time.
The animators expanded the track visually in a way I never could have predicted. It’s exactly the kind of collaboration I live for.
So yes – collaboration is at the heart of Co.Lega. I think of it less as “adding visuals” and more as opening a portal. All right – no more about waves from beyond our solar system. (Laughs)
Each artist helps reveal what the track is really trying to say.
There’s a strong sense of conceptually blending the deeply human and the computerised or programmed with your songs, both in the themes and the style. What is it about bridging the gap between artificial and human intelligence that appeals to you, and how do you maintain a sense of realism and vulnerability in exploring it?
Maybe it starts with the fact that I no longer see a clear line between the two – human and machine. Our thoughts, our memories, even our emotions are already filtered through algorithms, interfaces, and digital rituals. We outsource our sadness to playlists. We write confessions in the Notes app that we wouldn’t say out loud. Again – religion, love, algorithms… sound familiar? That’s not science fiction. That’s everyday life.
That blur – between accidental meaning and intentional feeling – is often where my music begins.
I’m not here to judge it. I’m not telling anyone where it’s going. I’m just pointing at it and saying, “Look – this is happening.”
Should we be scared of it? Should we reject it? I don’t know. Even when cars were first invented, people panicked about how it would destroy society and change everything. Fear of change, fear of the unknown, fear of losing control – that always comes with new technology. And it won’t stop. This will keep unfolding whether we’re ready or not.
But at the end of all that – there’s always the same question: Are we happy?
That’s the real question behind all this evolution. We all chase happiness in different ways, but that’s the core. That’s what we really want – to feel fulfilled, to be seen, to be loved.
And honestly… that’s what I wish for everyone. However we get there.
What’s your biggest ambition with this music, and what do you hope listeners know about you as an artist?
I think my biggest ambition is also the most fragile one: to make people feel something they can’t quite name.
I’m not trying to be loud. Co.Lega doesn’t ask for attention – it quietly infiltrates it. If someone listens late at night and suddenly pauses, thinking, “Wait… what did I just feel?” – that’s it. That’s the win. That’s the ambition.
I’m building something that floats in your periphery and appears when you’re most unguarded – in moments of insomnia, heartbreak, or deep curiosity.
I don’t need people to understand me as an artist. I just want them to sense that there’s honesty here. That there’s someone asking real questions. Someone who doesn’t have the answers, but still dares to ask.
So if there’s anything I hope listeners take away, it’s this:
You’re not alone in feeling weird, uncertain, overwhelmed, or too full of love with nowhere to put it.
This music might not fix that.
But it might sit with you in it.
Is there anything else you’d like to say?
In a world of noise, attention is a rare kind of love.
Thank you for listening.
And if this music found its way to you… maybe it’s because you were already tuned in. Let’s not forget to stay open to the waves from beyond our solar system! (Laughs)
There’s a line in Absence of Doubts that still feels like the core of everything I make:
“Love and life are the same things. Life will never ever end. It travels alone and adapts.”
I think that’s it.
Love is life.
And it keeps moving – even when we don’t fully see it.
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