While ARTY has been the focus of Stolyarov in recent years, having released his most recent full-length album, From Russia With Love, at the end of 2021, ALPHA 9 has been reduced to a singles project in recent years. With the pandemic, timeframes and focus were able to finally shift into a headspace where a debut album could be properly contemplated and executed. Like many artists, the project was a mental and emotional challenge as ALPHA 9 was still without a complete body of work to…
