Vents MagaZine Music and Entertainment Magazine
Related Articles
1.) We’re super-excited to have some time today with acclaimed music artist and producer Alexis Arceo; greetings and salutations Alexis and thanks for taking time from a busy schedule to speak with us here at Vents Magazine! Before we barrel down the proverbial Q&A music-lined rabbit hole, how is the latter-part of 2025 finding you and yours?
A: Thank you so much for inviting me! It’s been good, I went back home to Puerto Vallarta for my mom’s birthday and then my birthday also just passed by and on my birthday, I released my second studio album “Ouroboros” so truly a very emotional last part of the year for good.
2.) Major kudos and accolades on one of the best albums of 2025, Ouroboros which is lighting up record charts across the ever-loving globe even as we speak! Starting at the top, can you talk about what inspired this stunner of an LP release?
A: My Modus Operandi has always been writing songs as catharsis; I use it as a tool to reflect whatever is going on in my head or my life. So, the album started as that, I started writing songs as therapy because I was experiencing a lot of change in my life. And when I realized I had like 6 or 7 songs that made sense with each other so that’s where I found the “Ouroboros” as a concept and started working with it.
3.) You personally composed and produced every blessed track on the new Ouroboros album, making this release a true labor of love; congrats! What are the pros to serving as your own producer versus outsourcing the task to someone else?
A: I have a very specific way to work, and I know what I want and what I’m aiming for, so I get to do it every time, obviously that is also a con because some of the greatest music in all time is the amalgamation of the passion and the hard work of a whole team, but for this new era it is little more quick and easy to get an idea right because I only go into my home studio and work it out, so overall is just a fine line we’re working with.
4.) We’re big admirers of the tune All I Beg For Is Flowers which can be found front-and-center on the freshly-minted new Ouroboros album! What’s the scoop on this gem of a ditty?
A: Actually, like a said before this album started unexpectedly because I started writing songs as therapy. So, this is the first song that i wrote and produced and had ready, that’s why is the first in the album. Is the whole concept and it represents everything this album is, is the core of it. And that’s why there are two versions. The orchestra version is a more dramatic take but is the same song, and that one is the last in the album because it represents how you get to the same point but in a different way, falling in the same mistakes the cycle repeats itself like the “Ouroboros”.
5.) In your humble opinion, what differentiates Ouroboros from the Distinguished Competition on the current day music scene?
A: Personally, I think that the whole working under a concept and telling a story is something that we don’t see that often anymore. Creating something for the passion of it, something that is part of you that is so profound and intimate and personal. That’s what my intention was with “Ouroboros” and all my music. A safe place where people can relate and feel like they’re not alone letting them know that me and millions of people have been in the same place but there’s always something better coming.
6.) In the wake of the October 7 release of the Ouroboros LP, can fans look forward to catching you on the touring/performing circuit?
A: It is on the plans to get there, as if now it is a little difficult but is something that I’m working on. Like I said, part of that big change in my life is that I moved here to the states by myself and I’ve been working in the restaurant industry besides working in my music, so I don’t have a band yet. But is something that I would love to do more soon than later.
7.) You were born in Aurora, Illinois, raised in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco and now count Chicago as your stomping grounds! How do these seemingly disparate roots inform you as both a person and a music artist?
A: It is actually funny because you get two different personalities but for sure makes you a wider person when it comes to creativity. Although, I’m Mexican and I consider myself Mexican and I’m proud of being Mexican and I like to reflect that in my music as well, so it does create something different and unique.
8.) Who are some of your chief inspirations, both in and out of the world of music?
A: Out of music will always be my dad, to be as hard working and have the same values as him is something that I inspire to be someday. He will always be my hero. In the music world, there’s this Mexican artist that I totally love all of his work, José Madero back in the day with his band PXNDX and now that he has his solo career is my biggest inspiration in music. How he writes his lyrics, works under concepts and put so much feeling is the type of music that I’m saying we don’t see as often and he does it perfectly. Other influences are Pierce the Veil, Sleeping with Sirens, My Chemical Romance, Falling in Reverse and a lot of other artists, if you want to see all of my music that I listen every day I have a playlist pinned in my Spotify profile.
9.) As someone who has built a solid reputation as a composer for yourself and other artists, what does your creative process generally tend to look like when working on new material? Is there rhyme and reason to the creative madness, or is it a bit more freeform than all that?
A: I totally let my brain and the song work freely by themselves, sometimes I’m on the train or the bus and all of the sudden I get a melody and two verses. So, getting home I hope on the studio and work a demo so I can save the idea. Almost all of my songs have a similar start, they just come from a mythical place, and I just put the pieces together. But overall, I almost always have an idea or a concept i want to work with.
10.) At the end of the day, what do you hope listeners walk away with after giving many-a-spin to your alternative rock odyssey of an LP Ouroboros?
A: Well, this concept and how I portray it makes you think about your life and your death and how sometimes we’re lost in a paradox such as a serpent eating its own tail. But at the end of the day, you must realize that is not forever and there’s always something better to come.
Live your life to the fullest, no questions asked, no apologies, just be yourself always.
Support Alexis Arceo on Social Media
Listen to more of Alexis Arceo
