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In 2015, The Hussalonia Founder began writing songs for a podcast that he hoped would bring his music to a much larger audience. Writing for a troubled but insistently hopeful character, The Hussalonia Founder channeled his inner optimist for songs like “Look Forward,” “Good News First,” “I’ll Just Sit Out Here and Wait,” “Nobody Knows It,” and “Dreams, Don’t Fail Me Now.” Unfortunately, he was written out of the podcast in early 2016 and consequently slipped into a deep depression — a depression that would only deepen as he witnessed the election of Donald Trump. After the election, the hopeful songs he wrote for the podcast resonated with The Founder more than ever, and he began writing new songs that reflected life in post-Trump America (“Working for the Weakened,” “Control Z,” “One Weird Trick,” and “Progress vs. Change”). The title (Latin for “work conquers everything” and originally from a Virgil poem) is a phrase often used in labor movements. At the end of the 1902 film “Le Voyage dans la Lune” the phrase is written above the word “science” at the base of a celebratory statue. The Hussalonia Founder liked the political hopefulness of the phrase — the idea that, together, we can work through any problem — but its dry wit also appealed to him on a personal level, the idea that he, a tireless workaholic, would eventually be conquered by his own work.

Hussalonia is largely the work of a multi-instrumentalist known only as The Hussalonia Founder.

Founded in 1997, Hussalonia is a "pop music cult" and claims to be owned by Nefarico™, a fictional soap company.

The Hussalonia Founder lives and works in Buffalo, New York.