A short heavy piece that came to me while waiting for something else to come to me. A lot of this happens like that. The melody was sweet enough to me that I wanted to hold on to it. No mastering or production on this one other than Boreal Forest...

I’m playing with some old-school synth arpeggiators and horn sections, soloed over on guitar. No mastering or producing done on this one yet. Just sitting here waiting for a few more pieces.

A modal piano improvisational exploration recorded on New Year’s Eve, 2024.

Properly pronounced with emphasis on Think, this instrumental piece touches on what it means to begin thinking like a true King, and not a patriarchal representation of king. The sax and rhythm guitar meander in and out of conversation over a funky groove drum beat. The “Hwæt! Wē Gār-Dena” of...

The first channeled song on the album, I recorded this as an a cappella melody and lyrics as one. I went in afterwards to get the key and time signatures and create an arrangement for what I had recorded, recording and arranging the guitar and organ on the fly. Ayahuasca...

My mother sang her own version of this song almost daily throughout her life. She learned it from Odetta’s version that she got the album of as a teenager, and I put this arrangement together based on what I heard growing up with my own interpretation of the lyrics and...

A song about being mentally unstable and in love and hoping it’s all okay. What is it like to live in a fictional space, trapped in a mind that drifts from here to there. And what is it like to be in love? A song of hope and reconciliation in...

For most of my life, I focused on work job money work money job panic work. Not love or our children or even my own soul. I didn’t understand until during these past five years what I had missed out on and where I had squandered energy. I know better...

The second instrumental piece on the album, this one is a psychedelic, ethereal weaving through time. The song represents the opening phrase “I’m so confused. This isn’t how I used to be,” a mini-song I sang while washing dishes one day. The song relies on the conversation between the space...

This was a channeled song. I had written a few lines and a chord progression, and when I began to play, the words came out as they are here. It’s about trying to find the version of one’s self that is un-changing, regardless of where it ends up. Connection and...