Baby Tiger 2025 Releases

As I first created this track I was thinking about the immense wildfires in California and Oregon that I have lived through, the smoke that turned the daytime skies orange and the moon red for a week. It was unsafe to go outside without wearing a mask and there was a general sense of doom and anxiety. Just as I was preparing it for final release, the fires in LA broke out and I watched with mounting anxiety as the evacuation zone encroached on Pasadena since my brother lives just south of there. The unsettled and ominous mood of this track seemed ever more fitting.

Red Moon

During those phases of my life when I was touring, I watched countless towns and cities scroll by through the window of a truck. Sometimes I traveled alone and sometimes with bandmates. Yet even when traveling with a band, the hours eventually lapse into a kind of solitude: those long stretches where conversation fades and you're left with just your thoughts and the passing landscape. This track captures the hopeful side of those times spent alone together—that sense of freedom and open possibilities in going to new places and meeting new people.

Open Road

I made this track during a dark time a couple years ago. Back in Oregon after a rough trip I had to move my studio in Portland yet again, and the day I was set up enough to start making music there I started working on this track, looking out the window of my studio onto a peaceful rainy day in Southeast Portland, mild but overcast and drizzling rain all day long — a kind of day we often get in PDX. The vibe of the track matched the weather so I named it after the moment. It’s got a peaceful, energetic feeling that is uplifting without being too intense.

Rainy Friday

This was among the last tracks I made in my first apartment studio in Portland, a couple months before the pandemic struck. That day, I remained at my standing workstation with a small keyboard in front of me, improvising layers for hours until I had a complete track, all while contemplating the rainy sky and the hedge of English laurel that separated our complex from the church next door. Hence the name.

The music evokes an optimistic and expansive but restful mood that makes me think of the feeling at the end of a long, satisfying day, full of favorite things and time spent with good people. The track got lost in the chaos of the seasons that followed, to be rediscovered only years later in what I expect and hope will be my permanent Portland studio, which coincidentally also has a hedge of English laurel outside its windows. Things have a way of closing the circle sometimes.

Laurel Sky

In one of his letters, the Stoic philosopher Seneca says that rushing through life trying to pile up possessions and accomplishments is like hurrying through a maze: "the faster you go, the worse you are entangled." Around the time I made this track I was working through a malaise that was both physical and spiritual. I began reading one of Seneca's letters each morning and, like millions of others, found his wisdom to be timeless advice for living, and they were among the things that helped me disentangle myself and move forward again. To me this track feels like that process, especially the glitchy, sometimes unpredictable rhythms of the percussion. You move forward, stop, look around, things look the same, you get lost again, pause, re-orient, feel like giving up -- then, after a rest, you begin again.

Through the Maze

Through The Maze

downtempo / ambient / melodic house / lofi

Red Moon

BABY TIGER