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09 Dume

08 Closer Still

07 A Clearing

06 Peace At Last

05 Passion Source

04 Greyfield

03 I Am Not Hiding

02 Canopy

01 Close

During our time of self quarantine, a few friends decided to give ourselves a week to make a piece of music. The goal was simple: be creative and open. I've been working on my new album and with my humble setup, started noodling with a simple chord progression and built it up from there. 

The water sound is a recording I made at the 9/11 Memorial in June 2019. Visiting the memorial for the first time, I was overwhelmed by the sound of the site. The huge water fall, descending to the reflecting pool below, sounded like a chorus of grief to me. Listening back to the recording later, I started to hear more in the sheets of sound. I remembered standing there and looking up to the sky where the towers once reached and then over to where the Freedom Tower now stood. I knew there was more than grief present, there was hope. 

I've seen many people compare our current time to 9/11. Having lived in NY during 9/11 and now a global pandemic, there are certainly many similarities. The first responders then and those on the frontlines now remind me that we have to focus on helping each other and moving ahead. We have to hope, but not passively so. This is work and we are all responsible. 

This piece, 'Hope,' bridges two traumatic times in my life and the world's. I felt comforted while writing it and I hope that it calms you and offers you some sense of peace.

Hope

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