never fully grasped the extent of the legacy left by this family tragedy until I became a father. My would-be uncle was sixteen months old when he choked to death laughing while eating pistachios. The whole immediate family was a witness and their sadness and trauma flows down the generations.

Sixteen Months

n this French song, my nineteen years old self is alone, far from home, aimless and longs for what he feels destined to find; the love of his life, sure that when he does find it, everything will feel all right.

Au millieu d'un été

This is one of the first songs I've felt proud of. It's vaguely inspired by witnessing a friend struggling with finishing a song that had been commissioned and for which the deadline was imminent. It's also meant as a more general metaphor to show that, though we may try, we can't help but being the whole sum of the good and the bad that we ceaselessly accumulate. Expressing that whole spectrum is the easiest and truest way of communicating heart to heart.

Vague Riverside Song

I wrote "Little Wars" while besieged by the noise of freaky domestic fight in the apartment below mine. The song, however, is not about a domestic fight, but more broadly about the notion that we willfully  engage in pointless "Little Wars" in an attempt to shift our focus from more deeply situated pain...

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