This is a track that I released earlier this year. Inspired by a very personal moment a couple years ago. 

Passage

This piece was inspired by my visit to a monastery outside Abiquiu a number of years ago when I was staying at the Ghost Ranch. The monastery was down an unmarked dirt road that went through a particularly solitary expanse of desert and then through a canyon and eventually a pine forest as it followed along the Chama river. Several times during the journey I stopped, unsure whether I was on the right path and wondering whether I should turn back, and increasingly worried that I had gotten lost and would run out of gas. I decided to continue on until I had used up half my resources and then turn back, but then beyond a small ridge I found the monastery at last... after traveling for about twenty-four miles! Twice that day I encountered a rattle snake, once at the beginning when I was certain that I must have taken the wrong road, and once at the end when I had arrived and was in the parking lot. I had a very profound conversation with one of the people I met there, which proved to be extremely important and quite prophetic to what was about to happen in my family shortly thereafter. Later that day I was invited to the evening prayer (which was Gregorian chanting) and afterwards I said my goodbye's and headed back to the Ranch before it started getting dark. The entire visit was very surreal, with the snakes, getting lost, the conversation, and not having seen a single soul the entire day while trying to find the place! 

This particular version is a remix and remaster of the original that was released on Transgression. I replaced all the reverbs and other effects with much higher end alternatives to what I had before, and the mix was refined. The strings were inspired by the looping technique from River of Appearance.        

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