Roade of Music is a collection of instrumental pieces written across my life, beginning around 2002–2003 and continuing through different seasons of growth, healing, and change.

These songs exist because instrumental music is simply a different way of processing emotion — one that doesn’t require explanation, structure, or resolution. When emotions don’t need to be named or organized, music allows you to feel freely, without the pressure of making everything make sense.

Through these pieces, I’ve processed love, hope, gratitude, and peace, alongside loss, grief, longing, exhaustion, reflection, and the quiet moments when rest was needed most. Instrumentals create space — space to sit with emotions in their raw form, to move through them gently, and to let meaning emerge naturally through sound rather than language.

Roade of Music begins with an introduction to my musical journey, and each piece reflects emotions I was processing at different points in my life. The tracks are not chronological. Instead, they are emotional spaces you can enter in any order.

This album is not meant to be rushed. You’re invited to pick the space you need, stay as long as you want, and let the music hold whatever you’re carrying.

In the Shadow (Instrumental)

The Dinner Party Companion

She Will Be Loved

The Modern Wedding Collection, Vol. 2

Just the Way You Are

Strung Out, Vol. 7: VSQ Performs Music's Biggest Hits

Bittersweet Symphony

Vitamin String Quartet Celebrates the Ladies of 90s Alt Rock

Zombie

Los Angeles, California serves as home base for the concept group called Vitamin String Quartet. The group is made up of studio musicians who are brought together to interpret and record orchestra style covers of music from all types of genres ranging metal, techno, country, pop, rock and hip-hop dance music. While the quartet uses a wide assortment of artists and instruments, one fairly constant member of the group is violinist Tom Tally. Tally has been intimately involved in the composing, arranging and conduction of many songs on approximately 50 of the albums that have been recorded by the group. While the group is referred to as a string quartet, the reality is that more individuals are usually involved, using instruments such as violins, cellos, percussion, brass and woodwinds. The group was originally brought together in 1999 as an experimental project. They wanted to determine the effects of using classical style instruments to create new and different sounds on popular recordings. Early on, the FM broadcast station WWHK in Concord, NH would play the group's music 24 hours a day, every day, for a period of time. The popularity of the group's music has led to the music being featured on TV and in the movies. Credits include So You Think You Can Dance (2008), TV show The Vampire Diaries (2010), the 100th episode of Gossip Girl and the fifth season finale of Modern Family (2014). Throughout the years, the group has been involved in the recording of over 200 different albums. In 2009, the group stepped out of the box a bit and recorded some original material provided by some of the various musicians on the album Per_Versions.

Bittersweet Symphony

Vitamin String Quartet

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