Today is my 40th (!) birthday, and as a form of celebration, I am releasing some songs.

As it has for many others, the pandemic produced the longest stretch of time I’ve spent at home (or in one place) in 20 years.

Living in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains situates me up against 1,000 square miles of harsh wilderness. The delineation between the wilds and our neighbourhood is blurry at best. Bears in our backyards, deer in the streets, coyotes like sirens, owls talking softly from tree to tree.

The recordings on this EP were born from the stillness of being nowhere but in nature, and the space it freed to allow me to create. No more hours on a freeway, in doctors’ offices, or in a white box room with six computers. Just the wind, the snow, the rain, the sun, the smoke, the fire. Just the sound of midnight birdsong, and the owls.

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