Things We Found In The Fire

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1.	The Wall and the Past 04:14	buy track
2.	South Starks 04:41	buy track
3.	I've Seen Enough / You Haven't Seen Enough 08:51	buy track
4.	The Way Out is Through 02:16	buy track
5.	Volver a Los 27 01:58	buy track
6.	Things We Found In The Fire 07:24	buy track
7.	Ariadne / Return of the King 04:19	buy track

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In the early spring of 2020, I began recording tracks in our house on the slopes of Mt. Tabor. As the pandemic began to unfold, the tracks of the album came together and my work in recording and editing was a welcome relief or escape from the continually shifting reality of significant events; this album has been a guiding constellation, a restorative series of meditations, a parasympathetic catalyst and chronicle of an incredibly intense array of events over these last two years.

I made a deliberate decision not to rush this album or the process in which it is released into the world.
This noble intention has demonstrated that one must exercise caution when choosing their words. I have forestalled the release of this album multiple times as it was difficult to close the loop and prepare for the strange journey into an overly-saturated digital landscape.

This album has been part of what kept me sane working as a therapist for the last two years in a secure psychiatric inpatient setting for children. There are tracks on this album that are open letters to burnout and to the resiliency that we often find in those darker moments; they are also sonic narratives of a year where everything seemed (and was) on fire, continually overwhelming and splintering like the crown of a tree in a storm.

This album is also my goodbye letter to a city, Portland, that in my early days here supported my naive, beautiful and idealistic notion that I could exist simply as an artist; how grateful I am to have grown in my understanding of what an artist actually is, and how a landscape changes you and is changed in kind. The title of this album refers to what I found within the allegorical and very real fires that occurred during my final years in Portland. In these sounds are my attempts to process the individual and collective anxiety that I lived with during these last two years. In the titles of these songs are reminders to myself to remember the resiliency and cycles so evident in nature and that we inherit during our brief existence on this planet.

3/10/2020 Portland, Oregon – 9/07/2021 Santa Fe, New Mexico

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released September 7, 2021

Massive thanks to everyone who listened to the album over these last two years and shared their thoughts and encouragement. My extended gratitude to AC for his innate ability to hear what the songs should sound like and then organize and master them with such an ear for detail and purpose: without his work, some of the best tracks would be hidden on a hard drive rather than tying this piece of work together. As always, thanks to A for her constant support, love, and belief in my work.

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