a wood grows
where a sea was
where a city once drowned...

My newest collection of songs, "Where A City Once Drowned" is almost finished.

This album features six new songs, with an instrumentation of voice, electric guitar, cello, guitalele, hammond organ, synthesizer, banjo, electric koto, bass, harmonium, and bowed glockenspiel. It is populated by dogs that race through the night sky, the Russian witch Baba Yaga, a meditation on deep time and climate change, wild goats, and a song that arose from looking at a book of Tarkovsky's polaroids. These songs feel like a product of my time, and also reflect how out-of-step I often feel with my time.

I recorded the basis for the album in Bethlehem PA, in the final hours of December 4th, 2018, with Taylor Galassi accompanying me on cello. The last time Taylor and I worked together was in 2009, when we recorded The Bethlehem Tapes -- also live-off-the-floor, in one sitting. It felt wonderful and seamless to work together again.

I came back home to Toronto after my tour, and began overdubbing some parts, as well as sending the songs off to a host of other musical friends, hailing all the way from London (Tsinder Ash), Stocklholm (Astor Wolfe), Antwerp (Odile Aurore Strik), New Jersey (Sylvia Haynes), and Toronto (Brad Deschamps).

I feel that this album deserves a tangible physical release as well as a digital one. My goal is to release the album on pressed cd, with high quality packaging that frames it as an art object. The cover features one of my ink drawings.

Where a City Once Drowned

Where a City Once Drowned