Fatherhood. Lost legacies. Survival. Fundamentally this album has been about being remembered. It’s an exercise in creating something to explain and reveal to my son, a way to preserve parts of myself in lines and melodies. It is for him to discover later in life when he’ll be ready to make of it what he will. A diary of sorts. This video culminates the idea in a powerful way that I could not have imagined when starting to write this record. For that I cannot thank David Gross and Rob Trela enough for their talent, vision and dedication. I am forever grateful to them and the tight team behind the video for how it came out. I’ve been looking to right something for some time now. To give my son something I don’t have, a song from my father. There is a mystery I’ve been grappling with since his death, about who he was, with many questions I would have asked him if I had the chance. His passing before I had that opportunity to do so has left a mystery and a pain that I live with today. And it’s that pain I don’t want my son to have to grapple with. I’m looking to create a different experience for him and my family. But the most cathartic way to finally put to rest those feelings of wanting to know my father was to become a father myself and to lay it all bare for my son to see.
