For years, I have sold “Mosaic Mixtapes” at farmer’s markets, an ever-changing curation of my musical weavings.

Now, I wish to lift up the curtain and share absolutely everything with you in this wild 5 hour compilation of unfinished riddles tape demos, unreleased songs, live performances, song seeds/conceptions and improvisations.

As I work steadily on my full length, “Riddles” I wanted to give you a full portrait of myself as a musician/writer right now, exploring my sound, my environment, my vulnerability, my community, my writing, and all the possibilities of recording. My vision here is to let you in on the music that hangs in the air around me and taps me on the shoulder… the ones written down, and the ones streaming through that never return again.

I consider myself mainly a live musician, in my true purpose when I'm playing for people, in presence, in a moment that will flee like the wind. When it comes to modern day recording/music, I feel like a forest bard lost in a strange time. Recording with computers is still one of the strangest things to me...as is recording itself. It fascinates me to be able to revisit a moment in time that has long passed.

Yet, I record almost everything to voice memos... with over 1400 of them on my phone of the last two years alone. Some of them are included here ~ Recording to cassette tape has been medicinal in the sense that I can't perfect it, I have to just let it flow through.

Most of the music we hear in recordings are finalized, sonically isolated, edited… I wanted to share something deeply in process, in gestation, in all of its messiness and unpolished rawness. Not in the isolation of a studio, but in the environs of my bedroom, my backyard, the community gatherings of farmer’s markets and dances, with "mess-ups" and the sounds of the wind, chimes, birds, folks talking...

Each album comes with a digital guidebook to help you through this labyrinth of music ~

Welcome, thank you for being here, in this realm, at the same time as me ~

A quick guide to navigate this labyrinth of music ~

1: A quick poem scribbled down in Honey an elixir bar in CO, recited aloud with improvised accompaniment.

2 : Admiring the stillness of a snowy night when this song sparked into my head. Mapped it out quickly and recorded it the next morning as it stands.

3-8 : Riddles demos all done to a 4 track cassette tape machine ~ All of these were done quickly to sketch out how I wanted to arrange the parts.

9 : A song that came through spring of 2022 after a difficult journey of trying to record riddles in a studio.

10 : Never finished this demo but feel like it shouldn't be messed with at this point. All nature sounds recorded by myself on Mt Tom in MA with a field recorder.

11 : Wrote and recorded this really quickly to get out of my head. It was a joy to make, alot of dancing and laughter.

12 : A silence hung in the air the morning after a livestream concert, I wrote this in an hr or so and immediately recorded it.

13-21: When I say improv, I mean completely spontaneous, no plan, no lyrics no melodies, just a moment of vulnerable, raw and playful exploration of expression. Most of these are from the many farmer's markets in western MA.

22 : A fun tape demo of a really old song from 2012

23 : A song about my beloved friend Will, who took his life in the autumn of 2017. If you knew him, you know the brilliant madman he was/still is.

24-26 : From 2017-2020 I worked on an EP called "Welcome Color" that was never released. It felt like a huge learning experience for bedroom recording. Byron Bay was the only one released from this collection. These three songs never made the cut but are still interesting recording explorations.

27 : A voice memo : Riddles came thru quietly, sleepily, unannounced one evening. I felt the melody and put on a voice memo and the rough base painting of it came thru verbatim. When I started finishing this one, I felt like I was refining what was present in this original take, lyrically always coming back to the sounds I babbled here. Most lyrics are taken directly from this take.

28 : The melody and lyrics for ancient grove came through here for the first time, wandering around my parents house thinking outloud about my childhood, my grandparents, the home I grew up in.

29 : The first live and intimate performance of Ancient Grove at my dear friends space The Hallow. It was a huge tearful release for me towards the end.

30 : After an evening of taking a quote on quote fungal "Microdose", I was still deep in a kind of inescapable presence acceptance portal. This one came out verbatim as well, I just carved it up a bit. It's now the song that ends Riddles.

31 : Another evening sitting with fungi to do some inner work. Was feeling really reclusive at the time so I tried to learn into the archetype of The Hermit, to see what message they could impart. This meldoy emerged and ended up being this wild labyrinth I could feel/dance through. I did 3 completely different takes of it and this is the third one, which was the most tearful/cathartic and vulnerable take.

32 : Live @ Iconica in Northampton
Set list is : Can I find the words : Riddles/Inanna : Tammuz : Naked Eye : Circe : Asklepios : Iris/Star Journeyer : Ariadne : Ancient Grove/Spaceborn Child

33-35 : I recommend dancing to this one! An hr and half improvised set playing for ecstatically dancing, feeling folks whom I love so much. This was a really special evening, this was captured on a voice memo.

36 : I build a wind altar/portal on the land I live upon, sometimes I feel the wind and I dialogue with each other there. I left a memo on for a long time and caught this really special moment of connection. I'm singing/playing softly but it's more of an atmosphere than a song, a collaboration rather than a solo performance. I put this voice memo thru a reverb plugin to add to the feel I was feeling.