In production: The Promise of Chaos
Our upcoming album, The Promise of Chaos, is in production and will be released later this year. The world moves so swiftly these days that my recent precognitive poetry is already more like biting historical commentary. Michel and I are co-composing with a myriad of instruments and digital tools...
Opera of the Unspoken: Island of Unrest
This experimental jazz opera is a musical investigation into the mysteries of an ancestral tragedy from WWII, as revealed through vocal rituals, ancestral tarot, free jazz and dreaming. With this work I wanted to answer several questions. The first was, what could I do to honour ancestors who were...
Opera of the Unspoken: the creative process
Perhaps it is logical that after spending some time singing my dreams I find myself carried along by complex ancestral stories. And what is the next logical step when that happens? Over the past year I have been researching different ways to deal with this kind of magical material...
why I sing Brontë poems
When I finished reading every single book in the juvenile section of our local library as a kid, the librarian suggested I move along to romantic fiction. There I discovered the timeless novels of Emily Brontë, Jane Austen and so many more. Later I discovered the poems by Emily...