“The Parallel” is the first track from my debut solo album Passages. It’s fitting that this is the first single as “The Parallel” was the first song that I started for the record, and the last one to be finished.  Over the course of working on it, I fell in love with how resampling and processing sounds could bridge the divide between acoustic and synthetic instruments, and I was inspired to continue down that path.  The process of making these songs is a balance of composition and pure chance, which requires equal parts experimentation and patience, with the end result being as much of a collage as anything else.  I had been working on this track for a while when I was introduced to Reid Jenkins, whose expressive violin parts helped me to see the way through to completion.

Rebecca Shenfeld made a stunning video for the song, saying “This video emerged from a strange cold winter, sifted through the sieves of the New York transit system— weaving back and forth from home to work and back again. Traveling between pigeons and trains over and over again fed the visuals of this piece. It’s a meditation on looking, seeing, and feeling while moving between boroughs, over water, through tunnels, above ground, underground—occasionally getting off the train to go to a club.”

Passages is out on June 27 via No Gold – preorder the limited-edition vinyl and downloads on Bandcamp.