Hark

I wrote Hark in December 2018.  I was back home in Brooklyn after my first semester of college.  I used to go to school in Central Massachusetts.  Whenever I was there, I found it so much harder to work on music, and Velvetblack, my band at the time, separated across the Northeast every time school resumed.  Hark was the first thing I’d written in months.  I put down lyrics not fully knowing what they meant, but as more words came to me it was clear that I wanted to write about the homesickness I was feeling, to remind myself that the things and people I missed weren’t that far away.

I transferred to a school in NYC last year to finish college. I wanted to be back home, where I was happier and where I’d always felt more inspired. I wrote and recorded this final version of the song in my bedroom, the same bedroom where I played the first chord that turned into this song, the same bedroom that I began making music in.

I want to thank Dave Hernandez, who used to be in Velvetblack with me and played the guitar solo at the end of this song, and Elijah Judah, who mixed and mastered it. Henry Allan rendered the cover and worked through all my notes and tweaks to make an image that I’m really happy with, and Sam Griffith designed the font I used.

This feels like a nice beginning to the year, and I have many more songs to release and a new collaborative project coming soon.  I wanted to get this one off my chest before I released anything new.  It’s really sick to finally have it out, especially when the circumstances that inspired it feel so far behind me now.  I hope you find something you like in it and stick around to hear what I’m doing next. :)