Originally released in 2015, this release spotlights songs with a more fluid sense of harmony.
On “The One to Make You Whole,” I tweak one of most popular chord progressions in pop music (I-V-vi-IV) to make it shifting and unstable. The song’s lyrics pose time-old question about self-worth and destiny but not necessarily about interpersonal relationships.
In my junior year of high school, I wrote a pop music requiem mass heavily influenced by Enya and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The only part of the work to be recorded as a demo was the Offertorium. The rest of the requiem has since been scrapped, but the Offertorium was reworked as “The Dreaming End”.
During college, I was a big Anne Rice fan, and “I’m the Shadow” took more than a few cues from The Witching Hour. At the time, I couldn’t quite capture what he wanted to do melodically and shelved the song. I gave it another stab 20 years later to come up with the recording on this release.