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The One to Make You Whole

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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.

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[The One to Make You Whole]

  • Release date: March 28, 2025
  • Catalog no.: OBRC-023C-DL
  • Produced and engineered by Greg Bueno
  • Recorded in the Closet, 2005-2012, Austin, TX and the Closet West 2015, Seattle, WA
  • Remixed in The Closet West, Seattle, WA, 2024
  • Photography by Lauren Tarbel
  • Cover design by Greg Bueno
  • Published by Shinkyoku Advocacy (ASCAP)

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The One to Make You Whole returns March 2025

Similar to “Silver Sting,” this three-track maxi single was originally released in 2015.

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