the music
composition and improvisation across acoustic and electronic worlds.
'it starts' - the story
'it starts' comes out of a project I've been working on for the last two years, called Love Tapes. (The name came from a mistake. I meant to say "mixtape," and I kept the mistake.) In Love Tapes, I write music for one person at a time: my sister, my niece, a close friend. Before I play, I record an audio letter for that person - a conversation, a thought, something I want to share, like a private podcast. Then I move to the piano, and what was said in words keeps being said in sound.
Most of these letters stay private, only between me and the person. Some of them found their way out, released as singles, and now gathered into this album.
It started during the war. I was far from the people I love, and the worry and the longing flooded me. Making music as a letter to one of them was a way to do something creative with that longing.
Recorded at Studio Fast Forward in Montreal. Released June 2026 on offnotes records.
tracklist
- It starts again
- Lo ze
- Not even starting
- it moves
- Tikva Rishonit
- Restart again
- maybe
- Moving
- Mi
- tikva ktana
- again maybe
- ze
- restart (processed)
- starting
- oulai ze
- Lithot
- Zman
- Tikva Reprise
- starting to grow
- Si
- it starts
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