expatriate songs

A collection of tone-poems and songs I have worked on my entire adult life.

Most of the songs don’t fit easily into any one specific genre, but exist as a blend of different traditional colors and textures all held together by a loose narrative centering on themes of alienation, personal identity, national identity, physical displacement, spiritual exile, and the musical expressions of ecstasy and lament across specific cultures and borders.

It’s all terribly pretentious stuff. So much so that it has taken me more than 20 years to become comfortable with what it actually is. I hope to do the project with Rob and Jamie from Telegram and some other players and contributors someday. It’s a dream. If it ever becomes actual, it’ll live at the URL expatriatesongs.com