Release date: April 30, 2021

We began simply enough: a tracklist scrawled on the back of a receipt at a restaurant in New York City for our first album. But the journey from receipt to reality was anything but simple.

Do Not Lament is not an order or a rule, but a gentle reminder. I felt myself drawn into a state of lamentation many times in the course of creating this album. Grief over my own personal tragedies was compounded by the tragedies of countless others as a global pandemic raged and the world seemed to spiral out of control. Despair was a natural reaction and sometimes I needed to wade into it. Do Not Lament is a reminder to seek the shore. This is an album of consolation, highlighting the beauty in joy, in sadness, and most of all in the moments when joy and sadness intersect.

Sonatas and Interludes is written for a piano punctuated by floating screws. It is a contradiction. It asks, How does a piano choked with mutes render music of infinite resonance? In this way, Cage’s masterpiece possesses the seemingly impossible ability to express two truths simultaneously—muted resonance, intimate grandness, rigorous indeterminacy. The work derives its expressive power from these contradictions, bifurcating its modes of expression into real and imaginary voices, mixing and diverting, music suspended in air

Featuring Las Pupilas de la Luna, and the premiere recording of the evocotive Oiseaux Tristes.