This album was composed on an old family piano I had the fortune of caring for for a couple of years.

I swear the songs on this album were locked in this piano for me discover.

I didn’t know how to play piano before this piano began to teach me how to play what was inside it. Within a period of a few months, I wrote the albums 8 songs and interludes, often finding inspiration in poetry and black and white photographs made while volunteering to help refugees who’d come to Europe.  

The War for the Valley is a sonic Document of a moment of crises. It is a response, and a witness to one of the great events of our lifetimes.