Rites of Passage - album soon to be released
It all begins with an idea.
Rites of Passage began with a simple but unsettling realization: most of us today are moving through life without real markers. We cross thresholds — birth, heartbreak, parenthood, loss, reinvention — but without the containers that help us understand what these changes demand of us. In that vacuum, our transformations become private battles, and the chance for meaning often slips through the cracks.
This album grew out of my own encounters with those liminal spaces. The moments that interrupt your trajectory and insist you become someone new, whether you feel ready or not. Creating this music became a way to metabolize those experiences — not just to survive them, but to shape them into something honest, resonant, and shareable. It is a creative project, absolutely — but it’s also a mapping of the inner terrain we rarely give language to.
Musically, Rites of Passage is a weaving of global inspirations. I’m drawing from a wide spectrum of sonic and spiritual traditions — ritual music, contemplative songlines, trance practices, folk forms, and ancient languages — not to imitate any culture, but to learn from the ways humans everywhere have used sound to navigate change. The album sits at the intersection of the timeless and the contemporary, using the voice and the body as instruments of inquiry.
I’m creating this work with my dear friend and long-time collaborator Christopher Juul, whose sensitivity and creative vision brings a depth and clarity to the project that continually pushes me forward. Working with him again feels like rediscovering a current we both stepped into long ago — familiar, but charged with a new urgency and purpose.
I’m equally grateful for the contributions of Ghilli Prati and Ilaria Orefice, two musicians whose passion and wholehearted commitment to the process have become an essential part of the project’s DNA. Their openness and dedication infuse the work with a spirit I value deeply.
Rites of Passage is a large project — maybe the most expansive thing I’ve attempted — and I’m putting everything I have into bringing it into the world with as much power, integrity, and beauty as possible. I’m excited for people to feel it when it’s finally ready.