Walk You Home (2024)

I created this record steadily over the course of one summer, like sonic journal entries of thoughts and feelings jotted down in the form of music. Almost all of the songs were written in those moments of wrestling with fear and willing myself to choose love, or in those times when love just comes shining through like the sun after the rain clears. "Got Away” was a song I had first started writing in Berkeley in 2014, after I got home from my big trip and moved back to the bay area for a stint. It has a lyric I enjoy for its Cheshire-cat like ambiguity - “she can watch me like the Mona Lisa.” With a half-smile that keeps you guessing, she keeps her eyes on you though you never know quite what she’s thinking. In November 2023 I had the opportunity to perform live in Tokyo, and I sang “Sidelines” and “Willing To Change” with a beautiful piano. It was a really special night.

Courage (2022)

Making this album, I was excited to put together a complete body of work for the first time since Röykkä. A lot felt special about this record - the song “Charlie”, which I wrote for my childhood dog after he passed away, is one of my favorites. “Tea Leaves” and “S.H.O.P.” are songs I often play live when I’m doing a solo acoustic set. By the way, S.H.O.P. stands for She Had Other Plans. The album received a special CD release in Japan and was featured in the Tower Records store in Shibuya, Tokyo.

Röykkä (2017)

In 2013, after I graduated from UC Berkeley, I embarked on an indefinite period of solo travel around the world. My first stop was Japan where I stayed for 3 months and worked in a guesthouse, and next was Russia. In a hostel in Moscow I met Matti Kari, a Finnish guy who heard me playing guitar and singing a song I had just written, “Summer Tune.” We started talking and he invited me to record at his studio in Finland, in the countryside north of Helsinki. Later that summer we met up there and I ended up staying for several months recording music, mostly in the evenings, and going to jam sessions. I even played a solo gig in Helsinki. The songs we recorded became my first album which I called Röykkä, after the name of the village. It took me a good 4 years to finally share it with the world (I first released all 9 songs in May 2017. My sister Maddi made the cover art), though I did release a few tracks as the Good Leg EP in late 2015. The song “Good Leg” is about finding spirituality, and it was one of Matti and my favorites. It ended up catching the ear of Vancouver-based producer Tyler Neil Johnson who invited me up to Canada to record. We made “Headspin” and “Daydreaming Pilot” at his studio in Vancouver out of demos I started in LA.