The Bone Shore

The Bone Shore began as a piano accompaniment, written for a singer I was working with in Oakland. That project died on the vine, but the instrumental - an oddly-shifting hemiola - stuck with me.

After abandoning it for several months, I eventually resurrected the part early in 2019 as accompaniment for an odd, Greek-inspired lyric poem I wrote while reading Madeline Miller’s Circe. Eventually, after many iterations, the song took its current shape; a swirling blend of lyrical post-punk and shoegaze.

This song is in many ways the culmination of several years of experimentation, during which I largely abandoned electronic music, taught myself to sing, and re-integrated my love of poetry and literature into my work.

I recorded and produced the Bone Shore myself, with some help from friends, and worked with Yaron Fuchs on mixing and Piper Payne for mastering. Drums played by Asaf Nisim, guitar by Will Graefe, bass by Nick Jost