On October 7, 2023, my family and I were camping on the bank of the Jordan River in northern Israel when we heard that Hamas had attacked the south, and that the nation was now at war. A few hours later, fifty feet from our campsite, a line of mobile artillery thundered and shrieked past us in the pre-dawn night, in terrifying contrast to the river bank's natural peace. The sound of artillery is hardened and merciless; it mimics its function.

Music has always been a therapy – and more, a spiritual lifeline – for me. But the war and resulting sudden unexpected migration of me and my family from Israel to Oakland, CA, gave an urgency, necessity, and intensity to a new musical journey, the first in my life: the composition of an album.

Here I offer you a rough cut of one of the album’s tracks. If you’d like an update when the other ten tracks are ready, enter your email address over yonder and follow me on Bandcamp!

Thank you for reading and listening! It is my prayer that this music that I offer, in its dispersal into the cosmic ether, can bring to the world healing and hope, as it brought to me in its production.