The City Before Dawn the Morning After He Died

The City Before Dawn the Morning After He Died

Florence, April 10, 1492Lorenzo de Medici died last night. I left the city before dawn this morning with a satchel of manuscripts and nothing else. I have been pointing east for years without admitting it to myself. Today I admitted it.I do not have the words yet for...
Two Chronicles, One Testimony

Two Chronicles, One Testimony

Present Day, July 31, 2026Geometry of Ruin mapped the pattern: the recurring geometry of human systems that achieve a kind of perfection and then collapse under the logic of their own perfection, from the Medici fall to the present, twelve movements through the...
What It Means to Release This Album Now

What It Means to Release This Album Now

Present Day, May 2026Geometry of Ruin is out. It has been heard by people I do not know in places I have never been, and they have sent words about it that I am still trying to receive without deflecting them, which has never been a skill I have found easy.I have been...
In My Name: The Last Word

In My Name: The Last Word

Present Day, July 28, 2026The album closes with In My Name because that is always how it closes.In God’s name. In the name of the faith. In the name of the divine will as interpreted by whoever holds institutional authority at this particular moment in this...
What You Are Carrying

What You Are Carrying

Present Day, July 25, 2026I am interested in what Sanctified Hunger means when it meets someone else’s experience. Not what I intended. What it does.I wrote the album from a position that is specific to me: five hundred and sixty eight years of direct...
What Violence Looks Like When It Has a Master

What Violence Looks Like When It Has a Master

Rome, autumn 1605Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is in serious trouble with the law again, which means he is also, at this particular moment, producing some of the most extraordinary paintings Rome has seen in fifty years. These two things are not unrelated. The...