The Ember Is Not Nothing

The Ember Is Not Nothing

Various, consolidatedI want to say something about survival, because the album is not only about collapse and I do not want the record of my thinking in this period to suggest that I believe collapse is the whole story.I have survived plagues. Multiple ones, at...
Why Now: The Coordinates

Why Now: The Coordinates

Present Day, April 2026People ask why I am speaking now. The question deserves a direct answer.I broke my silence because I recognized the coordinates. Not in a mystical sense: in the specific sense that I have watched, from various distances, the progression of a...
Why April 24

Why April 24

Present Day, April 2026Black Sun Rising arrives April 24. I have been asked why this song, and why before the album, and I want to answer the question directly.The album, which comes May 22, is a complete thing: twelve movements through the geometry from the...
Crown of Wires

Crown of Wires

Present Day, April 2026In Florence’s churches, the light arrived through stained glass and fell on stone floors that had been worn smooth by centuries of people coming to stand in the light. The quality of that light was specific: colored, diffused, carrying...
The Geometry of Violence

The Geometry of Violence

Various, consolidatedI want to say something specific about war, because I have been in enough of them to have a basis for the observation that is not theoretical.The reasons given for wars change. The configuration of the wars does not change as much as the changing...