Out Now — May 24, 2026
There's a moment in every creative process where you stop building something and realize the thing has been building you. Roots is the album that came from that realization.
For the past while, I've been making music alone in Montreal — late nights, layered grooves, fragments of melodies appearing out of nowhere and refusing to leave. There was no label brief, no release calendar, no target audience in mind. Just experimentation, instinct, and the stubborn question: what does my music actually sound like when I stop trying to make it sound like something else?
The answer turned out to be beautifully chaotic. Jazz that doesn't sit still. Funk rhythms colliding with electronic textures. World music influences drifting into cinematic atmospheres. Broken transmissions, floating melodies, deep basslines, and grooves that constantly mutate. Somewhere during the process, I also started playing more bass guitar — and that changed the feel of the album completely. The low-end became more alive, more physical, more human.
That's what Roots became: ten tracks shaped by instinct rather than rules.
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#The Seeds
The album began simply — hands on keys, experimenting, following grooves wherever they wanted to go. "DMBO," the opening track, grew from a hypnotic bass rhythm that kept repeating in my head. The groove became the foundation for layered textures, cinematic atmospheres, fragmented percussion, and melodies pulling from different corners of my influences.
From there, every track followed its own gravity.
"Chinese Moon" arrived like a late-night walk through neon reflections and memory — quiet, suspended, almost dreamlike.
"Pari" moved in the opposite direction entirely. Rhythmic, earthy, and dance-driven, the track was inspired by Egyptian Nile darbuka grooves and hypnotic pulse-based rhythms. It carries movement at its center — something between ritual, celebration, and trance. The beat keeps pushing forward while the melodies float above it, creating a contrast I kept returning to while making the record.
#The Mess in the Middle
If the opening tracks establish the atmosphere, the middle of the album is where things become unstable.
"Drunk Monk" is syncopated chaos with a heartbeat — raw, imperfect, intentionally loose. I wanted the groove to feel alive rather than polished.
"Interrupted Live Feed" explores something colder and stranger: glitchy textures, fractured signals, sounds that feel half-transmitted from another room at 3 a.m. It's probably the least traditional piece on the album, which is exactly why it belongs there.
"Hunt" keeps moving relentlessly forward. "Get The Pieces" feels like the aftermath — trying to rebuild from fragments. I didn't consciously plan that emotional arc, but listening back, it was already there: tension, collapse, reconstruction.
#Sinking Back Down
The album closes with "Low Layers," which became one of the most personal tracks on the record. By that point, bass guitar had started taking a larger role in my process, and the low-end on this piece is fully performed with layered bass guitar parts stacked together to create depth and movement. The track descends slowly — submerged rhythms, deep textures, hidden melodies living underneath the surface.
If the first track opens a door, the last one pulls everything back underground.
The title Roots came late in the process, but once it appeared, everything suddenly connected. These tracks aren't reaching outward — they're reaching downward. Into influences absorbed over years without fully naming them. Into rhythms that feel inherited more than learned. Into sounds that existed somewhere in my hands long before I understood where they came from.
#The Cover
The artwork — roots intertwined with audio cables beneath dark soil — already felt like the album's thesis before I even realized it. The organic and electronic tangled together, impossible to separate. Music as something planted. Something buried. Something rediscovered.
#What This Album Is
Roots is a jazz fusion album, but only in the sense that it fuses worlds together. Funk, ambient, electronic textures, cinematic moods, world rhythms, improvisation, and groove-driven experimentation all coexist inside it.
No vocals. No features. No attempt to fit inside one genre.
Just ten tracks, thirty minutes, and the sound of following instinct wherever it leads.
#Track Listing
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Jazz. Funk. Electronic. World fusion. Instrumental music for late-night streets, distant memories, and imagined films.
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