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 — a keyboard, Logic Pro X, and whatever sounds I could coax out of them at odd hours. Chasing grooves that felt honest, sculpting textures before they disappeared into the next morning. There was no label brief, no release calendar, no target audience in mind. Just a room, a keyboard, a screen full of possibilities, and the stubborn question: what does my music actually sound like when I stop trying to make it sound like something?
The answer, it turned out, was a mess — in the best way. Jazz that doesn't sit still. Funk that trips over itself. Electronic textures bleeding into world music motifs. Broken transmissions and floating melodies. Every instrument you hear — the bass, the keys, the pads, the percussion — all performed on keyboard and shaped through Logic Pro X. I stopped fighting the contradictions and started following them.
That's what Roots is: ten tracks that grew out of letting the music go where it wanted.
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#The Seeds
The album started at the keyboard. Not a concept, not a mood board — just hands on keys and Logic Pro X open, seeing what surfaced. "DMBO," the opening track, came from a bass groove I couldn't stop playing — fingers finding a pattern on the keyboard that was rhythmic and insistent, almost trance-like. From there it kept pulling in new elements: cinematic pads layered in Logic, broken percussive accents, world-influenced melodic fragments all built from the same keyboard. I realized it wasn't just a track; it was a tone. A doorway into something bigger.
From there, I let each piece follow its own gravity. "Chinese Moon" arrived as a nocturnal drift — something you'd hear walking through neon-lit streets alone, somewhere between dream and memory. "Pari" came from a completely different place: warm, acoustic, emotionally bare. It's one of the shortest pieces on the record but one of the ones I keep coming back to.
#The Mess in the Middle
If the first few tracks set the atmosphere, the middle of the album is where things get volatile. "Drunk Monk" is chaos with a heartbeat — a syncopated, spiritual funk groove where I let the keyboard performance stay raw and unpolished because the imperfection was the point. "Interrupted Live Feed" goes somewhere stranger: glitchy, modular, built from Logic Pro X's sound design tools to mimic broken transmissions and late-night signals. It's the track on the album that sounds least like "music" in a traditional sense, and that's exactly why it needed to be there.
"Hunt" pushes forward relentlessly. "Get The Pieces" tries to put everything back together afterward. I didn't plan that sequence consciously, but listening back, the narrative arc was already there — tension, rupture, reconstruction.
#Sinking Back Down
The album closes with "Low Layers" — deep bass textures, hidden rhythms, a slow descent. If the first track opens a door, the last one buries you gently back in the earth. The title Roots came late in the process, but once it arrived, it reframed everything. These tracks aren't reaching outward. They're reaching down — into influences I'd absorbed without naming, rhythms that felt inherited rather than learned, sounds that seemed to exist in my hands before I understood them.
#The Cover
The album art — roots intertwined with audio cables in dark soil — wasn't a metaphor I had to invent. It was already the album's thesis. The organic and the electronic growing together, tangled, inseparable. Music as something planted. Something you dig up.
#What This Album Is
Roots is a jazz fusion record, but only in the sense that it fuses things. It borrows from funk, from ambient, from electronic music, from cinematic scoring, from musical traditions I grew up overhearing. Every sound on this album was born from the same place: a keyboard and Logic Pro X. No session musicians, no outboard gear — just one instrument and the software to shape it into anything.
Ten tracks. Thirty minutes. No vocals. No features. One keyboard. Just the work.
#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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