Dear Friends,
I hope March is already being kind to you. Today, I'm very honored to share some news about a special music project and a new episode of my podcast!
It brings me great joy to share a new song with you today called "To Be Enchanted" that marks the start of an unexpected collection of new songs I'm calling "Mother" which will release one at a time leading up to Mother's Day.
As some of you may already know, my mom passed away very suddenly last year in March. In the days right after, I sat down at my piano, which felt like a friend, and wrote a song called "Mother" in her honor. I tried to get back into writing songs for my Atlas: III project, but I wasn't ready. Instead, unexpected songs and themes began to surface that was my own way of processing and untangling the grief of such a huge loss in my life. Music is my way of understanding myself and so these songs naturally came to life from what I was experiencing. These "Mother" songs needed to be written before continuing on in my Atlas: III project.
It's bittersweet for this collection of music to begin to release now, at the first anniversary of losing my mom, but I'm really grateful for each of these songs, which felt deeply comforting to write. As we all have experienced loss and longing, I am honored to share them with you and hope that they can somehow be a source of comfort and connection for you as well. I'll be recording episodes of The Sleeping At Last Podcast for each song, talking through grief, death, loss and hope. Today, "To Be Enchanted" is out everywhere, along with its podcast episode.
Huge thanks to Sharon Gerber who played Cellos!! And to Chris Bethea for mastering this song, as well as artist, Joey Chou who painted the gorgeous cover art (Joey is one of my Mom's favorite artists of all time, so it means so much to me that he would be willing to create the cover art for each of these "Mother" songs)
I am honored to get to walk through each of these new "Mother" songs with you through episodes of The Sleeping At Last Podcast. Today's episode discusses "To Be Enchanted" and it means a lot to get to share with you all of me that went into this song
Continuing on in my Atoms series of music (tiny songs inspired by tiny moments), I'm delighted to share the brand-new "Atom 9" available now everywhere!! Thanks to Chris Bethea for mastering this track.
Thank you so much for listening. I greatly appreciate you.
Huge Love, Ryan
1. Cosmic Crisp Apples (a weird one, i know.. but i think it's my new favorite apple)
2. The Last of Us (thoroughly engaged with this show)
3. Factor (been trying meals out lately and i'm into 'em! solves my studio lunch problems.)
4. Falling Upward (finally read this beautiful and important work from fr. richard rohr. will revisit at different mile markers of my life.)
