Abhaile

It is my great honor to have made Abhaile in close collaboration with composer Finola Merivale. Abhaile–pronounced əˈwalʲə (‘home’ or ‘homeward’ in Irish)–is an album for saxophone, electronics and improvisation. Finola composed saxophone lines and electronics, to which I then improvised more layers. This record wrestles with many different angles of this idea of home, and was made across five years, in which time Finola had to move an absurd number of times, over enormous distances: from France, to New York, back to Ireland, and then to Paris again; during this period, I also moved from Ireland to New York, and then to the high desert of New Mexico.