I recommend listening to this dark, foreboding little nugget in the nighttime, under your sheets, or perhaps if you ever find yourself lost in a dark forest. (You never know.)

There has been a real sense of discovery in creating these "melodic sound collage" works this past year. This third installment has probably been the most surprising in what it has revealed, slowly.The source material for all these albums (including "daffodils" and "fountains") comes from late-night experimental recordings made in the studio, improvisations, and field recordings (city, nature) gathered over the past few years, often layered on top of one another. Most of these recordings were made and then promptly archived and forgotten about. So when I finally took stock of everything, there were lots of surprises. Some of these sounds, I have no idea how I made them, or what I was intending at the time.

"Hollows" basically started merely as a collection of the darkest and loneliest of these recordings. But over time, the songs began to reveal themselves to me. Each of them seemed to bring me back more and more to traumatic places or feelings I have known. Some of these are specific to my life: a journey that revealed a betrayal in the family, a terrible accident, recurring nightmares I had as a child. Others are feelings I think most of us share: the unfolding dread of climate change, an almost-sublime sense of existential alone-ness — you know, stuff like that :)

This darkness is not really what I want to say, but it is a part of me and a part of everyone. Perhaps sharing it makes us each a little less alone. Or, perhaps at least "Hollows" can make for a decent soundtrack to your own personal dread.