"The Thread"

Gaisma Theatre Group

Welcome back for one last demo from Buried Deep. (But don't worry, I'll still be working on it more in the background!)

I wanted to give thanks again to the wonderful team at Gaisma Theatre Group for coordinating this project and for getting so many great folks together to make these demos a reality! Further, thank you to Justin Tran for music directing these pieces and Daniel Wolfert for bringing all his music producing expertise. These recordings were a team effort and it would not have been possible without them.

Lastly, many thanks to the singers for lending their voices to my music: Sandra Waters, Arika Matoba, and Josh Kenji. In a fitting end to this process, all three of them return to sing our final demo, "The Thread."

When our story begins, Ruri has been suffering the same, troubled dream for years. She dreams of generations of ancestors stretching out before her across a vast ocean. They all warn Ruri of dangers in the waking world; dangers that, they claim, she can only face with her family by her side.

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"In the After"

Gaisma Theatre Group

Welcome back for my third Buried Deep demo with Gaisma, with only one more week of releases after today!

After a short feature in last week's song, we're bringing back Arika Matoba to sing "In the After."

Left to her own devices, Ruri seeks to understand her family better and looks to her grandfather, her Jichan, for guidance. During WWII, Her Jichan was ripped away from his home for being Japanese-American, spent his young adult years in an interment camp, and dropped off the radar once the war was over. All Ruri has are artifacts of his life from before internment and the hope that they can provide meaning to her life now.

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"The Nail That Sticks Out"

Gaisma Theatre Group

Welcome to week 2 of our Buried Deep demos! Continuing with my collaboration with Gaisma Theatre Group, we have a new song available to listen now.

This week's song is "The Nail That Sticks Out," featuring Josh Kenji, with additional vocals provided by Arika Matoba!

WWII is over and Wallace left Japanese-American internment to enter a new America; an invasive country waiting for him to fail. In the twenty years since leaving his barbed wire enclosure, he’s waged a war with the old Wallace to become the most acceptable version of himself. Buckling under the pressure, he finally admits to the hard truths that have kept him afloat in the time since.

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