A beacon is standardly a light or fire which can signal, warn or guide. The light can disclose and reveal, it also can present a possible path to safety or at least give us a glimmer of possibility which was previously cloaked in darkness. The songs on Beacons highlight much of the full range of meanings for the word beacon.

Some of the lyrics and music is meant to reveal and articulate that which my thoughts, feelings and experiences have fashioned. Some of the emotional and conceptual environments seem to suggest or guide specific paths while others stand as a warning of the implications of staying the course currently being blazed.

By and large the beacons on this album are about the preciousness, poignancy and significance of our lives and the intimacy it can contain. Most of the songs are explorations into the marriage between our self-conscious life of thought and appreciation with that of a body that intuitively and functionally responds and reacts to the world in which we live.

While some of the lyrics were born spontaneously, most of them reached their final state through a rigorous process of reflection and refinement to adapt to mood, meter and musical context. In general the instruments create the general environment for the thoughts and feelings to exist in and respond to.

In the majority of the songs the sax is totally spontaneous and an emotional reflex to both the voice and the emotional environment established by the other instruments. In this way the vocalist represents the thinking conscious part of myself, and the sax organically takes on the role of the pre-verbal body that unfiltered and naturally feels and experiences life in the moment. The sax and vocalist together comprise the integrated whole that makes up my body freely living in the moment with the thinker, experiencer who finds meaning and joy through a self-conscious personal history.

I have found that my music secretes the essence of my life in ways far more adept than mere conscious words ever could. It expresses the poignancy of all my emotional and sentient feelings and experiences with profound nuance and clarity. The irony is that no matter how much of me and my world I express there is still so much more to articulate and make manifest.

When I first starting writing songs is was with the intention of trying to find a medium to have a positive impact on the world. I felt that words by themselves often fell short of conveying the practical and visceral importance of life and often remained bodiless and abstract. Words accompanied by music, on the other hand, presented the possibility of the social message not only being intellectually understood but also sensorial and emotionally experienced.

Yet, now, I realize that my music has become less a vehicle for social change than become a powerful medium to experience the very way I feel life. My songs are as good a way as I can imagine for others to enter my body and experience the world as I do. Which, while not as important as healing the world, is at the heart of my desire to be intimate and maximize the moments we share together.

When people describe me they often use words such as intense, passionate and ebullient. They often state that while my energy is often invigorating and stimulating it can also enervate and become overwhelming.

I, therefore, understand that listening to my album all in one sitting may be a bit too much to ask. So I recommend that you listen only until full, but please come back when refreshed and take another helping.