“O Jardim”, the first single from my debut album is coming out on September 1st. This is a very special song to me. It doesn’t only talk about a garden as a place, but the patience of things growing slower than you want them to. The way the same soil holds both what’s dying and what’s just beginning. The quiet negotiation between what you plant and what simply arrives on its own. It’s tending something without controlling it. It’s beauty that shows up on its own schedule.

I put words into this melody that Itai Kriss has been whistling for years. It felt right. Not that the melody needed words, as it already captures what a ‘Garden’ feels like. But I thought bearing the words is part of its ripening and becoming.