Adrift is a set of solo piano pieces designed for falling asleep to.
The EP explores the transition from wakefulness to sleep, or hypnagogia.
The first three tracks are melodic and represent thoughts and memories passing through consciousness. After Colo(u)r, each track becomes more abstract than the last as consciousness wanes, before we arrive in a full, vivid, and nostalgic dream state for the final track, There Was A Time.
Midnight Lullaby
The opening track, a waltz for ushering in sleep.
Until the Day
An instrumental version of a song I wrote in 2021:
“I spend my days thinking I am over you
When someone asks, I tell them that I’m over you
But now and then, my heart stops at the thought of you
I guess I’ll wait, until the day I’m over you“
Colo(u)r
One of the very first songs I ever wrote.
Here
Written for friends whose family members were unwell.
Baillarger’s Montage
Starting to fade towards sleep here. Jules Baillarger was a 19th-century neurologist and psychiatrist who carried out some of the earliest research into hypnagogic states.
Praedormitium
As close to sleep as we can get, without quite being fully asleep yet.
There Was a Time
A vivid, nostalgic dream concludes Adrift.