Introduction (The Utah Sessions)

[Spoken Word Intro]

The following album was recorded during the coronavirus pandemic in a small cabin on top of a mountain in Utah

I was alone. It was recorded directly after I finished walking across America while I was training to climb Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world

In some ways, this is an introduction for an introduction because I was unfinished with the album when it was time for me to go to Nepal and try to climb Everest

And so I sent it to my manager and said, put this out only if I die because it's not done

Well, thankfully, I was able to get to the top of that mountain and more importantly, get back down safely with all my fingers and toes

And when I returned, I found myself unable to continue working on this album

The mountain had changed me to somebody else

And any effort to reconnect to the material I had written before I left to climb that mountain, I was no longer connected to in a direct way

So this is my time capsule snapshot from this chapter of my life

Incomplete

Imperfect

Here it is

And the album begins with my message to you. Should I have died?