This project and I think most projects for me is a search for truth. (Move and Be Guided) - I go into these deep places in my apartment sitting at my piano looking at the picture of my mother that was the center picture on her casket at her wake. If you keep the perspective of the loss I witnessed at age 27 - I carried her body from the hospice bed to the stretcher with my older brother. Thats deep enough right there… My reality is not the only reality of life that has been challenging. Reconnecting with Jade we shared a sacred space when these tracks were created.. it all started with conversation in the garden outside my apartment building. I remember sitting on the bench and discussing some of my philosophy and approach towards what I seek to create in my life. No longer focused on radio or appealing to people but creating through my experience and working with the spiritual dimension of creativity. Move forward in particular was recorded at 3am after I finally got all of the recording, and camera equipment ready to go to capture the magic of creating the music live. Jade had fell asleep sitting up on the couch lol - Once I was ready I said JADE! She woke like she wasn’t sleep and says “Im ready I’m ready” lol - I hit record and we went in - off the jump she says “wont you listen” and I am sitting in meditative posture with eyes close focused on the energy of where this is leading and then she says “i just want to move forward away from all this childish behavior” From there I knew something was happening and it proceeded the entire song while I was bringing instruments in and dropping them out as she freestyled. This song came about with out any writing involved with one take of a freestyle at 3am! Amazing - the next morning after jade left I bounced down the session and went to Fort Totten in Bayside Queens. I walked out on the Jeti and got in meditation position on a rock as I gazed out at the bridge while the sun beamed on me and listened back to the track over and over - just amazed and touched by the message and that I was a part of this. It felt like what I have been trying to say and write for so long just came through her over this beat. After some time of talking with jade following creating the songs her life was in transition. She was looking to move out of state away from the place she had lived her whole life. I was intrigued by her focus on moving forward and felt the music was in line with what was actually happening in her life. I had the idea that I needed to come to her home town and film for these records. Without any idea of a story board or what the town looked like I went up to Newburg with all of my equipment on a day that was pouring rain. I had never been to her home town. I do a lot of hiking upstate and know those areas near by but I never knew it would be like what I experienced. I have had my own traumatic experience in a town that looked like hers and couldn’t help but feel anxiety while in certain areas. I would follow her in the car and we drove by certain landmarks and I would stop and say - this is the spot! Like the wall with all the people in beginning scenes of “Move Forward” and the Graphiti wall that says “Newburgh” in the beginning scene. Being so attached to my spiritual roots and knowing where I created the instrumental from and just the overall tone of this song - I said we need to find a church to film in. So Jade took me to a church and we were denied access.. Went to the next church.. Denied access… Went to a third church - I said Jade you go check.. After 5 minutes jade had not came back.. So I went and followed her tracks and called her.. She said Im coming out.. She came out with a man in a robe who said - we are praying right now. He said come in. And he led Jade and I into the prayer room - that was filled with incense smoke and a very powerful energy. The words that were being spoked ran through my being. Once the prayer concluded - Father Guiseppe led jade and I outside the room and asked how he could help us. I told him we were on a spiritual journey shooting a project for this music we created and this was the third church we came to - none of the others let us in coming here and walking into that prayer gives me reason to believe we are in the right place! He looked at us and asked - I want to make sure whatever you are filming doesn’t conflict with the church views. Jade says hold on Joe - and looked at Father Guiseppe and started singing. From there he led us into the Church and granted us access. All of the scenes you see were unscripted and unrehearesed. I felt wrong filming in the church because there is so much focus you need to have behind the camera. I felt so compelled to focus on God. Never the less we ended up getting the shots. On our search for truth - I was filming the Stained glass windows and Father Guisseppe was talking about “The dove symbolizes the holy spirit” ironically as my camera was zoomed on the dove. When he said that I heard Jade go Oh my god. When Jade first walked around the back of the building she said she saw a Dove. She said when she saw the Dove she knew this was the place - but had no idea of its spiritual symbolism. So though we may be on a search for truth through my art - maybe on the search for truth you find pieces..  - but there are many clues on the pursuit of truth.