The challenge for me as a composer was to write the music in such a way that, while maintaining the energy and authenticity of a jazz performance, would also provide enough of different moods to be usable in a narrative way. In addition, the music had to evoke a sense of past and present simultaneously for which I drew from influences very close to my heart like Eric Dolphy, Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band et al.

 After the recording and during the film’s post-production period, a few months of adventurous music editing, composing, and recording followed and the music for the actual film was completed in the spring of 2022. The album with the music contains 3 entire performances from the original recording session (Intro, Why Birds Sing, Outro), 3 tracks that were significantly edited or overdubbed (The Desert, Louder!, Paris and Beyond) and 3 additional compositions/arrangements (Then and Now, Under the Willow Tree, Like the Ocean).