A Hope For Home

Portland, OR

2006

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Since 2006, I have managed and performed in my band, A Hope For Home with my friends Kyle Cooke and Daniel McCall. Kyle died of bone cancer in 2006, but before his passing, requested that we keep the project going in the wake of his death. We began playing locally around Portland in the then-flourishing Christian alternative music scene before embarking on a number of self-booked tours (ah, the MySpace days). We wrote, produced and recorded, and self-released our debut album, "Here, the End" in 2007. In 2008, we were signed to Facedown Records, which at the time was distributed nationally by Sony Music. On Facedown, we released "The Everlasting Man" (which we had recorded ourselves before signing with the label) in 2009, "Realis" in 2010, and finally "In Abstraction" in 2011, for which I wrote and directed a feature-length film of the same title. During the In Abstraction cycle, alongside a number of personal changes amongst the group, the band decided to stop marketing ourselves in the Christian music industry. Following the release of In Abstraction we took a break from performing and writing as a group, our guitarist Tanner Morita moved to North Carolina to start Hex Coffee, and I mostly kept demo ideas in a riff folder. But in the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic, we started meeting over Zoom to catch up and in the process, decided to write a new album for the first time in a decade. Entirely self produced and distributed, "Years of Silicon" was released digitally in 2022. Following my move back to the Pacific Northwest, we took a year to play a number of reunion shows before deciding to move into a new direction I am cheekily calling "The Project Era," which will be light on live performances but include things like silent film scores, visual and audio projects, as well as more traditional album releases.