If you had asked me a year ago to imagine the life I am living today I would be in disbelief. Not because I am any closer to living out the lofty fantasies that exist within, but because I wasn’t exactly in a good space last year. Amidst feeling stuck, relationship issues, and general disappointment in the state of the world, 2025 was easily a year I would soon like to forget. In an effort to resist the urge to overshare exactly what happened, I will simply say all of the hardship was necessary to my overall progression as an imperfect being.

Since last November, I have been honing my musical skills in an effort to break through an obvious emotional plateau that was occurring in my life. Typically speaking, on default, I don’t typically spend much time listening to or trying to learn music by other people. 2026 has been different. I spent an exorbitant amount of time drilling fundamentals, and learning dynamic structures by studying music far and away from what I was capable of a year ago.

At the beginning of this month, I went through a lot more changes than expected which put me into a very favorable position to accelerate my Japanese learning. I can’t express how thankful I am to the kindness of strangers. All I was asking for was a chance, and to my disbelief, being able to read basic Japanese got me to this place. In a world where nepotism often dictates opportunity, I legitimately created my current situation by committing to learning a language and it leading me to a new and exciting vista at forty-one years of age.

Looking back at the process for “One Flesh, One End” over a year after its release, I am pleased to have released such an amazing album. But I also think it mostly captures what I was going through in the years just before moving here. I want to capture the current chapter of my life with elegance and a new found desire to bear new truths to myself.

Earlier this month I sat down to write some new music. To my surprise, I gradually developed a direction for this music in my free time and finally cut a song. After sitting with it for a few days, I feel pretty good about it. It embodies what I want to hear from music, it is dynamic, epic, flowing, and a lot less repetitive than what I usually write.

Let it be known that Lacrimorta’s third album is currently in production. I don’t anticipate it taking as long as “One Flesh, One End,” took to complete for a variety of logistical reasons, so expect something sooner rather than later.

And maybe, just maybe, I will actually produce a music video that will accurately capture this moment without fear of expressing myself, while maintaining an aesthetic I can stand behind.