Shade defines the shape of light, representing safety, refuge, and protection.

Hiram's latest offering embraces the short form, unfolding across ten vignettes centered on this theme. Built from real-time improvisation and layered sound environments, the album offers a series of intimate studio portraits bridging the human and natural worlds. With field recordings sourced from coastal palms and desert landscapes, the work conjures vistas and shorelines rendered in miniature. Each piece acts as a small window onto a larger geography.

Inspired by the dynamics of library music and the deep process of dub, the album travels far distances in brief timespans. Named like entries in a field notebook, the track titles borrow from Latin and Hebrew to trace the album's movement between light and shadow.

Bass guitar and wooden flute move through landscapes of orchestral color, patiently expanding. At times the view narrows to micro-botanical scale, elsewhere our perspective widens, and soft contrasts emerge. Born from specific environments while gesturing outward beyond place, each piece holds an invitation toward cool rest. 

Like shelter beneath broad branches.