The tracks on this page are from clinical work I did in 2005 with a 14-year-old boy (not pictured) who was having to deal with some tough issues in his life.  He had lost his mother not so long ago and every day he was faced with uncertainty about where he was going to be living.  In these tracks you hear him dealing with his losses, hear the emergence of his heart and his visions of rebirth into a new life.

Chain of Memories: This was one of our earlier pieces.  The way of working that emerged was for us to work together on the accompaniments, with me acting as engineer and him having the final say on what clips to use.  The lyrics are all his.  In this piece, he memorializes his mother.

Love Beat: Here is the heart of a 14-year-old boy moving toward manhood.  We spent a session putting together the accompaniment and he came in the next week with this love song.  If only more adult men showed this kind of heart... 

Left Me: After playing an earlier version of this piece to one of his peers, the two of them discovered they had both lost their moms.  They lobbied hard to get recording time together and they created this piece honoring their mothers. 

The Rebirth: This was our last session.  We came in to this session not knowing where he would be living after the next day's hearing.  He had gone from writing lyrics to fit accompaniments we already put together to writing lyrics without a CD to work from.  I had a couple of rough mixes waiting for his input so he found one he liked, we tweaked it and recorded this.  Here he pays tribute to his counselor and the rebirth she has helped him through.  The next day he was moved out of the program and into another county. 

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