This was among the last tracks I made in my first apartment studio in Portland, a couple months before the pandemic struck. That day, I remained at my standing workstation with a small keyboard in front of me, improvising layers for hours until I had a complete track, all while contemplating the rainy sky and the hedge of English laurel that separated our complex from the church next door. Hence the name.

The music evokes an optimistic and expansive but restful mood that makes me think of the feeling at the end of a long, satisfying day, full of favorite things and time spent with good people. The track got lost in the chaos of the seasons that followed, to be rediscovered only years later in what I expect and hope will be my permanent Portland studio, which coincidentally also has a hedge of English laurel outside its windows. Things have a way of closing the circle sometimes.