Stems from Darkness ━ music ⏐ memoir ⏐ immersive audiobook ━ Launch Fall 2026
Paul Farran was in Kabul when two gunmen stormed the Serena Hotel. He escaped. Seven people did not. One attacker was captured alive, with a vest he could not bring himself to detonate.
Stems from Darkness is the work that followed — a continuous project across a 12-track album and a companion memoir, centered on rupture: how memory persists, reshapes, and resists resolution.
Album release: Fall 2026. Memoir edited and with publishers. Immersive musical audiobook in development.
Together, these works form a unified, multi-format project.
“rich and mellow flow of shining glints of picked guitar and Farran’s dusky vocal reflections”