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 12-track album (planned for release in Fall 2026) as the centerpiece of a larger creative universe that includes a hybrid memoir (edited and shared with publishers), and an immersive musical audiobook.
Together, these works form a unified, multiformat project.
“rich and mellow flow of shining glints of picked guitar and Farran’s dusky vocal reflections”