He 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.

STEMS FROM DARKNESS
ALBUM ⏐ MEMOIR ⏐ AUDIOBOOK
“rich and mellow flow of shining glints of picked guitar and Farran’s dusky vocal reflections”