I was going to the studio when Jeff received a text from a friend close to Damo, announcing that he had passed away the night before. While we knew he was battling several illnesses, we weren’t aware that he was that close to the end. Only a few weeks ago, we were talking about having an improvisational moment with him when we would reside in Cologne for the upcoming summer. It was heartbreaking, especially as he was so enthusiastically committed to his new musical venture. A man of faith, he was a singular individual looking at death the very same way he lived his life; an adventure made of blind leaps, total abandonment in the moment he was in. In that sense, he gave us way more than his unique creative approach. He taught us that eternity is a flux defined by our willingness to keep evolving. No matter how the body decays, the spirit flows as far as we are disposed to travel through its stream, at least that’s how I see it. That’s how I’m living my life now, setting my inner clock and reshaping the rhythm of the environment I’m a part of. No matter how scary it is to feel off balance sometimes, there’s no possible status quo when you are determined to live your life as if you were walking on a wire without a safety net to catch you if you fall; you have to learn to fly… It’s a spiritual metaphor, I highly discourage any physical attempt to fly… just saying!