If you’ve been listening to “held by evening” (solo piano), the official visualizer is now on YouTube.
A few quiet minutes to stop holding everything for a bit, and let the music hold you instead.
Nothing to do. Nowhere to be. Just listen.
It's hard to describe what it feels like to finally share this project.
For years, "hush" has existed as ideas, recordings, and quiet moments in the studio. Now with "held by evening" it's finally finding its way into the world.
I can't wait to share what's next.
3 hidden details from the Held by Evening (Solo Piano) music video:
1) The writing desk belonged to my father.
2) The vase was passed down through Barbara's family.
3) Every frame was designed the way the music was written—simple, uncluttered, and full of space to breathe.
Pre-order now available: hush (Chad Lawson).
https://t.co/nP3NXA15vz
This is music made for that feeling of release. I wrote it to do what that moment in the room did for me.
To hold you, if only for a little while.
To ask nothing of you.
Welcome to hush.
Streaming now: "held by evening" (Chad Lawson)
There's holding on, and there's being held. This piece lives in the second one.
Watch the Solo piano music video: https://t.co/r2OOitDXYY
New music arrives Friday.
"held by evening" is the first single from my upcoming album.
It's a song for the end of the day. For putting things down. For feeling like you again.
Can't wait for you to hear it.
No AI, just human connection. I'm grateful for artists who still believe in using their craft to serve others and excited for what's ahead and for the hope, calm, and beauty this music will bring into the world.
Coming soon.
After years of research, collaboration, and exploring the world of calm through music, we are finally here.
The biggest project I've ever worked on.
New music coming soon.
What if rest isn't something we achieve?
What if it's something we allow?
Maybe that's why we feel its absence so deeply.
And maybe that's why we recognize it the moment it returns.
More coming soon...
In a world full of urgency and distraction, attention can feel fractured.
Music creates space.
Space to slow down.
Space to breathe.
Space to notice what is already here.
And maybe, in that space, to reclaim your attention and return to yourself.
#maryoliver
I write music as a reminder.
To slow your breathing. To soften your shoulders. To give yourself permission to pause.
Stay here for a moment. The world can wait.
There's room here.
Room enough between the notes.
Between the thoughts.
Room enough between who you've been and who you're becoming.
Nothing rushing you.
Just enough space to pause.
“Devi Within” is about the steady force within us that holds everything together, especially when life asks the most from us.
Featuring percussion by Jehangir Jehangir.
Devi Within is out now.
Sometimes the most important thing my music can do isn't fill a room. It's create one.
The moments where the music steps aside long enough for you to hear yourself again.
To let the noise settle. To notice how you're feeling.