Ambient Music Album Release Party

Backyard Castles, an ambient music group created by Ezra Bram and Miles Jenkins, is preparing to share their first album. As a master’s student in the process of becoming a Licensed Professional Counselor, I honed in on the emotional foundation of the project. As a well seasoned, professional musician steeped in jazz, Miles crafted each musical expression to feel authentic, vulnerable, and meaningful.

Quartz Circle is meant to commemorate the piano in the basement of Ezra's childhood home. The music extends beyond his personal memories and welcomes each lister to explore their own ambiguous experiences, dynamics, and relationships from childhood.

The heart of this album was fueled by our own reckoning with regret, grief, abandonment, neglect, and insecurity. This work reflects our personal journey of integrating younger versions of ourselves that were once abandoned, deemed unworthy, and rejected somewhere along the path of wholeness and love.

Welcome to our reckoning with bringing a painful past into the loving present.

We are curating this event to be an inspiring experience that helps you see more of you with love, hope, and clarity. Our desire is to welcome you into a reflective space that allows you to process your own experiences and create opportunties for you to expand awareness about any potentially unrecognized emotional wounds.

We understand how this can sound a bit ambigous, intimidating, confusing, or even a bit unexpected for an album release party. If this happens to be the case for you, remember that you are welcome to come as you are and be as present as you’re able.

This album encapsulates nostalgia and unfettered innocence, while offering a space to explore your own internal world. Come and join us for a beautiful evening of peace, reflection, inspiration, and loving company.

We can’t wait to share this experience with you! <3

Mad love,

Ezra + Miles

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