SECRET RIVERS is me on vocals, and SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE on both vocals and production. We’ve both been around forever, but this duo project is something new. Beyond that, we both live in the Twin Cities. Spring Is Coming is our first release as a duo, and it is very much about where we live, and about this moment: a season of occupation and brutality, but also a season of resistance and solidarity.

This release is also a fundraiser, with all proceeds going to the Neighbors Helping Neighbors Twin Cities ICE Relief Fund. Listen and/or download here:

My own writing has been the furthest thing from my mind these past few months, but spite and stubbornness can work as fuel as much as anything else. A couple quick notes on my contributions to this project:

• Worthy of the Stone: We wrote this song in the Fall of 2025 over an instrumental track from the TV show Andor (the beat that plays when Mon Mothma spins around in circles). We liked the song too much for it to be a mixtape-style throwaway track, so SMP remixed it with an original beat. You can still find us performing the original version here, though.
• One Does Not Simply Walk Into Minnesota actually started out as a remix of a very old Guante & Big Cats song, A Pragmatist’s Guide to Revolution. While re-recording the vocals, though, I decided to rewrite a few lines, which turned into rewriting basically the whole song. This one better reflects where I am right now.
• Let Your Heart Be a Whistle is something I wrote back in December of 2025. The audio is pulled from a live performance at an UNIDOS fundraiser at the Loft Literary Center here in MPLS.

Book us for your mutual aid fundraiser, benefit show, or other event – contact me here.

Salt Sounds: A Virtual ICE OUT Performance and Fundraiser (3/7/26)

On Saturday, March 7 (at 7pm Central), we’ll be debuting some new work! The virtual event is free to attend, but we are also using it as an opportunity to encourage people to support the Neighbors Helping Neighbors Twin Cities ICE Relief Fund. Throughout the evening, we’ll be sharing songs, poems, and conversation, and encouraging people to give what they can. JOIN US at 7pm via SMP’s youtube channel.

We’re continuing to try to offer cool virtual arts content (like this too), because we know a lot of people here in MN who are trying to minimize time outside their homes. We hope this can be a chance to hang out, chat with people, and share something meaningful. We’ll also be joined by the incredible Kat Parent as half of SMP’s other group, SkySpiders & the Imperceptible Web, who also have some very cool new art to share.

The official blurb: Three interrelated musical acts—SkySpiders and the Imperceptible Web, Secret Rivers, and SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE— are united by a notion that art, culture, and shit-talking – in concert with creative organizing strategies and regular, concrete action – are critical elements of the movement ecosystem. Shifting from folk, to Hip Hop, to Spoken Word, and beyond, all three acts are anchored by SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE’s live production wizardry on the MPC and Loop Station 505 spiced with fiery vocals, spooky harmonies, and salt laden poetry. Instead of charging for the event, we’re suggesting a donation of $10, or $20, or a million (or whatever you can do) to Twin Cities ICE Relief Fund.

A Few More Links

• Here is my landing page sharing resources for people looking to show up, contribute, or support our MN community right now, and here is a page zooming in specifically on resources for writers and artists in this moment.
• Check out more from Skyspiders and the Imperceptible Web! We’ve had multiple gigs now where it’s the three of us, kind of weaving in and out of these different projects, and it’s always a lot of fun.
• Here’s a recent conversation from me and SMP about what it means to make art in this historical moment. And there’s also this other conversation that’s maybe a good intro to what SMP is about as an artist.
• …and inspiration for the name: