After the Rain (After the Rain, March 2023)

After the Rain performed by the Free Key Choir at their concert, After the Rain in March 2023 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Oakland, CA. Composed by Cole Pulice.
Cole Pulice (they/them) is a saxophonist and composer living in Oakland, California. Their music often centers around improvisation and electroacoustic signal processing, and frequently explores themes surrounding alternate spectrums, forms, and sensations of time, fantasy, memory, and gender.
From the composer:
In a literal sense: I wrote “After the Rain” during the intense two-week storm at the beginning of January 2023. I had just passed the one-year mark of living in Oakland (having moved here from Minneapolis, Minnesota), and had incidentally just returned to the Bay from a brief yet emotionally heavy trip back to Minneapolis at the end of December. Despite the storm, I was so happy to be back in the Bay, and I found myself struck for the first time since moving here with a deep sense of “okay I, like, live in California,” instead of feeling somehow caught between the creative, personal, social, and geographic dual-realities of both Minneapolis and Oakland. This shift felt like a small but important emotional milestone, and was freshly resonating with me as I wrote “After the Rain”.
In a more gestural sense: I was thinking about and processing a lot of feelings surrounding the neverending and constantly unfolding flow of change: often exciting, but regularly bittersweet... in many instances, tethered to some process of The Letting Go (of places, geographies, routines, relationships, senses of self, creature comforts, so on and so forth) in order to embrace new chapters, horizons, and possibilities. I really wanted the music to capture this duality: rosy and dreamy yet pensive, warm and hopeful yet melancholy, lustrously expressive yet somehow turned inward.
conducted by Chalice deLight
saxophone: Cole Pulice
organ: Derek Sup
guitars: Eli Utnie, Marissa Deitz, Sasha Reynolds
video editing: Derek Sup
sound mixing: Geoff Saba

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This is absolutely beautiful. Hopefully it will be released at some point.