What the Mind Keeps is an instrumental journey through the way our minds hold onto thoughts, memories, emotions, and experiences. Originally started years ago as an unfinished musical “mind dump,” the piece stayed with me until I eventually found my way back to it.

Rooted in R&B, soul, jazz, contemporary instrumental, and minimalist influences, it moves between introspective, soulful moments and more adventurous, rhythmically driven passages, with harmony that shifts, repeats, builds, and returns to something familiar.

At times restless and searching, and at others calm and reflective, the piece captures an inner dialogue without a clear answer, where thoughts come and go, emotions change, and life moves forward, while certain things continue to remain with us.