There are projects you write because you want to—and then there are projects you write because you have to. My upcoming 7-track EP, A Promise Kept, arriving December 19, belongs to the second category. I don’t say this lightly: this might be my favorite creation I’ve ever made, both in the literal sense and the musical one. It’s the closest I’ve ever come to bottling pure emotion, memory, and longing into sound.
The story behind A Promise Kept began with a poem I wrote years ago—a piece that still tugs at my heart every time I revisit it. The poem, also titled “A Promise Kept,” became the seed that would later grow into the original song on my album Volume Three (A Promise Kept). That song always felt perfect to me emotionally, but I also knew it was long, almost indulgently so, and I sensed it could be refined. With better production tools, sharper ears, and a clearer artistic vision, I felt it was time to return to it—not to erase what it was, but to let it bloom into what it could be.
This EP is the result of that revisiting: a reimagined and completely reworked version of the original track, expanded into a full winter narrative told across seven songs. And winter really is at the heart of this project. Snow, memory, silence, breath, heartbreak—these cold-weather elements form the emotional atmosphere of the story I wanted to tell. Releasing it in December felt like the only choice. The season itself is a character.
Of the seven tracks on the EP, three are entirely new original songs (Covenant, Oath and Pledge) that tell the same overarching narrative from different angles, each with a completely revamped melody and its own emotional color. These three tracks are true reboots of the original “A Promise Kept,” reshaped, reinterpreted, and rebuilt from the ground up. The remaining tracks include two dance adaptations—an EDM mix and a Synth-Pop version— alongside an instrumental take that’s more upbeat, with punchier drums and a stronger bassline than the version on Winter Rhapsody Volume One: Dawn of Solitude. This Instrumental track perfectly complements the main Reimagined rock-ballad on the EP. As the closing track, it brings the album full circle, echoing the sound and vibe of the opening song.
EP Track Listing
- A Promise Kept (Reimagined)
- A Promise Kept (EDM Mix)
- A Promise Kept (Covenant)
- A Promise Kept (Oath)
- A Promise Kept (Pledge)
- A Promise Kept (Synth-Pop)
- A Promise Kept (EP Instrumental)
The narrative follows two children who grew up together—best friends since pre-school, inseparable through every early milestone. They shared everything: long afternoons, secret hideaways, first promises, and the kind of innocent devotion that feels simple at the time but rewrites your entire life in hindsight. Their hideout—a trunk hole beneath an old oak tree—became their private universe. It’s where they laughed, dreamed, rehearsed pretend wedding vows, and made the kind of promise only children can make with absolute sincerity:
“I’ll love you forever, if fate allows.”
And fate, as fate often does, had its own plan.
One winter, the girl’s parents intervened. They saw the bond forming between the two children and attempted to stop it before it grew any deeper. Her family moved away, tearing apart a connection neither of them had the words to fully understand yet. But heartbreak doesn’t wait for adulthood; it arrives whenever love does.
That emotional core—childhood devotion cut short, the ache of unanswered memories, and the stubborn persistence of first love—is what this EP captures. The story is fictional, but the emotions it draws on are anything but. True first love has a way of staying with you. It doesn’t disappear just because the story ends. Instead, it survives in memory, like a winter that never fully melts.
My original poem became the emotional blueprint for everything the EP explores—nostalgia, longing, devotion, and the slow, quiet endurance of a promise no one expected to keep.
This poem is the heartbeat of the EP—every song echoes a line, a memory, a feeling. The tracks don’t just tell a story; they revisit it, reinterpret it, and allow it to breathe in new ways. Some songs sound like falling snow. Others sound like the warmth of childhood summers remembered on a winter night. And some—the ones closest to the original song’s spirit—sound like promises whispered to no one in particular.
A Promise Kept is everything I love about storytelling: emotional, nostalgic, romantic, and haunting. It’s the embodiment of what first love leaves behind—its innocence, its ache, its loyalty.
I can’t wait to share this project with you. The EP releases December 19, just in time for winter, for reflection, and for those memories we all hold onto even when we don’t mean to.
This one means the world to me. And I hope, in some small way, it finds a place in your world too.
