This episode comes from the Youtube livestream on July 30 2024, and as the name suggests was at a time I had just finished recovering from Covid. I can hear in the initial song a sense of relief in my recovery, and things open up like a dawn breaking, with some gradual brightness slowly being shed on things. The second piece eventually takes on a bit of a desert oasis characteristic to the sound, once the arco parts come in, and not without some strange encounters to boot. With the third piece I realize that I was trying out an idea I had of recording several pieces to the same drum loop, so that multiple pieces could be edited together into a single cohesive piece, either that or I was still suffering the effects of brain fog. The third piece has more chordal movement and more bounce, and if I do edit the pieces together this would serve well as a chorus if I do decide to try to combine things. The fourth and final piece (a shorter episode due to covid fatigue) is a nice darker exploration, that has some nice heroic travails and epic moments.