Premonition: Synchronistic and sublime

I had a feeling you might like to know about the track ‘Premonition.’ 😎

Cover art for ‘Premonition’

This track is a collaboration with Just Too Lazy, Adam Enough and myself.

Last year (2025) Amy and I decided to move to Panama at the end of September. Knowing that it may be some time before we return to the States, we made a whirlwind road trip to visit family.

While visiting my kids in Michigan, we were sitting in the living room of my son’s (Shea) apartment that he shares with his partner and 2 friends. One of the 2, Boone, picked up his banjo and began playing a riff. I asked if he’d play it again so I could record it on my iPhone. This story would be boring if he didn’t oblige.

A few months later Amy and I were settling into our temporary digs in Panama. I remembered the Voice Memo recording of the Boone’s banjo. I call it Boonejo. I dropped the recording into Ableton, pitched it up a bit and slowed the tempo quite a bit. It was a groove I knew I could work with. I built a seed of a track using the banjo.

As mentioned before, I was with a cohort of other budding producers to learn the ways of the Ancient Future Collective. The cohort ran through the end of September. A remnant, ~1/3 of the group that began in July continued to meet on Monday evenings. One of the outcomes of those meetings was the decision to pair up each month with a fellow producer to collaborate on a track.

For the month of November, my collab partner was Just Too Lazy, aka Kerry Rodgers. This coincided with the development of the Boonejo joint. I submitted the seed to Kerry. He gave the green light. I handed off the file, and Kerry added his magic and passed it back.

I had Ableton for all of 6 months, which is about the same amount of time I knew of this sacred bass genre. That so, I continued to produce the track (for way too long) through the month of December. When the track was pretty close to done, I kept hearing a section that seemed like it could use a rhyme. I searched for a sample just to test my theory. I dropped in a sample, and it worked. Yes. This is what needs to happen here. But not a sample. I want the real deal.

My brov from Asheville, Trevor, could certainly do it. I contacted him. Sure, he’d love to take a crack at it, but he’d be leaving for 8 days to visit family. Right after would be Christmas, then NYE… etc.

So, it was looking like the track would be on hold for a minute.

During that month Amy was teaching yoga at a studio here in Boquete. One Saturday a tatted-up dude, Adam, set his mat next to mine. We connected a bit after class. Cool dude.

A week later I arrived at the studio to pick Amy up, having skipped the class for reasons I can’t remember. Adam came out a few minutes ahead of Amy, so we greeted one another and had another conversation. We realized that we had both, individually, had a sacred medicine journey during the week leading up to that particular Saturday.

Me (roughly): “Let’s have dinner and talk about it.”

Adam: “Ahight.”

The next evening Amy and I welcomed Adam over for a meal (probably fish of some kind). He arrived while I was still preparing the stuff. I asked if he had any background in music.

“I used to spit rhymes for, like, a decade back in DC. That was 8 years ago.” Something like that.

Jigga whuuuuuuut?

I told him about the music I was producing. I showed him the Boonejo track. He was vibing, immediately. So we decided to give it a go.

Adam left our condo around 9pm that evening. The next morning I had a message from him with the text of the rhyme he woke up with. A bit later he sent a video of him rhyming over the track while driving to his gym class.

Amy and I were giddy with laughter. Pure joy. Like, jigga whuuuuuuuut???

It. Was. Spot. On. Beyond what I’d imagined, because, like Trevor, this dude has a gift with words and phraseology and all of that stuff.

A week or so later he came over to put his verse on the track. Oh, and I didn’t have some of the equipment I thought I had brought to Panama. The only option I had was to use my iPhone to record his vocals.

I mixed his piece into the track, sent it off to be mastered, submitted said master to High Vibe Records, it was accepted, and on April 1, 2026, the track went out into the ethers.

It’s a premonition, inner-vision of the mind,

This is intuition, synchronistic and sublime…

Uh, yeah. I’ll say.