When Denis and I skied together with his father and a family friend, he searched for a flow on the mountain. A quiet, smiley determination pointed to a sense of curiosity that belied his lack of time on skis. He wanted to get it right. Skiing is my expertise, but I see that same sense of searching for energy’s heart in Denis’ music. It’s fun with a sense of the essential, the fundamental and the flow. His take on the creative process seemed well beyond his eighteen years, but then again, he wrote his first pop song when he was ten.