Sketches from Wonderland came from a desire to experience the songs in their simplest form.
A year after Wonderland was released, I found myself drawn back to the instrument where every track began — the piano. Not to strip anything away in protest, and not because the original versions needed changing, but because I wanted to sit with the melodies and harmonies on their own again. To hear the ideas before they expanded outward into colour, texture and production.
At that time, I was thinking about essence — about how much can be held in something simple when the foundation is strong. The piano has always been that grounding place for me. The point where songs first take shape, where emotion leads and everything else follows. Recording these sketches felt like revisiting the starting point, not to go backwards, but to see the journey from another angle.
This project feels like a distillation. The same songs, the same heart, just expressed through a quieter lens. A reminder that whether dressed in technicolour or held in a single instrument, the core of the music remains the same — melody, feeling, and the impulse to make sense of the world through sound.