In the waning months of 2020, as the world seemed to stall, Jonathan Binhack hopped on a small sail boat and embarked on an odyssey across the Atlantic. He disappeared for ten months somewhere south of Great Inagua and resurfaced almost by chance, at the anchorage of the 79th street boat basin in New York City in the summer of ‘21. Far from home he sought muses and musical heroes, melodies, words and the resonance of his own voice. It wasn’t until a bitterly cold winter in Montreal, amid steaming cups of coffee, myriad book covers, and taut guitar strings, that he discovered it. Jonathan Binhack’s voice has the undertow of an intimate vow, haunting yet oddly distant, untethered from the mundane and redolent of the bittersweet pang of a lost love. Back in the concrete embrace of New York, and the Bushwick music scene he translated this journey into his debut album, How To Live Forever, released in January 2024. Clear enough to be heard and odd enough to be listened to, his songs come from experience, the verse is polished and the arrangements scarce. There is space to breathe in his music and his songs communicate with the quiet decency of two sleepless strangers greeting each other through a windowpane.