“A journey made of voices, silence, and the fragile weight of hope.”

This album tells the story of Ellis Island—not as a place of statues or photographs, but as a threshold of trembling hearts and uncertain futures. Between 1892 and 1954, more than 12 million immigrants arrived on this small island in New York Harbor, carrying with them languages, prayers, lullabies, and dreams too large for words. Each track in this album is a fragment of that crossing. A moment in the life of someone who left everything behind for a chance at something unknown. These are not fictional tales, but imagined truths—built on real migrations, real fears, and real hope. You will hear the voice of a young Irish couple fleeing famine, a Sicilian father working to bring his children over one day. A Polish violinist escaping conscription. A Russian-Jewish mother running from pogroms with her child in her arms. A Chinese boy posing as a “paper son” just to be allowed in. A Lebanese merchant who trades in the shadows of a foreign tongue. A German family whose newborn coughs too hard at the border. And you will hear Ellis Island itself—not in words, but in the silence between notes. The waiting room. The hesitation before a name is called. The weight of not knowing whether a life is about to begin or be turned away. Musically, the album blends folk, klezmer, blues, jazz, classical and world traditions, creating a mosaic of the many cultures that built America. Each piece carries the flavor of its origin, but also the tension of transition—the feeling of standing between two worlds, belonging fully to neither.

Ellis Island is not about the past.
It’s about memory that lives in motion.
It’s about how nations are built not only on land, but on courage.
It’s about voices that crossed oceans to be heard.