Kummer

Her chemotherapy started in the summer of '06, and she asked me to compose some music for her to dance to in memory of the parts she'd lost in the cancer surgery. This became "Kummer," a piece about loss and courage; each of the instruments and motifs represents a piece of the experience we shared in a series of hospital rooms. Ovarian cancer killed Kaihea in November of 2008. The night before she died she finally got to hear the "Kaihealoha" cd, and although she was heavily sedated and semiconscious at best, I saw her hands and feet move gracefully with the music when "Kummer" came on. Kaihea's last dance took place mainly in her mind, but I expect it looked a lot like this. Distributed by Tubemogul.