Bearings is musical testimony to my topsy-turvy relationship with space—clouds, land, sea, hemispheres—in stories told through years and landscapes, wayfinding but oftentimes losing all bearings, which is as disorienting as it is exhilarating. The pandemic, however, in halting all movement, became a source of greater dizziness with the body’s and the mind’s inertia spinning and stalled midflight between worlds. Far-ranging musical traditions inform the compositions, from milonga to blues to waltzes and Arabic roots, with accompanying musicians from Argentina, Syria, Canada, and the U.S.