[Cover photo credit to Charlotte de Bruyn]

California-born, Berlin-based singer, songwriter, Producer, and multi-instrumentalist Ed Prosek has announces his debut album, Redwood Cathedral, out November 6th, 2026, via Nettwerk. Written while approaching fatherhood, Redwood Cathedral engages with “pain, devotion, fear, hope, and memory.”

In support of the album announcement, Prosek has shared his new single “Tall Pines” feat. Portair, a track “about legacy and parenthood, and the quiet wish to leave behind something meaningful.”

Prosek says of the album:

I wrote these songs as an expression of myself. I was on the eve of fatherhood, but I had experienced real pain in the years beforehand. Those painful experiences helped me see meaning in what I’m doing. I would be making this music whether or not anybody listened to it, and these specific songs are deeply held thoughts and snapshots of my life in preparation for fatherhood. The intensity of the moment is embodied in the intensity I approached this album.

About “Tall Pines”, he says:

‘Tall Pines’ is a song about legacy. It tries to look at what aspects of your life would be meaningful after you’re gone and to whom. The idea that you can place your ideas at the roots of something ancient and hope it carries you along with it as it grows. To that end, for me, it’s a song about the birth of my son and the hope that some piece of wisdom I’ve accumulated is worthwhile enough to pass along.

Over the last decade, Prosek has released a series of EPs and singles. Following 2023’s The Foreigner EP, he joined forces with Portair under the name Driftwood Choir, releasing their self-titled debut LP in 2025, with tracks appearing Grey’s Anatomy. At the same time, Prosek was carefully building what would become Redwood Cathedral.

After settling in Germany with his family, he relocated to the Black Forest and crafted the album in a 300-year-old German farmhouse, Producing, recording, and performing each instrument himself.

Raised by a Czech father and Italian mother, Prosek grew up with roots reaching toward the old world. He studied classical trumpet and attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, spent time living in the UK, and eventually found his way to Berlin, where he continued to shape his voice as a songwriter.